Hi, 

Here goes the second release candidate of v2.4.29.

It contains mainly security fixes, including backports from 2.6-ac Coverity
fixes, rework of the do_brk() fixes as suggested by Linus, and a fix for the
pagefault SMP race disclosed today: 

CAN-2005-0001
http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0022-pagefault.txt

Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc1 to v2.4.29-rc2
============================================

Christoph Hellwig:
  o [XFS] make sure to always reclaim inodes in xfs_finish_reclaim
  o [XFS] Fix NFS inode data corruption
  o [XFS] Disable variable sized transfers on loop devices
  o [XFS] Fix compilations for parisc

Geert Uytterhoeven:
  o Kill unused variables in the tty code
  o Kill unused variables in the net code

Jan Harkes:
  o Fix Coda bugs found by Coverity checker

Marcelo Tosatti:
  o Update Dave Jones email address in MAINTAINERS file
  o Linus Torvalds: Warn if mmap_sem is not locked in do_brk
  o Change do_uselib() fix to match v2.6, rip do_brk_locked()
  o Brad Spengler: Fix random poolsize sysctl (from 2.6.10-ac)
  o Alan Cox: Fix moxa serial bound checking issue (from 2.6.10-ac)
  o Brad Spengler: Fix RLIMIT_MEMLOCK issue
  o get_user_pages: Change BUG_ON to WARN_ON
  o Alan Cox: rose_rt_ioctl lack of bounds checking, reported by Coverity (from 2.6.10-ac)
  o Alan Cox: sdla_xfer lack of bounds checking, reported by Coverity (from 2.6.10-ac)
  o Makefile
  o Revert dubious get_user_pages() bug checking
  o Olaf Kirch: sendmsg compat wrapper fixes
  o Cset exclude: marcelo <at> logos.cnet|ChangeSet|20050110190211|08215
  o Fix expand_stack() SMP race
  o Add missing Documentation/tty.txt from tty/ldisc locking updates
  o Completly remove old do_brk() fix
  o Linus Torvalds: Create helper for mmap_sem write-lock check in do_brk()
  o Fix mmap.c typo

Mikael Pettersson:
  o sungem UniNorth 2 GMAC support

Nathan Scott:
  o [XFS] Add sanity checks before use of attr_multi opcount parameter

Pete Zaitcev:
  o EHCI race fix