This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.72 release. There are 56 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 Apr 4 22:46:30 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-3.0.72-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.0.72-rc1 Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> iommu/amd: Make sure dma_ops are set for hotplug devices Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@xxxxxxxxxxx> smsc75xx: fix jumbo frame support Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx> pch_gbe: fix ip_summed checksum reporting on rx Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: add a synchronize_net() in netdev_rx_handler_unregister() Max.Nekludov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <Max.Nekludov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ks8851: Fix interpretation of rxlen field. Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> atl1e: drop pci-msi support because of packet corruption Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> drivers: net: ethernet: davinci_emac: use netif_wake_queue() while restarting tx queue Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> aoe: reserve enough headroom on skbs Paul Moore <pmoore@xxxxxxxxxx> unix: fix a race condition in unix_release() Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx> thermal: shorten too long mcast group name Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> 8021q: fix a potential use-after-free Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: undo spurious timeout after SACK reneging Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: preserve ACK clocking in TSO Mirko Lindner <mlindner@xxxxxxxxxxx> sky2: Threshold for Pause Packet is set wrong Mirko Lindner <mlindner@xxxxxxxxxxx> sky2: Receive Overflows not counted Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lock Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: use atomic64_t for the per-flexbg free_clusters count Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> efivars: Handle duplicate names from get_next_variable() Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Don't clobber crtc->fb when queue_flip fails Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: don't set unpin_work if vblank_get fails J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd4: reject "negative" acl lengths Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@xxxxxxxxx> loop: prevent bdev freeing while device in use Petr Matousek <pmatouse@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: invalid opcode oops on SET_SREGS with OSXSAVE bit set (CVE-2012-4461) Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: Fix buffer overflow in kvm_set_irq() Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> macvtap: zerocopy: validate vectors before building skb Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> NFS: nfs_getaclargs.acl_len is a size_t Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> NFSv4: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 getacl code Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: Prevent starting PIT timers in the absence of irqchip support Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: Only write requested number of byte to user buffer Paul Kot <pawlkt@xxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: bat_socket_read missing checks Matthew Daley <mattjd@xxxxxxxxx> x25: Handle undersized/fragmented skbs Matthew Daley <mattjd@xxxxxxxxx> x25: Validate incoming call user data lengths Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: Clean up error handling during VCPU creation Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Btrfs: limit the global reserve to 512mb Vivek Gautam <gautam.vivek@xxxxxxxxxxx> usb: xhci: Fix TRB transfer length macro used for Event TRB. Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/irda: add missing error path release_sock call Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx> mwifiex: cancel cmd timer and free curr_cmd in shutdown process Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vt: synchronize_rcu() under spinlock is not nice... Konstantin Holoborodko <klh.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> usb: ftdi_sio: Add support for Mitsubishi FX-USB-AW/-BD Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: fix dispatch_rw_block_io() error path Iestyn C. Elfick <isedev@xxxxxxxxx> b43: A fix for DMA transmission sequence errors Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir() Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sysfs: fix race between readdir and lseek Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: s626: fix continuous acquisition Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: Add support for Dell[QCA 0cf3:817a] Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: Add support for Dell[QCA 0cf3:0036] Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: Fix not closing SCO sockets in the BT_CONNECT2 state Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: Add barriers to ensure read ordering in rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kernel/signal.c: use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER instead of SA_RESTORER Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> signal: Define __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER so we know whether to clear sa_restorer ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/avr32/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/cris/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/h8300/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c | 5 ++ arch/m32r/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/m68k/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/mn10300/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/s390/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/sparc/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/signal.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/amd_iommu.c | 24 +++++---- arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 10 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 19 +++++-- arch/xtensa/include/asm/signal.h | 1 + drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 3 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 9 +++- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 7 +-- drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.c | 4 ++ drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 2 + drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 23 ++++---- drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.h | 1 - drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c | 22 +------- drivers/net/davinci_emac.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ks8851.c | 2 +- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/sky2.c | 2 +- drivers/net/sky2.h | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c | 12 +++-- drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/init.c | 8 +++ drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/s626.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 6 ++- drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 24 ++++----- drivers/usb/host/xhci.h | 4 ++ drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 7 +++ fs/block_dev.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 +-- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 18 +++---- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 10 ++-- fs/ext4/resize.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------- fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c | 34 +++++++++--- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 17 +++++- include/asm-generic/signal.h | 4 ++ include/linux/kvm_host.h | 7 +++ include/linux/nfs_xdr.h | 5 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h | 2 + include/linux/thermal.h | 2 +- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 50 ++++++++++++++---- kernel/trace/trace.h | 7 +++ kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c | 19 +++++-- kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c | 18 +++++-- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 15 +++--- net/8021q/vlan.c | 14 ++--- net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c | 5 +- net/bluetooth/sco.c | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 6 +++ net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 7 +-- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 7 ++- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 26 ++++----- net/irda/af_irda.c | 6 ++- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 1 + net/sunrpc/sched.c | 9 +++- net/sunrpc/xdr.c | 3 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 7 ++- net/x25/af_x25.c | 37 ++++++++++--- net/x25/x25_dev.c | 6 +++ net/x25/x25_facilities.c | 10 ++-- net/x25/x25_in.c | 43 +++++++++++++-- net/x25/x25_link.c | 3 ++ net/x25/x25_subr.c | 14 ++++- virt/kvm/irq_comm.c | 1 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 15 ++++-- 83 files changed, 665 insertions(+), 267 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