This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.284 release. There are 25 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 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:07:36 +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-4.9.284-rc2... 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 4.9.284-rc2

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner@gmail.com sctp: validate from_addr_param return

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net drm/nouveau/nvkm: Replace -ENOSYS with -ENODEV

Li Jinlin lijinlin3@huawei.com blk-throttle: fix UAF by deleteing timer in blk_throtl_exit()

Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group

Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group

Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group

Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group

Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release

Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group

Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org ceph: lockdep annotations for try_nonblocking_invalidate

Radhey Shyam Pandey radhey.shyam.pandey@xilinx.com dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Set DMA mask for coherent APIs

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com dmaengine: ioat: depends on !UML

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net parisc: Move pci_dev_is_behind_card_dino to where it is used

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de pwm: lpc32xx: Don't modify HW state in .probe() after the PWM chip was registered

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com profiling: fix shift-out-of-bounds bugs

Cyrill Gorcunov gorcunov@gmail.com prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables

Xie Yongji xieyongji@bytedance.com 9p/trans_virtio: Remove sysfs file on probe failure

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com thermal/drivers/exynos: Fix an error code in exynos_tmu_probe()

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com dmaengine: acpi: Avoid comparison GSI with Linux vIRQ

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner@gmail.com sctp: add param size validation for SCTP_PARAM_SET_PRIMARY

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner marcelo.leitner@gmail.com sctp: validate chunk size in __rcv_asconf_lookup

Cheng Chao cs.os.kernel@gmail.com staging: android: ion: fix page is NULL

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr crypto: talitos - fix max key size for sha384 and sha512

Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com PM / wakeirq: Fix unbalanced IRQ enable for wakeirq

Ilya Leoshkevich iii@linux.ibm.com s390/bpf: Fix optimizing out zero-extensions

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 50 ++++++++++++----------- block/blk-throttle.c | 1 + drivers/base/power/wakeirq.c | 6 ++- drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 2 +- drivers/dma/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/dma/acpi-dma.c | 10 +++-- drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/ctrl.c | 2 +- drivers/parisc/dino.c | 18 ++++---- drivers/pwm/pwm-lpc32xx.c | 10 ++--- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 2 +- drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu.c | 1 + fs/ceph/caps.c | 2 + fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 26 +++++------- include/net/sctp/structs.h | 2 +- kernel/profile.c | 21 +++++----- kernel/sys.c | 7 ---- net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 4 +- net/sctp/bind_addr.c | 20 +++++---- net/sctp/input.c | 9 +++- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 7 +++- net/sctp/protocol.c | 7 +++- net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 42 +++++++++++-------- 24 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)