This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.88 release. There are 13 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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.88-rc1.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 5.4.88-rc1 Zhang Xiaohui <ruc_zhangxiaohui@xxxxxxx> mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> rwsem: Implement down_read_interruptible Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> rwsem: Implement down_read_killable_nested peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf: Break deadlock involving exec_update_mutex Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fix bad inode Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> iio:imu:bmi160: Fix alignment and data leak issues Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> kdev_t: always inline major/minor helper functions Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing kfree() call in at_dma_xlate() Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing put_device() call in at_dma_xlate() Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: at_hdmac: Substitute kzalloc with kmalloc Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> Revert "mtd: spinand: Fix OOB read" Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> Revert "drm/amd/display: Fix memory leaks in S3 resume" ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 11 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160.h | 7 +++ drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160_core.c | 6 +-- drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 4 -- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/join.c | 2 + fs/exec.c | 12 +++--- fs/fuse/acl.c | 6 +++ fs/fuse/dir.c | 37 +++++++++++++--- fs/fuse/file.c | 19 +++++---- fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 12 ++++++ fs/fuse/inode.c | 4 +- fs/fuse/readdir.c | 4 +- fs/fuse/xattr.c | 9 ++++ fs/proc/base.c | 10 ++--- include/linux/kdev_t.h | 22 +++++----- include/linux/rwsem.h | 3 ++ include/linux/sched/signal.h | 11 ++--- init/init_task.c | 2 +- kernel/events/core.c | 52 +++++++++++------------ kernel/fork.c | 6 +-- kernel/kcmp.c | 30 ++++++------- kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++ 24 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)