This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.8 release. There are 27 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 Wed Apr 17 02:41:37 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-3.8.8-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.8.8-rc1 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tty: don't deadlock while flushing workqueue Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal Samu Kallio <samu.kallio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86, mm, paravirt: Fix vmalloc_fault oops during lazy MMU updates Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sched_clock: Prevent 64bit inatomicity on 32bit systems Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> ftrace: Move ftrace_filter_lseek out of CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE section Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> udl: handle EDID failure properly. Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx> tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx> x86-32: Fix possible incomplete TLB invalidate with PAE pagetables Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@xxxxxxxxxx> gpio: fix wrong checking condition for gpio range Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kobject: fix kset_find_obj() race with concurrent last kobject_put() Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx> vfs: Revert spurious fix to spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Fix incorrect fallthrough of ALUA Standby/Offline/Transition CDBs Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx> cifs: Allow passwords which begin with a delimitor Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@xxxxxxxxx> SCSI: libsas: fix handling vacant phy in sas_set_ex_phy() Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> GFS2: return error if malloc failed in gfs2_rs_alloc() Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> GFS2: Fix unlock of fcntl locks during withdrawn state Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipc: set msg back to -EAGAIN if copy wasn't performed John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "brcmsmac: support 4313iPA" Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> PM / reboot: call syscore_shutdown() after disable_nonboot_cpus() Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx> dmaengine: omap-dma: Start DMA without delay for cyclic channels Markus Pargmann <mpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: imx35 Bugfix admux clock Nigel Roberts <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: Kirkwood: Fix typo in the definition of ix2-200 rebuild LED Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx> tracing: Fix double free when function profile init failed Alban Bedel <alban.bedel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: wm8903: Fix the bypass to HP/LINEOUT when no DAC or ADC is running Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: wm5102: Correct lookup of arizona struct in SYSCLK event Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@xxxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: core: Fix to check return value of snd_soc_update_bits_locked() Eldad Zack <eldad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: fix endianness bug in snd_nativeinstruments_* ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-iomega_ix2_200.dts | 14 +- arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx35.c | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 5 +- arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 25 +- arch/x86/lguest/boot.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 6 +- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 7 + arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 1 + drivers/dma/omap-dma.c | 20 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_connector.c | 4 + .../net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c | 369 ++++++++------------- .../wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phytbl_lcn.c | 64 ++-- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 12 + drivers/target/target_core_alua.c | 3 + drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 10 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 16 +- fs/gfs2/file.c | 5 +- fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 2 +- fs/inode.c | 2 +- include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 7 +- include/linux/ftrace.h | 3 +- ipc/msg.c | 1 + kernel/sched/clock.c | 26 ++ kernel/sys.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 37 +-- kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 2 +- lib/kobject.c | 9 +- mm/memory.c | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/wm5102.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm8903.c | 2 + sound/soc/soc-core.c | 2 +- sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 4 +- sound/usb/quirks.c | 2 +- 37 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 345 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