This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.2 release. There are 77 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 19:42:25 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-3.8.2-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.8.2-rc1 Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> efivarfs: Validate filenames much more aggressively Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> ACPI: Overriding ACPI tables via initrd only works with an initrd and on X86 Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> x86, efi: Allow slash in file path of initrd Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@xxxxxxxxx> usb hid quirks for Masterkit MA901 usb radio James Ralston <james.d.ralston@xxxxxxxxx> ahci: Add Device IDs for Intel Wellsburg PCH Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@xxxxxxxxx> ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Avoton DeviceIDs James Ralston <james.d.ralston@xxxxxxxxx> ata_piix: Add Device IDs for Intel Wellsburg PCH Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@xxxxxxxxx> ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Avoton DeviceIDs Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: check s->async for poll(), read() and write() Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ACPI: Add DMI entry for Sony VGN-FW41E_H Rajanikanth H.V <rajanikanth.hv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ab8500_btemp: Demote initcall sequence Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> ab8500-chargalg: Only root should have write permission on sysfs file NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> bq27x00_battery: Fix bugs introduced with BQ27425 support Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> cgroup: fix exit() vs rmdir() race Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> cpuset: fix cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed() vs rename() race Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@xxxxxxx> pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> workqueue: consider work function when searching for busy work items Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> fuse: don't WARN when nlink is zero Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando_b1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> HID: clean up quirk for Sony RF receivers Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando_b1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> HID: add support for Sony RF receiver with USB product id 0x0374 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> svcrpc: fix rpc server shutdown races J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> svcrpc: make svc_age_temp_xprts enqueue under sv_lock majianpeng <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> nfsd: Fix memleak Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix free clusters calculation in bigalloc filesystem Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix xattr block allocation/release with bigalloc Niu Yawei <yawei.niu@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix race in ext4_mb_add_n_trim() Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: release sysfs kobject when failing to enable quotas on mount Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: check bh in ext4_read_block_bitmap() Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: return ENOMEM if sb_getblk() fails Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> media: rc: unlock on error in show_protocols() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> media: omap_vout: find_vma() needs ->mmap_sem held Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> media: v4l: Reset subdev v4l2_dev field to NULL if registration fails Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> media: cx18/ivtv: fix regression: remove __init from a non-init function Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix possible use-after-free with AIO Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> fs: Fix possible use-after-free with AIO Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown 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> block: fix synchronization and limit check in blk_alloc_devt() Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> idr: fix a subtle bug in idr_get_next() Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: use balloon pages for persistent grants Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> xen-blkfront: drop the use of llist_for_each_entry_safe Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/blkback: Don't trust the handle from the frontend. Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: do not leak mode property Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> block: fix ext_devt_idr handling Xiaowei.Hu <xiaowei.hu@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: ac->ac_allow_chain_relink=0 won't disable group relink Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: fix ocfs2_init_security_and_acl() to initialize acl correctly Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Add missing mapped_lun bounds checking during make_mappedlun setup Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Fix lookup of dynamic NodeACLs during cached demo-mode operation 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. Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> x86, efi: Make "noefi" really disable EFI runtime serivces Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/apic: Fix parsing of the 'lapic' cmdline option 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 Adam Thomas <adamthomas1111@xxxxxxxxx> UBIFS: fix double free of ubifs_orphan objects Adam Thomas <adamthomas1111@xxxxxxxxx> UBIFS: fix use of freed ubifs_orphan objects Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> b43: Fix lockdep splat on module unload Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> usb: dwc3: gadget: change HIRD threshold to 12 Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@xxxxxx> usb: dwc3: gadget: fix skip LINK_TRB on ISOC Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@xxxxxx> usb: dwc3: gadget: fix isoc END TRANSFER Condition Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@xxxxxx> usb: dwc3: gadget: fix missed isoc Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@xxxxxx> usb: dwc3: Enable usb2 LPM only when connected as usb2.0 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> quota: autoload the quota_v2 module for QFMT_VFS_V1 quota format Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> IB/srp: Fail I/O requests if the transport is offline Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> IB/srp: Avoid endless SCSI error handling loop Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> IB/srp: Avoid sending a task management function needlessly Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> IB/srp: Track connection state properly Florian Zeitz <florob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: emu10k1: Load firmware when it was already cached Mihail Zenkov <mihail.zenkov@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: emu10k1: Fix regression in emu1010 firmware loading David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - hdmi: Make jacks phantom, if they're not detectable Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: bt87x: Make load_all parameter working again Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: do not grow the stack vma just because of an overrun on preceding vma ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 26 ++++-- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/head.c | 53 +++++++---- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 5 +- block/genhd.c | 15 ++-- block/partition-generic.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 3 +- drivers/acpi/sleep.c | 8 ++ drivers/ata/ahci.c | 24 +++++ drivers/ata/ata_piix.c | 17 ++++ drivers/block/nbd.c | 10 +++ drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 7 +- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 49 +++++----- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 13 ++- drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 4 + drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 4 + drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 18 +++- drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 42 +++++---- drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.h | 1 + drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c | 10 +-- drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-alsa-main.c | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-alsa-pcm.h | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-alsa-main.c | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-alsa-pcm.h | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/omap/omap_vout.c | 12 +-- drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 4 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c | 30 +++---- drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 3 +- drivers/power/ab8500_btemp.c | 2 +- drivers/power/abx500_chargalg.c | 2 +- drivers/power/bq27x00_battery.c | 2 - drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 8 +- drivers/target/target_core_device.c | 13 +-- drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 12 ++- drivers/target/target_core_internal.h | 2 +- drivers/target/target_core_tpg.c | 10 +-- drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h | 2 - drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 98 +++++++++++++------- fs/direct-io.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 13 ++- fs/ext4/extents.c | 25 +++--- fs/ext4/indirect.c | 9 +- fs/ext4/inline.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 11 +-- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/mmp.c | 2 + fs/ext4/page-io.c | 9 +- fs/ext4/resize.c | 8 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 12 ++- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 10 ++- fs/fuse/dir.c | 9 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 + fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c | 7 +- fs/ocfs2/suballoc.h | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 2 +- fs/pstore/platform.c | 35 ++++++-- fs/ubifs/orphan.c | 12 ++- fs/ubifs/ubifs.h | 6 +- include/linux/llist.h | 25 ------ include/linux/pstore.h | 6 ++ include/linux/quota.h | 1 + kernel/cgroup.c | 8 ++ kernel/cpuset.c | 12 ++- kernel/posix-timers.c | 7 ++ kernel/sysctl_binary.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 46 +++++++--- kernel/workqueue.c | 36 ++++++-- lib/idr.c | 9 +- mm/mmap.c | 27 ++++++ net/sunrpc/svc.c | 9 -- net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 72 +++++++-------- sound/pci/bt87x.c | 19 +++- sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c | 6 ++ sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 3 + 79 files changed, 795 insertions(+), 356 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