[CentOS] [CSL #301925] centosplus kernel xfs patches and CVE-2006-1855

Fri Jun 2 16:20:43 UTC 2006
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

David Thompson wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
>>There is a centosplus kernel that has that errata ... it is version:
>>kernel-2.6.9-34.107.plus.c4
>>
>>However ... if the only thing you need from the centosplus kernel is the
>>xfs ... you should use the normal (non-centosplus) kernel and the
>>kernel-xfs-module that matches it from here:
>>
>>http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/
>>
>>or
>>
>>http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/x86_64/RPMS/
>>
>>(That code is from SGI and has all the latest patches.)
> 
> 
> Do I understand from this that (for example) kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL-
> 0.1-2.i686.rpm contains xfs errata this is not present in (the centosplus) 
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.107.plus.c4.i686.rpm?

Looking at the patch referenced in your original posting, it looks like 
it is in the kernel-module-xfs code and not in the centosplus kernel code.

James Pearson