This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.77 release. There are 27 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 Thu Jan 16 00:26:11 UTC 2014. 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-3.4.77-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.4.77-rc1 Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx> sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86, fpu, amd: Clear exceptions in AMD FXSAVE workaround Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: shmobile: mackerel: Fix coherent DMA mask Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: fix "bad mode in ... handler" message for undefined instructions Curt Brune <curt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> bridge: use spin_lock_bh() in br_multicast_set_hash_max Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> net: llc: fix use after free in llc_ui_recvmsg David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload. Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> net: rose: restore old recvmsg behavior Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device Salva Peiró <speiro@xxxxxxxxxx> hamradio/yam: fix info leak in ioctl Wenliang Fan <fanwlexca@xxxxxxxxx> drivers/net/hamradio: Integer overflow in hdlcdrv_ioctl() Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> net: inet_diag: zero out uninitialized idiag_{src,dst} fields Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> net: unix: allow bind to fail on mutex lock Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during setting mtu Nat Gurumoorthy <natg@xxxxxxxxxx> tg3: Initialize REG_BASE_ADDR at PCI config offset 120 to 0 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> net: unix: allow set_peek_off to fail Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx> net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: don't count addrconf generated routes against gc limit Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> macvtap: signal truncated packets Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tun: update file current position Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> macvtap: update file current position Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx> macvtap: Do not double-count received packets Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@xxxxxxxxxx> rds: prevent BUG_ON triggered on congestion update to loopback Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: do not pretend FRAGLIST support ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 8 +++- arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h | 13 +++--- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 3 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/xgmac.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tehuti.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c | 2 + drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 1 + drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 1 - drivers/net/macvtap.c | 20 ++++------ drivers/net/tun.c | 2 + include/linux/net.h | 2 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 9 +++++ kernel/sched/core.c | 9 ++++- kernel/sched/fair.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++------- kernel/sched/sched.h | 3 +- net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 19 ++++++++- net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 +- net/core/drop_monitor.c | 1 - net/core/sock.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/inet_diag.c | 16 ++++++++ net/ipv6/route.c | 8 +--- net/llc/af_llc.c | 5 ++- net/rds/ib.c | 3 +- net/rds/ib_send.c | 5 +-- net/rose/af_rose.c | 16 ++------ net/unix/af_unix.c | 16 ++++++-- 31 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 80 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