This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.251 release. There are 45 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, 13 Jan 2021 13:00:19 +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-4.9.251-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 4.9.251-rc1
Ying-Tsun Huang ying-tsun.huang@amd.com x86/mtrr: Correct the range check before performing MTRR type lookups
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: xt_RATEEST: reject non-null terminated string from userspace
Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com netfilter: ipset: fix shift-out-of-bounds in htable_bits()
Bard Liao yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com Revert "device property: Keep secondary firmware node secondary by type"
bo liu bo.liu@senarytech.com ALSA: hda/conexant: add a new hda codec CX11970
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com x86/mm: Fix leak of pmd ptlock
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: keyspan_pda: remove unused variable
Eddie Hung eddie.hung@mediatek.com usb: gadget: configfs: Fix use-after-free issue with udc_name
Chandana Kishori Chiluveru cchiluve@codeaurora.org usb: gadget: configfs: Preserve function ordering after bind failure
Sriharsha Allenki sallenki@codeaurora.org usb: gadget: Fix spinlock lockup on usb_function_deactivate
Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com USB: gadget: legacy: fix return error code in acm_ms_bind()
Zqiang qiang.zhang@windriver.com usb: gadget: function: printer: Fix a memory leak for interface descriptor
Jerome Brunet jbrunet@baylibre.com usb: gadget: f_uac2: reset wMaxPacketSize
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de usb: gadget: select CONFIG_CRC32
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Fix UBSAN warnings for MIDI jacks
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: usblp: fix DMA to stack
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: yurex: fix control-URB timeout handling
Daniel Palmer daniel@0x0f.com USB: serial: option: add LongSung M5710 module support
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: iuu_phoenix: fix DMA from stack
Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: uas: Add PNY USB Portable SSD to unusual_uas
Michael Grzeschik m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de USB: xhci: fix U1/U2 handling for hardware with XHCI_INTEL_HOST quirk set
Yu Kuai yukuai3@huawei.com usb: chipidea: ci_hdrc_imx: add missing put_device() call in usbmisc_get_init_data()
Sean Young sean@mess.org USB: cdc-acm: blacklist another IR Droid device
taehyun.cho taehyun.cho@samsung.com usb: gadget: enable super speed plus
Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com video: hyperv_fb: Fix the mmap() regression for v5.4.y and older
Du Changbin changbin.du@gmail.com scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
Leonard Crestez leonard.crestez@nxp.com scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replace
Leonard Crestez leonard.crestez@nxp.com scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: cast log_buf to void* for addr fetch
André Draszik git@andred.net scripts/gdb: make lx-dmesg command work (reliably)
Jeff Dike jdike@akamai.com virtio_net: Fix recursive call to cpus_read_lock()
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org net: sched: prevent invalid Scell_log shift count
Yunjian Wang wangyunjian@huawei.com vhost_net: fix ubuf refcount incorrectly when sendmsg fails
Roland Dreier roland@kernel.org CDC-NCM: remove "connected" log message
Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com net: hdlc_ppp: Fix issues when mod_timer is called while timer is running
Yunjian Wang wangyunjian@huawei.com net: hns: fix return value check in __lb_other_process()
Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com ipv4: Ignore ECN bits for fib lookups in fib_compute_spec_dst()
Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn net: ethernet: Fix memleak in ethoc_probe
John Wang wangzhiqiang.bj@bytedance.com net/ncsi: Use real net-device for response handler
Petr Machata me@pmachata.org net: dcb: Validate netlink message in DCB handler
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com atm: idt77252: call pci_disable_device() on error path
Rasmus Villemoes rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk ethernet: ucc_geth: fix use-after-free in ucc_geth_remove()
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org depmod: handle the case of /sbin/depmod without /sbin in PATH
Huang Shijie sjhuang@iluvatar.ai lib/genalloc: fix the overflow when size is too big
Yunfeng Ye yeyunfeng@huawei.com workqueue: Kick a worker based on the actual activation of delayed works
Dominique Martinet asmadeus@codewreck.org kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 6 +-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 6 +-- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 2 + drivers/atm/idt77252.c | 2 +- drivers/base/core.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ethoc.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ethtool.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 3 -- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 12 +++-- drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c | 7 +++ drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_imx.c | 6 ++- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 4 ++ drivers/usb/class/usblp.c | 21 +++++++- drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 10 +++- drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 19 ++++--- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_printer.c | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac2.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/acm_ms.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 24 ++++----- drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 3 ++ drivers/usb/serial/iuu_phoenix.c | 20 +++++-- drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.c | 2 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 1 + drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h | 7 +++ drivers/vhost/net.c | 6 +-- drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c | 6 +-- include/net/red.h | 4 +- kernel/workqueue.c | 13 +++-- lib/genalloc.c | 25 ++++----- net/dcb/dcbnl.c | 2 + net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 2 +- net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h | 20 ++----- net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c | 3 ++ net/sched/sch_choke.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_gred.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_red.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_sfq.c | 2 +- scripts/depmod.sh | 2 + scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py | 22 +++++--- scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 1 + sound/usb/midi.c | 4 ++ 45 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)