This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.57 release. There are 58 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 Fri Mar 18 10:38:57 CET 2016. 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-3.12.57-rc1.xz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, js =============== Al Cooper (1): usb: Add connected retry on resume for non SS devices Andreas Schwab (1): powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Andy Lutomirski (1): x86/entry/compat: Add missing CLAC to entry_INT80_32 Arnd Bergmann (1): libata: fix HDIO_GET_32BIT ioctl Daniele Palmas (1): USB: serial: option: add support for Telit LE922 PID 0x1045 David Woodhouse (2): jffs2: Fix page lock / f->sem deadlock Fix directory hardlinks from deleted directories Felix Fietkau (1): mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0 Hannes Frederic Sowa (1): unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct Harvey Hunt (1): libata: Align ata_device's id on a cacheline Jason Andryuk (1): lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion Jiri Slaby (1): Revert "drm/radeon: hold reference to fences in radeon_sa_bo_new" Johannes Berg (1): wext: fix message delay/ordering Justin Maggard (1): cifs: fix out-of-bounds access in lease parsing Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (6): xen/pciback: Return error on XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi when device has MSI or MSI-X enabled xen/pciback: Return error on XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix when device has MSI or MSI-X enabled xen/pciback: Do not install an IRQ handler for MSI interrupts. xen/pciback: For XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi[|x] only disable if device has MSI(X) enabled. xen/pciback: Don't allow MSI-X ops if PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY is not set. xen/pciback: Check PF instead of VF for PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY Konstantin Shkolnyy (3): USB: cp210x: flush device queues at close USB: cp210x: relocate private data from USB interface to port USB: cp210x: work around cp2108 GET_LINE_CTL bug Maciej W. Rozycki (1): MIPS: traps: Fix SIGFPE information leak from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp' Marcelo Tosatti (1): KVM: x86: move steal time initialization to vcpu entry time Matt Fleming (1): efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist Michal Marek (1): genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files NeilBrown (1): nfsd: fix problem with setting ACL on directories Oliver Neukum (1): [media] usbvision fix overflow of interfaces array Pavel Shilovsky (1): CIFS: Fix SMB2+ interim response processing for read requests Peter Jones (5): lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8 efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default Radim Krčmář (1): KVM: VMX: disable PEBS before a guest entry Richard Weinberger (1): ubi: Fix out of bounds write in volume update code Rusty Russell (1): modules: fix longstanding /proc/kallsyms vs module insertion race. Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (1): tracing: Fix check for cpu online when event is disabled Suravee Suthikulpanit (1): iommu/amd: Fix boot warning when device 00:00.0 is not iommu covered Takashi Iwai (10): ALSA: ctl: Fix ioctls for X32 ABI ALSA: rawmidi: Fix ioctls X32 ABI ALSA: timer: Fix ioctls for X32 ABI ALSA: seq: oss: Don't drain at closing a client ALSA: hdspm: Fix wrong boolean ctl value accesses ALSA: hdsp: Fix wrong boolean ctl value accesses ALSA: hdspm: Fix zero-division ALSA: timer: Fix broken compat timer user status ioctl ASoC: wm8994: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type ASoC: wm8958: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type Thomas Betker (1): Revert "jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin" Timothy Pearson (1): drm/ast: Fix incorrect register check for DRAM width Todd E Brandt (1): PM / sleep / x86: Fix crash on graph trace through x86 suspend Vasu Dev (2): ixgbe: use correct FCoE DDP max check ixgbe: fix broken PFC with X550 Vittorio Alfieri (1): USB: cp210x: Add ID for Parrot NMEA GPS Flight Recorder Yegor Yefremov (1): USB: serial: option: add support for Quectel UC20 willy tarreau (1): unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 + arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 13 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +- arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c | 7 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 +- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 11 +- drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 34 ++--- drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 164 +++++++++++++++------ drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c | 5 - drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_init.c | 34 +++-- drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 7 + drivers/mtd/ubi/upd.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_dcb_82599.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 16 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 129 +++++++++++++--- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 5 + drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pciback_ops.c | 61 ++++++-- fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 21 ++- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 24 +-- fs/efivarfs/file.c | 71 +++++++++ fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 30 ++-- fs/efivarfs/internal.h | 3 +- fs/efivarfs/super.c | 16 +- fs/jffs2/README.Locking | 5 +- fs/jffs2/build.c | 75 +++++++--- fs/jffs2/file.c | 39 +++-- fs/jffs2/gc.c | 17 ++- fs/jffs2/nodelist.h | 6 +- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 2 +- include/linux/ata.h | 4 +- include/linux/efi.h | 9 +- include/linux/libata.h | 2 +- include/linux/module.h | 17 ++- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + include/linux/tracepoint.h | 17 ++- include/linux/ucs2_string.h | 4 + include/net/af_unix.h | 4 +- include/net/scm.h | 1 + kernel/module.c | 111 ++++++++------ lib/ucs2_string.c | 62 ++++++++ net/core/scm.c | 7 + net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 2 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 26 +++- net/unix/garbage.c | 20 ++- net/wireless/wext-core.c | 51 +++++-- scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 6 +- sound/core/control_compat.c | 90 +++++++++-- sound/core/rawmidi_compat.c | 53 +++++++ sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c | 2 - sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_device.h | 1 - sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c | 17 --- sound/core/timer_compat.c | 18 ++- sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c | 4 +- sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c | 16 +- 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 ++++++++- 62 files changed, 1098 insertions(+), 385 deletions(-) -- 2.7.3 -- 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