This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.173 release. There are 15 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 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:04:42 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.173-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.4.173-rc1

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com ARM: 9025/1: Kconfig: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depends on !LD_IS_LLD

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de mtd: fixup CFI on ixp4xx

Christian Lachner gladiac@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix silent output on Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master after reboot from Windows

Wei Wang wei.w.wang@intel.com KVM: x86: remove PMU FIXED_CTR3 from msrs_to_save_all

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix kobject leak in probe error path

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix NULL-pointer deref on duplicate entries

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix sysfs information leak

Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix WARNING when calling local_irq_restore() with interrupts enabled

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org media: uvcvideo: fix division by zero at stream start

Eric Farman farman@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: Clarify SIGP orders versus STOP/RESTART

Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU

Jamie Hill-Daniel jamie@hill-daniel.co.uk vfs: fs_context: fix up param length parsing in legacy_parse_param

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr orangefs: Fix the size of a memory allocation in orangefs_bufmap_alloc()

NeilBrown neilb@suse.de devtmpfs regression fix: reconfigure on each mount

Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org kbuild: Add $(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS) to 'has_libelf' test

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 6 ++--- arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 17 +++++++----- arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 18 ++++++++----- arch/csky/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 6 +++-- arch/nds32/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c | 17 +++++++----- arch/riscv/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 7 +++-- arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 7 +++++ arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 9 +++++-- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h | 1 + arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/events/core.c | 17 +++++++----- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 9 ++++--- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 8 ++++++ drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 20 ++++++--------- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 4 +++ drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig | 2 ++ drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig | 2 +- .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c | 1 + fs/fs_context.c | 2 +- fs/orangefs/orangefs-bufmap.c | 7 +++-- fs/super.c | 4 +-- include/linux/fs_context.h | 2 ++ include/linux/perf_event.h | 13 +++++++++- kernel/events/core.c | 13 +++++++--- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++- 27 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)