3.4.28-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.28 release. There are 22 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 Jan 26 21:13:38 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.4.28-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 3.4.28-rc1

Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
ioat: Fix DMA memory sync direction correct flag

Thomas Schlichter <[email protected]>
ACPI / processor: Get power info before updating the C-states

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
ACPI / cpuidle: Fix NULL pointer issues when cpuidle is disabled

Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Implement WaDisableHiZPlanesWhenMSAAEnabled

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix regression by disconnection-race-fix patch

Alan Cox <[email protected]>
ahci: Add identifiers for ASM106x devices

Zhenzhong Duan <[email protected]>
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version from SMBIOS if it exists

Zhenzhong Duan <[email protected]>
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: check dmi version when get system uuid

Joel D. Diaz <[email protected]>
SCSI: sd: Reshuffle init_sd to avoid crash

Pratyush Anand <[email protected]>

    usb: dwc3: gadget: fix ep->maxburst for ep0

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
USB: UHCI: fix IRQ race during initialization

Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
PCI: shpchp: Handle push button event asynchronously

Yijing Wang <[email protected]>
PCI: pciehp: Use per-slot workqueues to avoid deadlock

Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
PCI: Allow pcie_aspm=force even when FADT indicates it is unsupported

Betty Dall <[email protected]>
PCI/AER: pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() call missing required pci_dev_put()

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up()

Dmitry Kasatkin <[email protected]>
evm: checking if removexattr is not a NULL

Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules

Hugh Daschbach <[email protected]>
libata: ahci: Add support for Enmotus Bobcat device.

Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Invalidate the relocation presumed_offsets along the slow path

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                   |  4 +-
 drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c              |  4 ++
 drivers/ata/ahci.c                         | 13 +++++-
 drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c                  |  2 +-
 drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c                | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 21 +++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h            |  3 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c       |  4 ++
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.h               |  2 +-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c          | 11 +----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_ctrl.c          |  8 ++--
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c           | 11 ++++-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.h               |  1 -
 drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_core.c          | 10 ----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c         |  1 +
 drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c                    |  3 ++
 drivers/scsi/sd.c                          | 13 ++++--
 drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c                  |  1 +
 drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c                | 15 +++---
 include/linux/sched.h                      | 11 ++++-
 kernel/ptrace.c                            | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/sched/core.c                        |  3 +-
 kernel/signal.c                            | 19 ++++----
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c                      |  2 +-
 security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c        |  4 +-
 sound/usb/endpoint.c                       |  6 +--
 27 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)