This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.9 release. There are 42 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 25 21:50:11 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-3.8.9-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.8.9-rc1 Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "MIPS: page.h: Provide more readable definition for PAGE_MASK." Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> s390: move dummy io_remap_pfn_range() to asm/pgtable.h Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Btrfs: make sure nbytes are right after log replay Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vm: convert mtdchar mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vm: convert HPET mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vm: convert fb_mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vm: convert snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem() to vm_iomap_memory() helper Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vm: add vm_iomap_memory() helper function Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> userns: Changing any namespace id mappings should require privileges Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> userns: Check uid_map's opener's fsuid, not the current fsuid Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> userns: Don't let unprivileged users trick privileged users into setting the id_map Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86: Fix offcore_rsp valid mask for SNB/IVB Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init() Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: algif - suppress sending source address information in recvmsg Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> ssb: implement spurious tone avoidance Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: fix cfg80211 interaction on auth/assoc request Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> ath9k_hw: change AR9580 initvals to fix a stability issue Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> ath9k_htc: accept 1.x firmware newer than 1.3 Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> ARM: 7698/1: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec Illia Ragozin <illia.ragozin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: 7696/1: Fix kexec by setting outer_cache.inv_all for Feroceon libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx> sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoiding overflow Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> sched: Convert BUG_ON()s in try_to_wake_up_local() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s Matt Carlson <mcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tg3: Add 57766 device support. Markus Pargmann <mpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: clk-imx35: Bugfix iomux clock Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: i.MX35: enable MAX clock Andrew Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: Allow cross page reads and writes from cached translations. Andy Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: Fix bounds checking in ioapic indirect register reads (CVE-2013-1798) Andy Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: Convert MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME to use gfn_to_hva_cache functions (CVE-2013-1797) Andy Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: fix for buffer overflow in handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME (CVE-2013-1796) Joe Lawrence <Joe.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx> md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx> hfsplus: fix potential overflow in hfsplus_file_truncate() Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix hugetlb memory check in vma_dump_size() Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page() Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB) Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: sja1000: fix handling on dt properties on little endian systems Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: mcp251x: add missing IRQF_ONESHOT to request_threaded_irq Michael Bohan <mbohan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hrtimer: Don't reinitialize a cpu_base lock on CPU_UP Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kthread: Prevent unpark race which puts threads on the wrong cpu Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: Do 15e0d9e37c (ARM: pm: let platforms select cpu_suspend support) properly Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kvm/powerpc/e500mc: fix tlb invalidation on cpu migration Kevin Hao <haokexin@xxxxxxxxx> powerpc: add a missing label in resume_kernel ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 5 ++- arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx35.c | 2 + arch/arm/mm/cache-feroceon-l2.c | 1 + arch/arm/mm/proc-arm920.S | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-arm926.S | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-mohawk.S | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-sa1100.S | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-v6.S | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-xsc3.S | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-xscale.S | 2 +- arch/mips/include/asm/page.h | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c | 7 ++- arch/s390/include/asm/io.h | 4 -- arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 20 +++++++-- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 51 ++++++++++----------- crypto/algif_hash.c | 2 + crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 1 + drivers/char/hpet.c | 14 +----- drivers/md/raid1.c | 7 ++- drivers/md/raid10.c | 9 +++- drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 32 +------------ drivers/net/can/mcp251x.c | 10 ++++- drivers/net/can/sja1000/sja1000_of_platform.c | 31 +++++++------ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 18 +++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h | 2 + .../net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9580_1p0_initvals.h | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c | 3 +- drivers/ssb/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c | 29 ++++++++++++ drivers/video/fbmem.c | 39 ++++++---------- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++--- fs/hfsplus/extents.c | 2 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/proc/array.c | 1 + include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 +- include/linux/kvm_types.h | 1 + include/linux/mm.h | 2 + include/linux/sched.h | 5 ++- include/linux/ssb/ssb_driver_chipcommon.h | 2 + include/trace/events/sched.h | 2 +- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- kernel/hrtimer.c | 3 +- kernel/kthread.c | 52 ++++++++++++---------- kernel/sched/core.c | 8 ++-- kernel/signal.c | 2 +- kernel/user_namespace.c | 22 +++++---- mm/hugetlb.c | 12 ++++- mm/memory.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++ net/mac80211/mlme.c | 24 ++++++++-- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 12 +---- virt/kvm/ioapic.c | 7 ++- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 47 ++++++++++++++----- 58 files changed, 406 insertions(+), 223 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