This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.245 release. There are 16 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 Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:45:32 +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-4.9.245-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 4.9.245-rc1
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com ACPI: GED: fix -Wformat
David Edmondson david.edmondson@oracle.com KVM: x86: clflushopt should be treated as a no-op by emulation
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: always wind down STA state
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: sunkbd - avoid use-after-free in teardown paths
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu powerpc/8xx: Always fault when _PAGE_ACCESSED is not set
Mike Looijmans mike.looijmans@topic.nl i2c: mux: pca954x: Add missing pca9546 definition to chip_desc
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org i2c: imx: Fix external abort on interrupt in exit paths
Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de i2c: imx: use clk notifier for rate changes
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/uaccess: Evaluate macro arguments once, before user access is allowed
Andrew Donnellan ajd@linux.ibm.com powerpc: Fix __clear_user() with KUAP enabled
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc: Add a framework for user access tracking
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry
Daniel Axtens dja@axtens.net powerpc/64s: move some exception handlers out of line
Daniel Axtens dja@axtens.net powerpc/64s: Define MASKABLE_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES_OOL
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Diffstat:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup-radix.h | 22 ++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 13 ++- arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h | 19 ++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h | 4 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h | 40 +++++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h | 7 ++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h | 4 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 143 +++++++++++++++++++------ arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 130 ++++++++++++---------- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 8 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 14 +++ arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_wrappers.c | 4 + arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/lib/string.S | 4 +- arch/powerpc/lib/string_64.S | 6 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 15 +++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 8 ++ arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 8 +- drivers/acpi/evged.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 56 ++++++---- drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c | 6 +- drivers/input/keyboard/sunkbd.c | 41 +++++-- net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 18 ++++ 26 files changed, 673 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-)