This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.296 release. There are 13 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, 05 Jan 2022 14:20:40 +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-4.9.296-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 4.9.296-rc1
Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler
Leo L. Schwab ewhac@ewhac.org Input: spaceball - fix parsing of movement data packets
Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com Input: appletouch - initialize work before device registration
Alexey Makhalov amakhalov@vmware.com scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Set residual data length conditionally
Vincent Pelletier plr.vincent@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_fs: Clear ffs_eventfd in ffs_data_clear.
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: Fresco FL1100 controller should not have BROKEN_MSI quirk set.
Dmitry V. Levin ldv@altlinux.org uapi: fix linux/nfc.h userspace compilation errors
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com nfc: uapi: use kernel size_t to fix user-space builds
Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com fsl/fman: Fix missing put_device() call in fman_port_probe
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com selinux: initialize proto variable in selinux_ip_postroute_compat()
Heiko Carstens hca@linux.ibm.com recordmcount.pl: fix typo in s390 mcount regex
Wang Qing wangqing@vivo.com platform/x86: apple-gmux: use resource_size() with res
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com HID: asus: Add depends on USB_HID to HID_ASUS Kconfig option
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/hid/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c | 11 +++++++++-- drivers/input/mouse/appletouch.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c | 12 +++++++----- drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 7 +++++-- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 9 ++++++--- drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 5 ++++- include/uapi/linux/nfc.h | 6 +++--- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 10 ++++------ scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +- security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +- 13 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)