This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.252 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 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:19:42 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.252-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 4.9.252-rc1

Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com net: drop bogus skb with CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and offset beyond end of trimmed packet

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com block: fix use-after-free in disk_part_iter_next

Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org KVM: arm64: Don't access PMCR_EL0 when no PMU is available

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wan: ds26522: select CONFIG_BITREVERSE

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn net/mlx5e: Fix memleak in mlx5e_create_l2_table_groups

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn iommu/intel: Fix memleak in intel_irq_remapping_alloc

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de block: rsxx: select CONFIG_CRC32

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wil6210: select CONFIG_CRC32

Shravya Kumbham shravya.kumbham@xilinx.com dmaengine: xilinx_dma: fix mixed_enum_type coverity warning

Shravya Kumbham shravya.kumbham@xilinx.com dmaengine: xilinx_dma: check dma_async_device_register return value

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com cpufreq: powernow-k8: pass policy rather than use cpufreq_cpu_get()

Andreas Kemnade andreas@kemnade.info ARM: OMAP2+: omap_device: fix idling of devices during probe

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: pxa2xx: Fix use-after-free on unbind

Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubifs: wbuf: Don't leak kernel memory to flash

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk drm/i915: Fix mismatch between misplaced vma check and vma insert

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com vmlinux.lds.h: Add PGO and AutoFDO input sections

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de net: fix pmtu check in nopmtudisc mode

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de net: ip: always refragment ip defragmented packets

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com powerpc: Fix incorrect stw{, ux, u, x} instructions in __set_pte_at

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de target: add XCOPY target/segment desc sense codes

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de scsi: target: Fix XCOPY NAA identifier lookup

Mike Christie mchristi@redhat.com xcopy: loop over devices using idr helper

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de target: use XCOPY segment descriptor CSCD IDs

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de target: simplify XCOPY wwn->se_dev lookup helper

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de target: bounds check XCOPY segment descriptor list

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c | 8 +- arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 4 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/pgtable.h | 4 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h | 4 +- block/genhd.c | 9 +- drivers/block/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 9 +- drivers/dma/xilinx/xilinx_dma.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 2 +- drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_fs.c | 1 + drivers/net/wan/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c | 3 +- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 24 +++ drivers/target/target_core_xcopy.c | 220 +++++++++++++++--------- drivers/target/target_core_xcopy.h | 1 + fs/ubifs/io.c | 13 +- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 5 +- include/target/target_core_base.h | 4 + net/core/skbuff.c | 6 + net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 10 +- 24 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)