Das erste Kernel-Update für openSUSE 11.4 ist draußen und bringt eine Menge Fehlerbereinigungen mit sich.

Das Kernel-Update kann über YaST2 oder per zypper eingespielt werden:

zypper up

Die offizielle Ankündigung von Marcus Meissner zum Kernel-Update:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00008.html

Ein Auszug der Changelog aus der RPM:

• xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 (CVE-2011-0711 bnc#672524)
• ath9k: Fix ath9k prevents CPU to enter C3 states (bnc#667793)
• Refresh: patches.fixes/revert-tpm_tis-Use-timeouts-returned-from-TPM.patch.
• Delete: patches.fixes/0001-Revert-ath9k-use-per-device-struct-for-pm_qos_-opera.patch.
• Delete: patches.fixes/0002-Revert-ath9k-Remove-pm_qos-request-after-hw-unregist.patch.
• Delete: patches.fixes/0003-Revert-ath9k-Fix-a-DMA-latency-issue-for-Intel-Pinet.patch. These patches went upstream, update.
• ALSA: hda – Add a generic fixup callback for Realtek codecs (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – Fix missing EAPD for Acer 4930G (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: HDA: Realtek ALC88x: Do not over-initialize speakers and hp that are primary outputs (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: HDA: Fixup unnecessary volume control index on Realtek ALC88x (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: HDA: Fix volume control naming for surround speakers on Realtek auto-parser (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: HDA: Enable surround and subwoofer on Lenovo Ideapad Y530 (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – Add support for multiple headphone/speaker controls for Realtek (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – 4930g add internal lfe slider (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – Fix unable to record issue on ASUS N82JV (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – switch lfe with side in mixer for 4930g (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: HDA: Fix automute on Thinkpad L412/L512 (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: HDA: Add SKU ignore for another Thinkpad Edge 14 (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – Apply Sony VAIO hweq fixup only once (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – Fix ALC275 enable hardware EQ for SONY VAIO (bnc#679016)
• ALSA: hda – Fix EAPD on Lenovo NB ALC269 to low (bnc#679016)
• Update to 2.6.37.4:
  obsoletes:
  • patches.fixes/ath9k-Fix-ath9k-prevents-CPU-to-enter-C3-states.patch.
  • patches.fixes/media-DiB7000M-add-pid-filtering.patch.
• SoN: netvm: Remove duplicated initialization in net/ipv4/route.c (bnc#678970)
• SoN: nfs: Use page_file_offset during page writeback (bnc#677738)
• SoN: nfs: Convert nfs_mark_request_dirty() to use page_file_mapping() (bnc#677738)
• netvm: Do not mark requests for swapfile writes as dirty or kswapd fails to free the page (bnc#678472)
• SoN: collapse: mm: Report the low watermark correctly (bnc#678497)
• Fix cookie decoding problem in NFS (bnc#678123)
• Make selection of ‚readdir-plus‘ adapt to usage patterns (bnc#678123)
• NET: cdc-phonet, handle empty phonet header (bnc#673992)
• HID: add support for Skycable 0x3f07 wireless presenter (bnc#681297)
• Refresh: patches.fixes/hid-add-support-for-Skycable-0x3f07-wireless-present.patch. fix build due to error in backport
• Fix almost-infinite slab cache growing (bnc#554081)
• Update to 2.6.37.5:
  obsoletes: patches.drivers/alsa-hda-0017-Realtek-ALC88x-Do-not-over-initialize-speakers.
  Refresh: patches.fixes/hid-add-support-for-Skycable-0x3f07-wireless-present.patch.
• PM / Hibernate: Reduce autotuned default image size (bnc#648742)
• xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls (bnc#672505)
• ALSA: sound/pci/asihpi: check adapter index in hpi_ioctl (bnc#680816)
• sound/oss/opl3: validate voice and channel indexes (bnc#681999)
• sound/oss: remove offset from load_patch callbacks (bnc#681999)
• kabi/severities: ignore OSS kABI
• Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code (bnc#681826 CVE-2011-1020)
• ALSA: hda – Fix SPDIF out regression on ALC889 (bnc#679588)
• Update patches.kernel.org/patch-2.6.37.4-5 (Add a bug reference) (bnc#558740)
• page_cgroup: reduce allocation overhead for page_cgroup array for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM (bnc#669889)
• Update to 2.6.37.6:
  obsoletes: patches.fixes/prevent-rt_sigqueueinfo-from-spoofing.patch.
  Refresh: patches.xen/tmem.
  Refresh: patches.xen/xen-dcdbas.
• ALSA: hda – Increase the default buffer size (bnc#682725)
• ALSA: hda – Fix pin-config of Gigabyte mobo (bnc#677256)
• gro: reset skb_iif on reuse (bnc#682965 CVE-2011-1478)
• gro: Reset dev pointer on reuse (bnc#682965 CVE-2011-1478)
• Relax si_code check in rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo (bnc#681826)
• nfs: Create a memory reserve for nfs_page_cache (bnc#678466)
• netvm: Reduce the size of the routing reserves and be careful of dst_alloc() (bnc#678466)
• mm: Add mem_reserve_kmem_cache_add helper (bnc#678466)
• ips: use interruptible waits in ips-monitor (bnc#680932)
• sched, autogroup: fix CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED sched_setscheduler() failure (bnc#680510)
• drm/radeon/kms: check AA resolve registers on r300 (bnc#674693 CVE-2011-1016)
• reiserfs: Force inode evictions before umount to avoid crash (bnc#610598 bnc#680073 bnc#684112)
• Delete patches.fixes/reiserfs-xattr-crash-fix.
• rose: Add length checks to CALL_REQUEST parsing (bnc#681175)
• ROSE: prevent heap corruption with bad facilities (bnc#681175)
• Revert „x86: Cleanup highmap after brk is concluded“ (bnc#684248)
• staging: hv: use sync_bitops when interacting with the hypervisor.
• staging: hv: Fix GARP not sent after Quick Migration.
• Platform: add Samsung Laptop platform driver (bnc#681076)
• Delete: patches.drivers/staging-samsung-laptop-add-support-for-lots-of-laptops.patch.
• irda: validate peer name and attribute lengths (bnc#681497)
• drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c: world-writable engine* sysfs files (bnc#673934)
• drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: world-writable sysfs engine* files (bnc#673934)
• mfd: ab8500: world-writable debugfs register-* files (bnc#673934)
• scsi_transport_iscsi: make priv_sess file writeable only by root (bnc#673934)
• mfd: ab3500: world-writable debugfs register-* files (bnc#673934)
• drivers/misc/ep93xx_pwm.c: world-writable sysfs files (bnc#673934)
• mfd: ab3100: world-writable debugfs *_priv files (bnc#673934)
• UBIFS: restrict world-writable debugfs files (bnc#673934)
• scsi: aic94xx: world-writable sysfs update_bios file. (bnc#673934)
• rivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c: world-writable sysfs nvram file (bnc#673934)
• video: sn9c102: world-wirtable sysfs files (bnc#673934)
• fs/partitions/efi.c: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (bnc#687113 CVE-2011-1577)
• char/tpm: Fix unitialized usage of data buffer (bnc#680040 CVE-2011-1160)
• bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset (bnc#687116 CVE-2011-1581)
• libata: DVR-216D can’t do SETXFER DVD-RW DVR-216D (bnc#679143)
• libata: DVR-212D can’t do SETXFER DVD-RW DVR-212D. (bnc#679143)
• Update reference module symbol versions.
• patches.kernel.org/revert-x86-Cleanup-highmap-after-brk-is-concluded.patch: Move to patches.arch where it belongs.
• ethtool: guard against compat.h.
• SoN: fix kABI breakage.
• Revert „block: add @force_kblockd to __blk_run_queue()“.
• Revert „block: blk-flush shouldn’t call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue()“.
• Revert „mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode“.
• DRM: revert drm_device num_crtcs change.
• Block: export lost functions.
• FUSE: fuse_req kABI guard.
• MD: mddev_s kABI guard.
• Revert „Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.“.
• block: revert __blk_run_queue prototype change.
• Delete: patches.kabi/blk-revert-add-force_kblockd-to-__blk_run_queue.patch.
• Delete: patches.kabi/blk-revert-blk-flush-shouldn-t-call-directly-into-.patch.
• block: revert __invalidate_device prototype change.
• Delete: patches.kabi/revert-Fix-over-zealous-flush_disk-when-changing-dev.patch.
• KABI: Re-export shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree.
• Updated Patch-mainline for patches.fixes/libata-dvr-216d-can-t-do-setxfer-dvd-rw-dvr-216d.
• ext4: mark multi-page IO complete on mapping failure (bnc#679898)
• mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode.
• Refresh: patches.kabi/revert-mm-prevent-concurrent-unmap_mapping_range-on-.patch.
• xt4: fix ext4_da_block_invalidatepages() to handle page range properly (bnc#679898)
• i2c-algo-bit: Call pre/post_xfer for bit_test (bnc#669937 freedesktop#36221)
• Revert „net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays“ (bnc#668880)
• bridge: fix 802.3ad bonding (bnc#685469)
• Revert „- sched, autogroup: fix CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED sched_setscheduler() failure (bnc#680510).“ This reverts commit e4e6f9738a1ac4837777f6480268c6cb56722d0c. This patch modified struct autogroup, which caused massive kABI changes.
• sched, autogroup: fix CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED sched_setscheduler() failure (bnc#680510) The change is safe other than needing kABI guards.
• kABI: Guard changes to struct autogroup (bnc#680510)
• Enabled patches.kabi/sched-autogroup-fix-rt-group-sched.
• xen/i386: Add missing END for spurious_interrupt_bug.

Die folgenden Kernel-Changelogs sind die offiziellen Berichte zu den Änderungen von 2.6.37.2 bis einschließlich 2.6.37.6 vom Upstream kernel.org:
ChangeLog-2.6.37.2
ChangeLog-2.6.37.3
ChangeLog-2.6.37.4
ChangeLog-2.6.37.5
ChangeLog-2.6.37.6

Hinweis für Besitzer einer ATI-Grafikkarte, die ATI Catalyst auf ihrem openSUSE-System installiert haben:
Man muss nicht mehr manuell ein neues fglrx-Kernelmodul bauen. Dies geschieht nach einem Neustart vollautomatisch.

Weitere Informationen: openSUSE – proprietären Grafik-Treiber ATI Catalyst 11.3 als RPM installieren