2.6.20-rc2: known regressions with patches available

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc2 compared to 2.6.19
with patches available

If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly
involved with one or more of these issues.

Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.


Subject    : selinux networking: sleeping function called from invalid context
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/78
Submitter  : "Adam J. Richter" <adam at yggdrasil.com>
Caused-By  : Paul Moore <paul.moore at hp.com>
Handled-By : Parag Warudkar <paragw at paragw.zapto.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/89
Status     : patch available


Subject    : KVM Oops
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/171
Submitter  : Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff at comcast.net>
Handled-By : Avi Kivity <avi at qumranet.com>
Status     : patch available


Subject    : drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c compilation broken
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/49
Submitter  : Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de>
Caused-By  : Yu Luming <luming.yu at gmail.com>
             commit 519ab5f2be65b72cf12ae99c89752bbe79b44df6
Handled-By : Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/49
Status     : patch available


Subject    : NULL dereference in ieee80211softmac_get_network_by_bssid_locked
             ieee80211softmac_wx.c typo: mutex_lock -> mutex_unlock
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7657
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/141
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/43
Submitter  : Michael Bommarito <mjbommar at umich.edu>
             Ben Collins <ben.collins at ubuntu.com>
             Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>
Handled-By : Michael Bommarito <mjbommar at umich.edu>
             Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7657
Status     : patches available


Subject    : BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1118 by "pktsetup dvd /dev/sr0"
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7667
Submitter  : Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard at free.fr>
Caused-By  : Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
             commit 3b00315799d78f76531b71435fbc2643cd71ae4c
Handled-By : Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7667
Status     : patch available