This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.53 release. There are 11 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 Jul 13 22:04:03 UTC 2013. 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/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.4.53-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.4.53-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "sched: Add missing call to calc_load_exit_idle()" Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SCSI: sd: Fix parsing of 'temporary ' cache mode prefix J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd4: fix decoding of compounds across page boundaries Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> MAINTAINERS: add stable_kernel_rules.txt to stable maintainer information Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: sanitize argument for format string Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> block: do not pass disk names as format strings Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hpfs: better test for errors Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> charger-manager: Ensure event is not used as format string Jonathan Salwan <jonathan.salwan@xxxxxxxxx> drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> libceph: Fix NULL pointer dereference in auth client code ------------- Diffstat: MAINTAINERS | 1 + Makefile | 4 ++-- block/genhd.c | 2 +- crypto/algapi.c | 3 ++- drivers/block/nbd.c | 3 ++- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 2 +- drivers/power/charger-manager.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 4 ---- fs/hpfs/map.c | 3 ++- fs/hpfs/super.c | 8 +++++++- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 1 - net/ceph/auth_none.c | 6 ++++++ 15 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 17 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