This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.79 release. There are 33 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 May 19 21:47:48 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-3.0.79-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 3.0.79-rc1 Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> drm/radeon: check incoming cliprects pointer Benjamin LaHaise <b...@kvack.org> ipmi: ipmi_devintf: compat_ioctl method fails to take ipmi_mutex Chen Gang <gang.c...@asianux.com> drivers/char/ipmi: memcpy, need additional 2 bytes to avoid memory overflow Lan Tianyu <tianyu....@intel.com> ACPI / EC: Restart transaction even when the IBF flag set Wei Yongjun <yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn> drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c: fix error return code in pcf2123_probe() Philipp Reisner <philipp.reis...@linbit.com> drbd: fix for deadlock when using automatic split-brain-recovery Francois Romieu <rom...@fr.zoreil.com> r8169: fix vlan tag read ordering. Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.r...@gmail.com> pch_dma: Use GFP_ATOMIC because called from interrupt context Cong Wang <amw...@redhat.com> xfrm6: release dev before returning error Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> ipv6: do not clear pinet6 field Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> macvlan: fix passthru mode race between dev removal and rx path Josh Boyer <jwbo...@redhat.com> if_cablemodem.h: Add parenthesis around ioctl macros Sergei Shtylyov <sshtyl...@ru.mvista.com> 3c59x: fix PCI resource management Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com> 3c59x: fix freeing nonexistent resource on driver unload stephen hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> bridge: fix race with topology change timer Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> net_sched: act_ipt forward compat with xtables Matthew Whitehead <tedheads...@gmail.com> 3c509.c: call SET_NETDEV_DEV for all device types (ISA/ISAPnP/EISA) Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> tcp: force a dst refcount when prequeue packet Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> drm/mm: fix dump table BUG Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> mwifiex: fix setting of multicast filter Bing Zhao <bz...@marvell.com> mwifiex: clear is_suspended flag when interrupt is received early Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> ath9k: fix key allocation error handling for powersave keys Lachlan McIlroy <lmcil...@redhat.com> ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down Tirupathi Reddy <tirup...@codeaurora.org> timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com> SCSI: sd: fix array cache flushing bug causing performance problems Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> xen/vcpu/pvhvm: Fix vcpu hotplugging hanging. Wei Yongjun <yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn> dm snapshot: fix error return code in snapshot_ctr Bob Moore <robert.mo...@intel.com> ACPICA: Fix possible buffer overflow during a field unit read operation Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> ASoC: wm8994: missing break in wm8994_aif3_hw_params() Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi> ARM: OMAP: RX-51: change probe order of touchscreen and panel SPI devices Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> KVM: VMX: fix halt emulation while emulating invalid guest sate ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-peripherals.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 6 +++++ arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 15 ++++++++++++ drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c | 14 +++++++++++- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 4 +--- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 1 - drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c | 4 ++-- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 14 +++++++++++- drivers/dma/pch_dma.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mm.c | 34 +++++++++++++++------------- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r300_cmdbuf.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 1 + drivers/net/3c509.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/3c59x.c | 27 +++++++++++----------- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 7 +++--- drivers/net/r8169.c | 13 +++++------ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 6 ++++- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cmdevt.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 21 +++++------------ drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sd.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/sd.h | 1 + fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 ++++- include/linux/if_cablemodem.h | 12 +++++----- include/linux/rculist.h | 17 ++++++++++++++ include/net/sock.h | 12 ++++++++++ include/net/tcp.h | 1 + kernel/kmod.c | 5 ++++ kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- kernel/timer.c | 2 +- net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c | 2 +- net/core/sock.c | 12 ---------- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 12 ++++++++++ net/ipv6/udp.c | 13 ++++++++++- net/ipv6/udp_impl.h | 2 ++ net/ipv6/udplite.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 4 +++- net/sched/act_ipt.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c | 1 + 40 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 97 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/