Feel free to add new/remove fixed etc.

Will be fixed in 2.6.23

Unclassified

To:
Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
S. P. Prasanna <prasanna@in.ibm.com>

Subject    : CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA prevents kprobes from working on 2.6.22-rc2
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/23/202
Submitter  : William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
             Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Handled-By : S. P. Prasanna <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/2
Status     : patch available

SELinux

Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Subject    : very high non-preempt latency in context_struct_compute_av()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/4/78
Submitter  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Handled-By : Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
             James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/334
Status     : patch available
             (This patch is queued for -mm, and will be submitted for 2.6.23.
                                             -- James Morris)

USB

linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Paulo Pereira <pfmp.404@gmail.com>
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

Subject    : list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug at lib/list_debug.c:33
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8561
Submitter  : Paulo Pereira <pfmp.404@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8561#c8
Status     : patch was suggested
             (Ok, it's queued up for after 2.6.22 is out as it is not a regression and is kind of intrusive.)

2.6.22 regressions

*STATISTICS*

Name                    Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Hugh Dickins                           2
Andi Kleen                             2
Andrew Morton                          1
Benjamin Herrenschmidt                 1
Björn Steinbrink                       1
Bjorn Helgaas                          1
Christoph Lameter                      1
Jean Delvare                           1
Olaf Hering                            1
Siddha, Suresh B                       1
Trent Piepho                           1
Ville Syrjälä                          1

FS

reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Subject    : 2.6.22-rc4-git5 reiserfs: null ptr deref.
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/322
Submitter  : Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Handled-By : Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged

IDE

<linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>

Subject    : 2.6.22-rcX: hda: lost interrupt
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/29/121
Submitter  : David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Status     : unknown

Sparc64

To:
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>

Subject    : random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/17/111
Submitter  : Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : 2.6.22-rc broke X on Ultra5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/22/78
Submitter  : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Handled-By : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Status     : problem is being debugged

Suspend

To:
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Subject         : hibernate fails, reboots while writing the image
References      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8592
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status          : problem is being debugged

To:
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>

Subject         : reiserfs/libata sporadically hangs on resume from hibernation
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/30/5
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status          : problem is being debugged

x86-64

To:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
discuss@x86-64.org
Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>

Subject    : x86-64 2.6.22-rc2 random segfaults
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/275
Submitter  : Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown

http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_2621 regressions in 2.6.21 (unmaintained)

Distro-tracked regressions

Gentoo

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This list is kept relatively up-to-date. Gentoo kernels are only lightly patched, and the majority of bugs have been reproduced on unpatched kernels and reported upstream. Gentoo only track release kernels, not -rc releases (it's nice to see the scope of Adrian's previous work increased).