This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.9 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 Sat Jan 25 19:06:36 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-3.12.9-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.12.9-rc1 Taras Kondratiuk <taras.kondratiuk@xxxxxxxxxx> ARM: 7938/1: OMAP4/highbank: Flush L2 cache before disabling Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Don't grab crtc mutexes in intel_modeset_gem_init() Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> ARM: 7934/1: DT/kernel: fix arch_match_cpu_phys_id to avoid erroneous match Jon Medhurst <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx> serial: amba-pl011: use port lock to guard control register access Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: Make {,set}page_address() static inline if WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> md/raid5: Fix possible confusion when multiple write errors occur. NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> md/raid10: fix two bugs in handling of known-bad-blocks. NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> md/raid10: fix bug when raid10 recovery fails to recover a block. NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> md: fix problem when adding device to read-only array with bitmap. Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@xxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: fix DDI PLLs HW state readout code Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@xxxxxxx> nilfs2: fix segctor bug that causes file system corruption Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: fix crash when using XFS on loopback Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxxxxx> crash_dump: fix compilation error (on MIPS at least) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> ftrace/x86: Load ftrace_ops in parameter not the variable holding it Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> thp: fix copy_page_rep GPF by testing is_huge_zero_pmd once only Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> SELinux: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in selinux_inode_permission() Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writeback: Fix data corruption on NFS Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hwmon: (coretemp) Fix truncated name of alarm attributes Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> i2c: Re-instate body of i2c_parent_is_i2c_adapter() Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> fork: Allow CLONE_PARENT after setns(CLONE_NEWPID) Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> vfs: Fix a regression in mounting proc Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: adl_pci9111: fix incorrect irq passed to request_irq() H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: addi_apci_1032: fix subdevice type/flags bug Bob Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxx> GFS2: Increase i_writecount during gfs2_setattr_chown Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix waking up from S3 for AMD family 10h Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Revert "ACPI: Add BayTrail SoC GPIO and LPSS ACPI IDs" ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap4-common.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_ibs.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 +- drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c | 1 - drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c | 8 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 4 +- drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 2 +- drivers/md/md.c | 18 +++++++-- drivers/md/md.h | 3 ++ drivers/md/raid10.c | 12 +++--- drivers/md/raid5.c | 4 +- drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-baytrail.c | 1 - drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi_apci_1032.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adl_pci9111.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 6 +++ fs/dcache.c | 7 +++- fs/fs-writeback.c | 15 ++++--- fs/gfs2/inode.c | 16 +++++++- fs/namespace.c | 2 +- fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 10 +++-- include/linux/crash_dump.h | 2 + include/linux/i2c.h | 2 +- include/linux/mm.h | 13 +++--- kernel/fork.c | 2 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 6 +-- mm/util.c | 5 ++- security/selinux/hooks.c | 20 +++++++++- security/selinux/include/objsec.h | 5 ++- 32 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 61 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