This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.8.5 release. There are 98 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 Thu Mar 28 22:41:38 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.8.5-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 3.8.5-rc1 Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> rt2x00: error in configurations with mesh support disabled Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprow...@samsung.com> ARM: DMA-mapping: add missing GFP_DMA flag for atomic buffer allocation Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevets...@gmail.com> usb: musb: da8xx: Fix build breakage due to typo Johan Hovold <jhov...@gmail.com> USB: io_ti: fix get_icount for two port adapters Johan Hovold <jhov...@gmail.com> USB: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on disconnect Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> udf: Fix bitmap overflow on large filesystems with small block size Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> ACPI: Rework acpi_get_child() to be more efficient Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> efivars: Fix check for CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE Seth Forshee <seth.fors...@canonical.com> efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend Seth Forshee <seth.fors...@canonical.com> efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend Johan Hovold <jhov...@gmail.com> USB: serial: fix interface refcounting Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrze...@samsung.com> usb: gadget: ffs: fix enable multiple instances Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> USB: EHCI: fix regression in QH unlinking Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> USB: EHCI: fix regression during bus resume Johan Hovold <jhov...@gmail.com> USB: cdc-acm: fix device unregistration Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> USB: xhci: correctly enable interrupts Dmitry Torokhov <d...@vmware.com> USB: xhci - fix bit definitions for IMAN register CQ Tang <cq.t...@intel.com> x86-64: Fix the failure case in copy_user_handle_tail() Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> clockevents: Don't allow dummy broadcast timers Kent Overstreet <koverstr...@google.com> nfsd: fix bad offset use NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de> md/raid5: ensure sync and DISCARD don't happen at the same time. Jonathan Brassow <jbras...@redhat.com> MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de> md/raid5: schedule_construction should abort if nothing to do. Takahisa Tanaka <mc74h...@gmail.com> watchdog: sp5100_tco: Remove code that may cause a boot failure Takahisa Tanaka <mc74h...@gmail.com> watchdog: sp5100_tco: Set the AcpiMmioSel bitmask value to 1 instead of 2 Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marcinis...@intel.com> IPoIB: Fix send lockup due to missed TX completion Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> ext4: fix data=journal fast mount/umount hang Lukas Czerner <lczer...@redhat.com> ext4: use s_extent_max_zeroout_kb value as number of kb Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> ext4: use atomic64_t for the per-flexbg free_clusters count Dmitry Artamonow <mad_s...@inbox.ru> usb-storage: add unusual_devs entry for Samsung YP-Z3 mp3 player Zheng Liu <wenqing...@taobao.com> ext4: fix the wrong number of the allocated blocks in ext4_split_extent() Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() Jeff Layton <jlay...@redhat.com> cifs: ignore everything in SPNEGO blob after mechTypes Mateusz Guzik <mgu...@redhat.com> cifs: delay super block destruction until all cifsFileInfo objects are gone Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com> drm/radeon/benchmark: make sure bo blit copy exists before using it Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com> drm/radeon: fix backend map setup on 1 RB trinity boards Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com> drm/radeon: fix S/R on VM systems (cayman/TN/SI) Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com> drm/radeon: add support for Richland APUs Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com> drm/radeon: add Richland pci ids Julia Lemire <jlem...@matrox.com> drm/mgag200: Bug fix: Modified pll algorithm for EH project Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com> dm verity: avoid deadlock Joe Thornber <e...@redhat.com> dm thin: fix discard corruption Laxman Dewangan <ldewan...@nvidia.com> ARM: tegra: fix register address of slink controller Nicholas Bellinger <n...@linux-iscsi.org> target/file: Bump FD_MAX_SECTORS to 2048 to handle 1M sized I/Os Andy Grover <agro...@redhat.com> target/iscsi: Fix mutual CHAP auth on big-endian arches Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@parallels.com> mqueue: sys_mq_open: do not call mnt_drop_write() if read-only H Hartley Sweeten <hartl...@visionengravers.com> drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c: include <linux/io.h> for devm_ioremap() Wanpeng Li <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> mm/hugetlb: fix total hugetlbfs pages count when using memory overcommit accouting Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@atmel.com> drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c: use a variable for storing IMR Torsten Duwe <tors...@lst.de> KMS: fix EDID detailed timing frame rate Torsten Duwe <tors...@lst.de> KMS: fix EDID detailed timing vsync parsing Laxman Dewangan <ldewan...@nvidia.com> i2c: tegra: check the clk_prepare_enable() return value Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> Revert "drm/i915: write backlight harder" Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> drm/i915: bounds check execbuffer relocation count Bing Zhao <bz...@marvell.com> mwifiex: fix potential out-of-boundary access to ibss rate table Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix problem that prevents reassociation Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix schedule while atomic bug splat Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rost...@goodmis.org> tracing: Keep overwrite in sync between regular and snapshot buffers Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rost...@goodmis.org> tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lock Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rost...@goodmis.org> tracing: Fix free of probe entry by calling call_rcu_sched() Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rost...@goodmis.org> tracing: Fix race in snapshot swapping Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> drm/i915: restrict kernel address leak in debugfs Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> Revert "drm/i915: try to train DP even harder" Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions Daniel Mack <zon...@gmail.com> ALSA: snd-usb: mixer: ignore -EINVAL in snd_usb_mixer_controls() Daniel Mack <zon...@gmail.com> ALSA: snd-usb: mixer: propagate errors up the call chain Torstein Hegge <he...@resisty.net> ALSA: usb: Parse UAC2 extension unit like for UAC1 Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> ALSA: hda - Fix typo in checking IEC958 emphasis bit Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> ALSA: hda/cirrus - Fix the digital beep registration Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com> sfc: Only use TX push if a single descriptor is to be written Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com> sfc: Disable soft interrupt handling during efx_device_detach_sync() Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com> sfc: Detach net device when stopping queues for reconfiguration Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com> sfc: Fix efx_rx_buf_offset() in the presence of swiotlb Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com> sfc: Properly sync RX DMA buffer when it is not the last in the page Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c: adjust duplicate test Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> inet: limit length of fragment queue hash table bucket lists Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> tcp: dont handle MTU reduction on LISTEN socket Maciej Żenczykowski <m...@google.com> bnx2x: fix occasional statistics off-by-4GB error Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> vhost/net: fix heads usage of ubuf_info Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com> bnx2x: add missing napi deletion in error path Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> net: cdc_ncm, cdc_mbim: allow user to prefer NCM for backwards compatibility Vlad Yasevich <vyase...@redhat.com> rtnetlink: Mask the rta_type when range checking Timo Teräs <timo.te...@iki.fi> Revert "ip_gre: make ipgre_tunnel_xmit() not parse network header as IP unconditionally" Pavel Emelyanov <xe...@parallels.com> skb: Propagate pfmemalloc on skb from head page only Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> tcp: fix skb_availroom() Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> net: qmi_wwan: set correct altsetting for Gobi 1K devices Denis V. Lunev <d...@openvz.org> ipv4: fix definition of FIB_TABLE_HASHSZ Xufeng Zhang <xufeng.zh...@windriver.com> sctp: don't break the loop while meeting the active_path so as to find the matched transport Vlad Yasevich <vyasev...@gmail.com> sctp: Use correct sideffect command in duplicate cookie handling Nithin Sujir <nsu...@broadcom.com> tg3: 5715 does not link up when autoneg off Veaceslav Falico <vfal...@redhat.com> bonding: don't call update_speed_duplex() under spinlocks Marek Lindner <lindner_ma...@yahoo.de> batman-adv: verify tt len does not exceed packet len Veaceslav Falico <vfal...@redhat.com> netconsole: don't call __netpoll_cleanup() while atomic stephen hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> bridge: reserve space for IFLA_BRPORT_FAST_LEAVE David Ward <david.w...@ll.mit.edu> net/ipv4: Ensure that location of timestamp option is stored Tkhai Kirill <tk...@yandex.ru> sunsu: Fix panic in case of nonexistent port at "console=ttySY" cmdline option Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> USB: EHCI: work around silicon bug in Intel's EHCI controllers ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra20.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 5 +- arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c | 4 +- drivers/acpi/glue.c | 35 +++--- drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 18 ++++ drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 70 +++++------- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 11 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c | 13 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c | 10 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/ni.c | 33 ++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_benchmark.c | 16 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/si.c | 1 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 13 ++- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c | 8 +- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 2 + drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 39 ++++++- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 46 ++++---- drivers/md/raid5.c | 116 ++++++++++++++------ drivers/md/raid5.h | 1 + drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.h | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 8 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 16 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c | 25 +++-- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 15 +-- drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c | 11 +- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 49 ++++++--- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 49 +++------ drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c | 7 +- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c | 89 ++++++--------- drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c | 50 +++++---- drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.h | 1 - drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.c | 5 +- drivers/target/target_core_file.h | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/sunsu.c | 21 ++-- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c | 23 ++-- drivers/usb/gadget/g_ffs.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c | 31 +++++- drivers/usb/host/ehci-timer.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci.h | 4 +- drivers/usb/musb/da8xx.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 7 ++ drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +- drivers/video/ep93xx-fb.c | 1 + drivers/watchdog/sp5100_tco.c | 126 ++-------------------- drivers/watchdog/sp5100_tco.h | 2 +- fs/cifs/asn1.c | 53 +-------- fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 24 +++++ fs/cifs/cifsfs.h | 4 + fs/cifs/file.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 +- fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 +- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 +- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 12 +-- fs/ext4/resize.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 4 +- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 15 ++- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 3 +- fs/proc/generic.c | 21 ++-- fs/proc/inode.c | 12 +-- fs/udf/udf_sb.h | 2 +- include/drm/drm_pciids.h | 13 ++- include/linux/skbuff.h | 13 ++- include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h | 1 + include/net/inet_frag.h | 9 ++ include/net/ip_fib.h | 12 +-- ipc/mqueue.c | 3 +- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 21 ++-- mm/hugetlb.c | 8 +- net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 6 +- net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 1 + net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 20 +++- net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 11 +- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 5 +- net/ipv4/ip_options.c | 5 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 14 +-- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 1 - net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 12 +-- net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 7 ++ net/sctp/associola.c | 2 +- net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 8 +- sound/usb/mixer.c | 21 ++-- 109 files changed, 778 insertions(+), 683 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/