This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.242 release. There are 117 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, 11 Nov 2020 12:50:04 +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-4.9.242-rc1... 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 4.9.242-rc1
Vineet Gupta Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com Revert "ARC: entry: fix potential EFA clobber when TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE"
Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com ARC: stack unwinding: avoid indefinite looping
Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu USB: Add NO_LPM quirk for Kingston flash drive
Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit FN980 composition 0x1055
Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add LE910Cx compositions 0x1203, 0x1230, 0x1231
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: cyberjack: fix write-URB completion race
Qinglang Miao miaoqinglang@huawei.com serial: txx9: add missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in serial_txx9_init
Claire Chang tientzu@chromium.org serial: 8250_mtk: Fix uart_get_baud_rate warning
Eddy Wu itseddy0402@gmail.com fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent
Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY
Zhang Qilong zhangqilong3@huawei.com ACPI: NFIT: Fix comparison to '-ENXIO'
Jeff Vander Stoep jeffv@google.com vsock: use ns_capable_noaudit() on socket create
Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com scsi: core: Don't start concurrent async scan on same host
Vincent Whitchurch vincent.whitchurch@axis.com of: Fix reserved-memory overlap detection
Kairui Song kasong@redhat.com x86/kexec: Use up-to-dated screen_info copy to fill boot params
Clément Péron peron.clem@gmail.com ARM: dts: sun4i-a10: fix cpu_alert temperature
Qiujun Huang hqjagain@gmail.com tracing: Fix out of bounds write in get_trace_buf
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org ftrace: Handle tracing when switching between context
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org ftrace: Fix recursion check for NMI test
Zqiang qiang.zhang@windriver.com kthread_worker: prevent queuing delayed work from timer_fn when it is being canceled
Geoffrey D. Bennett g@b4.vu ALSA: usb-audio: Add implicit feedback quirk for Qu-16
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org Fonts: Replace discarded const qualifier
Claudiu Manoil claudiu.manoil@nxp.com gianfar: Account for Tx PTP timestamp in the skb headroom
Claudiu Manoil claudiu.manoil@nxp.com gianfar: Replace skb_realloc_headroom with skb_cow_head for PTP
Hoang Huu Le hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au tipc: fix use-after-free in tipc_bcast_get_mode
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/events: don't use chip_data for legacy IRQs
Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com staging: octeon: Drop on uncorrectable alignment or FCS error
Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com staging: octeon: repair "fixed-link" support
Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk staging: comedi: cb_pcidas: Allow 2-channel commands for AO subdevice
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org KVM: arm64: Fix AArch32 handling of DBGD{CCINT,SCRext} and DBGVCR
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com device property: Don't clear secondary pointer for shared primary firmware node
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com device property: Keep secondary firmware node secondary by type
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: s3c24xx: fix missing system reset
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: samsung: fix PM debug build with DEBUG_LL but !MMU
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de hil/parisc: Disable HIL driver when it gets stuck
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org cachefiles: Handle readpage error correctly
Jisheng Zhang Jisheng.Zhang@synaptics.com arm64: berlin: Select DW_APB_TIMER_OF
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org tty: make FONTX ioctl use the tty pointer they were actually passed
Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com rtc: rx8010: don't modify the global rtc ops
Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vringh: fix __vringh_iov() when riov and wiov are different
Qiujun Huang hqjagain@gmail.com ring-buffer: Return 0 on success from ring_buffer_resize()
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org 9P: Cast to loff_t before multiplying
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: clear con->out_msg on Policy::stateful_server faults
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org ceph: promote to unsigned long long before shifting
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ia64: fix build error with !COREDUMP
Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com ubi: check kthread_should_stop() after the setting of task state
Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com ubifs: dent: Fix some potential memory leaks while iterating entries
Mahesh Salgaonkar mahesh@linux.ibm.com powerpc/powernv/elog: Fix race while processing OPAL error log event.
Joel Stanley joel@jms.id.au powerpc: Warn about use of smt_snooze_delay
Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:gyro:itg3200: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.
Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:adc:ti-adc12138 Fix alignment issue with timestamp
Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:light:si1145: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.
Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net dmaengine: dma-jz4780: Fix race in jz4780_dma_tx_status
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz vt: keyboard, extend func_buf_lock to readers
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz vt: keyboard, simplify vt_kdgkbsent
Ran Wang ran.wang_1@nxp.com usb: host: fsl-mph-dr-of: check return of dma_set_mask()
Li Jun jun.li@nxp.com usb: dwc3: core: don't trigger runtime pm when remove driver
Li Jun jun.li@nxp.com usb: dwc3: core: add phy cleanup for probe error handling
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix use-after-free on readahead extent after failure to create it
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: cleanup cow block on error
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: reschedule if necessary when logging directory items
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de scsi: mptfusion: Fix null pointer dereferences in mptscsih_remove()
Martin Fuzzey martin.fuzzey@flowbird.group w1: mxc_w1: Fix timeout resolution problem leading to bus error
Wei Huang wei.huang2@amd.com acpi-cpufreq: Honor _PSD table setting on new AMD CPUs
Jamie Iles jamie@nuviainc.com ACPI: debug: don't allow debugging when ACPI is disabled
Alex Hung alex.hung@canonical.com ACPI: video: use ACPI backlight for HP 635 Notebook
Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk ACPI / extlog: Check for RDMSR failure
Ashish Sangwan ashishsangwan2@gmail.com NFS: fix nfs_path in case of a rename retry
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz fs: Don't invalidate page buffers in block_write_full_page()
Marek Behún marek.behun@nic.cz leds: bcm6328, bcm6358: use devres LED registering function
Kim Phillips kim.phillips@amd.com perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix raw sample data accumulation
Kim Phillips kim.phillips@amd.com perf/x86/amd/ibs: Don't include randomized bits in get_ibs_op_count()
Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com md/raid5: fix oops during stripe resizing
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: s5pv210: remove dedicated 'audio-subsystem' node
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: s5pv210: move PMU node out of clock controller
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: s5pv210: remove DMA controller bus node name to fix dtschema warnings
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com memory: emif: Remove bogus debugfs error handling
Anant Thazhemadam anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com gfs2: add validation checks for size of superblock
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: Detect already used quota file early
Madhuparna Bhowmik madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com drivers: watchdog: rdc321x_wdt: Fix race condition bugs
Anant Thazhemadam anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com net: 9p: initialize sun_server.sun_path to have addr's value only when addr is valid
Tero Kristo t-kristo@ti.com clk: ti: clockdomain: fix static checker warning
Zhao Heming heming.zhao@suse.com md/bitmap: md_bitmap_get_counter returns wrong blocks
Xiongfeng Wang wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com power: supply: test_power: add missing newlines when printing parameters by sysfs
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@oss.nxp.com bus/fsl_mc: Do not rely on caller to provide non NULL mc_io
Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr: Correctly handle special skb->protocol values
Zhengyuan Liu liuzhengyuan@tj.kylinos.cn arm64/mm: return cpu_all_mask when node is NUMA_NO_NODE
Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com USB: adutux: fix debugging
Alain Volmat avolmat@me.com cpufreq: sti-cpufreq: add stih418 support
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org kgdb: Make "kgdbcon" work properly with "kgdb_earlycon"
John Ogness john.ogness@linutronix.de printk: reduce LOG_BUF_SHIFT range for H8300
Madhuparna Bhowmik madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com mmc: via-sdmmc: Fix data race bug
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com media: tw5864: check status of tw5864_frameinterval_get
Sathishkumar Muruganandam murugana@codeaurora.org ath10k: fix VHT NSS calculation when STBC is enabled
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com video: fbdev: pvr2fb: initialize variables
Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: fix realtime bitmap/summary file truncation when growing rt volume
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org ARM: 8997/2: hw_breakpoint: Handle inexact watchpoint addresses
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com um: change sigio_spinlock to a mutex
Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to check segment boundary during SIT page readahead
Zhang Qilong zhangqilong3@huawei.com f2fs: add trace exit in exception path
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com sparc64: remove mm_cpumask clearing to fix kthread_use_mm race
Oliver O'Halloran oohall@gmail.com powerpc/powernv/smp: Fix spurious DBG() warning
Amit Cohen amcohen@nvidia.com mlxsw: core: Fix use-after-free in mlxsw_emad_trans_finish()
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com fscrypt: use EEXIST when file already uses different policy
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com fscrypto: move ioctl processing more fully into common code
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com fscrypt: return -EXDEV for incompatible rename or link into encrypted dir
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be ata: sata_rcar: Fix DMA boundary mask
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com mtd: lpddr: Fix bad logic in print_drs_error
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn p54: avoid accessing the data mapped to streaming DMA
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: fix page dereference after free
Kim Phillips kim.phillips@amd.com arch/x86/amd/ibs: Fix re-arming IBS Fetch
Tung Nguyen tung.q.nguyen@dektech.com.au tipc: fix memory leak caused by tipc_buf_append()
Andrew Gabbasov andrew_gabbasov@mentor.com ravb: Fix bit fields checking in ravb_hwtstamp_get()
Michael Schaller misch@google.com efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.
Mukesh Ojha mukesh02@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/powernv/opal-dump : Use IRQ_HANDLED instead of numbers in interrupt handler
Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable
NeilBrown neilb@suse.com SUNRPC: ECONNREFUSED should cause a rebind.
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/kernel/entry.S | 16 ++-- arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c | 7 +- arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 + arch/arm/boot/dts/s5pv210.dtsi | 127 +++++++++++++---------------- arch/arm/boot/dts/sun4i-a10.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++------- arch/arm/plat-samsung/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/numa.h | 3 + arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 6 +- arch/arm64/mm/numa.c | 6 +- arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c | 42 ++++------ arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-dump.c | 9 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c | 33 ++++++-- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c | 65 ++++----------- arch/um/kernel/sigio.c | 6 +- arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c | 53 ++++++++---- arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c | 3 +- drivers/acpi/acpi_dbg.c | 3 + drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c | 6 +- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 9 ++ drivers/ata/sata_rcar.c | 2 +- drivers/base/core.c | 4 +- drivers/clk/ti/clockdomain.c | 2 + drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c | 3 +- drivers/cpufreq/sti-cpufreq.c | 6 +- drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c | 7 +- drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc12138.c | 13 ++- drivers/iio/gyro/itg3200_buffer.c | 15 +++- drivers/iio/light/si1145.c | 19 +++-- drivers/input/serio/hil_mlc.c | 21 ++++- drivers/input/serio/hp_sdc_mlc.c | 8 +- drivers/leds/leds-bcm6328.c | 2 +- drivers/leds/leds-bcm6358.c | 2 +- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 2 +- drivers/md/raid5.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/tw5864/tw5864-video.c | 6 ++ drivers/memory/emif.c | 33 ++------ drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c | 13 +-- drivers/mmc/host/via-sdmmc.c | 3 + drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c | 13 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 14 +--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 10 ++- drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c | 98 +++++++++++----------- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c | 8 +- drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/p54pci.c | 4 +- drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 13 ++- drivers/power/supply/test_power.c | 6 ++ drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8010.c | 24 ++++-- drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 7 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcidas.c | 1 + drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/mc-io.c | 7 +- drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c | 6 -- drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c | 34 ++++---- drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c | 9 ++ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_mtk.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/serial_txx9.c | 3 + drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 39 +++++---- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 24 +----- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 32 ++++---- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 + drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c | 15 +++- drivers/usb/host/fsl-mph-dr-of.c | 9 +- drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/cyberjack.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 8 ++ drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 9 +- drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c | 2 + drivers/w1/masters/mxc_w1.c | 14 ++-- drivers/watchdog/rdc321x_wdt.c | 5 +- drivers/xen/events/events_base.c | 29 +++++-- fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 6 ++ fs/btrfs/reada.c | 2 + fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 8 ++ fs/buffer.c | 16 ---- fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c | 3 +- fs/ceph/addr.c | 2 +- fs/crypto/policy.c | 39 +++++---- fs/efivarfs/super.c | 3 + fs/ext4/ext4.h | 4 +- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 34 ++------ fs/ext4/namei.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 5 ++ fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 8 +- fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 4 +- fs/f2fs/file.c | 19 +---- fs/f2fs/namei.c | 6 +- fs/fuse/dev.c | 28 ++++--- fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 18 ++-- fs/nfs/namespace.c | 12 ++- fs/ubifs/debug.c | 1 + fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c | 10 ++- include/linux/fscrypto.h | 12 +-- include/linux/hil_mlc.h | 2 +- include/linux/mtd/pfow.h | 2 +- init/Kconfig | 3 +- kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 22 +++-- kernel/fork.c | 10 +-- kernel/kthread.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 8 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace.h | 26 +++++- kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c | 9 +- lib/fonts/font_10x18.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_6x10.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_6x11.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_7x14.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_8x16.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_8x8.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_acorn_8x8.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_mini_4x6.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_pearl_8x8.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_sun12x22.c | 2 +- lib/fonts/font_sun8x16.c | 2 +- net/9p/trans_fd.c | 2 +- net/ceph/messenger.c | 5 ++ net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 8 ++ net/tipc/core.c | 5 ++ net/tipc/msg.c | 5 +- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 +- scripts/setlocalversion | 21 +++-- sound/usb/pcm.c | 1 + 130 files changed, 894 insertions(+), 650 deletions(-)