This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.285 release. There are 57 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, 07 Oct 2021 08:32:44 +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-4.9.285-rc2... 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 4.9.285-rc2

NeilBrown neilb@suse.com cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL.

Anirudh Rayabharam mail@anirudhrb.com HID: usbhid: free raw_report buffers in usbhid_stop

Jozsef Kadlecsik kadlec@netfilter.org netfilter: ipset: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls

F.A.Sulaiman asha.16@itfac.mrt.ac.lk HID: betop: fix slab-out-of-bounds Write in betop_probe

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com arm64: Extend workaround for erratum 1024718 to all versions of Cortex-A55

Alex Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com ARM: 9098/1: ftrace: MODULE_PLT: Fix build problem without DYNAMIC_FTRACE

Alex Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com ARM: 9079/1: ftrace: Add MODULE_PLTS support

Alex Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com ARM: 9078/1: Add warn suppress parameter to arm_gen_branch_link()

Alex Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com ARM: 9077/1: PLT: Move struct plt_entries definition to header

Sai Krishna Potthuri lakshmi.sai.krishna.potthuri@xilinx.com EDAC/synopsys: Fix wrong value type assignment for edac_mode

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: udp: annotate data race around udp_sk(sk)->corkflag

yangerkun yangerkun@huawei.com ext4: fix potential infinite loop in ext4_dx_readdir()

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix module reference leak

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix tty-registration error handling

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix tty registration race

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix stack information leak

Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com e100: fix buffer overrun in e100_get_regs

Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com e100: fix length calculation in e100_get_regs_len

Paul Fertser fercerpav@gmail.com hwmon: (tmp421) fix rounding for negative values

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo@kernel.org mac80211: limit injected vht mcs/nss in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap

Andrea Claudi aclaudi@redhat.com ipvs: check that ip_vs_conn_tab_bits is between 8 and 20

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: fix use-after-free in CCMP/GCMP RX

James Morse james.morse@arm.com cpufreq: schedutil: Destroy mutex before kobject_put() frees the memory

Kevin Hao haokexin@gmail.com cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables

Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente igormtorrente@gmail.com tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org qnx4: work around gcc false positive warning bug

Pali Rohár pali@kernel.org arm64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: Extend PCIe MEM space

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org spi: Fix tegra20 build with CONFIG_PM=n

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net net: 6pack: Fix tx timeout and slot time

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net alpha: Declare virt_to_phys and virt_to_bus parameter as pointer to volatile

Dan Li ashimida@linux.alibaba.com arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Use absolute_pointer() to define PAGE0

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org qnx4: avoid stringop-overread errors

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy from fixed memory location

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net m68k: Double cast io functions to unsigned long

Jesper Nilsson jesper.nilsson@axis.com net: stmmac: allow CSR clock of 300MHz

Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com blktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs

Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.com scsi: iscsi: Adjust iface sysfs attr detection

Aya Levin ayal@nvidia.com net/mlx4_en: Don't allow aRFS for encapsulated packets

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org net: hso: fix muxed tty registration

Pali Rohár pali@kernel.org serial: mvebu-uart: fix driver's tx_empty callback

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com mcb: fix error handling in mcb_alloc_bus()

Slark Xiao slark_xiao@163.com USB: serial: option: add device id for Foxconn T99W265

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com USB: serial: option: remove duplicate USB device ID

Carlo Lobrano c.lobrano@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit LN920 compositions

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com USB: serial: mos7840: remove duplicated 0xac24 device ID

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org staging: greybus: uart: fix tty use after free

Uwe Brandt uwe.brandt@gmail.com USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for GW Instek GDM-834x Digital Multimeter

Ondrej Zary linux@zary.sk usb-storage: Add quirk for ScanLogic SL11R-IDE older than 2.6c

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen/x86: fix PV trap handling on secondary processors

Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com cifs: fix incorrect check for null pointer in header_assemble

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com usb: musb: tusb6010: uninitialized data in tusb_fifo_write_unaligned()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com usb: gadget: r8a66597: fix a loop in set_feature()

Wengang Wang wen.gang.wang@oracle.com ocfs2: drop acl cache for directories too

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 6 +- arch/arm/include/asm/ftrace.h | 3 + arch/arm/include/asm/insn.h | 8 +-- arch/arm/include/asm/module.h | 10 ++++ arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c | 45 ++++++++++++--- arch/arm/kernel/insn.c | 19 ++++--- arch/arm/kernel/module-plts.c | 49 ++++++++++++---- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi | 11 +++- arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 4 +- arch/m68k/include/asm/raw_io.h | 20 +++---- arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 3 +- arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 15 +++-- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor_attr_set.c | 2 +- drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-betopff.c | 13 ++++- drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 13 ++++- drivers/hwmon/tmp421.c | 24 +++----- drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c | 63 +++++++++++++++------ drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c | 12 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 22 +++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c | 4 +- drivers/net/usb/hso.c | 12 ++-- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 8 +-- drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c | 62 ++++++++++---------- drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 21 ++++++- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/musb/tusb6010.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 2 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 11 +++- drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 9 ++- fs/cifs/connect.c | 5 +- fs/ext4/dir.c | 6 +- fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 3 +- fs/qnx4/dir.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++------ include/linux/compiler.h | 2 + include/linux/cred.h | 14 +++-- kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 16 ++++-- kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 8 +++ net/ipv4/udp.c | 10 ++-- net/ipv6/udp.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/tx.c | 4 ++ net/mac80211/wpa.c | 6 ++ net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h | 4 +- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 ++ 54 files changed, 446 insertions(+), 207 deletions(-)