This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.238 release. There are 119 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, 03 Oct 2020 09:10:09 +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-4.9.238-rc2... 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@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.238-rc2
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz ata: sata_mv, avoid trigerrable BUG_ON
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz ata: make qc_prep return ata_completion_errors
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz ata: define AC_ERR_OK
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com lib/string.c: implement stpcpy
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes: Fix to check probe enabled before disarm_kprobe_ftrace()
Wei Li liwei391@huawei.com MIPS: Add the missing 'CPU_1074K' into __get_cpu_type()
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com ALSA: asihpi: fix iounmap in error handler
Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue batman-adv: mcast: fix duplicate mcast packets in BLA backbone from mesh
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Add missing include for in_interrupt()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com mac802154: tx: fix use-after-free
Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue batman-adv: mcast/TT: fix wrongly dropped or rerouted packets
Jing Xiangfeng jingxiangfeng@huawei.com atm: eni: fix the missed pci_disable_device() for eni_init_one()
Linus Lüssing ll@simonwunderlich.de batman-adv: bla: fix type misuse for backbone_gw hash indexing
Maximilian Luz luzmaximilian@gmail.com mwifiex: Increase AES key storage size to 256 bits
Tianjia Zhang tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com clocksource/drivers/h8300_timer8: Fix wrong return value in h8300_8timer_init()
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com ieee802154/adf7242: check status of adf7242_read_reg
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Fix noreturn detection for ignored functions
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com i2c: core: Call i2c_acpi_install_space_handler() before i2c_acpi_register_devices()
Ilya Leoshkevich iii@linux.ibm.com s390/init: add missing __init annotations
Zeng Tao prime.zeng@hisilicon.com vfio/pci: fix racy on error and request eventfd ctx
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org selftests/x86/syscall_nt: Clear weird flags after each test
Zhang Xiaoxu zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com cifs: Fix double add page to memcg when cifs_readpages
Alex Williamson alex.williamson@redhat.com vfio/pci: Clear error and request eventfd ctx after releasing
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/speculation/mds: Mark mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers() __always_inline
Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@collabora.com mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons
Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org ceph: fix potential race in ceph_check_caps
Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn mtd: rawnand: omap_elm: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error
Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf kcore_copy: Fix module map when there are no modules loaded
Xie XiuQi xiexiuqi@huawei.com perf util: Fix memory leak of prefix_if_not_in
Qian Cai cai@lca.pw vfio/pci: fix memory leaks of eventfd ctx
David Sterba dsterba@suse.com btrfs: don't force read-only after error in drop snapshot
Shreyas Joshi shreyas.joshi@biamp.com printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.
Alexander Duyck alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com e1000: Do not perform reset in reset_task if we are already down
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix less than zero comparison of an unsigned int
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: don't check refcount after stealing page
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda: Fix potential race in unsol event handler
Jonathan Bakker xc-racer2@live.ca tty: serial: samsung: Correct clock selection logic
Tang Bin tangbin@cmss.chinamobile.com USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix error handling in mv_ehci_probe()
Sonny Sasaka sonnysasaka@chromium.org Bluetooth: Handle Inquiry Cancel error after Inquiry Complete
Jonathan Bakker xc-racer2@live.ca phy: samsung: s5pv210-usb2: Add delay after reset
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com atm: fix a memory leak of vcc->user_back
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org dt-bindings: sound: wm8994: Correct required supplies based on actual implementaion
Madhuparna Bhowmik madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com drivers: char: tlclk.c: Avoid data race between init and interrupt handler
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org bdev: Reduce time holding bd_mutex in sync in blkdev_close()
Steve Rutherford srutherford@google.com KVM: Remove CREATE_IRQCHIP/SET_PIT2 race
Jaewon Kim jaewon31.kim@samsung.com mm/mmap.c: initialize align_offset explicitly for vm_unmapped_area
Xianting Tian xianting_tian@126.com mm/filemap.c: clear page error before actual read
Andreas Steinmetz ast@domdv.de ALSA: usb-audio: Fix case when USB MIDI interface has more than one extra endpoint descriptor
Liu Song liu.song11@zte.com.cn ubifs: Fix out-of-bounds memory access caused by abnormal value of node_len
Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com svcrdma: Fix leak of transport addresses
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr SUNRPC: Fix a potential buffer overflow in 'svc_print_xprts()'
Gabriel Ravier gabravier@gmail.com tools: gpio-hammer: Avoid potential overflow in main
Pratik Rajesh Sampat psampat@linux.ibm.com cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_work_fn
Vignesh Raghavendra vigneshr@ti.com serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Terminate DMA before pushing data on RX timeout
Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com serial: 8250_omap: Fix sleeping function called from invalid context during probe
Vignesh Raghavendra vigneshr@ti.com serial: 8250_port: Don't service RX FIFO if throttled
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com tracing: Use address-of operator on section symbols
Stefan Berger stefanb@linux.ibm.com tpm: ibmvtpm: Wait for buffer to be set before proceeding
Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: don't ever return a stale pointer from __xfs_dir3_free_read
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com media: tda10071: fix unsigned sign extension overflow
Howard Chung howardchung@google.com Bluetooth: L2CAP: handle l2cap config request during open state
John Clements john.clements@amd.com drm/amdgpu: increase atombios cmd timeout
Wen Yang wenyang@linux.alibaba.com timekeeping: Prevent 32bit truncation in scale64_check_overflow()
Alain Michaud alainm@chromium.org Bluetooth: guard against controllers sending zero'd events
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de media: go7007: Fix URB type for interrupt handling
Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com dmaengine: tegra-apb: Prevent race conditions on channel's freeing
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de bpf: Remove recursion prevention from rcu free callback
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/pkeys: Add check for pkey "overflow"
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: fix incorrect comparison in trace event
Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org RDMA/rxe: Fix configuration of atomic queue pair attributes
Wen Yang wen.yang99@zte.com.cn drm/omap: fix possible object reference leak
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix coverity errors in fmdi attribute handling
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix RQ buffer leakage when no IOCBs available
Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com selinux: sel_avc_get_stat_idx should increase position index
Steve Grubb sgrubb@redhat.com audit: CONFIG_CHANGE don't log internal bookkeeping as an event
Qian Cai cai@lca.pw skbuff: fix a data race in skb_queue_len()
Mohan Kumar mkumard@nvidia.com ALSA: hda: Clear RIRB status before reading WP
Zhuang Yanying ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running
Hillf Danton hdanton@sina.com Bluetooth: prefetch channel before killing sock
Steven Price steven.price@arm.com mm: pagewalk: fix termination condition in walk_pte_range()
Manish Mandlik mmandlik@google.com Bluetooth: Fix refcount use-after-free issue
Mert Dirik mertdirik@gmail.com ar5523: Add USB ID of SMCWUSBT-G2 wireless adapter
Josef Bacik jbacik@fb.com tracing: Set kernel_stack's caller size properly
Matthias Fend matthias.fend@wolfvision.net dmaengine: zynqmp_dma: fix burst length configuration
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: EC: Reference count query handlers under lock
Nikhil Devshatwar nikhil.nd@ti.com media: ti-vpe: cal: Restrict DMA to avoid memory corruption
Marco Elver elver@google.com seqlock: Require WRITE_ONCE surrounding raw_seqcount_barrier
Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com rt_cpu_seq_next should increase position index
Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com neigh_stat_seq_next() should increase position index
Joe Perches joe@perches.com kernel/sys.c: avoid copying possible padding bytes in copy_to_user
Pavel Shilovsky pshilov@microsoft.com CIFS: Properly process SMB3 lease breaks
Kusanagi Kouichi slash@ac.auone-net.jp debugfs: Fix !DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_automount
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr RDMA/iw_cgxb4: Fix an error handling path in 'c4iw_connect()'
Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com xfs: fix attr leaf header freemap.size underflow
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com RDMA/i40iw: Fix potential use after free
Guoju Fang fangguoju@gmail.com bcache: fix a lost wake-up problem caused by mca_cannibalize_lock
Divya Indi divya.indi@oracle.com tracing: Adding NULL checks for trace_array descriptor pointer
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org mfd: mfd-core: Protect against NULL call-back function pointer
Hou Tao houtao1@huawei.com mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: don't free cfi->cfiq in error path of cfi_amdstd_setup()
Stephen Kitt steve@sk2.org clk/ti/adpll: allocate room for terminating null
Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com PM / devfreq: tegra30: Fix integer overflow on CPU's freq max out
Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add delay quirk for H570e USB headsets
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ASoC: kirkwood: fix IRQ error handling
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu gma/gma500: fix a memory disclosure bug due to uninitialized bytes
Fuqian Huang huangfq.daxian@gmail.com m68k: q40: Fix info-leak in rtc_ioctl
Balsundar P balsundar.p@microsemi.com scsi: aacraid: fix illegal IO beyond last LBA
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de serial: 8250: Avoid error message on reprobe
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: add __must_check to skb_put_padto()
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net/hsr: Check skb_put_padto() return value
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy_detach() when driver is unbound
Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Protect bnxt_set_eee() and bnxt_set_pauseparam() with mutex.
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com tipc: use skb_unshare() instead in tipc_buf_append()
Wei Wang weiwan@google.com ip: fix tos reflection in ack and reset packets
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com hdlc_ppp: add range checks in ppp_cp_parse_cr()
Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk mtd: Fix comparison in map_word_andequal()
Shamir Rabinovitch shamir.rabinovitch@oracle.com RDMA/ucma: ucma_context reference leak in error path
Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com kprobes: fix kill kprobe which has been marked as gone
Rustam Kovhaev rkovhaev@gmail.com KVM: fix memory leak in kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev()
Mark Salyzyn salyzyn@android.com af_key: pfkey_dump needs parameter validation
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Diffstat:
Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl | 2 +- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/wm8994.txt | 18 ++- Makefile | 4 +- arch/m68k/q40/config.c | 1 + arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-type.h | 1 + arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 6 +- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pkeys.h | 5 + arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmutrace.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 +- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 16 +-- drivers/ata/acard-ahci.c | 6 +- drivers/ata/libahci.c | 6 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 9 +- drivers/ata/libata-sff.c | 12 +- drivers/ata/pata_macio.c | 6 +- drivers/ata/pata_pxa.c | 8 +- drivers/ata/pdc_adma.c | 7 +- drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c | 4 +- drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c | 4 +- drivers/ata/sata_mv.c | 34 ++--- drivers/ata/sata_nv.c | 18 +-- drivers/ata/sata_promise.c | 6 +- drivers/ata/sata_qstor.c | 8 +- drivers/ata/sata_rcar.c | 6 +- drivers/ata/sata_sil.c | 8 +- drivers/ata/sata_sil24.c | 6 +- drivers/ata/sata_sx4.c | 6 +- drivers/atm/eni.c | 2 +- drivers/char/tlclk.c | 17 +-- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 9 ++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.h | 1 + drivers/clk/ti/adpll.c | 11 +- drivers/clocksource/h8300_timer8.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 13 +- drivers/devfreq/tegra-devfreq.c | 4 +- drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c | 3 +- drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c | 24 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/cdv_intel_display.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/dss/omapdss-boot-init.c | 4 +- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 7 +- drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h | 1 + drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 12 +- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 1 + drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda10071.c | 9 +- drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/cal.c | 6 +- drivers/media/usb/go7007/go7007-usb.c | 4 +- drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c | 10 ++ drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 1 - drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c | 23 +++- drivers/mtd/nand/omap_elm.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 31 +++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 18 ++- drivers/net/ieee802154/adf7242.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c | 16 ++- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c | 4 +- drivers/phy/phy-s5pv210-usb2.c | 4 + drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_ct.c | 137 +++++++++++---------- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hw.h | 36 +++--- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 4 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 11 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c | 8 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 16 ++- drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-mv.c | 8 +- drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 13 ++ fs/block_dev.c | 10 ++ fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 - fs/ceph/caps.c | 14 ++- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 9 +- fs/cifs/file.c | 21 ++-- fs/cifs/misc.c | 17 +-- fs/cifs/smb1ops.c | 8 +- fs/cifs/smb2misc.c | 32 ++--- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 44 ++++--- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h | 2 +- fs/fuse/dev.c | 1 - fs/ubifs/io.c | 16 ++- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2_node.c | 1 + include/linux/debugfs.h | 5 +- include/linux/libata.h | 13 +- include/linux/mtd/map.h | 2 +- include/linux/seqlock.h | 11 +- include/linux/skbuff.h | 16 ++- kernel/audit_watch.c | 2 - kernel/bpf/hashtab.c | 8 -- kernel/kprobes.c | 14 ++- kernel/printk/printk.c | 3 + kernel/sys.c | 4 +- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 +- kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 + lib/string.c | 24 ++++ mm/filemap.c | 8 ++ mm/mmap.c | 2 + mm/pagewalk.c | 4 +- net/atm/lec.c | 6 + net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c | 42 +++++-- net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.h | 4 +- net/batman-adv/routing.c | 4 + net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 6 +- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 25 +++- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 29 +++-- net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 18 ++- net/core/neighbour.c | 1 + net/hsr/hsr_device.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/route.c | 1 + net/key/af_key.c | 7 ++ net/mac802154/tx.c | 8 +- net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 19 ++- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_backchannel.c | 1 + net/tipc/msg.c | 3 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 11 +- security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 1 + sound/hda/hdac_bus.c | 4 + sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c | 4 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c | 11 +- sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-dma.c | 2 +- sound/usb/midi.c | 29 ++++- sound/usb/quirks.c | 7 +- tools/gpio/gpio-hammer.c | 17 ++- tools/objtool/check.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/sort.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 7 ++ tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_nt.c | 1 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 22 ++-- 139 files changed, 895 insertions(+), 464 deletions(-)