This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.297 release. There are 21 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, 12 Jan 2022 07:18:05 +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-4.9.297-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 4.9.297-rc1
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org power: reset: ltc2952: Fix use of floating point literals
wolfgang huang huangjinhui@kylinos.cn mISDN: change function names to avoid conflicts
yangxingwu xingwu.yang@gmail.com net: udp: fix alignment problem in udp4_seq_show()
William Zhao wizhao@redhat.com ip6_vti: initialize __ip6_tnl_parm struct in vti6_siocdevprivate
Lixiaokeng lixiaokeng@huawei.com scsi: libiscsi: Fix UAF in iscsi_conn_get_param()/iscsi_conn_teardown()
Hangyu Hua hbh25y@gmail.com phonet: refcount leak in pep_sock_accep
James Morse james.morse@arm.com arm64: sysreg: Move to use definitions for all the SCTLR bits
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: move !VHE work to end of el2_setup
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: reduce el2_setup branching
Stefan Traby stefan@hello-penguin.com arm64: Remove a redundancy in sysreg.h
Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk bug: split BUILD_BUG stuff out into <linux/build_bug.h>
Thomas Toye thomas@toye.io rndis_host: support Hytera digital radios
Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com sch_qfq: prevent shift-out-of-bounds in qfq_init_qdisc
Jedrzej Jagielski jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com i40e: Fix incorrect netdev's real number of RX/TX queues
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com mac80211: initialize variable have_higher_than_11mbit
Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in atusb_set_extended_addr
Parav Pandit parav@nvidia.com virtio_pci: Support surprise removal of virtio pci device
Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com tracing: Tag trace_percpu_buffer as a percpu pointer
Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com tracing: Fix check for trace_percpu_buffer validity in get_trace_buf()
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Bluetooth: btusb: Apply QCA Rome patches for some ATH3012 models
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 49 +++++++---------- arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 24 +-------- drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 32 ++++++++--- drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c | 6 +-- drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.h | 4 +- drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer1.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 32 ++++++++--- drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c | 10 ++-- drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 5 ++ drivers/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 6 ++- drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 7 +++ fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 3 +- include/linux/bug.h | 72 +------------------------ include/linux/build_bug.h | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 +-- net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 + net/mac80211/mlme.c | 2 +- net/phonet/pep.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 6 +-- 23 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)