This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.51 release. There are 72 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 Nov 25 14:04:50 CET 2015. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jirislaby/stable-review/patch-3.12.51-rc1.xz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, js =============== Ani Sinha (2): ipmr: fix possible race resulting from improper usage of IP_INC_STATS_BH() in preemptible context. net:socket: set msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name is passed as NULL in msghdr struct from userland. Anton Blanchard (1): powerpc/pseries: Fix dedicated processor partition detection Bjørn Mork (1): qmi_wwan: fix entry for HP lt4112 LTE/HSPA+ Gobi 4G Module Carol L Soto (1): net/mlx4: Copy/set only sizeof struct mlx4_eqe bytes Cathy Avery (1): xen-blkfront: check for null drvdata in blkback_changed (XenbusStateClosing) Charles Keepax (3): ASoC: wm8904: Correct number of EQ registers mfd: wm5110: Add register patch for rev D chip mfd: wm5110: Add register patch for rev E and above Dan Carpenter (2): mptfusion: prevent some memory corruption irda: precedence bug in irlmp_seq_hb_idx() Dan Williams (1): ahci: avoton port-disable reset-quirk David Howells (2): KEYS: Fix race between key destruction and finding a keyring by name KEYS: Fix crash when attempt to garbage collect an uninstantiated keyring David S. Miller (1): sfc: Fix memcpy() with const destination compiler warning. Doron Tsur (1): IB/cm: Fix rb-tree duplicate free and use-after-free Dāvis Mosāns (1): mvsas: Fix NULL pointer dereference in mvs_slot_task_free Eric Dumazet (3): sit: fix sit0 percpu double allocations net: avoid NULL deref in inet_ctl_sock_destroy() net: fix a race in dst_release() Eric Northup (1): KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered Florian Fainelli (1): ARM: orion: Fix DSA platform device after mvmdio conversion Guillaume Nault (1): ppp: fix pppoe_dev deletion condition in pppoe_release() Hans de Goede (1): libahci: Allow drivers to override start_engine Herbert Xu (1): crypto: api - Only abort operations on fatal signal Holger Eitzenberger (1): netfilter: xt_NFQUEUE: fix --queue-bypass regression Ilia Mirkin (1): drm/nouveau/gem: return only valid domain when there's only one Ilya Dryomov (2): rbd: don't leak parent_spec in rbd_dev_probe_parent() rbd: prevent kernel stack blow up on rbd map Jan Kara (1): mm: make sendfile(2) killable Jason Wang (2): macvtap: unbreak receiving of gro skb with frag list virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST Jes Sorensen (2): md/raid1: submit_bio_wait() returns 0 on success md/raid10: submit_bio_wait() returns 0 on success Joe Thornber (1): dm btree remove: fix a bug when rebalancing nodes after removal Joerg Roedel (1): iommu/amd: Don't clear DTE flags when modifying it Johannes Berg (3): iwlwifi: dvm: fix D3 firmware PN programming iwlwifi: fix firmware filename for 3160 iwlwifi: mvm: fix D3 firmware PN programming Lad, Prabhakar (1): power: bq24190_charger: suppress build warning Laura Abbott (1): xhci: Add spurious wakeup quirk for LynxPoint-LP controllers Marc Zyngier (1): net: sun4i-emac: fix memory leak on bad packet Marcelo Leitner (1): ipv6: addrconf: validate new MTU before applying it Mathias Nyman (1): xhci: handle no ping response error properly Mike Snitzer (1): dm btree: fix leak of bufio-backed block in btree_split_beneath error path Nadav Amit (3): KVM: x86: Defining missing x86 vectors KVM: x86: Fix far-jump to non-canonical check KVM: x86: Use new is_noncanonical_address in _linearize Paolo Bonzini (1): KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB Paul Moore (2): audit: correctly record file names with different path name types audit: create private file name copies when auditing inodes Peter Hurley (1): serial: 8250_dw: Fix deadlock in LCR workaround Peter Zijlstra (1): module: Fix locking in symbol_put_addr() Phil Reid (1): stmmac: Correctly report PTP capabilities. Ronny Hegewald (1): rbd: require stable pages if message data CRCs are enabled Sasha Levin (1): RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection SeongJae Park (1): spi: fix pointer-integer size mismatch warning Soeren Grunewald (2): serial: 8250_pci: Add support for 16 port Exar boards serial: 8250_pci: Add support for 12 port Exar boards Sowmini Varadhan (1): RDS-TCP: Recover correctly from pskb_pull()/pksb_trim() failure in rds_tcp_data_recv Tom Tucker (1): Fix regression in NFSRDMA server Vasant Hegde (1): powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas() Vasily Averin (1): bridge: superfluous skb->nfct check in br_nf_dev_queue_xmit Wei Yongjun (1): macmace: add missing platform_set_drvdata() in mace_probe() Will Deacon (1): Revert "ARM64: unwind: Fix PC calculation" Yan, Zheng (3): ceph: make sure request isn't in any waiting list when kicking request. ceph: protect kick_requests() with mdsc->mutex ceph: fix kick_requests() Yasuaki Ishimatsu (2): x86/mm/hotplug: Pass sync_global_pgds() a correct argument in remove_pagetable() x86/mm/hotplug: Modify PGD entry when removing memory hayeswang (2): r8169: fix the incorrect tx descriptor version r8169: disable L23 arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 6 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h | 12 +-- arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 3 +- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 3 + arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 10 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 22 ++--- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 +- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 36 ++++--- crypto/ablkcipher.c | 2 +- crypto/algapi.c | 2 +- crypto/api.c | 6 +- crypto/crypto_user.c | 2 +- drivers/ata/ahci.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/ata/ahci.h | 6 ++ drivers/ata/libahci.c | 26 +++-- drivers/ata/sata_highbank.c | 3 +- drivers/block/rbd.c | 67 +++++++------ drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c | 5 +- drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c | 10 +- drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 4 +- drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_types.h | 1 + drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 17 ++-- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 2 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 2 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 2 +- drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c | 9 ++ drivers/mfd/wm5110-tables.c | 44 ++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/sun4i-emac.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/apple/macmace.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 27 ++++- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/selftest.c | 2 +- .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c | 7 +- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 5 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/lib.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-7000.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/d3.c | 12 +-- drivers/power/bq24190_charger.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c | 2 + drivers/spi/spi-gpio.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 10 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 46 ++++++++- drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 1 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 20 +++- fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 11 ++- include/net/inet_common.h | 3 +- include/sound/wm8904.h | 2 +- kernel/auditsc.c | 49 +++++++-- kernel/module.c | 8 +- mm/filemap.c | 9 +- net/bridge/br_netfilter.c | 4 +- net/core/dst.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 6 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 17 +++- net/ipv6/sit.c | 20 +--- net/irda/irlmp.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/xt_NFQUEUE.c | 7 +- net/rds/connection.c | 6 ++ net/rds/tcp_recv.c | 11 ++- net/socket.c | 3 + net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c | 12 +-- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_sendto.c | 1 + security/keys/gc.c | 10 +- 72 files changed, 569 insertions(+), 200 deletions(-) -- 2.6.3 -- 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