This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.68 release. There are 30 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 Sun Mar 3 19:44:54 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.0.68-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.0.68-rc1 Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: check s->async for poll(), read() and write() Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: ni_labpc: set up command4 register *after* command3 Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: ni_labpc: correct differential channel sequence for AI commands Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> s390/kvm: Fix store status for ACRS/FPRS fix Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> dca: check against empty dca_domains list before unregister provider fix Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> cgroup: fix exit() vs rmdir() race Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> cpuset: fix cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed() vs rename() race Stoney Wang <song-bo.wang@xxxxxx> x86/apic: Work around boot failure on HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server systems Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> x86: Do not leak kernel page mapping locations Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> unbreak automounter support on 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace (v2) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up() Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> vhost: fix length for cross region descriptor J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> svcrpc: make svc_age_temp_xprts enqueue under sv_lock Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix race in ext4_mb_add_n_trim() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> media: rc: unlock on error in show_protocols() Xi Wang <xi.wang@xxxxxxxxx> sysctl: fix null checking in bin_dn_node_address() Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> firewire: add minor number range check to fw_device_init() Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> idr: fix a subtle bug in idr_get_next() Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: do not leak mode property Xiaowei.Hu <xiaowei.hu@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: ac->ac_allow_chain_relink=0 won't disable group relink Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Add missing mapped_lun bounds checking during make_mappedlun setup H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86: Make sure we can boot in the case the BDA contains pure garbage Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>' Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation. Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> ftrace: Call ftrace cleanup module notifier after all other notifiers Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> posix-timer: Don't call idr_find() with out-of-range ID Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> iommu/amd: Initialize device table after dma_ops Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> quota: autoload the quota_v2 module for QFMT_VFS_V1 quota format ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu_init.c | 10 +++-- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c | 17 +++++--- arch/x86/kernel/head.c | 53 ++++++++++++++--------- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 9 ++-- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 49 +++++++++++----------- drivers/dca/dca-core.c | 2 +- drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 4 ++ drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 8 ++-- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_labpc.c | 35 +++++++++------- drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 8 ++++ drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +-- fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c | 7 ++-- fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h | 2 +- include/linux/auto_fs.h | 25 ++++------- include/linux/quota.h | 1 + include/linux/sched.h | 11 ++++- kernel/cgroup.c | 8 ++++ kernel/cpuset.c | 12 +++++- kernel/posix-timers.c | 7 ++++ kernel/ptrace.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++----- kernel/sched.c | 3 +- kernel/signal.c | 17 ++++---- kernel/sysctl_binary.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 46 +++++++++++++------- lib/idr.c | 9 +++- net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 15 +------ 31 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html