request for stable inclusion

2013-03-04 Thread CAI Qian
This is to request to apply the below commit for the stable releases in order to fix a regression introduced by 055388a (xfs: dynamic speculative EOF preallocation) that caused fsync() took long time during the sparse file testing. For stable-3.4 and stable-3.8, it can be applied as it is. For sta

request for stable inclusion

2013-01-29 Thread CAI Qian
Hello Dave, Ben, or/and Brian, eb178619f930fa2ba2348de332a1ff1c66a31424 xfs: fix _xfs_buf_find oops on blocks beyond the filesystem end This looks like a candidate for stable-3.7 that fixed an oops. It has also been applied and built cleanly there. Do you agree? Regards, CAI Qian -- To unsubscr

request for stable inclusion

2013-02-22 Thread CAI Qian
Hello Tony, Don or Seiji, 9f244e9cfd70c7c0f82d3c92ce772ab2a92d9f64 pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path This looks applicable to stable-3.7 and stable-3.4, and it was built successful for me. What do you think? Thanks, CAI Qian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

request for stable inclusion

2013-06-28 Thread Yijing Wang
Hi Greg, Jiri or Liang Li 384e301e3519599b000c1a2ecd938b533fc15d85 pch_uart: fix a deadlock when pch_uart as console This looks applicable to stable-3.4, and it was built successful for me. What do you think? Thanks! Yijing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" i

[request for stable inclusion]

2014-10-23 Thread Hou Pengyang
hi gerg, Now on IvyBridge machines with 3.10 stable, perf could not get proper dTLB-load-misses event when performing "perf stat -e dTLB-load-misses sleep 1", which outputs: Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': 0 dTLB-load-misses 1.000951106 seconds time elapsed 0 dTLB-load-misses means w

Request for stable inclusion

2014-04-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Hi, commit b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533 Author: David Ertman Date: Tue Mar 25 04:27:55 2014 + e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out fixes an issue which affects quite some of the newer Laptops and also Desktops (e.g. AOI-PCs) which are based on mobi

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-02-27 Thread CAI Qian
- 原始邮件 - > 发件人: "CAI Qian" > 收件人: "Tony Luck" , "Don Zickus" , > "Seiji Aguchi" > 抄送: stable@vger.kernel.org > 发送时间: 星期五, 2013年 2 月 22日 下午 5:26:36 > 主题: request for stable inclusion > > Hello Tony, Don or Seiji, >

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-03-01 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:18:30AM -0500, CAI Qian wrote: > > > - 原始邮件 - > > 发件人: "CAI Qian" > > 收件人: "Tony Luck" , "Don Zickus" , > > "Seiji Aguchi" > > 抄送: stable@vger.kernel.org > > 发送时间: 星期五, 2013年 2 月

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-03-04 Thread Dave Chinner
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:52:34AM -0500, CAI Qian wrote: > This is to request to apply the below commit for the stable releases > in order to fix a regression introduced by 055388a (xfs: dynamic > speculative EOF preallocation) that caused fsync() took long time during > the sparse file testing. >

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-03-05 Thread Ben Myers
Hi CAI, On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:11:00AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:52:34AM -0500, CAI Qian wrote: > > This is to request to apply the below commit for the stable releases > > in order to fix a regression introduced by 055388a (xfs: dynamic > > speculative EOF pre

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-01-30 Thread Ben Myers
Hi CAI, On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:51:50AM -0500, CAI Qian wrote: > Hello Dave, Ben, or/and Brian, > > eb178619f930fa2ba2348de332a1ff1c66a31424 > xfs: fix _xfs_buf_find oops on blocks beyond the filesystem end > > This looks like a candidate for stable-3.7 that fixed an oops. > It has also been

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-01-30 Thread CAI Qian
- Original Message - > From: "Ben Myers" > To: "CAI Qian" > Cc: "Dave Chinner" , "Brian Foster" > , stable@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:40:08 AM > Subject: Re: request for stable inclusion > >

RE: request for stable inclusion

2013-02-22 Thread Seiji Aguchi
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Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-02-22 Thread Don Zickus
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 04:26:36AM -0500, CAI Qian wrote: > Hello Tony, Don or Seiji, > > 9f244e9cfd70c7c0f82d3c92ce772ab2a92d9f64 > pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path > > This looks applicable to stable-3.7 and stable-3.4, and it > was built successful for me. What do you

RE: request for stable inclusion

2013-02-22 Thread Luck, Tony
>> 9f244e9cfd70c7c0f82d3c92ce772ab2a92d9f64 >> pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path > It seems like a low risk patch. At the same time, the probability of > hitting this problem is very very low. And if you do hit this problem, > without this patch, the kernel is verbose te

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 17:04 +0800, Yijing Wang wrote: > Hi Greg, Jiri or Liang Li > > 384e301e3519599b000c1a2ecd938b533fc15d85 > pch_uart: fix a deadlock when pch_uart as console > > This looks applicable to stable-3.4, and it > was built successful for me. What do you think? I've queued this up

Re: request for stable inclusion

2013-06-28 Thread Luis Henriques
Yijing Wang writes: > Hi Greg, Jiri or Liang Li > > 384e301e3519599b000c1a2ecd938b533fc15d85 > pch_uart: fix a deadlock when pch_uart as console > > This looks applicable to stable-3.4, and it > was built successful for me. What do you think? > > Thanks! > Yijing. > > -- > To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [request for stable inclusion]

2014-10-31 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 10/24/2014, 05:52 AM, Hou Pengyang wrote: > hi gerg, > > Now on IvyBridge machines with 3.10 stable, perf could not get proper > dTLB-load-misses event when performing "perf stat -e dTLB-load-misses > sleep 1", which outputs: > > Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1': > 0 dTLB-load-misses >

Re: Request for stable inclusion

2014-05-05 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 04/30/2014 09:03 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Hi, > > commit b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533 > Author: David Ertman > Date: Tue Mar 25 04:27:55 2014 + > > e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out Now applied to 3.12. Thanks. -- js suse labs -- To uns

Re: Request for stable inclusion

2014-06-03 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:03:36PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Hi, > > commit b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533 > Author: David Ertman > Date: Tue Mar 25 04:27:55 2014 + > > e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out > > fixes an issue which affects quite

RE: Request for stable inclusion

2014-04-30 Thread Ertman, DavidX M
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:t...@linutronix.de] > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 12:04 PM > To: stable@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Ertman, DavidX M; net...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Request for stable inclusion &g

RE: Request for stable inclusion

2014-04-30 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 19:40 +, Ertman, DavidX M wrote: > The commit that caused the issue went into net-next on June 21, 2013. So at > least 3.11 and forward, and probably 3.10. There is a way to know exactly the cut point : $ git describe --contains da1e2046e5 v3.12-rc1~132^2~445^2~6 -

RE: Request for stable inclusion

2014-04-30 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 19:40 +, Ertman, DavidX M wrote: > > > The commit that caused the issue went into net-next on June 21, 2013. So > > at least 3.11 and forward, and probably 3.10. > > There is a way to know exactly the cut point : > > $ git d

RE: Request for stable inclusion

2014-05-01 Thread Ertman, DavidX M
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:t...@linutronix.de] > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:37 PM > To: Eric Dumazet > Cc: Ertman, DavidX M; stable@vger.kernel.org; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; > net...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: Request for stable inclusio

[request for stable inclusion 0/3] serial: 8250_dw

2014-06-13 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Could you please queue following patches to 3.10.x? commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa: serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d: serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround (with conte

[request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-08-27 Thread Markos Chandras
Hi Greg, Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header (f85b71ceabb9d8d8a9e34b045b5c43ffde3623b3) - MIPS: Malta: EVA: Rename 'eva_entry' to 'platform_eva_init' (ca4d24f7954f3746742ba350c2276ff777f21173) - MIPS: CPS: Initialize EVA befor

Re: [request for stable inclusion] softirq: reduce latencies

2015-08-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 14:29 +0800, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Zefan, > > c10d73671ad30f54692f7f69f0e09e75d3a8926a > softirq: reduce latencies > > This commit can reduce softirq latencies in some various network workloads. > > 34376a50fb1fa095b9d0636fa41ed2e73125f214 > Fix lockup related to stop_machi

Re: [request for stable inclusion] softirq: reduce latencies

2015-06-14 Thread Zefan Li
于 2015/5/14 14:29, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Zefan, > > c10d73671ad30f54692f7f69f0e09e75d3a8926a > softirq: reduce latencies > > This commit can reduce softirq latencies in some various network workloads. > > 34376a50fb1fa095b9d0636fa41ed2e73125f214 > Fix lockup related to stop_machine being stuck i

Re: [request for stable inclusion 0/3] serial: 8250_dw

2014-07-07 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 03:57:46PM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Could you please queue following patches to 3.10.x? > >commit 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa: > serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-08-27 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? > > - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header > (f85b71ceabb9d8d8a9e34b045b5c43ffde3623b3) > - MIPS: Malta: EVA: Rename 'eva_entry' to 'platform_eva_ini

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-08-28 Thread Markos Chandras
On 08/27/2014 10:23 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? >> >> - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header >> (f85b71ceabb9d8d8a9e34b045b5c43ffde3623b3) >> - MIPS: Malta

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-09-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On 08/28/2014 08:54 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 08/27/2014 10:23 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> Could you please apply the following patches to the 3.16.X stable kernels? >>> >>> - MIPS: EVA: Add new EVA header >>> (f8

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS fixes for 3.16

2014-09-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:52:43PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 08/28/2014 08:54 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On 08/27/2014 10:23 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 03:04:51PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > >>> Hi Greg, > >>> > >>> Could you please apply the following patches

[request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

2014-05-15 Thread Bintian
Hi Greg, Jiri or Geoff, 09024aa61e1bc994404683e2e5b363484a15dd12 arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine This patch fixed the cpu rest on ARM64 and is applicable to stable-3.10, it was built and tested successfully by Yiping Xu. how about your idea? Thanks, Bintian -- To unsubscribe from this l

[request for stable inclusion 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround 6979f8d280498

[request for stable inclusion]: Two patches related to arm memory

2014-03-20 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Luis and Ingo, Please queue following patches for 3.10.x, 3.11.x and 3.12.x: Commit 6d7d5da7d75c6df676c8b72d32b02ff024438f0c: ARM: 7864/1: Handle 64-bit memory in case of 32-bit phys_addr_t Commit 571b14375019c3a66ef70d4d4a7083f4238aca30: ARM: ignore memory below PHYS_OFFSET They c

[request for stable inclusion] MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding

2014-08-18 Thread Markos Chandras
Hi Greg, Could you please apply the following patch to the 3.16.X stable kernels? c3b9b945e02e011c63522761e91133ea43eb6939 "MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding" Thank you -- markos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@v

[request for stable inclusion]: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem()

2014-09-11 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg and Zefan: upstream commit 7ba3ec5749ddb61f79f7be17b5fd7720eebc52de: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem() looks applicable for 3.10 and 3.4. On 3.10, without this patch we can easily trigger a bug using: # mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 /dev/ram1 # mount -t ext2 -o xip /dev/ram1 /mnt # cp

[request for stable inclusion]: 3 patch related to oom killer

2014-09-11 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Upstream commit 0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c and 1da4db0cd5c8a31d4468ec906b413e75e604b465 looks ignored by 3.10 (they are included by 3.12.22). Without these patches we meet real deadlock in oom killer code. They can not be clearly cherry-pick to 3.10.54 because 3.10 LTS doe

Re: [request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

2014-05-15 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 01:23:22PM +0100, Bintian wrote: > Hi Greg, Jiri or Geoff, > > 09024aa61e1bc994404683e2e5b363484a15dd12 > arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine > > This patch fixed the cpu rest on ARM64 and is applicable to stable-3.10, > it was built and tested successfully by Yiping Xu.

Re: [request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

2014-05-15 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 20:23 +0800, Bintian wrote: > 09024aa61e1bc994404683e2e5b363484a15dd12 > arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine > > This patch fixed the cpu rest on ARM64 and is applicable to stable-3.10, > it was built and tested successfully by Yiping Xu. how about your idea? Well, the

Re: [request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

2014-05-15 Thread Bintian
Thank you Catalin and Geoff, I will check these two patches. On 2014/5/16 3:25, Geoff Levand wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 20:23 +0800, Bintian wrote: 09024aa61e1bc994404683e2e5b363484a15dd12 arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine This patch fixed the cpu rest on ARM64 and is applicable to st

Re: [request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

2014-05-23 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 05/16/2014 03:37 AM, Bintian wrote: > Thank you Catalin and Geoff, I will check these two patches. > > On 2014/5/16 3:25, Geoff Levand wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 20:23 +0800, Bintian wrote: >>> 09024aa61e1bc994404683e2e5b363484a15dd12 >>> arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine >>> >

Re: [request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

2014-05-23 Thread Geoff Levand
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 13:35 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 05/16/2014 03:37 AM, Bintian wrote: > > Thank you Catalin and Geoff, I will check these two patches. > > > > On 2014/5/16 3:25, Geoff Levand wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 20:23 +0800, Bintian wrote: > >>> 09024aa61e1bc9944

Re: [request for stable inclusion]arm64: Fix the soft_restart routine

2014-06-03 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:34:52AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 13:35 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > On 05/16/2014 03:37 AM, Bintian wrote: > > > Thank you Catalin and Geoff, I will check these two patches. > > > > > > On 2014/5/16 3:25, Geoff Levand wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> >

[PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-04 Thread Xiangyu Lu
Hi Greg, I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to CVE-2014-2672. [ Upstream commit 21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8 ] We check tid->sched without a lock taken on ath_tx_aggr_sleep(). That is race condition wh

[request for stable inclusion] vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc

2013-10-31 Thread Rui Xiang
Hi Greg, Upstream commit 51f0885e5415 has a stable tag and it has been backported to 3.2 stable, and it's also applicable to 3.4 stable. It was built successful for me. As it can't be applied cleanly to 3.4, you can cherry pick commit 4c239ba63bcc from linux-3.2.y in stable tree. Thanks! Rui Xia

[request for stable inclusion] tipc: fix lockdep warning during bearer initialization

2013-08-06 Thread wangweidong
Hi Ying Xue, Jon, Paul or David, 4225a398c1352a7a5c14dc07277cb5cc4473983b tipc: fix lockdep warning during bearer initialization This looks applicable to stable-3.0/3.2/3.4, that fixed one deadlock. With the tipc-config cmd, I can reproduce that. The deadlock possibly occur when the second TIPC

Re: [request for stable inclusion 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
On 2014/6/25 15:20, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d >serial: 8250_d

[request for stable inclusion v2 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: 33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround 6979f8d280

Re: [request for stable inclusion 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-07-01 Thread Wang Nan
On 2014/6/25 15:20, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d >serial: 8250_d

[PATCH] [request for stable inclusion][media] saa7134: Fix unlocked snd_pcm_stop() call

2014-02-25 Thread Weng Meiling
Hi Greg or Ben, commit e6355ad7b1c6f70e2f48ae159f5658b441ccff95 [media] saa7134: Fix unlocked snd_pcm_stop() call The commit is one patch of the patchset "snd_pcm_stop() lock fixes" which had been backported to 3.2-stable. But 3.2-stable missed it. I adjust context and can be applied to 3.4 and 3

[request for stable inclusion] jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow

2014-03-10 Thread Ruchi Kandoi
Hi, 5a581b3 jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow Please include this in 3.11 and earlier stable versions. It fixes undefined results from macros such as time_after(). Thanking you, Ruchi Kandoi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body o

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: Two patches related to arm memory

2014-03-21 Thread Luís Henriques
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 07:20:48PM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, Luis and Ingo, > > Please queue following patches for 3.10.x, 3.11.x and 3.12.x: > > Commit 6d7d5da7d75c6df676c8b72d32b02ff024438f0c: > ARM: 7864/1: Handle 64-bit memory in case of 32-bit phys_addr_t > > Commit 571b14375019c3

[request for stable inclusion] staging: wlags49_h2: buffer overflow setting station name

2014-01-22 Thread Xie XiuQi
Hi Dan Carpenter or Greg, b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054 staging: wlags49_h2: buffer overflow setting station name This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, that fixed CVE-2013-4514. It can't be applied directly due to blank space & blank line problems, introduced by patch ceb121ae (st

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem()

2014-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 09:57 +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg and Zefan: > > upstream commit 7ba3ec5749ddb61f79f7be17b5fd7720eebc52de: > ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem() > > looks applicable for 3.10 and 3.4. > > On 3.10, without this patch we can easily trigger a bug using: > > #

[PATCH 0/1] [request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2014-11-03 Thread HuKeping
Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not merged into it. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? PART 1: patches that can be cleanly applied: 0405a5cec3406f19e69da07c8111a6bf1088ac29 pstore

[request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-11-11 Thread Hou Pengyang
Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-bit physical address is available, translation table becomes 3-level, and every table entry is 64 bit instead of 32. Howe

[request for stable inclusion] ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with

2014-08-15 Thread Wang Nan
Hi Greg, Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x? Commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e: ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with Without this patch, kprobe on ARM big endian is broken. I have backport it to 3.10. Please see following post. Thank yo

Re: [request for stable inclusion] MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding

2014-08-18 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:59:33PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Could you please apply the following patch to the 3.16.X stable kernels? > > c3b9b945e02e011c63522761e91133ea43eb6939 > "MIPS: math-emu: Fix instruction decoding" Now applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: 3 patch related to oom killer

2014-09-14 Thread Li Zefan
I've already sent these to stable mailing list. On 2014/9/12 10:22, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Upstream commit 0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c and > 1da4db0cd5c8a31d4468ec906b413e75e604b465 looks ignored by 3.10 (they are > included by 3.12.22). Without these patches we meet real dea

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-04 Thread Li Zefan
On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > Hi Greg, > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. > As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to CVE-2014-2672. > Please add this line: "From: Stanislaw Gruszka " > [ Upstream commit 21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. > > As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to CVE-2014-2672. > > > > Please add this line: > > "From:

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 21:11 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > > On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, please backport it. > > > As for now, 3.10.y LTS would still be vulnerable to

Re: [PATCH][request for stable inclusion] ath9k: protect tid->sched check

2014-06-05 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 05:12:41PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 21:11 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > > > On 2014/6/5 11:16, Xiangyu Lu wrote: > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > I found this bugfix is not in the latest 3.10.y, pleas

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem()

2014-09-22 Thread Zefan Li
On 2014/9/12 9:57, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg and Zefan: > > upstream commit 7ba3ec5749ddb61f79f7be17b5fd7720eebc52de: > ext2: Fix fs corruption in ext2_get_xip_mem() > > looks applicable for 3.10 and 3.4. > > On 3.10, without this patch we can easily trigger a bug using: > > # mkfs.ext2 -b 40

[request for stable inclusion]: perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message

2014-04-17 Thread xiakaixu
Hi Greg, Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x ? Commit b69e63a45f2d96a0dfe930ed20385058d4574d2f : perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message Which is upstreamed in v3.11. Without this patch, the perf_event_paranoid message is currently shown as: Error: You may no

[request for stable inclusion 3.10 and 3.12] Fix CVE-2014-8173

2015-03-20 Thread Wang Long
Hi Greg and Jiri, The following patch commit ee53664bda169f519ce3c6a22d378f0b946c8178 mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support fix CVE-2014-8173. I wish you could merge this fix into stable 3.10 and 3.12, because the linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems is affected

Re: [request for stable inclusion] vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc

2013-11-22 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 03:55:12PM +0800, Rui Xiang wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Upstream commit 51f0885e5415 has a stable tag and it has been backported to > 3.2 stable, and it's also applicable to 3.4 stable. It was built successful > for me. > > As it can't be applied cleanly to 3.4, you can cherry p

[request for stable inclusion] net: neighbour: prohibit negative value for unres_qlen_bytes parameter

2013-08-06 Thread wangweidong
Hi Shan Wei or David, ce46cc64d47a8afaf13c300b09a7f9c29f4979b6 net: neighbour: prohibit negative value for unres_qlen_bytes parameter This looks applicable to stable-3.4, I can reproduce it on this 3.4 kernel. It fixes a type overflow when setting unres_qlen. I try to reproduce, and then this pat

Re: [request for stable inclusion] tipc: fix lockdep warning during bearer initialization

2013-09-10 Thread David Miller
From: wangweidong Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 11:23:08 +0800 > 4225a398c1352a7a5c14dc07277cb5cc4473983b > tipc: fix lockdep warning during bearer initialization > > This looks applicable to stable-3.0/3.2/3.4, that fixed one deadlock. > With the tipc-config cmd, I can reproduce that. The deadlock pos

[request for stable inclusion] mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects

2014-07-24 Thread Qiang Huang
Hi Greg, 7f88f88f83ed609650a01b18572e605ea50cd163 mm: kmemleak: avoid false negatives on vmalloc'ed objects This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, it fixed a regression that kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc() leaks. It was tested fine by me. This patch needs some adjustments, before

Re: [request for stable inclusion]: perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message

2014-06-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:08:09PM +0800, xiakaixu wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x ? > > Commit b69e63a45f2d96a0dfe930ed20385058d4574d2f : > perf evsel: Fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message > > Which is upstreamed in v3.11. > > Without this patch,

[request for stable inclusion 3/3] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression

2014-06-13 Thread Wang Nan
From: James Hogan commit 6979f8d28049879e6147767d93ba6732c8bd94f4 upstream. Commit c49436b657d0 (serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround) caused a regression. It added a check that the LCR was written properly to detect and workaround the busy quirk, but the behaviour of bit 5 (UART_L

[request for stable inclusion 2/3] serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround

2014-06-13 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d upstream. When configured with UART_16550_COMPATIBLE=NO or in versions prior to the introduction of this option, the Designware UART will ignore writes to the LCR if the UART is busy. The current workaround saves a copy of the las

[request for stable inclusion 2/3] serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: Tim Kryger upstream inclusion DTS: DTS2014060600056 directory: cherry-pick commit c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d upstream When configured with UART_16550_COMPATIBLE=NO or in versions prior to the introduction of this option, the Designwa

[request for stable inclusion 3/3] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression

2014-06-25 Thread Wang Nan
From: James Hogan upstream unclusion DTS: DTS2014060600056 directory: cherry-pick commit 6979f8d28049879e6147767d93ba6732c8bd94f4 upstream Commit c49436b657d0 (serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround) caused a regression. It added a check tha

Re: [request for stable inclusion v2 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-25 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 06/25/2014 10:33 AM, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7cf64d >serial:

Re: [request for stable inclusion v2 0/3] 8250_dw: fix stty stall

2014-06-26 Thread Luis Henriques
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:33:29PM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Following 3 patches fix a 8250 serial problem which causes stty stall: > >33acbb82695f84e9429c1f7fbdeb4588dea12ffa >serial: 8250_dw: Report CTS asserted for auto flow > >c49436b657d0a56a6ad90d14a7c3041add7

[request for stable inclusion]perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate

2014-02-25 Thread Weng Meiling
Hi Luis and Ingo, 723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11 perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate Please queue this for 3.11.x and 3.12.x. It fixes a divide-by-zero bug. The bug can be triggiered by writing 0 to /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate, which was introd

Re: [PATCH] [request for stable inclusion][media] saa7134: Fix unlocked snd_pcm_stop() call

2014-03-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:24:41PM +0800, Weng Meiling wrote: > Hi Greg or Ben, > > commit e6355ad7b1c6f70e2f48ae159f5658b441ccff95 > [media] saa7134: Fix unlocked snd_pcm_stop() call > > The commit is one patch of the patchset "snd_pcm_stop() lock fixes" > which had been backported to 3.2-stable

Re: [request for stable inclusion] jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow

2014-03-11 Thread Luís Henriques
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 04:58:07PM -0700, Ruchi Kandoi wrote: > Hi, > > 5a581b3 jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow > > Please include this in 3.11 and earlier stable versions. It fixes > undefined results from macros such as time_after(). > > Thanking you, > Ruchi Kandoi. >

Re: [request for stable inclusion] staging: wlags49_h2: buffer overflow setting station name

2014-01-22 Thread Dan Carpenter
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:50:44PM +0800, Xie XiuQi wrote: > Hi Dan Carpenter or Greg, > > b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054 > staging: wlags49_h2: buffer overflow setting station name > > This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, that fixed CVE-2013-4514. > It can't be applied directly d

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with

2014-10-13 Thread Wang Nan
On 2014/10/3 8:06, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:05:18AM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >>Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x? >> >>Commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e: >> ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with >> >>Without this

Re: [request for stable inclusion] ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with

2014-10-02 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:05:18AM +0800, Wang Nan wrote: > Hi Greg, > >Could you please queue following patch to 3.10.x? > >Commit 888be25402021a425da3e85e2d5a954d7509286e: > ARM: probes: fix instruction fetch order with > >Without this patch, kprobe on ARM big endian is broke

Re: [PATCH] [request for stable inclusion][media] saa7134: Fix unlocked snd_pcm_stop() call

2014-03-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:24 +0800, Weng Meiling wrote: > Hi Greg or Ben, > > commit e6355ad7b1c6f70e2f48ae159f5658b441ccff95 > [media] saa7134: Fix unlocked snd_pcm_stop() call > > The commit is one patch of the patchset "snd_pcm_stop() lock fixes" > which had been backported to 3.2-stable. But 3

Re: [request for stable inclusion] jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow

2014-03-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 16:58 -0700, Ruchi Kandoi wrote: > Hi, > > 5a581b3 jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow > > Please include this in 3.11 and earlier stable versions. It fixes > undefined results from macros such as time_after(). I've queued this up for 3.2, thanks. Ben.

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-11-25 Thread Hou Pengyang
On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-bit physical address is available, translation table becomes 3-level, and every

[PATCH] [request for stable inclusion]:sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes

2014-11-27 Thread xiaofeng.yan
commit 336ae1180df5f69b9e0fb6561bec01c5f64361cf ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes This looks applicable to stable-3.10, which load cycle count after epoch stabilizes, It was built successful for me. What do you think? Stephen Boyd (1): ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle coun

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-02 Thread Luis Henriques
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >Hi Greg, > > > >These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which > >are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. > > > >For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-03 Thread Hou Pengyang
On 2014/12/2 21:44, Luis Henriques wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, w

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-04 Thread Luis Henriques
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:22:20AM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > On 2014/12/2 21:44, Luis Henriques wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >>On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >>>Hi Greg, > >>> > >>>These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, mos

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: > On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: > >Hi Greg, > > > >These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which > >are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. > > > >For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2014-12-07 Thread Hou Pengyang
On 2014/12/5 7:39, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:49:59PM +0800, Hou Pengyang wrote: On 2014/11/11 19:31, Hou Pengyang wrote: Hi Greg, These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. For ARM, when LPAE

[request for stable inclusion] ipmi: fix timeout calculation when bmc is disconnected

2015-08-12 Thread Xie XiuQi
Hi Zefan, Greg, and Jiri, e21404d ipmi: fix timeout calculation when bmc is disconnected This patch looks applicable to stable-3.4, stable-3.10 and stable-3.12, that fixed a bug when bmc is disconnected. Sebastian Parschauer () also found this bug on linux-3.12.y. It was built successful for me

Re: [PATCH 0/1] [request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-27 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:57:47PM +0800, HuKeping wrote: > Hi greg, > We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not > merged into it. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. > Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? > > PART 1: patches that can

Re: [PATCH 0/1] [request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-27 Thread Hu Keping
some of them have already been merged, I'll check it and resend later :) 于 2015/1/28 9:21, Greg KH 写道: On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:57:47PM +0800, HuKeping wrote: Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not merged into it. Most of them are obvious and can b

[PATCH v2 0/2][request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-27 Thread HuKeping
Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not been merged yet. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? Change from v1: - remove d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 which has already been merg

[PATCH v3 0/2][request for stable inclusion] several pstore related bugfixs

2015-01-28 Thread HuKeping
Hi greg, We want to use pstore on linux 3.10. But we found several bugfixs have not been merged yet. Most of them are obvious and can be cherry-picked cleanly. Would you please apply them to stable 3.10? v1 -> v2: - remove d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 which has already been merged -

Re: [request for stable inclusion] patches backported to make LPAE more robust

2015-02-02 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:31:27AM +, Hou Pengyang wrote: > Hi Greg, > > These patches are backported to make LPAE more robust, most of which > are important bugfixs. So I suggest merging them into 3.10. > > For ARM, when LPAE is triggered, 40-bit physical address is available, > translation

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