This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.40 release. There are 29 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 Fri Apr 12 22:47:13 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-3.4.40-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.4.40-rc1 Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rt2x00: rt2x00pci_regbusy_read() - only print register access failure once Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "mwifiex: cancel cmd timer and free curr_cmd in shutdown process Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: prevent mmap_cache race in find_vma() Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> panic: fix a possible deadlock in panic() Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs@xxxxxxxxxx> thermal: return an error on failure to register thermal class Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> x86: Fix rebuild with EFI_STUB enabled Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@xxxxxx> crypto: gcm - fix assumption that assoc has one segment Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers Li Fei <fei.li@xxxxxxxxx> hwspinlock: fix __hwspin_lock_request error path Paul Moore <pmoore@xxxxxxxxxx> x86: remove the x32 syscall bitmask from syscall_get_nr() Michael Wolf <mjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc: pSeries_lpar_hpte_remove fails from Adjunct partition being performed before the ANDCOND test Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> ftrace: Consistently restore trace function on sysctl enabling Youquan Song <youquan.song@xxxxxxxxx> ata_piix: Fix DVD not dectected at some Haswell platforms Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@xxxxxxxxx> alpha: Add irongate_io to PCI bus resources Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> libata: Set max sector to 65535 for Slimtype DVD A DS8A8SH drive Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> libata: Use integer return value for atapi_command_packet_set Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> EISA/PCI: Fix bus res reference Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> EISA/PCI: Init EISA early, before PNP David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - fix typo in proc output Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Enabling Realtek ALC 671 codec Mengdong Lin <mengdong.lin@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - bug fix on return value when getting HDMI ELD info Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> reiserfs: Fix warning and inode leak when deleting inode with xattrs Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> UBIFS: make space fixup work in the remount case Anatolij Gustschin <agust@xxxxxxx> spi/mpc512x-psc: optionally keep PSC SS asserted across xfer segmensts Girish K S <girishks2000@xxxxxxxxx> spi/s3c64xx: modified error interrupt handling and init Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> regmap: cache Fix regcache-rbtree sync Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: dma-sh7760: Fix compile error ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/sys_nautilus.c | 5 +++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c | 8 +++- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 5 +-- arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h | 4 +- block/blk-sysfs.c | 2 + crypto/gcm.c | 17 +++++++-- drivers/ata/ata_piix.c | 13 ++++++- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 4 ++ drivers/base/regmap/regcache-rbtree.c | 2 +- drivers/eisa/pci_eisa.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------- drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/init.c | 8 ---- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-mpc512x-psc.c | 2 +- drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c | 41 ++++++++++++-------- drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 1 + fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 4 +- fs/ubifs/super.c | 12 +++--- include/linux/ata.h | 2 +- include/linux/libata.h | 1 + include/linux/preempt.h | 22 +++++++---- include/linux/spinlock_up.h | 29 ++++++++------ kernel/panic.c | 8 ++++ kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 8 +--- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- mm/nommu.c | 2 +- net/can/gw.c | 6 +-- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_eld.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 4 +- sound/soc/sh/dma-sh7760.c | 4 +- 32 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 105 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