This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.297 release. There are 21 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, 12 Jan 2022 07:18:05 +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-4.9.297-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 4.9.297-rc1 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> power: reset: ltc2952: Fix use of floating point literals wolfgang huang <huangjinhui@xxxxxxxxxx> mISDN: change function names to avoid conflicts yangxingwu <xingwu.yang@xxxxxxxxx> net: udp: fix alignment problem in udp4_seq_show() William Zhao <wizhao@xxxxxxxxxx> ip6_vti: initialize __ip6_tnl_parm struct in vti6_siocdevprivate Lixiaokeng <lixiaokeng@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libiscsi: Fix UAF in iscsi_conn_get_param()/iscsi_conn_teardown() Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> phonet: refcount leak in pep_sock_accep James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> arm64: sysreg: Move to use definitions for all the SCTLR bits Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: move !VHE work to end of el2_setup Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: reduce el2_setup branching Stefan Traby <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> arm64: Remove a redundancy in sysreg.h Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> bug: split BUILD_BUG stuff out into <linux/build_bug.h> Thomas Toye <thomas@xxxxxxx> rndis_host: support Hytera digital radios Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> sch_qfq: prevent shift-out-of-bounds in qfq_init_qdisc Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagielski@xxxxxxxxx> i40e: Fix incorrect netdev's real number of RX/TX queues Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> mac80211: initialize variable have_higher_than_11mbit Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in atusb_set_extended_addr Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio_pci: Support surprise removal of virtio pci device Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Tag trace_percpu_buffer as a percpu pointer Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix check for trace_percpu_buffer validity in get_trace_buf() Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Bluetooth: btusb: Apply QCA Rome patches for some ATH3012 models ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 49 +++++++---------- arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 24 +-------- drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 32 ++++++++--- drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c | 6 +-- drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.h | 4 +- drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer1.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 32 ++++++++--- drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c | 10 ++-- drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 5 ++ drivers/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 6 ++- drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 7 +++ fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 3 +- include/linux/bug.h | 72 +------------------------ include/linux/build_bug.h | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 +-- net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 + net/mac80211/mlme.c | 2 +- net/phonet/pep.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 6 +-- 23 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)