This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.244 release. There are 78 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 Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:20:51 +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-4.9.244-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
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.244-rc1
Boris Protopopov pboris@amazon.com Convert trailing spaces and periods in path components
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ext4: fix leaking sysfs kobject after failed mount
Matteo Croce mcroce@microsoft.com reboot: fix overflow parsing reboot cpu number
Matteo Croce mcroce@microsoft.com Revert "kernel/reboot.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtoint"
Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: block rogue events for some time
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: defer eoi in case of excessive number of events
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: use a common cpu hotplug hook for event channels
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: switch user event channels to lateeoi model
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/pciback: use lateeoi irq binding
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/scsiback: use lateeoi irq binding
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netback: use lateeoi irq binding
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/blkback: use lateeoi irq binding
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: add a new "late EOI" evtchn framework
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: fix race in evtchn_fifo_unmask()
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: add a proper barrier to 2-level uevent unmasking
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: avoid removing an event channel while handling it
kiyin(尹亮) kiyin@tencent.com perf/core: Fix a memory leak in perf_event_parse_addr_filter()
Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier@linaro.org perf/core: Fix crash when using HW tracing kernel filters
Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab()
Anand K Mistry amistry@google.com x86/speculation: Allow IBPB to be conditionally enabled on CPUs with always-on STIBP
George Spelvin lkml@sdf.org random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable
Mao Wenan wenan.mao@linux.alibaba.com net: Update window_clamp if SOCK_RCVBUF is set
Martin Schiller ms@dev.tdt.de net/x25: Fix null-ptr-deref in x25_connect
Ursula Braun ubraun@linux.ibm.com net/af_iucv: fix null pointer dereference on shutdown
Oliver Herms oliver.peter.herms@gmail.com IPv6: Set SIT tunnel hard_header_len to zero
Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com swiotlb: fix "x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb"
Coiby Xu coiby.xu@gmail.com pinctrl: amd: fix incorrect way to disable debounce filter
Coiby Xu coiby.xu@gmail.com pinctrl: amd: use higher precision for 512 RtcClk
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de drm/gma500: Fix out-of-bounds access to struct drm_device.vblank[]
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk don't dump the threads that had been already exiting when zapped.
Wengang Wang wen.gang.wang@oracle.com ocfs2: initialize ip_next_orphan
Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: protect mei_cl_mtu from null dereference
Chris Brandt chris.brandt@renesas.com usb: cdc-acm: Add DISABLE_ECHO for Renesas USB Download mode
Joseph Qi joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com ext4: unlock xattr_sem properly in ext4_inline_data_truncate()
Kaixu Xia kaixuxia@tencent.com ext4: correctly report "not supported" for {usr,grp}jquota when !CONFIG_QUOTA
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org perf: Fix get_recursion_context()
Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com cosa: Add missing kfree in error path of cosa_write
Evan Nimmo evan.nimmo@alliedtelesis.co.nz of/address: Fix of_node memory leak in of_dma_is_coherent
Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de xfs: fix a missing unlock on error in xfs_fs_map_blocks
Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: fix rmap key and record comparison functions
Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: fix flags argument to rmap lookup when converting shared file rmaps
Billy Tsai billy_tsai@aspeedtech.com pinctrl: aspeed: Fix GPI only function problem.
Suravee Suthikulpanit suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com iommu/amd: Increase interrupt remapping table limit to 512 entries
Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Avoid crash during alua_bus_detach()
Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com cfg80211: regulatory: Fix inconsistent format argument
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: always wind down STA state
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: fix use of skb payload instead of header
Evan Quan evan.quan@amd.com drm/amdgpu: perform srbm soft reset always on SDMA resume
Keita Suzuki keitasuzuki.park@sslab.ics.keio.ac.jp scsi: hpsa: Fix memory leak in hpsa_init_one()
Bob Peterson rpeterso@redhat.com gfs2: check for live vs. read-only file system in gfs2_fitrim
Bob Peterson rpeterso@redhat.com gfs2: Free rd_bits later in gfs2_clear_rgrpd to fix use-after-free
Evgeny Novikov novikov@ispras.ru usb: gadget: goku_udc: fix potential crashes in probe
Masashi Honma masashi.honma@gmail.com ath9k_htc: Use appropriate rs_datalen type
Mark Gray mark.d.gray@redhat.com geneve: add transport ports in route lookup for geneve
Martyna Szapar martyna.szapar@intel.com i40e: Memory leak in i40e_config_iwarp_qvlist
Martyna Szapar martyna.szapar@intel.com i40e: Fix of memory leak and integer truncation in i40e_virtchnl.c
Grzegorz Siwik grzegorz.siwik@intel.com i40e: Wrong truncation from u16 to u8
Sergey Nemov sergey.nemov@intel.com i40e: add num_vectors checker in iwarp handler
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr i40e: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
Will Deacon will@kernel.org pinctrl: devicetree: Avoid taking direct reference to device name string
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: fix missing error return if writeback for extent buffer never started
Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com xfs: flush new eof page on truncate to avoid post-eof corruption
Stephane Grosjean s.grosjean@peak-system.com can: peak_usb: peak_usb_get_ts_time(): fix timestamp wrapping
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com can: peak_usb: add range checking in decode operations
Oleksij Rempel o.rempel@pengutronix.de can: can_create_echo_skb(): fix echo skb generation: always use skb_clone()
Oliver Hartkopp socketcan@hartkopp.net can: dev: __can_get_echo_skb(): fix real payload length return value for RTR frames
Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr can: dev: can_get_echo_skb(): prevent call to kfree_skb() in hard IRQ context
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ALSA: hda: prevent undefined shift in snd_hdac_ext_bus_get_link()
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf tools: Add missing swap for ino_generation
zhuoliang zhang zhuoliang.zhang@mediatek.com net: xfrm: fix a race condition during allocing spi
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org genirq: Let GENERIC_IRQ_IPI select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: reschedule when cloning lots of extents
Zeng Tao prime.zeng@hisilicon.com time: Prevent undefined behaviour in timespec64_to_ns()
Shijie Luo luoshijie1@huawei.com mm: mempolicy: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error
Alexander Aring aahringo@redhat.com gfs2: Wake up when sd_glock_disposal becomes zero
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org ring-buffer: Fix recursion protection transitions between interrupt context
Michał Mirosław mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl regulator: defer probe when trying to get voltage from unresolved supply
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Diffstat:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/events/intel/pt.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 52 ++- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 22 +- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 5 +- drivers/char/random.c | 1 - drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/cik_sdma.c | 27 +- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_irq.c | 34 +- drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_types.h | 6 +- drivers/misc/mei/client.h | 4 +- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 14 +- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 51 ++- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c | 48 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 32 +- drivers/net/geneve.c | 36 +- drivers/net/wan/cosa.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h | 15 + drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 61 ++- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 11 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c | 13 +- drivers/of/address.c | 4 +- drivers/pinctrl/aspeed/pinctrl-aspeed.c | 7 +- drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c | 26 +- drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c | 6 +- drivers/regulator/core.c | 2 + drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 9 + drivers/usb/gadget/udc/goku_udc.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c | 9 +- drivers/xen/events/events_base.c | 422 +++++++++++++++++-- drivers/xen/events/events_fifo.c | 82 ++-- drivers/xen/events/events_internal.h | 20 +- drivers/xen/evtchn.c | 7 +- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c | 14 +- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pciback.h | 12 +- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pciback_ops.c | 48 ++- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 23 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 4 + fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 + fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c | 8 +- fs/ext4/inline.c | 1 + fs/ext4/super.c | 5 +- fs/gfs2/glock.c | 3 +- fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 5 +- fs/ocfs2/super.c | 1 + fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_rmap.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_rmap_btree.c | 16 +- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 10 + fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.c | 2 +- include/linux/can/skb.h | 20 +- include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 +- include/linux/prandom.h | 36 +- include/linux/time64.h | 4 + include/xen/events.h | 29 +- kernel/events/core.c | 42 +- kernel/events/internal.h | 2 +- kernel/exit.c | 5 +- kernel/irq/Kconfig | 1 + kernel/reboot.c | 28 +- kernel/time/timer.c | 7 - kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 54 ++- lib/random32.c | 462 +++++++++++++-------- lib/swiotlb.c | 6 +- mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/syncookies.c | 9 +- net/ipv6/sit.c | 2 - net/ipv6/syncookies.c | 10 +- net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 3 +- net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 18 + net/mac80211/tx.c | 35 +- net/wireless/reg.c | 2 +- net/x25/af_x25.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 8 +- sound/hda/ext/hdac_ext_controller.c | 2 + tools/perf/util/session.c | 1 + 79 files changed, 1465 insertions(+), 549 deletions(-)