This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.172 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 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:59:01 +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-4.19.172-rc... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.19.172-rc1

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single_inode()

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz writeback: Drop I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm integrity: conditionally disable "recalculate" feature

Jean-Philippe Brucker jean-philippe@linaro.org tools: Factor HOSTCC, HOSTLD, HOSTAR definitions

Gaurav Kohli gkohli@codeaurora.org tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call

Jason Gerecke killertofu@gmail.com HID: wacom: Correct NULL dereference on AES pen proximity

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Handle faults correctly for PI futexes

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Simplify fixup_pi_state_owner()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Use pi_state_update_owner() in put_pi_state()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de rtmutex: Remove unused argument from rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Provide and use pi_state_update_owner()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Replace pointless printk in fixup_owner()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Ensure the correct return value from futex_lock_pi()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Prevent exit livelock

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Add mutex around futex exit

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Sanitize exit state handling

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Move futex exit handling into futex code

Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()"

Baruch Siach baruch@tkos.co.il gpio: mvebu: fix pwm .get_state period calculation

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Diffstat:

Documentation/device-mapper/dm-integrity.txt | 7 + Makefile | 4 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c | 25 +- drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c | 7 +- drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 24 +- fs/exec.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 36 +- fs/xfs/xfs_trans_inode.c | 4 +- include/linux/compat.h | 2 - include/linux/fs.h | 1 - include/linux/futex.h | 40 ++- include/linux/sched.h | 3 +- include/linux/sched/mm.h | 6 +- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 1 - kernel/exit.c | 30 +- kernel/fork.c | 40 +-- kernel/futex.c | 485 ++++++++++++++++++--------- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 3 +- kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 3 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 + mm/slub.c | 4 +- tools/build/Makefile | 4 - tools/objtool/Makefile | 9 - tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 4 - tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config | 1 - tools/scripts/Makefile.include | 10 + 28 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 303 deletions(-)