Download Linux Kernel 2.4.12

Alfred writes: “Due to the risk of your file system getting too damaged by using Kernel 2.4.11 it is recommended to skip it and upgrade to 2.4.12”

2.4.11 had a fix for a symlink DoS attack, but sadly that fix broke the creation of files through a dangling symlink rather badly (it caused the inode to be created in the very same inode as the symlink, with unhappy end results).

Happily nobody uses that particular horror – or _almost_ nobody does. It looks like at least the SuSE installer (yast2) does, which causes a nasty unkillable inode as /dev/mouse if you use yast2 on 2.4.11.

(“debugfs -w rootdev” + “rm /dev/mouse” will remove it, although I suspect there are other less drastic methods too if your fsck doesn’t seem to notice anything wrong with it. Only one report of this actually happening so far).

So I made a 2.4.12, and renamed away the sorry excuse for a kernel that 2.4.11 was.

linus.

final:

– Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug)

– Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes

– Al Viro: more mount cleanup

– me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling

– David Miller: Sparc updates, just cleanup

– Tim Waugh: parport update

– Jeff Garzik: net driver updates[break]”But also for this kernel there is again a parallel port fixbecause otherwise it cannot be compiled.”[/break]