4.9.246-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.246 release. There are 47 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, 25 Nov 2020 12:17:50 +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-4.9.246-rc1.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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 4.9.246-rc1

Chen Yu <[email protected]>
x86/microcode/intel: Check patch signature before saving microcode for early loading

Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
s390/cpum_sf.c: fix file permission for cpum_sfb_size

Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
mac80211: free sta in sta_info_insert_finish() on errors

Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
mac80211: minstrel: fix tx status processing corner case

Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
mac80211: minstrel: remove deferred sampling code

Max Filippov <[email protected]>
xtensa: disable preemption around cache alias management calls

Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
regulator: fix memory leak with repeated set_machine_constraints()

Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
iio: accel: kxcjk1013: Replace is_smo8500_device with an acpi_type enum

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
ext4: fix bogus warning in ext4_update_dx_flag()

Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <[email protected]>
efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()

Fugang Duan <[email protected]>
tty: serial: imx: keep console clocks always on

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: mixart: Fix mutex deadlock

Takashi Sakamoto <[email protected]>
ALSA: ctl: fix error path at adding user-defined element set

Daniel Axtens <[email protected]>
powerpc/uaccess-flush: fix missing includes in kup-radix.h

Yicong Yang <[email protected]>
libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()

Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
xfs: revert "xfs: fix rmap key and record comparison functions"

Nishanth Menon <[email protected]>
regulator: ti-abb: Fix array out of bound read access on the first transition

Zhang Qilong <[email protected]>
MIPS: Alchemy: Fix memleak in alchemy_clk_setup_cpu

Wu Bo <[email protected]>
can: m_can: m_can_handle_state_change(): fix state change

Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
can: peak_usb: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int

Alejandro Concepcion Rodriguez <[email protected]>
can: dev: can_restart(): post buffer from the right context

Leo Yan <[email protected]>
perf lock: Don't free "lock_seq_stat" if read_count isn't zero

Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
ARM: dts: imx50-evk: Fix the chip select 1 IOMUX

Sergey Matyukevich <[email protected]>
arm: dts: imx6qdl-udoo: fix rgmii phy-mode for ksz9031 phy

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
MIPS: export has_transparent_hugepage() for modules

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Input: adxl34x - clean up a data type in adxl34x_probe()

Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
vfs: remove lockdep bogosity in __sb_start_write

Will Deacon <[email protected]>
arm64: psci: Avoid printing in cpu_psci_cpu_die()

Jianqun Xu <[email protected]>
pinctrl: rockchip: enable gpio pclk for rockchip_gpio_to_irq

Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
mlxsw: core: Use variable timeout for EMAD retries

Joel Stanley <[email protected]>
net: ftgmac100: Fix crash when removing driver

Ryan Sharpelletti <[email protected]>
tcp: only postpone PROBE_RTT if RTT is < current min_rtt estimate

Filip Moc <[email protected]>
net: usb: qmi_wwan: Set DTR quirk for MR400

Xin Long <[email protected]>
sctp: change to hold/put transport for proto_unreach_timer

Zhang Changzhong <[email protected]>
qlcnic: fix error return code in qlcnic_83xx_restart_hw()

Xie He <[email protected]>
net: x25: Increase refcnt of "struct x25_neigh" in x25_rx_call_request

Aya Levin <[email protected]>
net/mlx4_core: Fix init_hca fields offset

Paul Moore <[email protected]>
netlabel: fix an uninitialized warning in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist()

Paul Moore <[email protected]>
netlabel: fix our progress tracking in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist()

Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
net: Have netpoll bring-up DSA management interface

Heiner Kallweit <[email protected]>
net: bridge: add missing counters to ndo_get_stats64 callback

Zhang Changzhong <[email protected]>
net: b44: fix error return code in b44_init_one()

Wang Hai <[email protected]>
inet_diag: Fix error path to cancel the meseage in inet_req_diag_fill()

Wang Hai <[email protected]>
devlink: Add missing genlmsg_cancel() in devlink_nl_sb_port_pool_fill()

Edwin Peer <[email protected]>
bnxt_en: read EEPROM A2h address using page 0

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
atm: nicstar: Unmap DMA on send error

Zhang Changzhong <[email protected]>
ah6: fix error return code in ah6_input()

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx50-evk.dts                    |  2 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-udoo.dtsi                |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c                           |  5 +--
 arch/mips/alchemy/common/clock.c                   |  9 +++-
 arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c                             |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup-radix.h     |  1 +
 arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c                    |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c              | 48 +---------------------
 arch/xtensa/mm/cache.c                             | 14 +++++++
 drivers/atm/nicstar.c                              |  2 +
 drivers/iio/accel/kxcjk-1013.c                     | 15 ++++---
 drivers/input/misc/adxl34x.c                       |  2 +-
 drivers/net/can/dev.c                              |  2 +-
 drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c                      |  4 +-
 drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c       |  4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c                |  3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c           |  4 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c            |  6 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.h            |  4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c         |  2 +-
 .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c  |  3 +-
 drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c                 |  2 +
 drivers/regulator/core.c                           | 29 ++++++-------
 drivers/regulator/ti-abb-regulator.c               | 12 +++++-
 drivers/tty/serial/imx.c                           | 20 ++-------
 fs/efivarfs/super.c                                |  1 +
 fs/ext4/ext4.h                                     |  3 +-
 fs/libfs.c                                         |  6 ++-
 fs/super.c                                         | 33 ++-------------
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_rmap_btree.c                     | 16 ++++----
 net/bridge/br_device.c                             |  1 +
 net/core/devlink.c                                 |  6 ++-
 net/core/netpoll.c                                 | 22 ++++++++--
 net/ipv4/inet_diag.c                               |  4 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c                                 |  2 +-
 net/ipv6/ah6.c                                     |  3 +-
 net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c                    | 27 +++---------
 net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h                    |  1 -
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c                            | 14 ++-----
 net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c                  | 17 +++++---
 net/sctp/input.c                                   |  4 +-
 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c                           |  4 +-
 net/sctp/transport.c                               |  2 +-
 net/x25/af_x25.c                                   |  1 +
 sound/core/control.c                               |  2 +-
 sound/pci/mixart/mixart_core.c                     |  5 +--
 tools/perf/builtin-lock.c                          |  2 +-
 50 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)