This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.71 release. There are 39 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 Nov 29 00:56:06 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-3.4.71-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.4.71-rc1 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@xxxxxxxxxxx> cris: media platform drivers: fix build Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> rt2800usb: slow down TX status polling Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: Fix a data corruption issue when retransmitting RPC calls Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts Gavin Shan <shangw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/powernv: Add PE to its own PELTV Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/vio: use strcpy in modalias_show Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hwmon: (lm90) Fix max6696 alarm handling Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> nfsd: make sure to balance get/put_write_access Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> nfsd: split up nfsd_setattr Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> NFSv4: Fix a use-after-free situation in _nfs4_proc_getlk() Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: msnd: Avoid duplicated driver name Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: 6fire: Fix probe of multiple cards Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "ima: policy for RAMFS" Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@xxxxx> rt2x00: check if device is still available on rt2x00mac_flush() Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> perf/ftrace: Fix paranoid level for enabling function tracer Fan Du <fan.du@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> include/linux/fs.h: disable preempt when acquire i_size_seqcount write lock Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> exec: do not abuse ->cred_guard_mutex in threadgroup_lock() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Nest rename_lock inside vfsmount_lock Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: don't map EKEYEXPIRED to EACCES in call_refreshresult Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC handle EKEYEXPIRED in call_refreshresult Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix a few incorrectly checked [io_]remap_pfn_range() calls David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 8139cp: re-enable interrupts after tx timeout Markus Pargmann <mpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: c_can: Fix RX message handling, handle lost message before EOB Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: ansi_cprng - Fix off by one error in non-block size request Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> USB: mos7840: fix tiocmget error handling Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> ACPICA: Fix for a Store->ArgX when ArgX contains a reference to a field. Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> ACPICA: Return error if DerefOf resolves to a null package element. Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> ACPICA: DeRefOf operator: Update to fully resolve FieldUnit and BufferField refs. Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx> ACPICA: Interpreter: Fix Store() when implicit conversion is not possible. Mahesh Rajashekhara <Mahesh.Rajashekhara@xxxxxxxx> aacraid: prevent invalid pointer dereference Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> libertas: potential oops in debugfs Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> nfs: don't allow nfs_find_actor to match inodes of the wrong type Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/cris/include/asm/io.h | 1 + arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 10 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 12 ++- arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c | 2 +- block/blk-core.c | 1 + block/blk-settings.c | 1 + block/blk-timeout.c | 3 +- crypto/ansi_cprng.c | 4 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/exoparg1.c | 48 +++++++-- drivers/acpi/acpica/exstore.c | 151 ++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/block/brd.c | 2 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/lm90.c | 11 +- drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c | 12 ++- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00mac.c | 3 + drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c | 3 +- drivers/uio/uio.c | 16 ++- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 4 + drivers/video/au1100fb.c | 26 +---- drivers/video/au1200fb.c | 23 +--- fs/configfs/dir.c | 16 ++- fs/dcache.c | 16 ++- fs/exec.c | 9 ++ fs/nfs/inode.c | 2 + fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c | 6 +- fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.c | 1 - fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 19 +--- fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 21 ---- fs/nfs/proc.c | 43 -------- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 173 +++++++++++++++++------------- fs/proc/inode.c | 12 +-- include/linux/binfmts.h | 3 - include/linux/fs.h | 2 + include/linux/sched.h | 22 ++-- kernel/ptrace.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 2 +- net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 1 + net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 28 +++-- security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 1 - sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c | 4 +- sound/usb/6fire/chip.c | 2 +- 47 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 333 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