This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.307 release. There are 19 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, 16 Mar 2022 14:59:04 +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-4.9.307-rc2.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 4.9.307-rc2 Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> btrfs: unlock newly allocated extent buffer after error Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: fix Thumb2 regression with Spectre BHB Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: Don't expect inter-netns unique iflink indices Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: Request iflink once in batadv-on-batadv check Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx() Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: Spectre-BHB: provide empty stub for non-config Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> selftests/memfd: clean up mapping in mfd_fail_write Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Ensure trace buffer is at least 4096 bytes large Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "xen-netback: Check for hotplug-status existence before watching" suresh kumar <suresh2514@xxxxxxxxx> net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> sctp: fix kernel-infoleak for SCTP sockets Mark Featherston <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gpio: ts4900: Do not set DAT and OE together Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> NFC: port100: fix use-after-free in port100_send_complete Mohammad Kabat <mohammadkab@xxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5: Fix size field in bufferx_reg struct Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> ax25: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ax25_kill_by_device Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> net: ethernet: lpc_eth: Handle error for clk_enable Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> qed: return status of qed_iov_get_link Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> net: qlogic: check the return value of dma_alloc_coherent() in qed_vf_hw_prepare() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm/include/asm/spectre.h | 6 ++++++ arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 4 ++-- drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4900.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c | 5 ++++- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c | 18 +++++++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c | 7 +++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c | 4 +++- drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 12 ++++-------- drivers/nfc/port100.c | 2 ++ drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_lte.c | 5 +++-- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 1 + include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h | 4 ++-- kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 ++++++---- net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 7 +++++++ net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 13 ++++++++----- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 +- net/sctp/sctp_diag.c | 9 +++------ tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c | 1 + 19 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)