This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.5.7.17 stable kernel. This version contains 98 new patches, summarized below. The new patches are posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;h=linux-3.5.y-review;a=shortlog git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git linux-3.5.y-review The review period for version 3.5.7.17 will be open for the next three days. To report a problem, please reply to the relevant follow-up patch message. For more information about the Linux 3.5.y.z extended stable kernel version, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable . -Luis -- Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 | 2 +- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++ arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 21 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 16 +-- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/xen/time.c | 17 +--- block/genhd.c | 2 +- crypto/algapi.c | 3 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/hwxfsleep.c | 8 +- drivers/ata/ahci.c | 2 + drivers/ata/ata_piix.c | 2 + drivers/ata/libahci.c | 3 +- drivers/ata/libata-pmp.c | 33 +++--- drivers/block/nbd.c | 10 +- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 2 +- drivers/dma/pl330.c | 4 +- drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++- drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c | 3 +- drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 6 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c | 8 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.h | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/calib.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c | 7 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.h | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 7 -- drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie.c | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c | 1 + drivers/pci/probe.c | 8 +- drivers/pci/quirks.c | 2 + drivers/pcmcia/at91_cf.c | 4 +- drivers/power/charger-manager.c | 2 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-rv3029c2.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_aux.c | 5 +- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fsf.c | 27 +++-- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_scsi.c | 10 +- drivers/scsi/aacraid/src.c | 3 + drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c | 14 +-- drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h | 3 + drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 38 ++++--- drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 +- drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c | 2 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 4 - drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c | 2 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 4 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 4 - drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c | 8 +- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 17 +++- fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h | 8 +- fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 6 +- fs/ext3/inode.c | 3 +- fs/ext3/namei.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/extents.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/namei.c | 7 +- fs/hpfs/map.c | 3 +- fs/hpfs/super.c | 8 +- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 3 +- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 10 ++ include/linux/efi.h | 13 +++ include/linux/nbd.h | 1 + include/linux/netfilter_ipv6.h | 16 +++ include/net/addrconf.h | 2 +- kernel/cgroup.c | 34 +++++-- kernel/irq/manage.c | 6 +- kernel/printk.c | 2 +- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 10 +- kernel/timer.c | 8 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 + net/ceph/auth_none.c | 6 ++ net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.c | 6 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/netfilter.c | 7 ++ net/netfilter/core.c | 2 + net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 3 +- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 1 + net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c | 7 +- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c | 7 +- net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c | 23 ++++- net/netfilter/xt_TCPOPTSTRIP.c | 19 +++- net/netfilter/xt_addrtype.c | 27 +++-- net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 2 + sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm8962.c | 24 +++-- 102 files changed, 874 insertions(+), 272 deletions(-) Al Viro (1): ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file->f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree() Alex Williamson (1): iommu/amd: Only unmap large pages from the first pte Axel Lin (1): drivers/rtc/rtc-rv3029c2.c: fix disabling AIE irq Bart Van Assche (1): timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1): drivers/dma/pl330.c: fix locking in pl330_free_chan_resources() Ben Hutchings (3): genirq: Fix can_request_irq() for IRQs without an action [SCSI] sd: Fix parsing of 'temporary ' cache mode prefix x86/efi: Fix dummy variable buffer allocation Bu, Yitian (1): printk: Fix rq->lock vs logbuf_lock unlock lock inversion Chen Gang (2): netfilter: ipt_ULOG: fix non-null terminated string in the nf_log path powerpc/smp: Section mismatch from smp_release_cpus to __initdata spinning_secondaries Christopher Harvey (1): drm/mgag200: Reject modes that are too big for VRAM Dan Carpenter (1): ipvs: info leak in __ip_vs_get_dest_entries() Dan Williams (1): USB: option,qcserial: move Novatel Gobi1K IDs to qcserial Daniel Hansel (1): [SCSI] zfcp: fix adapter (re)open recovery while link to SAN is down Dave Airlie (1): vgacon: fix missing include. Emmanuel Grumbach (1): iwlwifi: pcie: wake the queue if stopped when being unmapped Florian Westphal (1): netfilter: add nf_ipv6_ops hook to fix xt_addrtype with IPv6 Gabor Juhos (1): rt2x00: read 5GHz TX power values from the correct offset George Cherian (1): usb: host: xhci-plat: release mem region while removing module Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Revert "serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller" Hauke Mehrtens (1): b43: ensue that BCMA is "y" when B43 is "y" Jan Kara (3): ext3: fix data=journal fast mount/umount hang ext4: fix data offset overflow in ext4_xattr_fiemap() on 32-bit archs ext4: fix overflow when counting used blocks on 32-bit architectures Jed Davis (1): ARM: 7765/1: perf: Record the user-mode PC in the call chain. Jiang Liu (7): zram: avoid invalid memory access in zram_exit() zram: use zram->lock to protect zram_free_page() in swap free notify path zram: destroy all devices on error recovery path in zram_init() zram: avoid double free in function zram_bvec_write() zram: avoid access beyond the zram device zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access PCI: Fix refcount issue in pci_create_root_bus() error recovery path Joachim Eastwood (1): pcmcia: at91_cf: fix gpio_get_value in at91_cf_get_status Jonathan Salwan (1): drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware Julia Lemire (1): drm/mgag200: Added resolution and bandwidth limits for various G200e products. Julian Anastasov (1): ipvs: SCTP ports should be writable in ICMP packets Junxiao Bi (1): ocfs2: xattr: fix inlined xattr reflink Kees Cook (3): block: do not pass disk names as format strings crypto: sanitize argument for format string charger-manager: Ensure event is not used as format string Larry Finger (2): rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new USB ID for TP-Link TL-WN8200ND rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix duplicate if test Laszlo Ersek (1): xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip" Li Zefan (2): cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_event_remove() race cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_cfts_commit() race Lv Zheng (1): ACPICA: Do not use extended sleep registers unless HW-reduced bit is set Mahesh Rajashekhara (1): aacraid: Fix for arrays are going offline in the system. System hangs Marcelo Tosatti (1): vgacon.c: add cond reschedule points in vgacon_do_font_op Mathias Nyman (1): xhci: check for failed dma pool allocation Matt Fleming (1): x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code Matthew Garrett (2): efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables Modify UEFI anti-bricking code Michal Kubeček (1): netfilter: xt_LOG: fix mark logging for IPv6 packets Mikulas Patocka (1): hpfs: better test for errors NeilBrown (1): md/raid10: fix two bugs affecting RAID10 reshape. Nicolin Chen (1): ASoC: wm8962: Remove remaining direct register cache accesses Pablo Neira Ayuso (4): netfilter: xt_TCPOPTSTRIP: fix possible mangling beyond packet boundary netfilter: nfnetlink_cttimeout: fix incomplete dumping of objects netfilter: nfnetlink_acct: fix incomplete dumping of objects netfilter: xt_TCPOPTSTRIP: don't use tcp_hdr() Paul Clements (1): nbd: correct disconnect behavior Phil Oester (3): netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix violation of RFC879 in absence of MSS option netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix missing fragmentation handling netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix IPv6 default MSS too Rajkumar Manoharan (1): ath9k: fill channel mode in caldata Reddy, Sreekanth (1): [SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix for issue Missing delay not getting set during system bootup Richard Weinberger (2): x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero. x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter Seiji Aguchi (2): efi_pstore: Check remaining space with QueryVariableInfo() before writing data efivars: Disable external interrupt while holding efivars->lock Sergey Vlasov (1): efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko Seth Heasley (2): ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs Shane Huang (3): ahci: Add AMD CZ SATA device ID i2c-piix4: Add AMD CZ SMBus device ID ahci: remove pmp link online check in FBS EH Sreekanth Reddy (2): [SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix for device scan following host reset could get stuck in a infinite loop [SCSI] mpt2sas: fix firmware failure with wrong task attribute Stanislav Kinsbursky (1): SUNRPC: PipeFS MOUNT notification optimization for dying clients Steffen Maier (2): [SCSI] zfcp: block queue limits with data router [SCSI] zfcp: status read buffers on first adapter open with link down Steve French (1): Handle big endianness in NTLM (ntlmv2) authentication Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (1): tracing: Use current_uid() for critical time tracing Sujith Manoharan (4): ath9k_hw: Assign default xlna config for AR9485 ath9k_hw: Remove CHANNEL_CW_INT ath9k: Fix noisefloor calibration ath9k: Do not assign noise for NULL caldata Takashi Iwai (1): ALSA: hda - Cache the MUX selection for generic HDMI Tejun Heo (1): libata: skip SRST for all SIMG [34]7x port-multipliers Theodore Ts'o (2): jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock() jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart Thomas Gleixner (1): tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode Tyler Hicks (1): libceph: Fix NULL pointer dereference in auth client code UCHINO Satoshi (1): usb: gadget: f_mass_storage: add missing memory barrier for thread_wakeup_needed Wanpeng Li (1): mm/memory-hotplug: fix lowmem count overflow when offline pages Yinghai Lu (1): x86: Fix /proc/mtrr with base/size more than 44bits sreekanth.reddy@xxxxxxx (1): [SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix for max_sectors warning message is stating the incorrect range -- 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