This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.325 release. There are 26 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 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:09:50 +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-4.9.325-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 4.9.325-rc1

Jose Alonso joalonsof@gmail.com net: usb: ax88179_178a needs FLAG_SEND_ZLP

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz tty: use new tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer() in pty_write()

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz tty: extract tty_flip_buffer_commit() from tty_flip_buffer_push()

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz tty: drop tty_schedule_flip()

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz tty: the rest, stop using tty_schedule_flip()

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz tty: drivers/tty/, stop using tty_schedule_flip()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: memalloc: Align buffer allocations in page size

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bpf: Make sure mac_header was set before using it

Wang Cheng wanngchenng@gmail.com mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy()

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com Revert "Revert "char/random: silence a lockdep splat with printk()""

Hristo Venev hristo@venev.name be2net: Fix buffer overflow in be_get_module_eeprom

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat.

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com igmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_igmp_max_memberships.

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com igmp: Fix data-races around sysctl_igmp_llm_reports.

Robert Hancock robert.hancock@calian.com i2c: cadence: Change large transfer count reset logic to be unconditional

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold.

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com tcp/dccp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_fwmark_accept.

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com ip: Fix a data-race around sysctl_fwmark_reflect.

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org perf/core: Fix data race between perf_event_set_output() and perf_mmap_close()

Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com power/reset: arm-versatile: Fix refcount leak in versatile_reboot_probe

Hangyu Hua hbh25y@gmail.com xfrm: xfrm_policy: fix a possible double xfrm_pols_put() in xfrm_bundle_lookup()

Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org misc: rtsx_usb: set return value in rsp_buf alloc err path

Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org misc: rtsx_usb: use separate command and response buffers

Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org misc: rtsx_usb: fix use of dma mapped buffer for usb bulk transfer

Demi Marie Obenour demi@invisiblethingslab.com xen/gntdev: Ignore failure to unmap INVALID_GRANT_HANDLE

Stephen Smalley sds@tycho.nsa.gov security,selinux,smack: kill security_task_wait hook

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c | 2 +- drivers/char/random.c | 4 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c | 30 ++---------- drivers/mfd/rtsx_usb.c | 27 +++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c | 10 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c | 31 +++++++----- drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 14 +++--- drivers/power/reset/arm-versatile-reboot.c | 1 + drivers/s390/char/keyboard.h | 4 +- drivers/tty/cyclades.c | 6 +-- drivers/tty/goldfish.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/moxa.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/pty.c | 14 +----- drivers/tty/serial/lpc32xx_hs.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++--------- drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 6 +-- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 3 +- include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 7 --- include/linux/mfd/rtsx_usb.h | 2 - include/linux/security.h | 6 --- include/linux/tty_flip.h | 4 +- include/net/inet_sock.h | 3 +- include/net/ip.h | 2 +- include/net/tcp.h | 2 +- kernel/bpf/core.c | 8 ++-- kernel/events/core.c | 45 ++++++++++++------ kernel/exit.c | 19 +------- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/igmp.c | 23 +++++---- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 5 +- security/security.c | 6 --- security/selinux/hooks.c | 6 --- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 20 -------- sound/core/memalloc.c | 1 + 38 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)