This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.260 release. There are 41 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, 07 Mar 2021 12:08:39 +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-4.9.260-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 4.9.260-rc1

Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com media: v4l: ioctl: Fix memory leak in video_usercopy

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk swap: fix swapfile read/write offset

Rokudo Yan wu-yan@tcl.com zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages correctly

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen-netback: respect gnttab_map_refs()'s return value

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Xen/gnttab: handle p2m update errors on a per-slot basis

Chris Leech cleech@redhat.com scsi: iscsi: Verify lengths on passthrough PDUs

Chris Leech cleech@redhat.com scsi: iscsi: Ensure sysfs attributes are limited to PAGE_SIZE

Joe Perches joe@perches.com sysfs: Add sysfs_emit and sysfs_emit_at to format sysfs output

Lee Duncan lduncan@suse.com scsi: iscsi: Restrict sessions and handles to admin capabilities

Ricardo Ribalda ribalda@chromium.org media: uvcvideo: Allow entities with no pads

Christian Gromm christian.gromm@microchip.com staging: most: sound: add sanity check for function argument

Gopal Tiwari gtiwari@redhat.com Bluetooth: Fix null pointer dereference in amp_read_loc_assoc_final_data

Fangrui Song maskray@google.com x86/build: Treat R_386_PLT32 relocation as R_386_PC32

Miaoqing Pan miaoqing@codeaurora.org ath10k: fix wmi mgmt tx queue full due to race condition

Di Zhu zhudi21@huawei.com pktgen: fix misuse of BUG_ON() in pktgen_thread_worker()

Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com wlcore: Fix command execute failure 19 for wl12xx

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz vt/consolemap: do font sum unsigned

Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com x86/reboot: Add Zotac ZBOX CI327 nano PCI reboot quirk

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn staging: fwserial: Fix error handling in fwserial_create

Li Xinhai lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com mm/hugetlb.c: fix unnecessary address expansion of pmd sharing

Marco Elver elver@google.com net: fix up truesize of cloned skb in skb_prepare_for_shift()

Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov snovitoll@gmail.com smackfs: restrict bytes count in smackfs write functions

Yumei Huang yuhuang@redhat.com xfs: Fix assert failure in xfs_setattr_size()

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org JFS: more checks for invalid superblock

Andrew Murray andrew.murray@arm.com arm64: Use correct ll/sc atomic constraints

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: cmpxchg: Use "K" instead of "L" for ll/sc immediate constraint

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: Avoid redundant type conversions in xchg() and cmpxchg()

Robin Murphy robin.murphy@arm.com arm64: Remove redundant mov from LL/SC cmpxchg

Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlb: fix update_and_free_page contig page struct assumption

Rolf Eike Beer eb@emlix.com scripts: set proper OpenSSL include dir also for sign-file

Rolf Eike Beer eb@emlix.com scripts: use pkg-config to locate libcrypto

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org arm: kprobes: Allow to handle reentered kprobe on single-stepping

Lech Perczak lech.perczak@gmail.com net: usb: qmi_wwan: support ZTE P685M modem

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk futex: Don't enable IRQs unconditionally in put_pi_state()

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk futex: Fix more put_pi_state() vs. exit_pi_state_list() races

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk futex: Fix pi_state->owner serialization

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk futex: Futex_unlock_pi() determinism

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk futex: Pull rt_mutex_futex_unlock() out from under hb->lock

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk futex: Cleanup refcounting

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk futex: Cleanup variable names for futex_top_waiter()

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Diffstat:

Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 8 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.c | 6 + arch/arm/xen/p2m.c | 35 +++++- arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_ll_sc.h | 109 +++++++++--------- arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h | 46 ++++---- arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 116 ++++++++++---------- arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 9 ++ arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 12 +- arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 44 +++++++- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 7 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 19 ++-- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 15 +-- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl12xx/main.c | 3 - drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c | 15 +-- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/wlcore.h | 3 - drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 12 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 148 ++++++++++++------------- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 38 +++++-- drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c | 2 + drivers/staging/most/aim-sound/sound.c | 2 + drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c | 2 +- fs/jfs/jfs_filsys.h | 1 + fs/jfs/jfs_mount.c | 10 ++ fs/sysfs/file.c | 55 ++++++++++ fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 2 +- include/linux/sysfs.h | 16 +++ include/linux/zsmalloc.h | 2 +- kernel/futex.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++------------ kernel/printk/nmi.c | 16 ++- mm/hugetlb.c | 28 +++-- mm/page_io.c | 11 +- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- mm/zsmalloc.c | 17 ++- net/bluetooth/amp.c | 3 + net/core/pktgen.c | 2 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 14 ++- scripts/Makefile | 9 +- security/smack/smackfs.c | 21 +++- 42 files changed, 669 insertions(+), 387 deletions(-)