This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.255 release.
There are 32 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, 04 Feb 2021 13:29:33 +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-4.9.255-rc1.gz
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 <[email protected]>
Linux 4.9.255-rc1
Pan Bian <[email protected]>
NFC: fix possible resource leak
Pan Bian <[email protected]>
NFC: fix resource leak when target index is invalid
Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
iommu/vt-d: Don't dereference iommu_device if IOMMU_API is not built
David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
iommu/vt-d: Gracefully handle DMAR units with no supported address widths
Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
can: dev: prevent potential information leak in can_fill_info()
Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
mac80211: pause TX while changing interface type
Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
iwlwifi: pcie: reschedule in long-running memory reads
Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
iwlwifi: pcie: use jiffies for memory read spin time limit
Kamal Heib <[email protected]>
RDMA/cxgb4: Fix the reported max_recv_sge value
Shmulik Ladkani <[email protected]>
xfrm: Fix oops in xfrm_replay_advance_bmp
Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
netfilter: nft_dynset: add timeout extension to template
Max Krummenacher <[email protected]>
ARM: imx: build suspend-imx6.S with arm instruction set
Lorenzo Bianconi <[email protected]>
mt7601u: fix rx buffer refcounting
Lorenzo Bianconi <[email protected]>
mt7601u: fix kernel crash unplugging the device
Andrea Righi <[email protected]>
leds: trigger: fix potential deadlock with libata
Jay Zhou <[email protected]>
KVM: x86: get smi pending status correctly
Like Xu <[email protected]>
KVM: x86/pmu: Fix HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES event pseudo-encoding in intel_arch_events[]
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Prevent exit livelock
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Add mutex around futex exit
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Sanitize exit state handling
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
futex: Move futex exit handling into futex code
Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c
Giacinto Cifelli <[email protected]>
net: usb: qmi_wwan: added support for Thales Cinterion PLSx3 modem family
Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
wext: fix NULL-ptr-dereference with cfg80211's lack of commit()
Kai-Heng Feng <[email protected]>
ACPI: sysfs: Prefer "compatible" modalias
-------------
Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/mach-imx/suspend-imx6.S | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/pmu_intel.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 +
drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c | 20 +-
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c | 2 +-
drivers/iommu/dmar.c | 41 ++-
drivers/leds/led-triggers.c | 10 +-
drivers/net/can/dev.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c | 14 +-
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/dma.c | 5 +-
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
include/linux/compat.h | 2 -
include/linux/futex.h | 44 ++-
include/linux/intel-iommu.h | 2 +
include/linux/sched.h | 9 +-
kernel/Makefile | 3 -
kernel/exit.c | 29 +-
kernel/fork.c | 40 +--
kernel/futex.c | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
kernel/futex_compat.c | 201 -----------
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 1 +
net/mac80211/iface.c | 6 +
net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c | 4 +-
net/nfc/netlink.c | 1 +
net/nfc/rawsock.c | 2 +-
net/wireless/wext-core.c | 5 +-
net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c | 2 +-
29 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 361 deletions(-)
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 19:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.255 release.
> There are 32 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, 04 Feb 2021 13:29:33 +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-4.9.255-rc1.gz
> 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
Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <[email protected]>
Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------
kernel: 4.9.255-rc1
git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
git branch: linux-4.9.y
git commit: 70e4b0214c4095d6102b69f30858cfb31d36e1c2
git describe: v4.9.254-33-g70e4b0214c40
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.254-33-g70e4b0214c40
No regressions (compared to build v4.9.254)
No fixes (compared to build v4.9.254)
Ran 39352 total tests in the following environments and test suites.
Environments
--------------
- arm
- arm64
- dragonboard-410c - arm64
- hi6220-hikey - arm64
- i386
- juno-64k_page_size
- juno-r2 - arm64
- juno-r2-compat
- juno-r2-kasan
- mips
- qemu-arm64-kasan
- qemu-x86_64-kasan
- qemu_arm
- qemu_arm64
- qemu_arm64-compat
- qemu_i386
- qemu_x86_64
- qemu_x86_64-compat
- sparc
- x15 - arm
- x86_64
- x86-kasan
- x86_64
Test Suites
-----------
* build
* linux-log-parser
* igt-gpu-tools
* install-android-platform-tools-r2600
* kselftest-android
* kselftest-bpf
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-cgroup
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-cpufreq
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-kvm
* kselftest-lib
* kselftest-livepatch
* kselftest-lkdtm
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-seccomp
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-splice
* kselftest-static_keys
* kselftest-sysctl
* kselftest-timens
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user
* kselftest-zram
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-controllers-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-crypto-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-dio-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-tests
* ltp-fs_bind-tests
* ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
* ltp-fsx-tests
* ltp-io-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* ltp-tracing-tests
* perf
* v4l2-compliance
* fwts
* kselftest-efivarfs
* kselftest-filesystems
* kselftest-firmware
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-gpio
* kselftest-ipc
* kselftest-ir
* kselftest-kcmp
* libhugetlbfs
* ltp-fs-tests
* ltp-hugetlb-tests
* ltp-mm-tests
* network-basic-tests
* kvm-unit-tests
* ltp-open-posix-tests
* kselftest-vm
* kselftest-kexec
* kselftest-x86
--
Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org
On 2/2/21 6:38 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.255 release.
> There are 32 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, 04 Feb 2021 13:29:33 +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-4.9.255-rc1.gz
> 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
>
Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
Tested-by: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
thanks,
-- Shuah
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 02:38:23PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.255 release.
> There are 32 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, 04 Feb 2021 13:29:33 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
Build results:
total: 168 pass: 168 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
total: 382 pass: 382 fail: 0
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Guenter