This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.2.3 release. There are 30 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 Sat Oct 3 09:20:05 UTC 2015. 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.2.3-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.2.3-rc1 Carol L Soto <clsoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_core: Capping number of requested MSIXs to MAX_MSIX Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx> mvneta: use inband status only when explicitly enabled Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx> of_mdio: add new DT property 'managed' to specify the PHY management type Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx> net: phy: fixed_phy: handle link-down case Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Do not override speed settings Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ppp: fix lockdep splat in ppp_dev_uninit() Wilson Kok <wkok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> fib_rules: fix fib rule dumps across multiple skbs WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> net: revert "net_sched: move tp->root allocation into fw_init()" David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix AF_PACKET ABI breakage in 4.2 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: add proper TS val into RST packets Jesse Gross <jesse@xxxxxxxxxx> openvswitch: Zero flows on allocation. Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: actually force the speed on the CPU port Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> netlink: Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> macvtap: fix TUNSETSNDBUF values > 64k Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_en: really allow to change RSS key Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtnetlink: catch -EOPNOTSUPP errors from ndo_bridge_getlink Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: mvneta: fix DMA buffer unmapping in mvneta_rx() Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@xxxxxxxxx> bridge: fix igmpv3 / mldv2 report parsing Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> netlink, mmap: transform mmap skb into full skb on taps Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix 64-bits register writes Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix multipath route replace error recovery Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix ageing conditions and operation Richard Laing <richard.laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/ipv6: Correct PIM6 mrt_lock handling Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: eth: altera: fix napi poll_list corruption Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: fec: clear receive interrupts before processing a packet Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix exthdrs offload registration in out_rt path Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sock, diag: fix panic in sock_diag_put_filterinfo Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> phylib: fix device deletion order in mdiobus_unregister() ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt | 4 + Makefile | 4 +- drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 30 +-- drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.h | 4 +- drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 13 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 2 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c | 10 +- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c | 8 +- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 4 +- drivers/of/of_mdio.c | 19 +- net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 +- net/core/fib_rules.c | 14 +- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 26 ++- net/core/sock_diag.c | 3 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 1 + net/ipv6/exthdrs_offload.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 201 ++++++++++++++++++--- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 63 +++++-- net/netlink/af_netlink.h | 10 + net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 +- net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 23 +-- net/openvswitch/flow_table.h | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 32 ++-- net/sched/cls_fw.c | 30 +-- net/sctp/protocol.c | 64 ++++--- 31 files changed, 420 insertions(+), 170 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