This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.263 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 Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:19:09 +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-4.9.263-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 4.9.263-rc1

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de genirq: Disable interrupts for force threaded handlers

Shijie Luo luoshijie1@huawei.com ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode

zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: find old entry again if failed to rename whiteout

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com x86: Introduce TS_COMPAT_RESTART to fix get_nr_restart_syscall()

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com x86: Move TS_COMPAT back to asm/thread_info.h

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel, fs: Introduce and use set_restart_fn() and arch_set_restart_data()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/ioapic: Ignore IRQ2 again

Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel: Fix a crash caused by zero PEBS status

Tyrel Datwyler tyreld@linux.ibm.com PCI: rpadlpar: Fix potential drc_name corruption in store functions

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com iio: adis16400: Fix an error code in adis16400_initial_setup()

Jim Lin jilin@nvidia.com usb: gadget: configfs: Fix KASAN use-after-free

Macpaul Lin macpaul.lin@mediatek.com USB: replace hardcode maximum usb string length by definition

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com scsi: lpfc: Fix some error codes in debugfs

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net/qrtr: fix __netdev_alloc_skb call

Daniel Kobras kobras@puzzle-itc.de sunrpc: fix refcount leak for rpc auth modules

Timo Rothenpieler timo@rothenpieler.org svcrdma: disable timeouts on rdma backchannel

Joe Korty joe.korty@concurrent-rt.com NFSD: Repair misuse of sv_lock in 5.10.16-rt30.

Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me nvmet: don't check iosqes,iocqes for discovery controllers

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix race when cloning extent buffer during rewind of an old root

Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com ixgbe: prevent ptp_rx_hang from running when in FILTER_ALL mode

Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com ixgbe: check for Tx timestamp timeouts during watchdog

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: dsa: b53: Support setting learning on port

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: check journal inode extents more carefully

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: don't allow overlapping system zones

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: handle error of ext4_setup_system_zone() on remount

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 9 ---- arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 23 ++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 10 ++++ arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 24 +-------- drivers/iio/imu/adis16400_core.c | 3 +- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 20 ++++++++ drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_regs.h | 1 + drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 5 ++ drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2_regs.h | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c | 27 ++++++++++ drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 17 +++++-- drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c | 14 +++--- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 16 ++++-- drivers/usb/gadget/usbstring.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 2 + fs/ext4/block_validity.c | 71 +++++++++++++-------------- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 +-- fs/ext4/extents.c | 16 +++--- fs/ext4/indirect.c | 6 +-- fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 +++-- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/namei.c | 29 ++++++++++- fs/ext4/super.c | 5 +- fs/select.c | 10 ++-- include/linux/thread_info.h | 13 +++++ include/uapi/linux/usb/ch9.h | 3 ++ kernel/futex.c | 3 +- kernel/irq/manage.c | 4 ++ kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 2 +- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 +- net/qrtr/qrtr.c | 2 +- net/sunrpc/svc.c | 6 ++- net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 4 +- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_backchannel.c | 6 +-- 41 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)