4.9.325-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.325 release. There are 26 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 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:09:50 +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-4.9.325-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 4.9.325-rc1

Jose Alonso <[email protected]>

    net: usb: ax88179_178a needs FLAG_SEND_ZLP

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
tty: use new tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer() in pty_write()

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
tty: extract tty_flip_buffer_commit() from tty_flip_buffer_push()

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
tty: drop tty_schedule_flip()

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
tty: the rest, stop using tty_schedule_flip()

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
tty: drivers/tty/, stop using tty_schedule_flip()

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: memalloc: Align buffer allocations in page size

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
bpf: Make sure mac_header was set before using it

Wang Cheng <[email protected]>
mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy()

Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>
Revert "Revert "char/random: silence a lockdep splat with printk()""

Hristo Venev <[email protected]>
be2net: Fix buffer overflow in be_get_module_eeprom

Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_notsent_lowat.

Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
igmp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_igmp_max_memberships.

Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
igmp: Fix data-races around sysctl_igmp_llm_reports.

Robert Hancock <[email protected]>
i2c: cadence: Change large transfer count reset logic to be unconditional

Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
tcp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold.

Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
tcp/dccp: Fix a data-race around sysctl_tcp_fwmark_accept.

Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
ip: Fix a data-race around sysctl_fwmark_reflect.

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
perf/core: Fix data race between perf_event_set_output() and perf_mmap_close()

Miaoqian Lin <[email protected]>
power/reset: arm-versatile: Fix refcount leak in versatile_reboot_probe

Hangyu Hua <[email protected]>
xfrm: xfrm_policy: fix a possible double xfrm_pols_put() in xfrm_bundle_lookup()

Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
misc: rtsx_usb: set return value in rsp_buf alloc err path

Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
misc: rtsx_usb: use separate command and response buffers

Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
misc: rtsx_usb: fix use of dma mapped buffer for usb bulk transfer

Demi Marie Obenour <[email protected]>
xen/gntdev: Ignore failure to unmap INVALID_GRANT_HANDLE

Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
security,selinux,smack: kill security_task_wait hook

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                       |  4 +-
 arch/alpha/kernel/srmcons.c                    |  2 +-
 drivers/char/random.c                          |  4 +-
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c               | 30 ++----------
 drivers/mfd/rtsx_usb.c                         | 27 +++++++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c    | 10 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.h    |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c | 31 +++++++-----
 drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c                 | 14 +++---
 drivers/power/reset/arm-versatile-reboot.c     |  1 +
 drivers/s390/char/keyboard.h                   |  4 +-
 drivers/tty/cyclades.c                         |  6 +--
 drivers/tty/goldfish.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/tty/moxa.c                             |  4 +-
 drivers/tty/pty.c                              | 14 +-----
 drivers/tty/serial/lpc32xx_hs.c                |  2 +-
 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c                       | 66 +++++++++++++++++---------
 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c                      |  6 +--
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c                            |  2 +-
 drivers/xen/gntdev.c                           |  3 +-
 include/linux/lsm_hooks.h                      |  7 ---
 include/linux/mfd/rtsx_usb.h                   |  2 -
 include/linux/security.h                       |  6 ---
 include/linux/tty_flip.h                       |  4 +-
 include/net/inet_sock.h                        |  3 +-
 include/net/ip.h                               |  2 +-
 include/net/tcp.h                              |  2 +-
 kernel/bpf/core.c                              |  8 ++--
 kernel/events/core.c                           | 45 ++++++++++++------
 kernel/exit.c                                  | 19 +-------
 mm/mempolicy.c                                 |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/igmp.c                                | 23 +++++----
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c                          |  2 +-
 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c                         |  5 +-
 security/security.c                            |  6 ---
 security/selinux/hooks.c                       |  6 ---
 security/smack/smack_lsm.c                     | 20 --------
 sound/core/memalloc.c                          |  1 +
 38 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)