This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.79 release. There are 33 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 May 19 21:47:48 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-3.0.79-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.0.79-rc1 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/radeon: check incoming cliprects pointer Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> ipmi: ipmi_devintf: compat_ioctl method fails to take ipmi_mutex Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx> drivers/char/ipmi: memcpy, need additional 2 bytes to avoid memory overflow Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx> ACPI / EC: Restart transaction even when the IBF flag set Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c: fix error return code in pcf2123_probe() Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@xxxxxxxxxx> drbd: fix for deadlock when using automatic split-brain-recovery Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> r8169: fix vlan tag read ordering. Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@xxxxxxxxx> pch_dma: Use GFP_ATOMIC because called from interrupt context Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> xfrm6: release dev before returning error Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: do not clear pinet6 field Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> macvlan: fix passthru mode race between dev removal and rx path Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> if_cablemodem.h: Add parenthesis around ioctl macros Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3c59x: fix PCI resource management Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3c59x: fix freeing nonexistent resource on driver unload stephen hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> bridge: fix race with topology change timer Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net_sched: act_ipt forward compat with xtables Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx> 3c509.c: call SET_NETDEV_DEV for all device types (ISA/ISAPnP/EISA) Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: force a dst refcount when prequeue packet Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> drm/mm: fix dump table BUG Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> mwifiex: fix setting of multicast filter Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx> mwifiex: clear is_suspended flag when interrupt is received early Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> ath9k: fix key allocation error handling for powersave keys Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down Tirupathi Reddy <tirupath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> SCSI: sd: fix array cache flushing bug causing performance problems Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/vcpu/pvhvm: Fix vcpu hotplugging hanging. Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dm snapshot: fix error return code in snapshot_ctr Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> ACPICA: Fix possible buffer overflow during a field unit read operation Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: wm8994: missing break in wm8994_aif3_hw_params() Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> ARM: OMAP: RX-51: change probe order of touchscreen and panel SPI devices Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: VMX: fix halt emulation while emulating invalid guest sate ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-peripherals.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 6 +++++ arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 15 ++++++++++++ drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c | 14 +++++++++++- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 4 +--- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 1 - drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c | 4 ++-- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 14 +++++++++++- drivers/dma/pch_dma.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c | 34 +++++++++++++++------------- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r300_cmdbuf.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 1 + drivers/net/3c509.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/3c59x.c | 27 +++++++++++----------- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 7 +++--- drivers/net/r8169.c | 13 +++++------ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 6 ++++- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cmdevt.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 21 +++++------------ drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sd.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/sd.h | 1 + fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 ++++- include/linux/if_cablemodem.h | 12 +++++----- include/linux/rculist.h | 17 ++++++++++++++ include/net/sock.h | 12 ++++++++++ include/net/tcp.h | 1 + kernel/kmod.c | 5 ++++ kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- kernel/timer.c | 2 +- net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c | 2 +- net/core/sock.c | 12 ---------- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 12 ++++++++++ net/ipv6/udp.c | 13 ++++++++++- net/ipv6/udp_impl.h | 2 ++ net/ipv6/udplite.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 4 +++- net/sched/act_ipt.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c | 1 + 40 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 97 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