This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.20.9 release. There are 50 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 Fri Feb 15 18:36:30 UTC 2019. 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-4.20.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.20.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.20.9-rc1
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Force mac header to start of data on xmit
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid WARN on net_device without parent in netns
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de xfrm: refine validation of template and selector families
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: avoid KEEPALIVE_PENDING races in ceph_con_keepalive()
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Revert "ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal"
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915: Try to sanitize bogus DPLL state left over by broken SNB BIOSen
Benedict Wong benedictwong@google.com xfrm: Make set-mark default behavior backward compatible
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Return error code from vmw_execbuf_copy_fence_user
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix an uninitialized fence handle value
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix setting of dma masks
Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@intel.com drm/i915: always return something on DDI clock selection
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com drm/amd/powerplay: Fix missing break in switch
Sandy Huang hjc@rock-chips.com drm/rockchip: rgb: update SPDX license identifier
Tina Zhang tina.zhang@intel.com drm/modes: Prevent division by zero htotal
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: ensure that mgmt tx skbs have tailroom for encryption
Vincent Whitchurch vincent.whitchurch@axis.com mic: vop: Fix use-after-free on remove
Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com powerpc/radix: Fix kernel crash with mremap()
Oliver O'Halloran oohall@gmail.com powerpc/papr_scm: Use the correct bind address
Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com firmware: arm_scmi: provide the mandatory device release callback
Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com ARM: dts: da850: fix interrupt numbers for clocksource
Marc Gonzalez marc.w.gonzalez@free.fr ARM: tango: Improve ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM compatibility
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: iop32x/n2100: fix PCI IRQ mapping
Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: VDSO: Include $(ccflags-vdso) in o32,n32 .lds builds
Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me mips: loongson64: remove unreachable(), fix loongson_poweroff().
Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: VDSO: Use same -m%-float cflag as the kernel proper
Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi MIPS: OCTEON: don't set octeon_dma_bar_type if PCI is disabled
Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Use lower case for addresses in nexys4ddr.dts
Vladimir Kondratiev vladimir.kondratiev@linux.intel.com mips: cm: reprime error cause
Andreas Ziegler andreas.ziegler@fau.de tracing: uprobes: Fix typo in pr_fmt string
Andreas Ziegler andreas.ziegler@fau.de tracing/uprobes: Fix output for multiple string arguments
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com pinctrl: cherryview: fix Strago DMI workaround
Chen-Yu Tsai wens@csie.org pinctrl: sunxi: Correct number of IRQ banks on H6 main pin controller
Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com svcrdma: Remove max_sge check at connect time
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org debugfs: fix debugfs_rename parameter checking
Tomas Winkler tomas.winkler@intel.com samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei
Tomas Winkler tomas.winkler@intel.com mei: me: add ice lake point device id.
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com cfg80211: call disconnect_wk when AP stops
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com misc: vexpress: Off by one in vexpress_syscfg_exec()
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Better detection of synchronous signals
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Always notice exiting tasks
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Always attempt to allocate siginfo for SIGSTOP
Dan Murphy dmurphy@ti.com iio: ti-ads8688: Update buffer allocation for timestamps
Matt Ranostay matt.ranostay@konsulko.com iio: chemical: atlas-ph-sensor: correct IIO_TEMP values to millicelsius
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com iio: adc: axp288: Fix TS-pin handling
Martin Kelly mkelly@xevo.com tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: make num_loops signed
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com libata: Add NOLPM quirk for SAMSUNG MZ7TE512HMHP-000L1 SSD
Martin Kepplinger martink@posteo.de mtd: rawnand: gpmi: fix MX28 bus master lockup problem
Boris Brezillon bbrezillon@kernel.org mtd: spinand: Fix the error/cleanup path in spinand_init()
Boris Brezillon bbrezillon@kernel.org mtd: spinand: Handle the case where PROGRAM LOAD does not reset the cache
Boris Brezillon bbrezillon@kernel.org mtd: Make sure mtd->erasesize is valid even if the partition is of size 0
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/da850.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-iop32x/n2100.c | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-tango/pm.c | 6 +- arch/arm/mach-tango/pm.h | 7 ++ arch/arm/mach-tango/setup.c | 2 + arch/mips/boot/dts/xilfpga/nexys4ddr.dts | 8 +- arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c | 2 +- arch/mips/loongson64/common/reset.c | 7 +- arch/mips/pci/pci-octeon.c | 10 +-- arch/mips/vdso/Makefile | 5 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 22 ++--- arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c | 22 +++++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 5 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 + drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/powerplay/hwmgr/smu10_hwmgr.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 51 +++++++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c | 11 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.h | 11 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 4 +- drivers/iio/adc/axp288_adc.c | 76 ++++++++++++---- drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads8688.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/chemical/atlas-ph-sensor.c | 7 +- drivers/misc/mei/hw-me-regs.h | 2 + drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 2 + drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_main.c | 4 +- drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 4 + drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c | 13 ++- drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 46 +++++----- drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-cherryview.c | 8 +- drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun50i-h6.c | 2 +- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 7 ++ fs/ext4/fsync.c | 13 +-- kernel/signal.c | 63 ++++++++++++- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 9 +- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 5 +- net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 2 + net/ceph/messenger.c | 5 +- net/mac80211/tx.c | 12 ++- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++-- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c | 9 +- net/wireless/ap.c | 2 + net/wireless/core.h | 2 + net/wireless/sme.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 5 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 13 ++- samples/mei/mei-amt-version.c | 2 +- tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c | 2 +- 54 files changed, 461 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)