This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.9.15 release. There are 105 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 Dec 2020 17:25:32 +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-5.9.15-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.9.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.9.15-rc1
Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu compiler.h: fix barrier_data() on clang
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org x86/kprobes: Fix optprobe to detect INT3 padding correctly
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/apic/vector: Fix ordering in vector assignment
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/membarrier: Get rid of a dubious optimization
Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu x86/mm/mem_encrypt: Fix definition of PMD_FLAGS_DEC_WP
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com scsi: be2iscsi: Revert "Fix a theoretical leak in beiscsi_create_eqs()"
Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal@wdc.com zonefs: fix page reference and BIO leak
Gerald Schaefer gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com mm/hugetlb: clear compound_nr before freeing gigantic pages
Miles Chen miles.chen@mediatek.com proc: use untagged_addr() for pagemap_read addresses
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de kbuild: avoid static_assert for genksyms
Stanley.Yang Stanley.Yang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: fix sdma instance fw version and feature version init
Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk drm/i915/gt: Cancel the preemption timeout on responding to it
Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk drm/i915/gt: Ignore repeated attempts to suspend request flow across reset
Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk drm/i915/gt: Declare gen9 has 64 mocs entries!
Manasi Navare manasi.d.navare@intel.com drm/i915/display/dp: Compute the correct slice count for VDSC on DP
Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk drm/i915/gem: Propagate error from cancelled submit due to context closure
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/disply: set num_crtc earlier
Bean Huo beanhuo@micron.com mmc: block: Fixup condition for CMD13 polling for RPMB requests
Muhammad Husaini Zulkifli muhammad.husaini.zulkifli@intel.com mmc: sdhci-of-arasan: Fix clock registration error for Keem Bay SOC
Coiby Xu coiby.xu@gmail.com pinctrl: amd: remove debounce filter setting in IRQ type setting
Evan Green evgreen@chromium.org pinctrl: jasperlake: Fix HOSTSW_OWN offset
Chris Chiu chiu@endlessos.org Input: i8042 - add Acer laptops to the i8042 reset list
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: cm109 - do not stomp on control URB
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen: don't use page->lru for ZONE_DEVICE memory
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen: add helpers for caching grant mapping pages
Libo Chen libo.chen@oracle.com ktest.pl: Fix incorrect reboot for grub2bls
yong mao yong.mao@mediatek.com mmc: mediatek: Extend recheck_sdio_irq fix to more variants
Wenbin Mei wenbin.mei@mediatek.com mmc: mediatek: Fix system suspend/resume support for CQHCI
Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: pulse8-cec: add support for FW v10 and up
Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: pulse8-cec: fix duplicate free at disconnect or probe error
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org intel_idle: Build fix
Heiko Carstens hca@linux.ibm.com s390: fix irq state tracing
Pankaj Sharma pankj.sharma@samsung.com can: m_can: m_can_dev_setup(): add support for bosch mcan version 3.3.0
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add info for the Irbis TW118 tablet
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add info for the Predia Basic tablet
Max Verevkin me@maxverevkin.tk platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Support for tablet mode on HP Pavilion 13 x360 PC
Timo Witte timo.witte@gmail.com platform/x86: acer-wmi: add automatic keyboard background light toggle key as KEY_LIGHTS_TOGGLE
Matthias Maier tamiko@43-1.org platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Whitelist P15 firmware for dual fan control
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add BAT1 is primary battery quirk for Thinkpad Yoga 11e 4th gen
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Do not report SW_TABLET_MODE on Yoga 11e
Iakov 'Jake' Kirilenko jake.kirilenko@gmail.com platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: add P1 gen3 second fan support
Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com arm64: tegra: Disable the ACONNECT for Jetson TX2
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org intel_idle: Fix intel_idle() vs tracing
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/idle: Fix arch_cpu_idle() vs tracing
Hao Si si.hao@zte.com.cn soc: fsl: dpio: Get the cpumask through cpumask_of(cpu)
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix lockdep splat when enabling and disabling qgroups
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: do nofs allocations when adding and removing qgroup relations
Oded Gabbay ogabbay@kernel.org habanalabs/gaudi: fix missing code in ECC handling
John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org arm-smmu-qcom: Ensure the qcom_scm driver has finished probing
Ran Wang ran.wang_1@nxp.com spi: spi-nxp-fspi: fix fspi panic by unexpected interrupts
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org drm/exynos: depend on COMMON_CLK to fix compile tests
Xu Qiang xuqiang36@huawei.com irqchip/gic-v3-its: Unconditionally save/restore the ITS state on suspend
Lijun Pan ljp@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: skip tx timeout reset while in resetting
Georgi Djakov georgi.djakov@linaro.org interconnect: qcom: qcs404: Remove GPU and display RPM IDs
Georgi Djakov georgi.djakov@linaro.org interconnect: qcom: msm8916: Remove rpm-ids from non-RPM nodes
Can Guo cang@codeaurora.org scsi: ufs: Make sure clk scaling happens only when HBA is runtime ACTIVE
Can Guo cang@codeaurora.org scsi: ufs: Fix unexpected values from ufshcd_read_desc_param()
Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com ARC: stack unwinding: don't assume non-current task is sleeping
Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com arm64: dts: broadcom: clear the warnings caused by empty dma-ranges
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc: Drop -me200 addition to build flags
Sara Sharon sara.sharon@intel.com iwlwifi: mvm: fix kernel panic in case of assert during CSA
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com iwlwifi: pcie: set LTR to avoid completion timeout
Mordechay Goodstein mordechay.goodstein@intel.com iwlwifi: sta: set max HE max A-MPDU according to HE capa
Markus Reichl m.reichl@fivetechno.de arm64: dts: rockchip: Reorder LED triggers from mmc devices on rk3399-roc-pc.
Markus Reichl m.reichl@fivetechno.de arm64: dts: rockchip: Assign a fixed index to mmc devices on rk3399 boards.
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com iwlwifi: pcie: limit memory read spin time
Maciej Matuszczyk maccraft123mc@gmail.com arm64: dts: rockchip: Remove system-power-controller from pmic on Odroid Go Advance
Al Cooper alcooperx@gmail.com phy: usb: Fix incorrect clearing of tca_drv_sel bit in SETUP reg for 7211
Liu Zixian liuzixian4@huawei.com mm/mmap.c: fix mmap return value when vma is merged after call_mmap()
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org zlib: export S390 symbols for zlib modules
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org usb: ohci-omap: Fix descriptor conversion
Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org perf/x86/intel: Fix a warning on x86_pmu_stop() with large PEBS
Luca Coelho luciano.coelho@intel.com iwlwifi: pcie: invert values of NO_160 device config entries
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org vdpa: mlx5: fix vdpa/vhost dependencies
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org net: broadcom CNIC: requires MMU
Jing Xiangfeng jingxiangfeng@huawei.com scsi: storvsc: Fix error return in storvsc_probe()
Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen@google.com samples/ftrace: Mark my_tramp[12]? global
Zhang Qilong zhangqilong3@huawei.com can: kvaser_pciefd: kvaser_pciefd_open(): fix error handling
Zhang Qilong zhangqilong3@huawei.com can: c_can: c_can_power_up(): fix error handling
Jeroen Hofstee jhofstee@victronenergy.com can: sun4i_can: sun4i_can_err(): don't count arbitration lose as an error
Jeroen Hofstee jhofstee@victronenergy.com can: sja1000: sja1000_err(): don't count arbitration lose as an error
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: m_can: tcan4x5x_can_probe(): fix error path: remove erroneous clk_disable_unprepare()
Sebastian Reichel sebastian.reichel@collabora.com drm/panel: sony-acx565akm: Fix race condition in probe
Paul Kocialkowski paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com drm/rockchip: Avoid uninitialized use of endpoint id in LVDS
Dany Madden drt@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: reduce wait for completion time
Dany Madden drt@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: send_login should check for crq errors
Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: track pending login
Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: delay next reset if hard reset fails
Dany Madden drt@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: avoid memset null scrq msgs
Dany Madden drt@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: stop free_all_rwi on failed reset
Dany Madden drt@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: handle inconsistent login with reset
Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com ipvs: fix possible memory leak in ip_vs_control_net_init
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Don't always reallocate the fragmentation skb head
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Reserve needed_*room for fragments
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Consider fragmentation for needed_headroom
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s: Fix hash ISA v3.0 TLBIEL instruction generation
Si-Wei Liu si-wei.liu@oracle.com vhost-vdpa: fix page pinning leakage in error path (rework)
Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com bpftool: Fix error return value in build_btf_type_table
Björn Töpel bjorn.topel@intel.com net, xsk: Avoid taking multiple skbuff references
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org tools/bootconfig: Fix to check the write failure correctly
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Fix HP Pavilion x2 Detachable quirks
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org kprobes: Tell lockdep about kprobe nesting
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes: Remove NMI context check
Minchan Kim minchan@kernel.org mm/zsmalloc.c: drop ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com Kbuild: do not emit debug info for assembly with LLVM_IAS=1
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 7 +- arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c | 23 ++-- arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig | 1 - arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-omap1/board-osk.c | 2 +- .../boot/dts/broadcom/stingray/stingray-usb.dtsi | 20 ++-- arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra186-p2771-0000.dts | 12 -- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3326-odroid-go2.dts | 1 - arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-roc-pc.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399.dtsi | 3 + arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/csky/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/h8300/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/hexagon/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/microblaze/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/idle.c | 12 +- arch/nios2/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 1 - arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_native.c | 2 +- arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | 15 --- arch/s390/kernel/idle.c | 6 +- arch/s390/lib/delay.c | 5 +- arch/sh/kernel/idle.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/leon_pmc.c | 4 +- arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 4 +- arch/um/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h | 2 - arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h | 9 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c | 24 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 22 +++- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 12 +- arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 10 +- drivers/Makefile | 1 + drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 89 +++------------ drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h | 4 +- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v5_2.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/Kconfig | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_mocs.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sony-acx565akm.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_lvds.c | 2 +- drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 37 ++++--- drivers/input/misc/cm109.c | 7 +- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 42 +++++++ drivers/interconnect/qcom/msm8916.c | 12 +- drivers/interconnect/qcom/qcs404.c | 4 +- drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu-qcom.c | 4 + drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 16 +-- drivers/media/cec/usb/pulse8/pulse8-cec.c | 52 ++++++--- drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c | 2 + drivers/mmc/core/block.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/host/mtk-sd.c | 33 ++++-- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-arasan.c | 3 + drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can.c | 18 ++- drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c | 4 +- drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 2 + drivers/net/can/m_can/tcan4x5x.c | 11 +- drivers/net/can/sja1000/sja1000.c | 1 - drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 98 ++++++++++------ drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/api/sta.h | 10 +- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-config.h | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-csr.h | 10 ++ drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/sta.c | 18 +++ .../wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/ctxt-info-gen3.c | 20 ++++ drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c | 36 ++++-- drivers/phy/broadcom/phy-brcm-usb-init-synopsys.c | 5 - drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-jasperlake.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c | 7 -- drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c | 6 + drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 12 +- drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c | 50 +++++++++ drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 31 ++++-- drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/dpio-driver.c | 5 +- drivers/spi/spi-nxp-fspi.c | 7 ++ drivers/usb/host/ohci-omap.c | 4 +- drivers/vdpa/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 80 +++++++++++--- drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/xen/unpopulated-alloc.c | 20 ++-- drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 60 ++-------- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 5 +- fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 66 +++++++++-- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 8 +- fs/zonefs/super.c | 14 ++- include/asm-generic/barrier.h | 1 + include/linux/build_bug.h | 5 + include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 6 - include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 19 ---- include/linux/compiler.h | 18 ++- include/linux/netdevice.h | 14 ++- include/linux/zsmalloc.h | 1 - include/xen/grant_table.h | 17 +++ kernel/kprobes.c | 41 ++++--- kernel/sched/idle.c | 28 ++++- lib/zlib_dfltcc/dfltcc_inflate.c | 3 + mm/Kconfig | 13 --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + mm/mmap.c | 26 ++--- mm/zsmalloc.c | 48 -------- net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c | 26 +++-- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 3 + net/core/dev.c | 8 +- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 31 +++++- net/xdp/xsk.c | 8 +- samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-modify.c | 2 + samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct-too.c | 1 + samples/ftrace/ftrace-direct.c | 1 + sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_rt5640.c | 17 ++- tools/bootconfig/main.c | 30 ++++- tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c | 1 + tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 2 +- 132 files changed, 1095 insertions(+), 625 deletions(-)