4.9.250-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.250 release. There are 32 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 14:08:13 +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-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 4.9.250-rc1

Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
iio:magnetometer:mag3110: Fix alignment and data leak issues.

Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
iio:imu:bmi160: Fix alignment and data leak issues

Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
iio:imu:bmi160: Fix too large a buffer.

sayli karnik <[email protected]>
iio: bmi160_core: Fix sparse warning due to incorrect type in assignment

SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages

SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
xen/xenbus: Count pending messages for each watch

SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
xen/xenbus/xen_bus_type: Support will_handle watch callback

SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
xen/xenbus: Add 'will_handle' callback support in xenbus_watch_path()

SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
kdev_t: always inline major/minor helper functions

Jessica Yu <[email protected]>
module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call

Qinglang Miao <[email protected]>
powerpc: sysdev: add missing iounmap() on error in mpic_msgr_probe()

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
quota: Don't overflow quota file offsets

Miroslav Benes <[email protected]>
module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: seq: Use bool for snd_seq_queue internal flags

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
media: gp8psk: initialize stats at power control logic

Anant Thazhemadam <[email protected]>
misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells()

Rustam Kovhaev <[email protected]>
reiserfs: add check for an invalid ih_entry_count

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
of: fix linker-section match-table corruption

Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h>

Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
l2tp: fix races with ipv4-mapped ipv6 addresses

Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
net: ipv6: keep sk status consistent after datagram connect failure

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix write-wakeup deadlocks

Stefan Haberland <[email protected]>
s390/dasd: fix hanging device offline processing

Eric Auger <[email protected]>
vfio/pci: Move dummy_resources_list init in vfio_pci_probe()

Kailang Yang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236

Hui Wang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Fix a wrong FIXUP for alc289 on Dell machines

Kailang Yang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda/realtek - Support Dell headset mode for ALC3271

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
ALSA: usb-audio: fix sync-ep altsetting sanity check

Alberto Aguirre <[email protected]>
ALSA: usb-audio: simplify set_sync_ep_implicit_fb_quirk

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Fix work handling in delayed HP detection

Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix

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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/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 ++++++++++++-------------------
 39 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)