3.12.8-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.8 release. There are 77 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 Jan 16 00:27:35 UTC 2014. 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-3.12.8-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 3.12.8-rc1

Paul Turner <[email protected]>
sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight

Ben Segall <[email protected]>

    sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock

Ben Segall <[email protected]>
sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining

Ben Segall <[email protected]>
sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
x86, fpu, amd: Clear exceptions in AMD FXSAVE workaround

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
netfilter: nf_nat: fix access to uninitialized buffer in IRC NAT helper

Phil Oester <[email protected]>
netfilter: fix wrong byte order in nf_ct_seqadj_set internal information

Bernd Schubert <[email protected]>
SCSI: sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request

Dirk Brandewie <[email protected]>
intel_pstate: Add X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF to cpu match parameters.

Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan

Lan Tianyu <[email protected]>
ACPI / Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS

Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
ACPI / TPM: fix memory leak when walking ACPI namespace

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
mfd: rtsx_pcr: Disable interrupts before cancelling delayed works

Milo Kim <[email protected]>

    leds: lp5521/5523: Remove duplicate mutex

Andrew Bresticker <[email protected]>
clk: exynos5250: fix sysmmu_mfc{l,r} gate clocks

Abhilash Kesavan <[email protected]>
clk: samsung: exynos5250: Add CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED flag for the sysreg clock

Abhilash Kesavan <[email protected]>
clk: samsung: exynos5250: Add MDMA0 clocks

Abhilash Kesavan <[email protected]>
clk: samsung: exynos5250: Fix ACP gate register offset

Seung-Woo Kim <[email protected]>
clk: samsung: exynos4: Correct SRC_MFC register

James Hogan <[email protected]>
clk: clk-divider: fix divisor > 255 bug

Simon Guinot <[email protected]>
ahci: add PCI ID for Marvell 88SE9170 SATA controller

John David Anglin <[email protected]>
parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap

Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]>
drm/nouveau/bios: make jump conditional

Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
ARM: shmobile: mackerel: Fix coherent DMA mask

Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
ARM: shmobile: armadillo: Fix coherent DMA mask

Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
ARM: shmobile: kzm9g: Fix coherent DMA mask

Abhilash Kesavan <[email protected]>
ARM: dts: exynos5250: Fix MDMA0 clock number

Steven Capper <[email protected]>
ARM: 7923/1: mm: fix dcache flush logic for compound high pages

Russell King <[email protected]>
ARM: fix "bad mode in ... handler" message for undefined instructions

Russell King <[email protected]>
ARM: fix footbridge clockevent device

Robert Stonehouse <[email protected]>
sfc: Poll for MCDI completion once before timeout occurs

Robert Stonehouse <[email protected]>
sfc: Refactor efx_mcdi_poll() by introducing efx_mcdi_poll_once()

Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>
sfc: RX buffer allocation takes prefix size into account in IP header alignment

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
sfc: Maintain current frequency adjustment when applying a time offset

Alexandre Rames <[email protected]>
sfc: Stop/re-start PTP when stopping/starting the datapath.

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
sfc: Rate-limit log message for PTP packets without a matching timestamp event

Laurence Evans <[email protected]>
sfc: PTP: Moderate log message on event queue overflow

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
sfc: Add length checks to efx_xmit_with_hwtstamp() and efx_ptp_is_ptp_tx()

Curt Brune <[email protected]>
bridge: use spin_lock_bh() in br_multicast_set_hash_max

David S. Miller <[email protected]>
netpoll: Fix missing TXQ unlock and and OOPS.

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
net: llc: fix use after free in llc_ui_recvmsg

Jason Wang <[email protected]>
virtio-net: fix refill races during restore

Wei-Chun Chao <[email protected]>
ipv4: fix tunneled VM traffic over hw VXLAN/GRE GSO NIC

Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
virtio_net: don't leak memory or block when too many frags

Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
virtio-net: make all RX paths handle errors consistently

Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers

David S. Miller <[email protected]>
vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload.

Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
net: rose: restore old recvmsg behavior

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
arc_emac: fix potential use after free

Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device

Li RongQing <[email protected]>
ipv6: always set the new created dst's from in ip6_rt_copy

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net: fec: fix potential use after free

Salva Peiró <[email protected]>
hamradio/yam: fix info leak in ioctl

Wenliang Fan <[email protected]>
drivers/net/hamradio: Integer overflow in hdlcdrv_ioctl()

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
net: inet_diag: zero out uninitialized idiag_{src,dst} fields

Timo Teräs <[email protected]>
ip_gre: fix msg_name parsing for recvfrom/recvmsg

Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
net: unix: allow bind to fail on mutex lock

Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
ipv6: fix illegal mac_header comparison on 32bit

Jason Wang <[email protected]>
netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during setting mtu

Nat Gurumoorthy <[email protected]>
tg3: Initialize REG_BASE_ADDR at PCI config offset 120 to 0

Fan Du <[email protected]>
vxlan: release rt when found circular route

Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
net: unix: allow set_peek_off to fail

Stefan Tomanek <[email protected]>
inet: fix NULL pointer Oops in fib(6)_rule_suppress

Changli Gao <[email protected]>
net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr

Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
ipv6: don't count addrconf generated routes against gc limit

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>

    packet: fix send path when running with proto == 0

Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>

    br: fix use of ->rx_handler_data in code executed on non-rx_handler path

Andrey Vagin <[email protected]>
virtio: delete napi structures from netdev before releasing memory

Jason Wang <[email protected]>
macvtap: signal truncated packets

Vlad Yasevich <[email protected]>
macvtap: Do not double-count received packets

Jason Wang <[email protected]>
tun: unbreak truncated packet signalling

Zhi Yong Wu <[email protected]>
tun: update file current position

Zhi Yong Wu <[email protected]>
macvtap: update file current position

Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
net: clear local_df when passing skb between namespaces

Venkat Venkatsubra <[email protected]>
rds: prevent BUG_ON triggered on congestion update to loopback

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net: do not pretend FRAGLIST support

Kamala R <[email protected]>
IPv6: Fixed support for blackhole and prohibit routes

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Diffstat:

 .../devicetree/bindings/clock/exynos5250-clock.txt |   2 +
 Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt           |  10 ++
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250.dtsi                  |   2 +-
 arch/arm/kernel/traps.c                            |   8 +-
 arch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285-timer.c           |   5 +-
 arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-armadillo800eva.c     |   4 +-
 arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-kzm9g.c               |   2 +-
 arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c            |   4 +-
 arch/arm/mm/flush.c                                |   6 +-
 arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h               |  12 +--
 arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h                     |   5 +-
 arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c                         |  35 ------
 arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h                |  13 +--
 drivers/acpi/battery.c                             |  21 +++-
 drivers/ata/ahci.c                                 |   3 +
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c                         |  15 +--
 drivers/clk/clk-divider.c                          |   2 +-
 drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos4.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5250.c               |  14 ++-
 drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c                     |   3 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/init.c    |   6 +-
 drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c                         |  12 +--
 drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c                         |  12 +--
 drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.c                             |  10 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c               |   4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c                |   3 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c          |   4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c          |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c                     |   8 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c                    |  39 +++++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h              |   3 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.h                     |   2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c                     |  66 ++++++++++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c                      |   6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tehuti.c               |   1 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c        |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c  |   2 +-
 drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c                     |   2 +
 drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c                         |   1 +
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c                    |   1 -
 drivers/net/macvtap.c                              |  23 ++--
 drivers/net/tun.c                                  |  18 ++--
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c                           | 119 +++++++++++++++------
 drivers/net/vxlan.c                                |   2 +-
 drivers/scsi/sd.c                                  |   5 +-
 include/linux/net.h                                |   2 +-
 include/linux/netdevice.h                          |  22 ++++
 include/linux/skbuff.h                             |   5 +
 kernel/sched/core.c                                |   9 +-
 kernel/sched/fair.c                                |  48 ++++++---
 kernel/sched/sched.h                               |   3 +-
 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c                               |  19 +++-
 net/bridge/br_multicast.c                          |   4 +-
 net/bridge/br_private.h                            |  10 ++
 net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c                           |   2 +-
 net/core/drop_monitor.c                            |   1 -
 net/core/neighbour.c                               |   2 +-
 net/core/netpoll.c                                 |  11 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c                                  |   1 +
 net/core/sock.c                                    |   2 +-
 net/ipv4/fib_rules.c                               |   5 +-
 net/ipv4/gre_offload.c                             |  11 +-
 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c                               |  16 +++
 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c                                  |   1 +
 net/ipv4/udp.c                                     |   6 +-
 net/ipv4/udp_offload.c                             |  37 +++----
 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c                              |   6 +-
 net/ipv6/route.c                                   |  34 +++---
 net/ipv6/udp_offload.c                             |   2 +-
 net/llc/af_llc.c                                   |   5 +-
 net/mac80211/tx.c                                  |  23 ++--
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c                |   4 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c                         |  32 +++++-
 net/packet/af_packet.c                             |  65 ++++++-----
 net/rds/ib.c                                       |   3 +-
 net/rds/ib_send.c                                  |   5 +-
 net/rose/af_rose.c                                 |  16 +--
 net/unix/af_unix.c                                 |  16 ++-
 79 files changed, 625 insertions(+), 328 deletions(-)