4.9.263-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.263 release. There are 25 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, 24 Mar 2021 12:19:09 +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-4.9.263-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 4.9.263-rc1

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
genirq: Disable interrupts for force threaded handlers

Shijie Luo <[email protected]>
ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode

zhangyi (F) <[email protected]>
ext4: find old entry again if failed to rename whiteout

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
x86: Introduce TS_COMPAT_RESTART to fix get_nr_restart_syscall()

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
x86: Move TS_COMPAT back to asm/thread_info.h

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
kernel, fs: Introduce and use set_restart_fn() and arch_set_restart_data()

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
x86/ioapic: Ignore IRQ2 again

Kan Liang <[email protected]>
perf/x86/intel: Fix a crash caused by zero PEBS status

Tyrel Datwyler <[email protected]>
PCI: rpadlpar: Fix potential drc_name corruption in store functions

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

    iio: adis16400: Fix an error code in adis16400_initial_setup()

Jim Lin <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: configfs: Fix KASAN use-after-free

Macpaul Lin <[email protected]>
USB: replace hardcode maximum usb string length by definition

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
scsi: lpfc: Fix some error codes in debugfs

Pavel Skripkin <[email protected]>
net/qrtr: fix __netdev_alloc_skb call

Daniel Kobras <[email protected]>
sunrpc: fix refcount leak for rpc auth modules

Timo Rothenpieler <[email protected]>
svcrdma: disable timeouts on rdma backchannel

Joe Korty <[email protected]>

    NFSD: Repair misuse of sv_lock in 5.10.16-rt30.

Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
nvmet: don't check iosqes,iocqes for discovery controllers

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
btrfs: fix race when cloning extent buffer during rewind of an old root

Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
ixgbe: prevent ptp_rx_hang from running when in FILTER_ALL mode

Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
ixgbe: check for Tx timestamp timeouts during watchdog

Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
net: dsa: b53: Support setting learning on port

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
ext4: check journal inode extents more carefully

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
ext4: don't allow overlapping system zones

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
ext4: handle error of ext4_setup_system_zone() on remount

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                      |  4 +-
 arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c                    |  2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h              |  9 ----
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h            | 23 ++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c                | 10 ++++
 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c                      | 24 +--------
 drivers/iio/imu/adis16400_core.c              |  3 +-
 drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c              | 20 ++++++++
 drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_regs.h                |  1 +
 drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c                     |  5 ++
 drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2_regs.h                |  2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h      |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |  4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c  | 27 ++++++++++
 drivers/nvme/target/core.c                    | 17 +++++--
 drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c          | 14 +++---
 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c              |  4 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c                |  4 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c                 | 16 ++++--
 drivers/usb/gadget/usbstring.c                |  4 +-
 fs/btrfs/ctree.c                              |  2 +
 fs/ext4/block_validity.c                      | 71 +++++++++++++--------------
 fs/ext4/ext4.h                                |  6 +--
 fs/ext4/extents.c                             | 16 +++---
 fs/ext4/indirect.c                            |  6 +--
 fs/ext4/inode.c                               | 13 +++--
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c                             |  4 +-
 fs/ext4/namei.c                               | 29 ++++++++++-
 fs/ext4/super.c                               |  5 +-
 fs/select.c                                   | 10 ++--
 include/linux/thread_info.h                   | 13 +++++
 include/uapi/linux/usb/ch9.h                  |  3 ++
 kernel/futex.c                                |  3 +-
 kernel/irq/manage.c                           |  4 ++
 kernel/time/alarmtimer.c                      |  2 +-
 kernel/time/hrtimer.c                         |  2 +-
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c                |  2 +-
 net/qrtr/qrtr.c                               |  2 +-
 net/sunrpc/svc.c                              |  6 ++-
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c                         |  4 +-
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_backchannel.c    |  6 +--
 41 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)