This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.234 release. There are 39 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, 26 Aug 2020 08:23:34 +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-4.9.234-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 4.9.234-rc1
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen: don't reschedule in preemption off sections
Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk do_epoll_ctl(): clean the failure exits up a bit
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc: Allow 4224 bytes of stack expansion for the signal frame
Vasant Hegde hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/pseries: Do not initiate shutdown when system is running on UPS
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com net: dsa: b53: check for timeout
Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn ASoC: intel: Fix memleak in sst_media_open
Fugang Duan fugang.duan@nxp.com net: fec: correct the error path for regulator disable in probe
Przemyslaw Patynowski przemyslawx.patynowski@intel.com i40e: Set RX_ONLY mode for unicast promiscuous on VLAN
Eric Sandeen sandeen@redhat.com ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split()
Luc Van Oostenryck luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com alpha: fix annotation of io{read,write}{16,32}be()
Eiichi Tsukata devel@etsukata.com xfs: Fix UBSAN null-ptr-deref in xfs_sysfs_init
Mao Wenan wenan.mao@linux.alibaba.com virtio_ring: Avoid loop when vq is broken in virtqueue_poll
Javed Hasan jhasan@marvell.com scsi: libfc: Free skb in fc_disc_gpn_id_resp() for valid cases
Zhe Li lizhe67@huawei.com jffs2: fix UAF problem
Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: fix inode quota reservation checks
Greg Ungerer gerg@linux-m68k.org m68knommu: fix overwriting of bits in ColdFire V3 cache control
Xiongfeng Wang wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com Input: psmouse - add a newline when printing 'proto' by sysfs
Evgeny Novikov novikov@ispras.ru media: vpss: clean up resources in init
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com media: budget-core: Improve exception handling in budget_register()
Stanley Chu stanley.chu@mediatek.com scsi: ufs: Add DELAY_BEFORE_LPM quirk for Micron devices
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: fix checking of directory entry validity for inline directories
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ext4: clean up ext4_match() and callers
zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com jbd2: add the missing unlock_buffer() in the error path of jbd2_write_superblock()
Charan Teja Reddy charante@codeaurora.org mm, page_alloc: fix core hung in free_pcppages_bulk()
Doug Berger opendmb@gmail.com mm: include CMA pages in lowmem_reserve at boot
Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com kernel/relay.c: fix memleak on destroy relay channel
Jann Horn jannh@google.com romfs: fix uninitialized memory leak in romfs_dev_read()
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: don't show full path of bind mounts in subvol=
Marcos Paulo de Souza mpdesouza@suse.com btrfs: export helpers for subvolume name/id resolution
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com khugepaged: adjust VM_BUG_ON_MM() in __khugepaged_enter()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
Kevin Hao haokexin@gmail.com tracing/hwlat: Honor the tracing_cpumask
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Clean up the hwlat binding code
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix memory leakage when the probe point is not found
Liu Ying victor.liu@nxp.com drm/imx: imx-ldb: Disable both channels for split mode in enc->disable()
Jan Beulich JBeulich@suse.com x86/asm: Add instruction suffixes to bitops
Uros Bizjak ubizjak@gmail.com x86/asm: Remove unnecessary \n\t in front of CC_SET() from asm templates
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 8 +- arch/m68k/include/asm/m53xxacr.h | 6 +- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 7 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 1 - arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h | 8 +- arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h | 29 ++++--- arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-ldb.c | 7 +- drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/ttpci/budget-core.c | 11 ++- drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpss.c | 20 ++++- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq_cmd.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_common.c | 35 ++++++-- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_disc.c | 12 ++- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs_quirks.h | 1 + drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 2 + drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 3 + drivers/xen/preempt.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 2 + fs/btrfs/export.c | 8 +- fs/btrfs/export.h | 5 ++ fs/btrfs/super.c | 18 +++-- fs/eventpoll.c | 19 +++-- fs/ext4/namei.c | 99 +++++++++-------------- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 4 +- fs/jffs2/dir.c | 6 +- fs/romfs/storage.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.h | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c | 2 +- kernel/relay.c | 1 + kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 37 ++++----- mm/hugetlb.c | 24 +++--- mm/khugepaged.c | 7 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +- sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c | 5 +- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 2 +- 39 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 183 deletions(-)