This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.254 release. There are 30 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 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:59:01 +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-4.9.254-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-4.9.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.9.254-rc1 Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()" Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: b53: fix an off by one in checking "vlan->vid" Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net_sched: avoid shift-out-of-bounds in tcindex_set_parms() Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: create multicast route with RTPROT_KERNEL Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxx> skbuff: back tiny skbs with kmalloc() in __netdev_alloc_skb() too Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> sh_eth: Fix power down vs. is_opened flag ordering Necip Fazil Yildiran <fazilyildiran@xxxxxxxxx> sh: dma: fix kconfig dependency for G2_DMA Guillaume Nault <gnault@xxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: rpfilter: mask ecn bits before fib lookup Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64 Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Fix buggy rsh min/max bounds tracking JC Kuo <jckuo@xxxxxxxxxx> xhci: tegra: Delay for disabling LFPS detector Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> xhci: make sure TRB is fully written before giving it to the controller Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@xxxxxxxxx> usb: bdc: Make bdc pci driver depend on BROKEN Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: udc: core: Use lock when write to soft_connect Longfang Liu <liulongfang@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: ehci: fix an interrupt calltrace error Eugene Korenevsky <ekorenevsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ehci: fix EHCI host controller initialization sequence Wang Hui <john.wanghui@xxxxxxxxxx> stm class: Fix module init return on allocation failure Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> iio: ad5504: Fix setting power-down state Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> can: dev: can_restart: fix use after free bug Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: octeon: check correct size of maximum RECV_LEN packet Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau/i2c/gm200: increase width of aux semaphore owner fields Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau/bios: fix issue shadowing expansion ROMs Can Guo <cang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: ufs: Correct the LUN used in eh_device_reset_handler() callback Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx> ASoC: Intel: haswell: Add missing pm_ops Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t() Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> ACPI: scan: Make acpi_bus_get_device() clear return pointer on error Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/via: Add minimum mute flag Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: oss: Fix missing error check in snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/sh/drivers/dma/Kconfig | 3 +-- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 ++ drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadow.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxgm200.c | 8 ++++---- drivers/hwtracing/stm/heartbeat.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-octeon-core.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c | 4 ++-- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 4 ++-- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 11 ++++------- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c | 13 ++++++++++--- drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 12 ++++++++++++ drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c | 3 +++ drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 2 ++ drivers/usb/host/xhci-tegra.c | 7 +++++++ include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 7 +++---- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++++ mm/slub.c | 4 +--- net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +++++- net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_rpfilter.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_tcindex.c | 8 ++++++-- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 3 ++- sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c | 1 + sound/soc/intel/boards/haswell.c | 1 + 31 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)