This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.250 release. There are 33 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, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.250-rc2.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.9.250-rc2 Zhang Xiaohui <ruc_zhangxiaohui@xxxxxxx> mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> iio:magnetometer:mag3110: Fix alignment and data leak issues. Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> iio:imu:bmi160: Fix alignment and data leak issues Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> iio:imu:bmi160: Fix too large a buffer. sayli karnik <karniksayli1995@xxxxxxxxx> iio: bmi160_core: Fix sparse warning due to incorrect type in assignment SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> xen/xenbus: Count pending messages for each watch SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> xen/xenbus/xen_bus_type: Support will_handle watch callback SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> xen/xenbus: Add 'will_handle' callback support in xenbus_watch_path() SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> kdev_t: always inline major/minor helper functions Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@xxxxxxxxxx> powerpc: sysdev: add missing iounmap() on error in mpic_msgr_probe() Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> quota: Don't overflow quota file offsets Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Use bool for snd_seq_queue internal flags Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> media: gp8psk: initialize stats at power control logic Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@xxxxxxxxx> misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells() Rustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@xxxxxxxxx> reiserfs: add check for an invalid ih_entry_count Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> of: fix linker-section match-table corruption Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@xxxxxxxxx> uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h> Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: fix races with ipv4-mapped ipv6 addresses Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> net: ipv6: keep sk status consistent after datagram connect failure Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix write-wakeup deadlocks Stefan Haberland <sth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> s390/dasd: fix hanging device offline processing Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx> vfio/pci: Move dummy_resources_list init in vfio_pci_probe() Kailang Yang <kailang@xxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236 Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Fix a wrong FIXUP for alc289 on Dell machines Kailang Yang <kailang@xxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Support Dell headset mode for ALC3271 Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: fix sync-ep altsetting sanity check Alberto Aguirre <albaguirre@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: simplify set_sync_ep_implicit_fb_quirk Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Fix work handling in delayed HP detection Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.c | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 +- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160_core.c | 12 +++++-- drivers/iio/magnetometer/mag3110.c | 13 +++++--- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/gp8psk.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/join.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 4 ++- drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 10 +++++- drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c | 45 ++++++++----------------- drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 4 +-- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c | 8 ++++- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 1 + drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.h | 2 ++ drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c | 7 ++++ drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c | 38 +++++++++++++-------- fs/quota/quota_tree.c | 8 ++--- fs/reiserfs/stree.c | 6 ++++ include/linux/kdev_t.h | 22 ++++++------ include/linux/of.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/const.h | 5 +++ include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/kernel.h | 9 +---- include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/mroute6.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h | 2 +- include/xen/xenbus.h | 15 ++++++++- kernel/module.c | 6 ++-- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 21 +++++++++--- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 38 ++++++++++----------- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 3 -- sound/core/seq/seq_queue.h | 8 ++--- sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c | 16 +++++++-- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 25 ++++++++++++-- sound/usb/pcm.c | 52 +++++++++++------------------ 40 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)
