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1/36openrisc: Fix a memory leakarch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c+2 -00 replies
2/36RDMA/rxe: Clear all QP fields if creation faileddrivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c+7 -00 replies
3/36scsi: qla2xxx: Fix error return code in qla82xx_write_flash_dword()drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c+2 -10 replies
4/36ptrace: make ptrace() fail if the tracee changed its pid unexpectedlykernel/ptrace.c+17 -10 replies
5/36cifs: fix memory leak in smb2_copychunk_rangefs/cifs/smb2ops.c+2 -00 replies
6/36ALSA: line6: Fix racy initialization of LINE6 MIDIsound/usb/line6/driver.c sound/usb/line6/pod.c sound/usb/line6/variax.c+4 -110 replies
7/36ALSA: usb-audio: Validate MS endpoint descriptorssound/usb/midi.c+4 -00 replies
8/36ALSA: bebob/oxfw: fix Kconfig entry for Mackie d.2 Prosound/firewire/Kconfig sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c+3 -40 replies
9/36Revert "ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region"sound/isa/sb/sb8.c+0 -40 replies
10/36Revert "rapidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference when create_workqueue() fails"drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c+0 -80 replies
11/36rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failuredrivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c+8 -10 replies
12/36xen-pciback: reconfigure also from backend watch handlerdrivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c+17 -50 replies
13/36dm snapshot: fix a crash when an origin has no snapshotsdrivers/md/dm-snap.c+2 -30 replies
14/36dm snapshot: fix crash with transient storage and zero chunk sizedrivers/md/dm-snap.c+1 -00 replies
15/36Revert "video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference"drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c+0 -20 replies
16/36Revert "net: stmicro: fix a missing check of clk_prepare"drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sunxi.c+1 -30 replies
17/36Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read"drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c+1 -30 replies
18/36Revert "hwmon: (lm80) fix a missing check of bus read in lm80 probe"drivers/hwmon/lm80.c+2 -90 replies
19/36Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences"drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c+0 -50 replies
20/36Revert "ecryptfs: replace BUG_ON with error handling code"fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c+2 -40 replies
21/36Revert "gdrom: fix a memory leak bug"drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c+0 -10 replies
22/36cdrom: gdrom: deallocate struct gdrom_unit fields in remove_gdromdrivers/cdrom/gdrom.c+2 -10 replies
23/36cdrom: gdrom: initialize global variable at init timedrivers/cdrom/gdrom.c+8 -10 replies
24/36Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c+0 -50 replies
25/36Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference"drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c+0 -20 replies
26/36Revert "niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read"drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c+2 -80 replies
27/36ethernet: sun: niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read()drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c+24 -100 replies
28/36net: stmicro: handle clk_prepare() failure during initdrivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sunxi.c+5 -30 replies
29/36net: rtlwifi: properly check for alloc_workqueue() failuredrivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c+10 -60 replies
30/36leds: lp5523: check return value of lp5xx_read and jump to cleanup codedrivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c+3 -10 replies
31/36qlcnic: Add null check after calling netdev_alloc_skbdrivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c+3 -00 replies
32/36video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferencedrivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c+13 -80 replies
33/36vgacon: Record video mode changes with VT_RESIZEXdrivers/video/console/vgacon.c+11 -30 replies
34/36vt: Fix character height handling with VT_RESIZEXdrivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c drivers/video/console/vgacon.c include/linux/console_struct.h+26 -250 replies
35/36tty: vt: always invoke vc->vc_sw->con_resize callbackdrivers/tty/vt/vt.c drivers/video/console/fbcon.c+2 -20 replies
36/36iio: tsl2583: Fix division by a zero lux_valdrivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2583.c+9 -00 replies

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11 of 36 patches have a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchHimanshu MadhaniEric W. BiedermanPedro AlvesSimon MarchiJan KratochvilZhu YanjunAurelien AptelGuenter RoeckRob HerringTyler HicksTakashi IwaiBoris OstrovskyMichael TokarevsyzbotPeter RosinJacek AnaszewskiFlorian FainelliShuah KhanJon HunterLinux Kernel Functional Testing
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Cover letter [PATCH 4.9 00/36] 4.9.270-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.270 release. There are 36 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, 26 May 2021 15:23:11 +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-4.9.270-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 4.9.270-rc1

Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
iio: tsl2583: Fix division by a zero lux_val

Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>

    tty: vt: always invoke vc->vc_sw->con_resize callback

Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]>
vt: Fix character height handling with VT_RESIZEX

Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]>
vgacon: Record video mode changes with VT_RESIZEX

Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <[email protected]>
video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Tom Seewald <[email protected]>
qlcnic: Add null check after calling netdev_alloc_skb

Phillip Potter <[email protected]>
leds: lp5523: check return value of lp5xx_read and jump to cleanup code

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
net: rtlwifi: properly check for alloc_workqueue() failure

Anirudh Rayabharam <[email protected]>
net: stmicro: handle clk_prepare() failure during init

Du Cheng <[email protected]>
ethernet: sun: niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read()

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
cdrom: gdrom: initialize global variable at init time

Atul Gopinathan <[email protected]>
cdrom: gdrom: deallocate struct gdrom_unit fields in remove_gdrom

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "gdrom: fix a memory leak bug"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "ecryptfs: replace BUG_ON with error handling code"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "hwmon: (lm80) fix a missing check of bus read in lm80 probe"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "net: stmicro: fix a missing check of clk_prepare"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference"

Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
dm snapshot: fix crash with transient storage and zero chunk size

Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
dm snapshot: fix a crash when an origin has no snapshots

Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
xen-pciback: reconfigure also from backend watch handler

Anirudh Rayabharam <[email protected]>
rapidio: handle create_workqueue() failure

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "rapidio: fix a NULL pointer dereference when create_workqueue() fails"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region"

Takashi Sakamoto <[email protected]>
ALSA: bebob/oxfw: fix Kconfig entry for Mackie d.2 Pro

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: usb-audio: Validate MS endpoint descriptors

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: line6: Fix racy initialization of LINE6 MIDI

Ronnie Sahlberg <[email protected]>
cifs: fix memory leak in smb2_copychunk_range

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
ptrace: make ptrace() fail if the tracee changed its pid unexpectedly

Zhen Lei <[email protected]>
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix error return code in qla82xx_write_flash_dword()

Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
RDMA/rxe: Clear all QP fields if creation failed

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
openrisc: Fix a memory leak

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c                       |  2 +
 drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c                              | 13 +++--
 drivers/hwmon/lm80.c                               | 11 +----
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c                 |  7 +++
 drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c                               |  6 +--
 .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c    |  3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sunxi.c  |  8 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c                     | 32 ++++++++-----
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c        | 19 ++++----
 drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c                           | 17 ++++---
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c                      |  3 +-
 drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2583.c                |  9 ++++
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c                                |  2 +-
 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c                          |  6 +--
 drivers/video/console/fbcon.c                      |  2 +-
 drivers/video/console/vgacon.c                     | 56 ++++++++++++----------
 drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c                        | 21 ++++----
 drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c                      |  5 --
 drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c                   | 22 +++++++--
 fs/cifs/smb2ops.c                                  |  2 +
 fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c                               |  6 +--
 include/linux/console_struct.h                     |  1 +
 kernel/ptrace.c                                    | 18 ++++++-
 sound/firewire/Kconfig                             |  4 +-
 sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c                       |  2 +-
 sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c                         |  1 -
 sound/isa/sb/sb8.c                                 |  4 --
 sound/usb/line6/driver.c                           |  4 ++
 sound/usb/line6/pod.c                              |  5 --
 sound/usb/line6/variax.c                           |  6 ---
 sound/usb/midi.c                                   |  4 ++
 33 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)