This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.258 release. There are 49 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, 24 Feb 2021 12:07:46 +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-4.9.258-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 4.9.258-rc1 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kvm: check tlbs_dirty directly Arun Easi <aeasi@xxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash during driver load on big endian machines Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: fix error handling in xen_blkbk_map() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-scsiback: don't "handle" error by BUG() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-netback: don't "handle" error by BUG() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: don't "handle" error by BUG() Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/arm: don't ignore return errors from set_phys_to_machine Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/gntdev: correct error checking in gntdev_map_grant_pages() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/gntdev: correct dev_bus_addr handling in gntdev_map_grant_pages() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/x86: also check kernel mapping in set_foreign_p2m_mapping() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/x86: don't bail early from clear_foreign_p2m_mapping() Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 build due to bad merge with -mrecord-mcount Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel for 32-bit too Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> vsock: fix locking in vsock_shutdown() Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> vsock/virtio: update credit only if socket is not closed Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: watchdog: hold device global xmit lock during tx disable Norbert Slusarek <nslusarek@xxxxxxx> net/vmw_vsock: improve locking in vsock_connect_timeout() Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: ulpi: Replace CPU-based busyloop with Protocol-based one Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: ulpi: fix checkpatch warning Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> h8300: fix PREEMPTION build, TI_PRE_COUNT undefined Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: conntrack: skip identical origin tuple in same zone only Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> xen/netback: avoid race in xenvif_rx_ring_slots_available() Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: xt_recent: Fix attempt to update deleted entry Bui Quang Minh <minhquangbui99@xxxxxxxxx> bpf: Check for integer overflow when using roundup_pow_of_two() Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: dts: lpc32xx: Revert set default clock rate of HCLK PLL Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> ovl: skip getxattr of security labels Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Check length before giving out the filter buffer Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Do not count ftrace events in top level enable output Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> squashfs: add more sanity checks in xattr id lookup Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> squashfs: add more sanity checks in inode lookup Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> squashfs: add more sanity checks in id lookup Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Cure exit race Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Change locking rules Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> futex: Ensure the correct return value from futex_lock_pi() Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> include/trace/events/writeback.h: fix -Wstringop-truncation warnings Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx> lib/string: Add strscpy_pad() function Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: Handle 0 length opaque XDR object data properly Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: Move simple_get_bytes and simple_get_netobj into private header Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> iwlwifi: mvm: guard against device removal in reprobe Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> iwlwifi: pcie: add a NULL check in iwl_pcie_txq_unmap Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> iwlwifi: mvm: take mutex for calling iwl_mvm_get_sync_time() Cong Wang <cong.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> af_key: relax availability checks for skb size calculation Sibi Sankar <sibis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_mss: Validate MBA firmware size before load Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 11 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/lpc32xx.dtsi | 3 - arch/arm/xen/p2m.c | 6 +- arch/h8300/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 3 + arch/x86/Makefile | 6 +- arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 15 +- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 30 +-- .../net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/debugfs-vif.c | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c | 5 + drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 4 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c | 9 +- drivers/remoteproc/qcom_q6v5_pil.c | 6 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_tmpl.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_tmpl.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/ulpi.c | 20 +- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 33 ++- drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 4 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 15 +- fs/squashfs/export.c | 41 +++- fs/squashfs/id.c | 40 +++- fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h | 1 + fs/squashfs/super.c | 6 +- fs/squashfs/xattr.h | 10 +- fs/squashfs/xattr_id.c | 66 +++++- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 10 + include/linux/ftrace.h | 4 +- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 33 ++- include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 + include/linux/string.h | 4 + include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h | 3 +- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 35 ++-- include/xen/grant_table.h | 1 + kernel/bpf/stackmap.c | 2 + kernel/futex.c | 233 +++++++++++++++++---- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 - kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 +- lib/string.c | 47 ++++- mm/backing-dev.c | 1 + mm/memblock.c | 48 +---- mm/memcontrol.c | 43 ++-- mm/page-writeback.c | 14 +- net/key/af_key.c | 6 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 3 +- net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 12 +- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 30 +-- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss_internal.h | 45 ++++ net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c | 31 +-- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 13 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 4 +- scripts/Makefile.build | 3 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +- 54 files changed, 681 insertions(+), 309 deletions(-)