This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.278 release. There are 32 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, 04 Aug 2021 13:43:24 +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-4.9.278-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 4.9.278-rc1
Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com sis900: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in probe and remove
Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com tulip: windbond-840: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in probe and remove
Maor Gottlieb maorg@nvidia.com net/mlx5: Fix flow table chaining
Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net: llc: fix skb_over_panic
Jiapeng Chong jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com mlx4: Fix missing error code in mlx4_load_one()
Hoang Le hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au tipc: fix sleeping in tipc accept routine
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_nat: allow to specify layer 4 protocol NAT only
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: conntrack: adjust stop timestamp to real expiry value
Nguyen Dinh Phi phind.uet@gmail.com cfg80211: Fix possible memory leak in function cfg80211_bss_update
Jan Kiszka jan.kiszka@siemens.com x86/asm: Ensure asm/proto.h can be included stand-alone
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com nfc: nfcsim: fix use after free during module unload
Paul Jakma paul@jakma.org NIU: fix incorrect error return, missed in previous revert
Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak
Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com can: ems_usb: fix memory leak
Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com can: usb_8dev: fix memory leak
Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: issue zeroout to EOF blocks
Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: fix zero out valid data
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com x86/kvm: fix vcpu-id indexed array sizes
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: ensure the signal page contains defined contents
Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com lib/string.c: add multibyte memset functions
Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com ARM: dts: versatile: Fix up interrupt controller node names
Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi desmondcheongzx@gmail.com hfs: add lock nesting notation to hfs_find_init
Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi desmondcheongzx@gmail.com hfs: fix high memory mapping in hfs_bnode_read
Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi desmondcheongzx@gmail.com hfs: add missing clean-up in hfs_fill_super
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: move 198 addresses from unusable to private scope
Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com net/802/garp: fix memleak in garp_request_join()
Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com net/802/mrp: fix memleak in mrp_request_join()
Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com workqueue: fix UAF in pwq_unbound_release_workfn()
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org tipc: Fix backport of b77413446408fdd256599daf00d5be72b5f3e7c6
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org iommu/amd: Fix backport of 140456f994195b568ecd7fc2287a34eadffef3ca
-------------
Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/versatile-ab.dts | 5 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/versatile-pb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/kernel/signal.c | 14 +- arch/x86/include/asm/proto.h | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h | 4 +- drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c | 14 +- drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb2.c | 16 ++- drivers/net/can/usb/usb_8dev.c | 15 +- drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/winbond-840.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 10 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c | 3 +- drivers/nfc/nfcsim.c | 3 +- fs/hfs/bfind.c | 14 +- fs/hfs/bnode.c | 25 +++- fs/hfs/btree.h | 7 + fs/hfs/super.c | 10 +- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 103 ++++++++------ include/linux/string.h | 30 ++++ include/net/af_unix.h | 1 + include/net/llc_pdu.h | 31 +++-- include/net/sctp/constants.h | 4 +- kernel/workqueue.c | 20 ++- lib/string.c | 66 +++++++++ net/802/garp.c | 14 ++ net/802/mrp.c | 14 ++ net/Makefile | 2 +- net/llc/af_llc.c | 10 +- net/llc/llc_s_ac.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 7 +- net/netfilter/nft_nat.c | 4 +- net/sctp/protocol.c | 3 +- net/tipc/link.c | 2 +- net/tipc/socket.c | 9 +- net/unix/Kconfig | 5 + net/unix/Makefile | 2 + net/unix/af_unix.c | 115 ++++++---------- net/unix/garbage.c | 68 +-------- net/unix/scm.c | 161 ++++++++++++++++++++++ net/unix/scm.h | 10 ++ net/wireless/scan.c | 6 +- 45 files changed, 597 insertions(+), 259 deletions(-)