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  1. May 21, 2012
  3. May 20, 2012
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'parisc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/parisc-2.6 · d6c77973
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull PA-RISC fixes from James Bottomley:
 "This is a set of three bug fixes that gets parisc running again on
  systems with PA1.1 processors.

  Two fix regressions introduced in 2.6.39 and one fixes a prefetch bug
  that only affects PA7300LC processors.  We also have another pending
  fix to do with the sectional arrangement of vmlinux.lds, but there's a
  query on it during testing on one particular system type, so I'll hold
  off sending it in for now."

* tag 'parisc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/parisc-2.6:
  [PARISC] fix panic on prefetch(NULL) on PA7300LC
  [PARISC] fix crash in flush_icache_page_asm on PA1.1
  [PARISC] fix PA1.1 oops on boot
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86/ld-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 5d120458
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull x86 linker bug workarounds from Peter Anvin.

GNU ld-2.22.52.0.[12] (*) has an unfortunate bug where it incorrectly
turns certain relocation entries absolute.  Section-relative symbols
that are part of otherwise empty sections are silently changed them to
absolute.  We rely on section-relative symbols staying section-relative,
and actually have several sections in the linker script solely for this
purpose.

See for example

   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14052

We could just black-list the buggy linker, but it appears that it got
shipped in at least F17, and possibly other distros too, so it's sadly
not some rare unusual case.

This backports the workaround from the x86/trampoline branch, and as
Peter says: "This is not a minimal fix, not at all, but it is a tested
code base."

* 'x86/ld-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absolute
  x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug
  x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool

(*) That's a manly release numbering system. Stupid, sure. But manly.
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block · 14e931a2
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A few small, but important fixes.  Most of them are marked for stable
  as well

   - Fix failure to release a semaphore on error path in mtip32xx.
   - Fix crashable condition in bio_get_nr_vecs().
   - Don't mark end-of-disk buffers as mapped, limit it to i_size.
   - Fix for build problem with CONFIG_BLOCK=n on arm at least.
   - Fix for a buffer overlow on UUID partition printing.
   - Trivial removal of unused variables in dac960."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: fix buffer overflow when printing partition UUIDs
  Fix blkdev.h build errors when BLOCK=n
  bio allocation failure due to bio_get_nr_vecs()
  block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as mapped
  mtip32xx: release the semaphore on an error path
  dac960: Remove unused variables from DAC960_CreateProcEntries()
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