This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.299 release. There are 9 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 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:02:51 +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-4.9.299-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 4.9.299-rc1 Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> ion: Do not 'put' ION handle until after its final use Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx> ion: Protect kref from userspace manipulation Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx> ion: Fix use after free during ION_IOC_ALLOC Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> ARM: 8800/1: use choice for kernel unwinders Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: X86: MMU: Use the correct inherited permissions to get shadow page Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: nVMX: fix EPT permissions as reported in exit qualification Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NFSv4: Initialise connection to the server in nfs4_alloc_client() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> media: firewire: firedtv-avc: fix a buffer overflow in avc_ca_pmt() Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | 44 +++++++++------ arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 44 +++++++++------ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 4 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 6 +++ drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c | 14 +++-- drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c | 2 + drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 19 +++++-- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h | 4 ++ drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_priv.h | 4 ++ fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 82 ++++++++++++++-------------- lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 +-- 16 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
