This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.270 release. There are 36 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, 26 May 2021 15:23:11 +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-4.9.270-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 4.9.270-rc1 Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> iio: tsl2583: Fix division by a zero lux_val Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tty: vt: always invoke vc->vc_sw->con_resize callback Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx> vt: Fix character height handling with VT_RESIZEX Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx> vgacon: Record video mode changes with VT_RESIZEX Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <igormtorrente@xxxxxxxxx> video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference Tom Seewald <tseewald@xxxxxxxxx> qlcnic: Add null check after calling netdev_alloc_skb Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> leds: lp5523: check return value of lp5xx_read and jump to cleanup code Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: rtlwifi: properly check for alloc_workqueue() failure Anirudh Rayabharam <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: stmicro: handle clk_prepare() failure during init Du Cheng <ducheng2@xxxxxxxxx> ethernet: sun: niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cdrom: gdrom: initialize global variable at init time Atul Gopinathan <atulgopinathan@xxxxxxxxx> cdrom: gdrom: deallocate struct gdrom_unit fields in remove_gdrom Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "gdrom: fix a memory leak bug" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "ecryptfs: replace BUG_ON with error handling code" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "hwmon: (lm80) fix a missing check of bus read in lm80 probe" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "net: stmicro: fix a missing check of clk_prepare" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference" Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> dm snapshot: fix crash with transient storage and zero chunk size Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> dm snapshot: fix a crash when an origin has no snapshots Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-pciback: reconfigure also from backend watch handler Anirudh Rayabharam <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "rapidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference when create_workqueue() fails" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region" Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: bebob/oxfw: fix Kconfig entry for Mackie d.2 Pro Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Validate MS endpoint descriptors Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: line6: Fix racy initialization of LINE6 MIDI Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> cifs: fix memory leak in smb2_copychunk_range Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> ptrace: make ptrace() fail if the tracee changed its pid unexpectedly Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: qla2xxx: Fix error return code in qla82xx_write_flash_dword() Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> RDMA/rxe: Clear all QP fields if creation failed Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> openrisc: Fix a memory leak ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c | 2 + drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c | 13 +++-- drivers/hwmon/lm80.c | 11 +---- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 7 +++ drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 6 +-- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sunxi.c | 8 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c | 32 ++++++++----- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 19 ++++---- drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c | 17 ++++--- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c | 3 +- drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2583.c | 9 ++++ drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 6 +-- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2 +- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 56 ++++++++++++---------- drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c | 21 ++++---- drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c | 5 -- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c | 22 +++++++-- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 2 + fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 6 +-- include/linux/console_struct.h | 1 + kernel/ptrace.c | 18 ++++++- sound/firewire/Kconfig | 4 +- sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c | 1 - sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 4 -- sound/usb/line6/driver.c | 4 ++ sound/usb/line6/pod.c | 5 -- sound/usb/line6/variax.c | 6 --- sound/usb/midi.c | 4 ++ 33 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)
