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[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

+ SRU Justification
  
-     SRU Justification
+     Impact:
+        The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
+        in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
+        demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
+        by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
+        backported form of that patch. The 2.6.32.65 upstream stable
+        patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
+        kernel as well.
  
-     Impact:
-        The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
-        in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
-        demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
-        by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
-        backported form of that patch. The 2.6.32.65 upstream stable
-        patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
-        kernel as well.
+        git://git.kernel.org/
  
-        git://git.kernel.org/
+     TEST CASE: TBD
  
-     TEST CASE: TBD
+        The following patches are in the 2.6.32.65 stable release:
  
-        The following patches are in the 2.6.32.65 stable release:
+ x86, 64-bit: Move K8 B step iret fixup to fault entry asm
+ x86-64: Adjust frame type at paranoid_exit:
+ x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels
+ x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race
+ x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack
+ x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file
+ x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard
+ x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML
+ x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support
+ x86_64/entry/xen: Do not invoke espfix64 on Xen
+ x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables
+ x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS
+ x86_64, traps: Fix the espfix64 #DF fixup and rewrite it in C
+ x86_64, traps: Rework bad_iret
+ 
+ The following patches from the stable release have been dropped (some
+ were actually already applied to Lucid):
+ 
+ net: sendmsg: fix failed backport of "fix NULL pointer dereference"
+ net/l2tp: don't fall back on UDP [get|set]sockopt
+ ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions
+ ALSA: control: Fix replacing user controls
+ USB: whiteheat: Added bounds checking for bulk command response
+ net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks
+ net: sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing
+ udf: Avoid infinite loop when processing indirect ICBs
+ net: sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet
+ mac80211: fix fragmentation code, particularly for encryption
+ ttusb-dec: buffer overflow in ioctl
+ vlan: Don't propagate flag changes on down interfaces.
+ sctp: Fix double-free introduced by bad backport in 2.6.32.62
+ md/raid6: Fix misapplied backport in 2.6.32.64
+ block: add missing blk_queue_dead() checks
+ block: Fix blk_execute_rq_nowait() dead queue handling
+ cciss: Fix misapplied "cciss: fix info leak in cciss_ioctl32_passthru()"
+ proc connector: Delete spurious memset in proc_exit_connector()
+ Linux 2.6.32.65

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Title:
  Lucid update to 2.6.32.65 stable release

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux source package in Lucid:
  New

Bug description:
  SRU Justification

      Impact:
         The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
         in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
         demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
         by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
         backported form of that patch. The 2.6.32.65 upstream stable
         patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
         kernel as well.

         git://git.kernel.org/

      TEST CASE: TBD

         The following patches are in the 2.6.32.65 stable release:

  x86, 64-bit: Move K8 B step iret fixup to fault entry asm
  x86-64: Adjust frame type at paranoid_exit:
  x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels
  x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race
  x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack
  x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file
  x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard
  x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML
  x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support
  x86_64/entry/xen: Do not invoke espfix64 on Xen
  x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables
  x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS
  x86_64, traps: Fix the espfix64 #DF fixup and rewrite it in C
  x86_64, traps: Rework bad_iret

  The following patches from the stable release have been dropped (some
  were actually already applied to Lucid):

  net: sendmsg: fix failed backport of "fix NULL pointer dereference"
  net/l2tp: don't fall back on UDP [get|set]sockopt
  ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions
  ALSA: control: Fix replacing user controls
  USB: whiteheat: Added bounds checking for bulk command response
  net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks
  net: sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing
  udf: Avoid infinite loop when processing indirect ICBs
  net: sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet
  mac80211: fix fragmentation code, particularly for encryption
  ttusb-dec: buffer overflow in ioctl
  vlan: Don't propagate flag changes on down interfaces.
  sctp: Fix double-free introduced by bad backport in 2.6.32.62
  md/raid6: Fix misapplied backport in 2.6.32.64
  block: add missing blk_queue_dead() checks
  block: Fix blk_execute_rq_nowait() dead queue handling
  cciss: Fix misapplied "cciss: fix info leak in cciss_ioctl32_passthru()"
  proc connector: Delete spurious memset in proc_exit_connector()
  Linux 2.6.32.65

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