This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.257 release. There are 43 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 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:57:55 +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-4.9.257-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 4.9.257-rc1 Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars) <sylee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix typo of pincfg for Dell quirk Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx> iommu/vt-d: Do not use flush-queue when caching-mode is on Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> ACPI: thermal: Do not call acpi_thermal_check() directly Benjamin Valentin <benpicco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: xpad - sync supported devices with fork on GitHub Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/apic: Add extra serialization for non-serializing MSRs Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: hugetlb: remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE from page_huge_active Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: hugetlb: fix a race between isolating and freeing page Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: hugetlbfs: fix cannot migrate the fallocated HugeTLB page Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: footbridge: fix dc21285 PCI configuration accessors Fengnan Chang <fengnanchang@xxxxxxxxx> mmc: core: Limit retries when analyse of SDIO tuples fails Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> cifs: report error instead of invalid when revalidating a dentry fails Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> xhci: fix bounce buffer usage for non-sg list case Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx> kretprobe: Avoid re-registration of the same kretprobe earlier Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> mac80211: fix station rate table updates on assoc Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc2: Fix endpoint direction check in ep_from_windex Jeremy Figgins <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: usblp: don't call usb_set_interface if there's a single alt Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: gadget: legacy: fix an error code in eth_bind() Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> elfcore: fix building with clang Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx> net: lapb: Copy the skb before sending a packet Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Input: i8042 - unbreak Pegatron C15B Christoph Schemmel <christoph.schemmel@xxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: option: Adding support for Cinterion MV31 Chenxin Jin <bg4akv@xxxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: cp210x: add new VID/PID for supporting Teraoka AD2000 Pho Tran <Pho.Tran@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: cp210x: add pid/vid for WSDA-200-USB Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> stable: clamp SUBLEVEL in 4.4 and 4.9 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> objtool: Don't fail on missing symbol table Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: ibmvfc: Set default timeout to avoid crash during migration Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> mac80211: fix fast-rx encryption check Javed Hasan <jhasan@xxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libfc: Avoid invoking response handler twice if ep is already completed Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Handle faults correctly for PI futexes Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Simplify fixup_pi_state_owner() Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Use pi_state_update_owner() in put_pi_state() Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtmutex: Remove unused argument from rt_mutex_proxy_unlock() Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Provide and use pi_state_update_owner() Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Replace pointless printk in fixup_owner() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Rework inconsistent rt_mutex/futex_q state Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Remove rt_mutex_deadlock_account_*() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex,rt_mutex: Provide futex specific rt_mutex API Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net_sched: reject silly cell_log in qdisc_get_rtab() Lijun Pan <ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ibmvnic: Ensure that CRQ entry read are correctly ordered Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> net: dsa: bcm_sf2: put device node before return ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 12 +- arch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285.c | 12 +- arch/x86/Makefile | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 10 -- arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 18 +++ arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 4 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c | 6 +- drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 55 ++++--- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 17 ++- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 2 + drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 6 + drivers/mmc/core/sdio_cis.c | 6 + drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 + drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_exch.c | 16 +- drivers/usb/class/usblp.c | 19 ++- drivers/usb/dwc2/gadget.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/ether.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 31 ++-- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 + fs/cifs/dir.c | 22 ++- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 3 +- include/linux/elfcore.h | 22 +++ include/linux/hugetlb.h | 3 + kernel/Makefile | 1 - kernel/elfcore.c | 25 --- kernel/futex.c | 276 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- kernel/kprobes.c | 4 + kernel/locking/rtmutex-debug.c | 9 -- kernel/locking/rtmutex-debug.h | 3 - kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 127 ++++++++++------ kernel/locking/rtmutex.h | 2 - kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 12 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 37 +++-- mm/hugetlb.c | 9 +- net/lapb/lapb_out.c | 3 +- net/mac80211/driver-ops.c | 5 +- net/mac80211/rate.c | 3 +- net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 + net/sched/sch_api.c | 3 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 +- tools/objtool/elf.c | 7 +- 45 files changed, 521 insertions(+), 320 deletions(-)
