This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.304 release. There are 29 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 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +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-4.9.304-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 4.9.304-rc1

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation

Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com memblock: use kfree() to release kmalloced memblock regions

daniel.starke@siemens.com daniel.starke@siemens.com tty: n_gsm: fix proper link termination after failed open

daniel.starke@siemens.com daniel.starke@siemens.com tty: n_gsm: fix encoding of control signal octet bit DV

Hongyu Xie xiehongyu1@kylinos.cn xhci: Prevent futile URB re-submissions due to incorrect return value.

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de usb: dwc3: gadget: Let the interrupt handler disable bottom halves.

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910R1 compositions

Slark Xiao slark_xiao@163.com USB: serial: option: add support for DW5829e

Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org tracefs: Set the group ownership in apply_options() not parse_options()

Szymon Heidrich szymon.heidrich@gmail.com USB: gadget: validate endpoint index for xilinx udc

Daehwan Jung dh10.jung@samsung.com usb: gadget: rndis: add spinlock for rndis response list

Dmytro Bagrii dimich.dmb@gmail.com Revert "USB: serial: ch341: add new Product ID for CH341A"

Sergey Shtylyov s.shtylyov@omp.ru ata: pata_hpt37x: disable primary channel on HPT371

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr iio: adc: men_z188_adc: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path

Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org RDMA/ib_srp: Fix a deadlock

ChenXiaoSong chenxiaosong2@huawei.com configfs: fix a race in configfs_{,un}register_subsystem()

Gal Pressman gal@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Fix wrong return value on ioctl EEPROM query failure

Maxime Ripard maxime@cerno.tech drm/edid: Always set RGB444

Paul Blakey paulb@nvidia.com openvswitch: Fix setting ipv6 fields causing hw csum failure

Tao Liu thomas.liu@ucloud.cn gso: do not skip outer ip header in case of ipip and net_failover

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: __pskb_pull_tail() & pskb_carve_frag_list() drop_monitor friends

Robert Hancock robert.hancock@calian.com serial: 8250: of: Fix mapped region size when using reg-offset property

Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru serial: 8250: fix error handling in of_platform_serial_probe()

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com USB: zaurus: support another broken Zaurus

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com sr9700: sanity check for packet length

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc/unaligned: Fix ldw() and stw() unalignment handlers

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc/unaligned: Fix fldd and fstd unaligned handlers on 32-bit kernel

Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vhost/vsock: don't check owner in vhost_vsock_stop() while releasing

david regan dregan@mail.com mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: Fixed incorrect sub-page ECC status

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c | 14 ++--- drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c | 14 +++++ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c | 9 ++- drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 6 +- drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 2 +- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c | 12 ++++ drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/zaurus.c | 12 ++++ drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 30 ++++++--- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 2 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c | 8 +++ drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.h | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/udc/udc-xilinx.c | 6 ++ drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 9 ++- drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 1 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 12 ++++ drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 21 ++++--- fs/configfs/dir.c | 14 +++++ fs/file.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++----- fs/tracefs/inode.c | 5 +- include/net/checksum.h | 5 ++ mm/memblock.c | 10 ++- net/core/skbuff.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 5 +- net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 2 + net/openvswitch/actions.c | 46 +++++++++++--- 30 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)