This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.281 release. There are 43 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 Thu 26 Aug 2021 05:06:11 PM UTC. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/p... 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, Sasha

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

Colin Ian King (1): iio: adc: Fix incorrect exit of for-loop

Dan Williams (1): ACPI: NFIT: Fix support for virtual SPA ranges

Dave Gerlach (1): ARM: dts: am43x-epos-evm: Reduce i2c0 bus speed for tps65218

Dinghao Liu (1): net: qlcnic: add missed unlock in qlcnic_83xx_flash_read32

Dongliang Mu (1): ipack: tpci200: fix many double free issues in tpci200_pci_probe

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): i2c: dev: zero out array used for i2c reads from userspace

Harshvardhan Jha (1): scsi: megaraid_mm: Fix end of loop tests for list_for_each_entry()

Jaehoon Chung (1): mmc: dw_mmc: call the dw_mci_prep_stop_abort() by default

Jaroslav Kysela (1): ALSA: hda - fix the 'Capture Switch' value change notifications

Jeff Layton (2): locks: print a warning when mount fails due to lack of "mand" support fs: warn about impending deprecation of mandatory locks

Johannes Berg (1): mac80211: drop data frames without key on encrypted links

Maxim Levitsky (1): KVM: nSVM: avoid picking up unsupported bits from L2 in int_ctl (CVE-2021-3653)

Maximilian Heyne (1): xen/events: Fix race in set_evtchn_to_irq

Nathan Chancellor (1): vmlinux.lds.h: Handle clang's module.{c,d}tor sections

Neal Cardwell (1): tcp_bbr: fix u32 wrap bug in round logic if bbr_init() called after 2B packets

NeilBrown (1): btrfs: prevent rename2 from exchanging a subvol with a directory from different parents

Ole Bjørn Midtbø (1): Bluetooth: hidp: use correct wait queue when removing ctrl_wait

Pali Rohár (1): ppp: Fix generating ifname when empty IFLA_IFNAME is specified

Pavel Skripkin (1): net: 6pack: fix slab-out-of-bounds in decode_data

Peter Ujfalusi (1): dmaengine: of-dma: router_xlate to return -EPROBE_DEFER if controller is not yet available

Randy Dunlap (2): x86/tools: Fix objdump version check again dccp: add do-while-0 stubs for dccp_pr_debug macros

Sasha Levin (1): Linux 4.9.281-rc1

Sreekanth Reddy (1): scsi: core: Avoid printing an error if target_alloc() returns -ENXIO

Sudeep Holla (1): ARM: dts: nomadik: Fix up interrupt controller node names

Takashi Iwai (2): ASoC: intel: atom: Fix reference to PCM buffer address ASoC: intel: atom: Fix breakage for PCM buffer address setup

Takeshi Misawa (1): net: Fix memory leak in ieee802154_raw_deliver

Thomas Gleixner (9): PCI/MSI: Enable and mask MSI-X early PCI/MSI: Do not set invalid bits in MSI mask PCI/MSI: Correct misleading comments PCI/MSI: Use msi_mask_irq() in pci_msi_shutdown() PCI/MSI: Protect msi_desc::masked for multi-MSI PCI/MSI: Mask all unused MSI-X entries PCI/MSI: Enforce that MSI-X table entry is masked for update PCI/MSI: Enforce MSI[X] entry updates to be visible x86/fpu: Make init_fpstate correct with optimized XSAVE

Vincent Whitchurch (1): mmc: dw_mmc: Fix hang on data CRC error

Xie Yongji (1): vhost: Fix the calculation in vhost_overflow()

Yang Yingliang (1): net: bridge: fix memleak in br_add_if()

Ye Bin (1): scsi: scsi_dh_rdac: Avoid crash during rdac_bus_attach()

Yu Kuai (1): dmaengine: usb-dmac: Fix PM reference leak in usb_dmac_probe()

.../filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt | 10 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am43x-epos-evm.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/ste-nomadik-stn8815.dtsi | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 30 ++--- arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 38 +++++- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 6 +- arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk | 1 + drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 3 + drivers/base/core.c | 1 + drivers/dma/of-dma.c | 9 +- drivers/dma/sh/usb-dmac.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 5 +- drivers/iio/adc/palmas_gpadc.c | 4 +- drivers/ipack/carriers/tpci200.c | 36 +++--- drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 21 ++-- .../ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c | 4 +- drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c | 6 + drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 2 +- drivers/pci/msi.c | 119 ++++++++++++------ drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_rdac.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c | 21 +++- drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 3 +- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 10 +- drivers/xen/events/events_base.c | 20 ++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 10 +- fs/namespace.c | 15 ++- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 + include/linux/device.h | 1 + include/linux/msi.h | 2 +- net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c | 2 +- net/bridge/br_if.c | 2 + net/dccp/dccp.h | 6 +- net/ieee802154/socket.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c | 1 + net/mac80211/key.c | 1 + net/mac80211/sta_info.h | 1 + net/mac80211/tx.c | 12 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.c | 10 +- sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c | 3 +- 42 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)