This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.88 release. There are 13 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, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +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-5.4.88-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.4.88-rc1
Zhang Xiaohui ruc_zhangxiaohui@163.com mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com rwsem: Implement down_read_interruptible
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com rwsem: Implement down_read_killable_nested
peterz@infradead.org peterz@infradead.org perf: Break deadlock involving exec_update_mutex
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: fix bad inode
Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:imu:bmi160: Fix alignment and data leak issues
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com kdev_t: always inline major/minor helper functions
Yu Kuai yukuai3@huawei.com dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing kfree() call in at_dma_xlate()
Yu Kuai yukuai3@huawei.com dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing put_device() call in at_dma_xlate()
Tudor Ambarus tudor.ambarus@microchip.com dmaengine: at_hdmac: Substitute kzalloc with kmalloc
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name Revert "mtd: spinand: Fix OOB read"
Alex Deucher alexdeucher@gmail.com Revert "drm/amd/display: Fix memory leaks in S3 resume"
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 11 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160.h | 7 +++ drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160_core.c | 6 +-- drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 4 -- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/join.c | 2 + fs/exec.c | 12 +++--- fs/fuse/acl.c | 6 +++ fs/fuse/dir.c | 37 +++++++++++++--- fs/fuse/file.c | 19 +++++---- fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 12 ++++++ fs/fuse/inode.c | 4 +- fs/fuse/readdir.c | 4 +- fs/fuse/xattr.c | 9 ++++ fs/proc/base.c | 10 ++--- include/linux/kdev_t.h | 22 +++++----- include/linux/rwsem.h | 3 ++ include/linux/sched/signal.h | 11 ++--- init/init_task.c | 2 +- kernel/events/core.c | 52 +++++++++++------------ kernel/fork.c | 6 +-- kernel/kcmp.c | 30 ++++++------- kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++ 24 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)