[SOLVED] Requests for -current (20151216)

cwizardone · 10-31-2016, 09:02 AM

Linux Kernel 4.4.29 has been released.

The change log, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-4.4.29

GazL · 10-31-2016, 10:31 AM

Oh, this is getting absurd! How many new kernels is that in the space of a week?
So.... what hidden nasties does this one fix I wonder....

Thanks for the heads-up cwiz.

montagdude · 10-31-2016, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GazL

Oh, this is getting absurd! How many new kernels is that in the space of a week?
So.... what hidden nasties does this one fix I wonder....

Thanks for the heads-up cwiz.

My thoughts exactly. Do they always release stable kernels this often? I just built 4.4.27 and then 4.4.28. I'm thinking I will stick with 4.4.28 unless some other important issue comes to light.

atelszewski · 10-31-2016, 11:15 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by montagdude

My thoughts exactly. Do they always release stable kernels this often? I just built 4.4.27 and then 4.4.28. I'm thinking I will stick with 4.4.28 unless some other important issue comes to light.

That is the best and worst you can do :-/

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Andrzej Telszewski

GazL · 10-31-2016, 12:06 PM

I decided to build and install 4.8.6 anyway as there were a number of drm/i915 and iwlwifi fixes and my machine contains both of those components.

I did notice this one however:

Code:

commit ea288a690cc4e53a528ae6a1d37cd6e14320ed27
Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date:   Mon Sep 19 17:39:09 2016 +0200

    posix_acl: Clear SGID bit when setting file permissions
    
    commit 073931017b49d9458aa351605b43a7e34598caef upstream.
    
    When file permissions are modified via chmod(2) and the user is not in
    the owning group or capable of CAP_FSETID, the setgid bit is cleared in
    inode_change_ok().  Setting a POSIX ACL via setxattr(2) sets the file
    permissions as well as the new ACL, but doesn't clear the setgid bit in
    a similar way; this allows to bypass the check in chmod(2).  Fix that.
    
    References: CVE-2016-7097

To be able to chmod in the first place one would have to be the owner of the file. Being the owner of a file that is both SGID and owned by a group you're not a member of seems like an unlikely situation, and I'm not sure quite what this 'check' in chmod(2) is actually trying to prevent, or what bypassing it would buy you. Maybe I'm just not devious enough to see it though.

atelszewski · 10-31-2016, 09:36 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by GazL

Oh, this is getting absurd! How many new kernels is that in the space of a week?
So.... what hidden nasties does this one fix I wonder....

Thanks for the heads-up cwiz.

Hmm? Absurd version 4.4.30 released.

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Andrzej Telszewski

GazL · 11-01-2016, 05:05 AM

Ok.. I guess we're through 'absurd' and well into ludicrous now.

Looks like this one is reverting two broken fixes.

Once again I'm finding myself in complete agreement with spender
http://lwn.net/Articles/705150/

atelszewski · 11-01-2016, 01:15 PM

Hi,

Mesa 13.0 released.

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Andrzej Telszewski

montagdude · 11-01-2016, 07:30 PM

mutt 1.7.1 is released. Also, I'd like to request it be compiled with --enable-sidebar if possible. This is a new feature that was added in version 1.7.0.

atelszewski · 11-02-2016, 07:28 AM

Hi,

cURL 7.51 released.

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Andrzej Telszewski

allend · 11-02-2016, 08:06 AM

I would like to request some support for urxvt, useful even if just remotely accessing a Slackware system from a urxvt terminal.

Add to /etc/inputrc

Code:

# for urxvt
"\e[7~": beginning-of-line
"\e[8~": end-of-line

Add to /etc/termcap

Code:

rxvt-unicode-256color|rxvt-unicode terminal with 256 colors (X Window System):\
        :am:bw:eo:hs:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\
        :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\
        :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\
        :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\
        :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\
        :as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\
        :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\
        :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ds=\E]2;\007:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:fs=^G:\
        :ho=\E[H:i1=\E[!p:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\
        :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[?7;25h\E[?1;3;4;5;6;9;66;1000;1001;1049l\E[4l:\
        :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\
        :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:kD=\E[3~:kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:\
        :kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\E[B:ke=\E>:kh=\E[7~:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:\
        :ks=\E=:ku=\E[A:le=^H:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m:mr=\E[7m:\
        :nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:\
        :st=\EH:ta=^I:te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ts=\E]2;:\
        :ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:\
        :ve=\E[?12l\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:vs=\E[?12;25h:

Add the terminfo files for rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-256color under /usr/share/terminfo/r

kjhambrick · 11-02-2016, 10:44 AM

allend --

It's so nice to see /etc/termcap || /usr/lib/terminfo/ files anymore.

I see so many scripts these days with hard-coded Linux Console Escape Sequences -- it makes me cringe when I see them

It's sad to see something as elegant as termcap / terminfo go by the wayside

Thanks !

-- kjh

e5150 · 11-02-2016, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

I would like to request some support for urxvt, useful even if just remotely accessing a Slackware system from a urxvt terminal.

This is something that occationally trips me up. But even if you don't have root on the box you're accessing you can put the terminfo files in ~/.terminfo/`echo $TERM/ | cut -b 1`/$TERM

alex14641 · 11-02-2016, 08:03 PM

Bluez 5.43 is released. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/blue...ez-5.43.tar.xz

mats_b_tegner · 11-04-2016, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atelszewski

Hi,
Hmm? Absurd version 4.4.30 released.

I'm currently running 4.4.30 without issues so I suggest upgrading -current and -stable to 4.4.30.