This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.259 release. There are 134 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:09:49 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.259-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.259-rc1
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Update in-core bitset after committing the metadata
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com net: icmp: pass zeroed opts from icmp{,v6}_ndo_send before sending
Leon Romanovsky leonro@nvidia.com ipv6: silence compilation warning for non-IPV6 builds
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: icmp6: avoid indirect call for icmpv6_send()
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com sunvnet: use icmp_ndo_send helper
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com gtp: use icmp_ndo_send helper
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com icmp: introduce helper for nat'd source address in network device context
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: fix dead code in attach_to_pi_owner()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: only resize metadata in preresume
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Reinitialize bitset cache before digesting a new writeset
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Use correct value size in equality function of writeset tree
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Fix bitset memory leaks
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Verify the data block size hasn't changed
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Recover committed writeset after crash
Bob Peterson rpeterso@redhat.com gfs2: Don't skip dlm unlock if glock has an lvb
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk sparc32: fix a user-triggerable oops in clear_user()
Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix out-of-repair __setattr_copy()
Maxim Kiselev bigunclemax@gmail.com gpio: pcf857x: Fix missing first interrupt
Frank Li Frank.Li@nxp.com mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: fix kernel panic when remove module
Fangrui Song maskray@google.com module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com libnvdimm/dimm: Avoid race between probe and available_slots_show()
Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com usb: renesas_usbhs: Clear pipe running flag in usbhs_pkt_pop()
Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com mtd: spi-nor: hisi-sfc: Put child node np on error path
Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com x86/reboot: Force all cpus to exit VMX root if VMX is supported
Martin Kaiser martin@kaiser.cx staging: rtl8188eu: Add Edimax EW-7811UN V2 to device table
Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov snovitoll@gmail.com drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: restrict too big queue size in qp_host_alloc_queue
Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net seccomp: Add missing return in non-void function
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix extent buffer leak on failure to copy root
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: fix reloc root leak with 0 ref reloc roots on recovery
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: abort the transaction if we fail to inc ref in btrfs_copy_root
Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko@kernel.org KEYS: trusted: Fix migratable=1 failing
Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix dep->interval for fullspeed interrupt
Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix setting of DEPCFG.bInterval_m1
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: serial: mos7720: fix error code in mos7720_write()
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: serial: mos7840: fix error code in mos7840_write()
Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net usb: musb: Fix runtime PM race in musb_queue_resume_work
Lech Perczak lech.perczak@gmail.com USB: serial: option: update interface mapping for ZTE P685M
Marcos Paulo de Souza mpdesouza@suse.com Input: i8042 - add ASUS Zenbook Flip to noselftest list
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Input: joydev - prevent potential read overflow in ioctl
Olivier Crête olivier.crete@ocrete.ca Input: xpad - add support for PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox Series X|S
jeffrey.lin jeffrey.lin@rad-ic.com Input: raydium_ts_i2c - do not send zero length
Qinglang Miao miaoqinglang@huawei.com ACPI: configfs: add missing check after configfs_register_default_group()
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org scsi: bnx2fc: Fix Kconfig warning & CNIC build errors
Maxime Ripard maxime@cerno.tech i2c: brcmstb: Fix brcmstd_send_i2c_cmd condition
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org arm64: Add missing ISB after invalidating TLB in __primary_switch
Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com mm/hugetlb: fix potential double free in hugetlb_register_node() error path
Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com mm/memory.c: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ocfs2: fix a use after free on error
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com net/mlx4_core: Add missed mlx4_free_cmd_mailbox()
Jann Horn jannh@google.com Take mmap lock in cacheflush syscall
Slawomir Laba slawomirx.laba@intel.com i40e: Fix flow for IPv6 next header (extension header)
Konrad Dybcio konrad.dybcio@somainline.org drm/msm/dsi: Correct io_start for MSM8994 (20nm PHY)
Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com PCI: Align checking of syscall user config accessors
Jorgen Hansen jhansen@vmware.com VMCI: Use set_page_dirty_lock() when unregistering guest memory
Simon South simon@simonsouth.net pwm: rockchip: rockchip_pwm_probe(): Remove superfluous clk_unprepare()
Aswath Govindraju a-govindraju@ti.com misc: eeprom_93xx46: Add module alias to avoid breaking support for non device tree users
Aswath Govindraju a-govindraju@ti.com misc: eeprom_93xx46: Fix module alias to enable module autoprobe
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org sparc64: only select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF is set
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Input: elo - fix an error code in elo_connect()
Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org perf test: Fix unaligned access in sample parsing test
Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix missing CYC processing in PSB
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com spi: pxa2xx: Fix the controller numbering for Wildcat Point
Nathan Lynch nathanl@linux.ibm.com powerpc/pseries/dlpar: handle ibm, configure-connector delay status
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com mfd: wm831x-auxadc: Prevent use after free in wm831x_auxadc_read_irq()
Bob Pearson rpearsonhpe@gmail.com RDMA/rxe: Fix coding error in rxe_recv.c
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf tools: Fix DSO filtering when not finding a map for a sampled address
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory failure
Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de amba: Fix resource leak for drivers without .remove
Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin@arm.com ARM: 9046/1: decompressor: Do not clear SCTLR.nTLSMD for ARMv7+ cores
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr mmc: usdhi6rol0: Fix a resource leak in the error handling path of the probe
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu powerpc/47x: Disable 256k page size
Shay Drory shayd@nvidia.com IB/umad: Return EIO in case of when device disassociated
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com isofs: release buffer head before return
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com regulator: axp20x: Fix reference cout leak
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Add missing semicolon when DEBUG is defined
Claudiu Beznea claudiu.beznea@microchip.com power: reset: at91-sama5d2_shdwc: fix wkupdbc mask
Nicolas Boichat drinkcat@chromium.org of/fdt: Make sure no-map does not remove already reserved regions
KarimAllah Ahmed karahmed@amazon.de fdt: Properly handle "no-map" field in the memory region
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path of the probe function
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in the remove function
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org HID: core: detect and skip invalid inputs to snto32()
Pratyush Yadav p.yadav@ti.com spi: cadence-quadspi: Abort read if dummy cycles required are too many
Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com clk: meson: clk-pll: fix initializing the old rate (fallback) for a PLL
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com jffs2: fix use after free in jffs2_sum_write_data()
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com fs/jfs: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int
Daniele Alessandrelli daniele.alessandrelli@intel.com crypto: ecdh_helper - Ensure 'len >= secret.len' in decode_key()
Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com btrfs: clarify error returns values in __load_free_space_cache
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com ata: ahci_brcm: Add back regulators management
Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com media: uvcvideo: Accept invalid bFormatIndex and bFrameIndex values
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com media: pxa_camera: declare variable when DEBUG is defined
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr media: cx25821: Fix a bug when reallocating some dma memory
Luo Meng luomeng12@huawei.com media: qm1d1c0042: fix error return code in qm1d1c0042_init()
Joe Perches joe@perches.com media: lmedm04: Fix misuse of comma
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ASoC: cs42l56: fix up error handling in probe
Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn media: tm6000: Fix memleak in tm6000_start_stream
Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn media: media/pci: Fix memleak in empress_init
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr media: vsp1: Fix an error handling path in the probe function
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com MIPS: lantiq: Explicitly compare LTQ_EBU_PCC_ISTAT against 0
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com MIPS: c-r4k: Fix section mismatch for loongson2_sc_init
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com gma500: clean up error handling in init
Jialin Zhang zhangjialin11@huawei.com drm/gma500: Fix error return code in psb_driver_load()
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org fbdev: aty: SPARC64 requires FB_ATY_CT
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com b43: N-PHY: Fix the update of coef for the PHY revision >= 3case
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com mac80211: fix potential overflow when multiplying to u32 integers
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netback: fix spurious event detection for common event case
Edwin Peer edwin.peer@broadcom.com bnxt_en: reverse order of TX disable and carrier off
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: s3c: fix fiq for clang IAS
Vincent Knecht vincent.knecht@mailoo.org arm64: dts: msm8916: Fix reserved and rfsa nodes unit address
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net usb: dwc2: Make "trimming xfer length" a debug message
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net usb: dwc2: Abort transaction after errors with unknown reason
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net usb: dwc2: Do not update data length if it is 0 on inbound transfers
Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com ARM: dts: Configure missing thermal interrupt for 4430
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Bluetooth: Put HCI device if inquiry procedure interrupts
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Bluetooth: drop HCI device reference before return
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org arm64: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Espresso
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Arndale Octa
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Spring
Christopher William Snowhill chris@kode54.net Bluetooth: Fix initializing response id after clearing struct
Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz mm, thp: make do_huge_pmd_wp_page() lock page for testing mapcount
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com random: fix the RNDRESEEDCRNG ioctl
Alexander Lobakin alobakin@pm.me MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section
Sumit Garg sumit.garg@linaro.org kdb: Make memory allocations more robust
Rong Chen rong.a.chen@intel.com scripts/recordmcount.pl: support big endian for ARCH sh
Shyam Prasad N sprasad@microsoft.com cifs: Set CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH flag on setting cifs_sb->prepath.
Christoph Schemmel christoph.schemmel@gmail.com NET: usb: qmi_wwan: Adding support for Cinterion MV31
Sameer Pujar spujar@nvidia.com arm64: tegra: Add power-domain for Tegra210 HDA
Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com igb: Remove incorrect "unexpected SYS WRAP" log message
Rustam Kovhaev rkovhaev@gmail.com ntfs: check for valid standard information attribute
Stefan Ursella stefan.ursella@wolfvision.net usb: quirks: add quirk to start video capture on ELMO L-12F document camera reliable
Will McVicker willmcvicker@google.com HID: make arrays usage and value to be the same
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-spring.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420-arndale-octa.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/omap443x.dtsi | 2 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/exynos/exynos7-espresso.dts | 2 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra210.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/mips/lantiq/irq.c | 2 +- arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 2 +- arch/nios2/kernel/sys_nios2.c | 11 ++- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 7 +- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/sparc/lib/memset.S | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 29 +++---- block/blk-settings.c | 12 +++ crypto/ecdh_helper.c | 3 + drivers/acpi/acpi_configfs.c | 7 +- drivers/amba/bus.c | 20 +++-- drivers/ata/ahci_brcm.c | 14 +++- drivers/block/floppy.c | 27 ++++--- drivers/char/random.c | 2 +- drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c | 2 +- drivers/clocksource/mxs_timer.c | 5 +- drivers/dma/fsldma.c | 6 ++ drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_hdmi_i2c.c | 22 ++--- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/phy/dsi_phy_20nm.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 9 ++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c | 7 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_recv.c | 11 ++- drivers/input/joydev.c | 7 +- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 1 + drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 4 + drivers/input/touchscreen/elo.c | 4 +- drivers/input/touchscreen/raydium_i2c_ts.c | 3 +- drivers/md/dm-era-target.c | 93 ++++++++++++++-------- drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-core.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-empress.c | 5 +- drivers/media/platform/pxa_camera.c | 3 + drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drv.c | 4 +- drivers/media/tuners/qm1d1c0042.c | 4 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c | 4 + drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 18 ++--- drivers/mfd/wm831x-auxadc.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c | 1 + drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c | 5 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-esdhc-imx.c | 3 +- drivers/mmc/host/usdhi6rol0.c | 4 +- drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/spi-nor/hisi-sfc.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 9 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 - .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c | 24 +----- drivers/net/gtp.c | 5 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_n.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 8 +- drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c | 18 ++++- drivers/of/fdt.c | 12 ++- drivers/pci/syscall.c | 10 +-- drivers/power/reset/at91-sama5d2_shdwc.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-rockchip.c | 1 - drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c | 7 +- drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx-pci.c | 27 +++++-- drivers/spi/spi-s3c24xx-fiq.S | 9 +-- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 + drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c | 15 ++-- drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_intr.c | 14 +++- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 19 ++++- drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c | 31 ++++---- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 3 +- drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 7 +- fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 4 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 1 + fs/f2fs/file.c | 3 +- fs/gfs2/lock_dlm.c | 8 +- fs/isofs/dir.c | 1 + fs/isofs/namei.c | 1 + fs/jffs2/summary.c | 3 + fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c | 2 +- fs/ntfs/inode.c | 6 ++ fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c | 8 +- include/linux/icmpv6.h | 44 +++++++++- include/linux/ipv6.h | 2 +- include/net/icmp.h | 10 +++ kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 2 +- kernel/futex.c | 12 +-- kernel/module.c | 21 ++++- kernel/seccomp.c | 2 + kernel/tracepoint.c | 80 +++++++++++++++---- mm/huge_memory.c | 15 ++++ mm/hugetlb.c | 43 +++++++++- mm/memory.c | 6 +- net/bluetooth/a2mp.c | 3 +- net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 34 ++++++++ net/ipv6/icmp.c | 19 ++--- net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c | 46 +++++++++-- net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c | 2 +- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 6 +- security/keys/trusted.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs42l56.c | 3 +- tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/event.c | 2 + .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 3 + 121 files changed, 763 insertions(+), 304 deletions(-)