[PATCH 4.9 00/33] 4.9.250-rc2 review

[PATCH 4.9 00/33] 4.9.250-rc2 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.250 release.
There are 33 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 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +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-4.9.250-rc2.gz
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 4.9.250-rc2

Zhang Xiaohui <ruc_zhangxiaohui@163.com>
    mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start

Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
    iio:magnetometer:mag3110: Fix alignment and data leak issues.

Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
    iio:imu:bmi160: Fix alignment and data leak issues

Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
    iio:imu:bmi160: Fix too large a buffer.

sayli karnik <karniksayli1995@gmail.com>
    iio: bmi160_core: Fix sparse warning due to incorrect type in assignment

SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
    xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages

SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
    xen/xenbus: Count pending messages for each watch

SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
    xen/xenbus/xen_bus_type: Support will_handle watch callback

SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
    xen/xenbus: Add 'will_handle' callback support in xenbus_watch_path()

SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
    xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    kdev_t: always inline major/minor helper functions

Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
    module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call

Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@huawei.com>
    powerpc: sysdev: add missing iounmap() on error in mpic_msgr_probe()

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    quota: Don't overflow quota file offsets

Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
    module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    ALSA: seq: Use bool for snd_seq_queue internal flags

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
    media: gp8psk: initialize stats at power control logic

Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>
    misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells()

Rustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@gmail.com>
    reiserfs: add check for an invalid ih_entry_count

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    of: fix linker-section match-table corruption

Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
    uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h>

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
    l2tp: fix races with ipv4-mapped ipv6 addresses

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
    net: ipv6: keep sk status consistent after datagram connect failure

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix write-wakeup deadlocks

Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
    s390/dasd: fix hanging device offline processing

Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
    vfio/pci: Move dummy_resources_list init in vfio_pci_probe()

Kailang Yang <kailang@realtek.com>
    ALSA: hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236

Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
    ALSA: hda - Fix a wrong FIXUP for alc289 on Dell machines

Kailang Yang <kailang@realtek.com>
    ALSA: hda/realtek - Support Dell headset mode for ALC3271

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    ALSA: usb-audio: fix sync-ep altsetting sanity check

Alberto Aguirre <albaguirre@gmail.com>
    ALSA: usb-audio: simplify set_sync_ep_implicit_fb_quirk

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Fix work handling in delayed HP detection

Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
    x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix


-------------

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                    |  4 +--
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.c             |  2 +-
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S                   |  2 +-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c          |  3 +-
 drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160_core.c        | 12 +++++--
 drivers/iio/magnetometer/mag3110.c          | 13 +++++---
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/gp8psk.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c        |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/join.c |  2 ++
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c            |  4 ++-
 drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c             | 10 +++++-
 drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c        | 45 ++++++++-----------------
 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c                 |  4 +--
 drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c          |  8 ++++-
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c           |  1 +
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.h           |  2 ++
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c   |  7 ++++
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c              | 38 +++++++++++++--------
 fs/quota/quota_tree.c                       |  8 ++---
 fs/reiserfs/stree.c                         |  6 ++++
 include/linux/kdev_t.h                      | 22 ++++++------
 include/linux/of.h                          |  1 +
 include/uapi/linux/const.h                  |  5 +++
 include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h                |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/kernel.h                 |  9 +----
 include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h               |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/mroute6.h                |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h     |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/netlink.h                |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h                 |  2 +-
 include/xen/xenbus.h                        | 15 ++++++++-
 kernel/module.c                             |  6 ++--
 net/ipv6/datagram.c                         | 21 +++++++++---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c                        | 38 ++++++++++-----------
 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h                        |  3 --
 sound/core/seq/seq_queue.h                  |  8 ++---
 sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c                | 16 +++++++--
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c               | 25 ++++++++++++--
 sound/usb/pcm.c                             | 52 +++++++++++------------------
 40 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/33] 4.9.250-rc2 review

[Shuah Khan]

On 1/7/21 7:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.250 release.
> There are 33 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 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +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-4.9.250-rc2.gz
> 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
> 

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah

Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/33] 4.9.250-rc2 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 20:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.250 release.
> There are 33 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 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +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-4.9.250-rc2.gz
> 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

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------

kernel: 4.9.250-rc2
git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
git branch: linux-4.9.y
git commit: 15b2e80c9e2bc3a803caae7dca549cb7c9233ba2
git describe: v4.9.249-34-g15b2e80c9e2b
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.249-34-g15b2e80c9e2b

No regressions (compared to build v4.9.249)

No fixes (compared to build v4.9.249)

Ran 38960 total tests in the following environments and test suites.

Environments
--------------
- arm
- arm64
- dragonboard-410c - arm64
- hi6220-hikey - arm64
- i386
- juno-r2 - arm64
- juno-r2-compat
- juno-r2-kasan
- mips
- qemu-arm64-kasan
- qemu-x86_64-kasan
- qemu_arm
- qemu_arm64
- qemu_arm64-compat
- qemu_i386
- qemu_x86_64
- qemu_x86_64-compat
- sparc
- x15 - arm
- x86_64
- x86-kasan

Test Suites
-----------
* build
* linux-log-parser
* install-android-platform-tools-r2600
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-controllers-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-dio-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-tests
* ltp-fs-tests
* ltp-fs_bind-tests
* ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
* ltp-fsx-tests
* ltp-hugetlb-tests
* ltp-io-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-mm-tests
* ltp-tracing-tests
* fwts
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-crypto-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* network-basic-tests
* perf
* libhugetlbfs
* ltp-open-posix-tests
* v4l2-compliance
* kvm-unit-tests

-- 
Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org

Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/33] 4.9.250-rc2 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 03:31:33PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.250 release.
> There are 33 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 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 

Build results:
	total: 168 pass: 168 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 382 pass: 382 fail: 0

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Guenter