This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.79 release. There are 37 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 Feb 6 21:00:31 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-3.4.79-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.4.79-rc1 Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> powerpc: Make sure "cache" directory is removed when offlining cpu Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Btrfs: handle EAGAIN case properly in btrfs_drop_snapshot() Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> target/iscsi: Fix network portal creation race Vijaya Mohan Guvva <vmohan@xxxxxxxxxxx> SCSI: bfa: Chinook quad port 16G FC HBA claim issue Thomas Pugliese <thomas.pugliese@xxxxxxxxx> usb: core: get config and string descriptors for unauthorized devices Andy Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: Fix potential divide by 0 in lapic (CVE-2013-6367) Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> net,via-rhine: Fix tx_timeout handling Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib_rules in multicast forwarding Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx> inet_diag: fix inet_diag_dump_icsk() timewait socket state logic Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx> bnx2x: fix DMA unmapping of TSO split BDs Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> hp_accel: Add a new PnP ID HPQ6007 for new HP laptops Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: Enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for smaller PCI DMA masks Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: rme9652: fix a missing comma in channel_map_9636_ds[] Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: adau1701: Fix ADAU1701_SEROCTL_WORD_LEN_16 constant Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> rtc-cmos: Add an alarm disable quirk Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> parport: parport_pc: remove double PCI ID for NetMos Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> serial: add support for 200 v3 series Titan card Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: at91: smc: bug fix in sam9_smc_cs_read() Marek Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> tty/serial: at91: Handle shutdown more safely Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> staging: vt6656: [BUG] BBvUpdatePreEDThreshold Always set sensitivity on bScanning Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> staging: r8712u: Set device type to wlan ZHAO Gang <gamerh2o@xxxxxxxxx> b43: fix the wrong assignment of status.freq in b43_rx() Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> b43legacy: Fix unload oops if firmware is not available Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> b43: Fix unload oops if firmware is not available Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> b43: Fix lockdep splat Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix some code in RF handling Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> rtlwifi: Set the link state Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new device ID Jack Pham <jackp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: xhci: Check for XHCI_PLAT in xhci_cleanup_msix() Mikhail Zolotaryov <lebon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: Nokia 502 is an unusual device Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> USB: cypress_m8: fix ring-indicator detection and reporting Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@xxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: add support for iBall 3.5G connect usb modem 张君 <zjn77777@xxxxxxx> usb: option: add new zte 3g modem pids to option driver PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> x86, x32: Correct invalid use of user timespec in the kernel Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> e752x_edac: Fix pci_dev usage count Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: hugetlbfs: fix hugetlbfs optimization NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> md/raid5: fix long-standing problem with bitmap handling on write failure. ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-at91/sam9_smc.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 3 + arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 3 +- drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c | 4 +- drivers/md/raid5.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 13 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 27 +++--- drivers/net/wireless/b43/xmit.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/core.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c | 29 ++++--- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c | 1 + drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 10 +-- drivers/platform/x86/hp_accel.c | 1 + drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 52 +++++++++++- drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad.c | 6 +- drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c | 5 ++ drivers/staging/vt6656/baseband.c | 3 - drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 34 +++++--- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 4 + drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 20 +++-- drivers/usb/core/config.c | 7 -- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 40 ++------- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 3 + drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 15 ++++ drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 7 ++ fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 +- include/linux/hugetlb.h | 6 ++ mm/hugetlb.c | 17 ++++ mm/swap.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++------- net/compat.c | 9 +- net/ipv4/inet_diag.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 7 +- sound/pci/Kconfig | 12 +++ sound/pci/rme9652/rme9652.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/adau1701.c | 2 +- 41 files changed, 326 insertions(+), 156 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