This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.5.2 release. There are 23 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 Feb 2020 16:17:59 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.5.2-rc1.g... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.5.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.5.2-rc1

Michal Koutný mkoutny@suse.com cgroup: Prevent double killing of css when enabling threaded cgroup

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Bluetooth: Fix race condition in hci_release_sock()

Zhenzhong Duan zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com ttyprintk: fix a potential deadlock in interrupt context issue

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp tomoyo: Use atomic_t for statistics counter

Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c: initialize actlen to 0

Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: gspca: zero usb_buf

Sean Young sean@mess.org media: vp7045: do not read uninitialized values if usb transfer fails

Sean Young sean@mess.org media: af9005: uninitialized variable printked

Sean Young sean@mess.org media: digitv: don't continue if remote control state can't be read

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz reiserfs: Fix memory leak of journal device string

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com mm/mempolicy.c: fix out of bounds write in mpol_parse_str()

Dirk Behme dirk.behme@de.bosch.com arm64: kbuild: remove compressed images on 'make ARCH=arm64 (dist)clean'

Vitaly Chikunov vt@altlinux.org tools lib: Fix builds when glibc contains strlcpy()

Chanwoo Choi cw00.choi@samsung.com PM / devfreq: Add new name attribute for sysfs

Andres Freund andres@anarazel.de perf c2c: Fix return type for histogram sorting comparision functions

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com lib/test_bitmap: correct test data offsets for 32-bit

Andreas Gruenbacher agruenba@redhat.com gfs2: Another gfs2_find_jhead fix

David Michael fedora.dm0@gmail.com KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix -Werror=return-type build failure

Xiaochen Shen xiaochen.shen@intel.com x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free due to inaccurate refcount of rdtgroup

Xiaochen Shen xiaochen.shen@intel.com x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free when deleting resource groups

Xiaochen Shen xiaochen.shen@intel.com x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference

Ronnie Sahlberg lsahlber@redhat.com cifs: fix soft mounts hanging in the reconnect code

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk vfs: fix do_last() regression

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Diffstat:

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devfreq | 7 +++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/Makefile | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 32 ++++++++----- drivers/char/ttyprintk.c | 15 +++--- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 9 ++++ drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/digitv.c | 10 ++-- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/vp7045.c | 21 ++++++--- drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/lops.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++---------- fs/namei.c | 4 +- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 2 + kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 11 +++-- lib/test_bitmap.c | 9 ++-- mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +-- net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 3 ++ security/tomoyo/common.c | 11 ++--- tools/include/linux/string.h | 8 ++++ tools/lib/string.c | 7 +++ tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 10 ++-- 24 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)