This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.101 release. There are 18 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 Mar 16 17:50:35 UTC 2016. 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.x/stable-review/patch-3.10.101-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.10.101-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert: "crypto: af_alg - Disallow bind/setkey/... after accept(2)" Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> modules: fix longstanding /proc/kallsyms vs module insertion race. Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx> lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8 Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: move steal time initialization to vcpu entry time Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0 Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: fix use of uninitialised values in RX aggregation Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> wext: fix message delay/ordering Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ASoC: wm8958: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ASoC: wm8994: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix check for cpu online when event is disabled Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: VMX: disable PEBS before a guest entry ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 ++ arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 +- crypto/af_alg.c | 35 +----- drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 34 +++-- drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 164 +++++++++++++++++-------- fs/efivarfs/file.c | 71 +++++++++++ fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 30 +++-- fs/efivarfs/internal.h | 3 +- fs/efivarfs/super.c | 16 ++- include/crypto/if_alg.h | 8 +- include/linux/efi.h | 9 +- include/linux/module.h | 17 +-- include/linux/tracepoint.h | 17 +-- include/linux/ucs2_string.h | 4 + kernel/module.c | 111 ++++++++++------- lib/ucs2_string.c | 62 ++++++++++ net/mac80211/agg-rx.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 2 +- net/wireless/wext-core.c | 51 ++++++-- sound/soc/codecs/wm8958-dsp2.c | 8 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c | 4 +- tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/efivarfs.sh | 19 ++- tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/open-unlink.c | 72 ++++++++++- 26 files changed, 553 insertions(+), 215 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