This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.296 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 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:20:40 +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-4.9.296-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 4.9.296-rc1 Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler Leo L. Schwab <ewhac@xxxxxxxxx> Input: spaceball - fix parsing of movement data packets Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> Input: appletouch - initialize work before device registration Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Set residual data length conditionally Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@xxxxxxxxx> usb: gadget: f_fs: Clear ffs_eventfd in ffs_data_clear. Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> xhci: Fresco FL1100 controller should not have BROKEN_MSI quirk set. Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> uapi: fix linux/nfc.h userspace compilation errors Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> nfc: uapi: use kernel size_t to fix user-space builds Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> fsl/fman: Fix missing put_device() call in fman_port_probe Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> selinux: initialize proto variable in selinux_ip_postroute_compat() Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> recordmcount.pl: fix typo in s390 mcount regex Wang Qing <wangqing@xxxxxxxx> platform/x86: apple-gmux: use resource_size() with res Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> HID: asus: Add depends on USB_HID to HID_ASUS Kconfig option ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/hid/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c | 11 +++++++++-- drivers/input/mouse/appletouch.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c | 12 +++++++----- drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 7 +++++-- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 9 ++++++--- drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 5 ++++- include/uapi/linux/nfc.h | 6 +++--- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 10 ++++------ scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +- security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +- 13 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)