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More patches in 3.2 stable?

Contributed by jose on from the reliability dept.

Henry was among the few to write about this:
"More patches in 3.2 stable on 1 Feb (don't seem to be particularly security related):

P libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c (CVS checkin)

P sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c (CVS checkin)

P sys/netinet/tcp_timer.c (CVS checkin) "

While none of them are major security fixes, they were reliability fixes which warranted tagging into 3.2-stable. A few people wrote to ask what these were about after seeing them in their CVS updates in the -stable tree. Nothing major, but worth noting for some people. Special thanks to the developers who keep the -stable tree up and running.
UPDATE : Fixed the ip_icmp.c link to reflect what was pulled into -stable.

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  1. By Noob () on

    Kernel reliability fixes are kind of nice to get ahead of time before the next release. Thanks for posting this for everyone Henry and thanks to the people maintaining the Stable branch for us all ;-)

  2. By Anonymous Coward () on

    ip_icmp.c was ofcourse not updated in STABLE just to conform with KFN (as suggested above) but to plug an mbuf leak.

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    1. By Noob () on

      Thanks for pointing that out, I just saw too on the Daily Changelog that they mentioned

      Fix an ICMP mbuf leak.
      [Applied to Stable]

      So I guess that would be it.

  3. By Anonymous Coward () on

    How to apply these patches on linux?

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    1. By Anonymous Coward () on

      killall5 | patch --openbsd-3-2-stable

    2. By Anonymous Coward () on

      You could try:

      cat ip_icmp.c > /boot/vmlinuz

      But don't blame me if your system takes a little longer than normal to boot.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward () on

        Hi,
        thanks for the tip.
        I tried that, it does indeed take longer to boot. It's 20 min now and I am still waiting, that's not bad because I rarely reboot.
        I use RedHat and I hope this makes it really secure.

        I will let you know how it went in a few minutes one the graphical login shows up (it's really cute, linux is great!).

        Thanks again,
        Armin Schubert from Germany

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        1. By Anonymous Coward () on

      2. By Noob () on

        I guess that command would greatly improve kernel performance too since the kernel would result in being very small, thus not taking up hardly any memory ;-)

        ummmm j/k

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        1. By Anonymous Coward () on

          So the kernel is smaller and my computer therefore will be faster. That's great!

          I am still waiting for the login screen, though. You guys are great!

          Going to reboot now on the RedHat computer.

          Again, thanks to everybody. First time on this website. It's super, really geeky.

          Armin from Germany

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          1. By Noob () on

            Rescue Mode!

            http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-boot.html

            Otherwise I would recommend looking at this really good documentation:

            http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html

          2. By Anonymous Coward () on

            You my friend are either a clever troll or too unsuspecting to be using the internet. Please disconnect and take some time to gain some basic knowledge, before you come back and try something on your computer the first time you visit a web site. And stay away from www.darwinawards.com. :)

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            1. By Anonymous Coward () on

              Or maybe he was just going along with the joke.

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              1. By Anonymous Coward () on

                No one thinks its incredibly idiotic to say "OPENBSD ROXXSSS LINUXX SUXXSS"?

                I think OpenBSD should be rated on its own merits, not on ***extremely*** tired "0P3NBSD K1CK5 LUNIX ASS!!!" jokes.

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                1. By Anonymous Coward () on

                  Dude, it's all in fun. Relax a little.

                2. By Anonymous Coward () on

                  Cut back on the coffee guy! I don't think anyone has bothered with a good Linux put down in this particular thread (and when we do -- with the possible exception of the children present -- we really are only kidding around!)

  4. By d00d () on

    MicrosBSD already has these fixes, and more besides. Give credit where credit is due everyone knows that OpenBSD was forked off of MicroBSD and not the other way around plus we work harder not lik that fat-cat Theo DeRaatt.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward () on

      Well, I usually wouldn't bother...but man, that is a really weak troll. Surely God, you can do better. A good troll should strike close to the heart, and can't be too outlandish lest nobody buy in. You want to provoke outrage! But instead I only I felt bad for you...otherwise, you probably just would have been completely ignored, and that is really sad.

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      1. By Fireball-1 () fireball@example.com on http://www.example.com/

        But s/he wasn;t ignored! It worked!

        Actually, it sounded a but (to me) that the OP was just having a bit of fun -- at MicroBSD's expense. It was all just a little too obvious.

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        1. By Anonymous Coward () on

          No, the original poster was right.

          Didn't you know?

          The MicroBSD team travelled back in time and gave the original UNIX code to Bell Labs in the first place.

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