This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.254 release. There are 30 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, 31 Jan 2021 10:59:01 +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-4.9.254-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 4.9.254-rc1
Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation
Gaurav Kohli gkohli@codeaurora.org tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call
Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()"
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com net: dsa: b53: fix an off by one in checking "vlan->vid"
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: avoid shift-out-of-bounds in tcindex_set_parms()
Matteo Croce mcroce@microsoft.com ipv6: create multicast route with RTPROT_KERNEL
Alexander Lobakin alobakin@pm.me skbuff: back tiny skbs with kmalloc() in __netdev_alloc_skb() too
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be sh_eth: Fix power down vs. is_opened flag ordering
Necip Fazil Yildiran fazilyildiran@gmail.com sh: dma: fix kconfig dependency for G2_DMA
Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com netfilter: rpfilter: mask ecn bits before fib lookup
Will Deacon will@kernel.org compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: Fix buggy rsh min/max bounds tracking
JC Kuo jckuo@nvidia.com xhci: tegra: Delay for disabling LFPS detector
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: make sure TRB is fully written before giving it to the controller
Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com usb: bdc: Make bdc pci driver depend on BROKEN
Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: udc: core: Use lock when write to soft_connect
Longfang Liu liulongfang@huawei.com USB: ehci: fix an interrupt calltrace error
Eugene Korenevsky ekorenevsky@astralinux.ru ehci: fix EHCI host controller initialization sequence
Wang Hui john.wanghui@huawei.com stm class: Fix module init return on allocation failure
Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de iio: ad5504: Fix setting power-down state
Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr can: dev: can_restart: fix use after free bug
Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com i2c: octeon: check correct size of maximum RECV_LEN packet
Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/i2c/gm200: increase width of aux semaphore owner fields
Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/bios: fix issue shadowing expansion ROMs
Can Guo cang@codeaurora.org scsi: ufs: Correct the LUN used in eh_device_reset_handler() callback
Cezary Rojewski cezary.rojewski@intel.com ASoC: Intel: haswell: Add missing pm_ops
Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t()
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI: scan: Make acpi_bus_get_device() clear return pointer on error
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/via: Add minimum mute flag
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: oss: Fix missing error check in snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info()
-------------
Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/sh/drivers/dma/Kconfig | 3 +-- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 ++ drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadow.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxgm200.c | 8 ++++---- drivers/hwtracing/stm/heartbeat.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-octeon-core.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c | 4 ++-- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 4 ++-- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 11 ++++------- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c | 13 ++++++++++--- drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 12 ++++++++++++ drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c | 3 +++ drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 2 ++ drivers/usb/host/xhci-tegra.c | 7 +++++++ include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 7 +++---- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++++ mm/slub.c | 4 +--- net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +++++- net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_rpfilter.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_tcindex.c | 8 ++++++-- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 3 ++- sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c | 1 + sound/soc/intel/boards/haswell.c | 1 + 31 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)