This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.173 release. There are 15 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 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:04:42 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.173-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-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 5.4.173-rc1 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> ARM: 9025/1: Kconfig: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depends on !LD_IS_LLD Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> mtd: fixup CFI on ixp4xx Christian Lachner <gladiac@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix silent output on Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master after reboot from Windows Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: remove PMU FIXED_CTR3 from msrs_to_save_all Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix kobject leak in probe error path Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix NULL-pointer deref on duplicate entries Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix sysfs information leak Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix WARNING when calling local_irq_restore() with interrupts enabled Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> media: uvcvideo: fix division by zero at stream start Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: s390: Clarify SIGP orders versus STOP/RESTART Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU Jamie Hill-Daniel <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vfs: fs_context: fix up param length parsing in legacy_parse_param Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> orangefs: Fix the size of a memory allocation in orangefs_bufmap_alloc() NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> devtmpfs regression fix: reconfigure on each mount Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> kbuild: Add $(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS) to 'has_libelf' test ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 6 ++--- arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 17 +++++++----- arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 18 ++++++++----- arch/csky/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 6 +++-- arch/nds32/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c | 17 +++++++----- arch/riscv/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 7 +++-- arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 7 +++++ arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 9 +++++-- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h | 1 + arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/events/core.c | 17 +++++++----- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 9 ++++--- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 8 ++++++ drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 20 ++++++--------- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 4 +++ drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig | 2 ++ drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig | 2 +- .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c | 1 + fs/fs_context.c | 2 +- fs/orangefs/orangefs-bufmap.c | 7 +++-- fs/super.c | 4 +-- include/linux/fs_context.h | 2 ++ include/linux/perf_event.h | 13 +++++++++- kernel/events/core.c | 13 +++++++--- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++- 27 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)