4.9.254-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.254 release. There are 30 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 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:59:01 +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-4.9.254-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 4.9.254-rc1

Arvind Sankar <[email protected]>
x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation

Gaurav Kohli <[email protected]>
tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call

Wang Hai <[email protected]>
Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()"

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

    net: dsa: b53: fix an off by one in checking "vlan->vid"

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net_sched: avoid shift-out-of-bounds in tcindex_set_parms()

Matteo Croce <[email protected]>
ipv6: create multicast route with RTPROT_KERNEL

Alexander Lobakin <[email protected]>
skbuff: back tiny skbs with kmalloc() in __netdev_alloc_skb() too

Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
sh_eth: Fix power down vs. is_opened flag ordering

Necip Fazil Yildiran <[email protected]>
sh: dma: fix kconfig dependency for G2_DMA

Guillaume Nault <[email protected]>
netfilter: rpfilter: mask ecn bits before fib lookup

Will Deacon <[email protected]>
compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
bpf: Fix buggy rsh min/max bounds tracking

JC Kuo <[email protected]>
xhci: tegra: Delay for disabling LFPS detector

Mathias Nyman <[email protected]>
xhci: make sure TRB is fully written before giving it to the controller

Patrik Jakobsson <[email protected]>
usb: bdc: Make bdc pci driver depend on BROKEN

Thinh Nguyen <[email protected]>
usb: udc: core: Use lock when write to soft_connect

Longfang Liu <[email protected]>
USB: ehci: fix an interrupt calltrace error

Eugene Korenevsky <[email protected]>
ehci: fix EHCI host controller initialization sequence

Wang Hui <[email protected]>
stm class: Fix module init return on allocation failure

Lars-Peter Clausen <[email protected]>
iio: ad5504: Fix setting power-down state

Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
can: dev: can_restart: fix use after free bug

Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
i2c: octeon: check correct size of maximum RECV_LEN packet

Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
drm/nouveau/i2c/gm200: increase width of aux semaphore owner fields

Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
drm/nouveau/bios: fix issue shadowing expansion ROMs

Can Guo <[email protected]>
scsi: ufs: Correct the LUN used in eh_device_reset_handler() callback

Cezary Rojewski <[email protected]>
ASoC: Intel: haswell: Add missing pm_ops

Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t()

Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
ACPI: scan: Make acpi_bus_get_device() clear return pointer on error

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda/via: Add minimum mute flag

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: seq: oss: Fix missing error check in snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info()

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 ++--
 arch/sh/drivers/dma/Kconfig                        |  3 +--
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile                  |  2 ++
 drivers/acpi/scan.c                                |  2 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadow.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxgm200.c |  8 ++++----
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/heartbeat.c                  |  6 ++++--
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-octeon-core.c               |  2 +-
 drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c                           |  4 ++--
 drivers/md/dm-table.c                              | 15 ++++++++++++---
 drivers/net/can/dev.c                              |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c              |  4 ++--
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c                          | 11 ++++-------
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/Kconfig                 |  2 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c                      | 13 ++++++++++---
 drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c                        | 12 ++++++++++++
 drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c                        |  3 +++
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c                       |  2 ++
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-tegra.c                      |  7 +++++++
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h                       |  6 ++++++
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c                              |  7 +++----
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c                         |  4 ++++
 mm/slub.c                                          |  4 +---
 net/core/skbuff.c                                  |  6 +++++-
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_rpfilter.c                  |  2 +-
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c                                |  1 +
 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c                            |  8 ++++++--
 sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c                 |  3 ++-
 sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c                          |  1 +
 sound/soc/intel/boards/haswell.c                   |  1 +
 31 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)