This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.294 release.
There are 31 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.9.294-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

-------------
Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 4.9.294-rc1

Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages

Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    xen/netback: fix rx queue stall detection

Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms

Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms

Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    Input: touchscreen - avoid bitwise vs logical OR warning

Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
    mwifiex: Remove unnecessary braces from HostCmd_SET_SEQ_NO_BSS_INFO

Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
    ARM: 8805/2: remove unneeded naked function usage

Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
    net: lan78xx: Avoid unnecessary self assignment

George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>
    scsi: scsi_debug: Sanity check block descriptor length in resp_mode_select()

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
    fuse: annotate lock in fuse_reverse_inval_entry()

Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
    firmware: arm_scpi: Fix string overflow in SCPI genpd driver

Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle

Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
    timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive

Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@gmail.com>
    USB: serial: option: add Telit FN990 compositions

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    PCI/MSI: Clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL on error

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    USB: gadget: bRequestType is a bitfield, not a enum

Cyril Novikov <cnovikov@lynx.com>
    ixgbe: set X550 MDIO speed before talking to PHY

Letu Ren <fantasquex@gmail.com>
    igbvf: fix double free in `igbvf_probe`

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    soc/tegra: fuse: Fix bitwise vs. logical OR warning

J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
    nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race

Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
    dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children()

Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
    recordmcount.pl: look for jgnop instruction as well as bcrl on s390

Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
    mac80211: send ADDBA requests using the tid/queue of the aggregation session

Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
    hwmon: (dell-smm) Fix warning on /proc/i8k creation error

Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
    tracing: Fix a kmemleak false positive in tracing_map

Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
    net: netlink: af_netlink: Prevent empty skb by adding a check on len.

Ondrej Jirman <megous@megous.com>
    i2c: rk3x: Handle a spurious start completion interrupt flag

Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    parisc/agp: Annotate parisc agp init functions with __init

Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se>
    net/mlx4_en: Update reported link modes for 1/10G

Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
    nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done


-------------

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                        |   4 +-
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c                       |  35 ++++---
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-feroceon.c                 |  98 +++++++++----------
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4mc.c                     |  19 ++--
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wb.c                     |  41 ++++----
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wt.c                     |  37 ++++---
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-xsc3.c                     |  71 ++++++--------
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-xscale.c                   |  71 +++++++-------
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c                    |  15 ++-
 drivers/char/agp/parisc-agp.c                   |   6 +-
 drivers/firmware/scpi_pm_domain.c               |  10 +-
 drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c                  |   7 +-
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rk3x.c                   |   4 +-
 drivers/input/touchscreen/of_touchscreen.c      |  18 ++--
 drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c    |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c      |   5 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.h      |   1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c       |   1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c   |   3 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c |   6 +-
 drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c                       |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c   |   4 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h       |   8 +-
 drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h                |   1 +
 drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c                    |  77 +++++++++------
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c                      | 125 ++++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/pci/msi.c                               |   2 +-
 drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c                       |   4 +-
 drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse-tegra.c             |   2 +-
 drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse.h                   |   2 +-
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c                       |  30 +++++-
 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c                  |   6 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/dbgp.c                |   6 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c               |   6 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                     |   8 ++
 fs/fuse/dir.c                                   |   2 +-
 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c                             |   9 +-
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c                       |   3 +-
 kernel/trace/tracing_map.c                      |   3 +
 net/mac80211/agg-tx.c                           |   2 +-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c                        |   5 +
 net/nfc/netlink.c                               |   6 +-
 scripts/recordmcount.pl                         |   2 +-
 43 files changed, 456 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-)

On 12/20/2021 6:34 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.294 release.
> There are 31 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.9.294-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

On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
-- 
Florian

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:34:00PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.294 release.
> There are 31 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 

Build results:
	total: 163 pass: 163 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 394 pass: 394 fail: 0

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Guenter

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 20:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.294 release.
> There are 31 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.9.294-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,

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

## Build
* kernel: 4.9.294-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git branch: linux-4.9.y
* git commit: 4578d170efaaa2f9aa7f8b3de176c7e80a892bed
* git describe: v4.9.293-32-g4578d170efaa
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.293-32-g4578d170efaa

## No Test Regressions (compared to v4.9.292-43-gfd7faef74c4d)

## No Test Fixes (compared to v4.9.292-43-gfd7faef74c4d)

## Test result summary
total: 68977, pass: 54825, fail: 460, skip: 11689, xfail: 2003

## Build Summary
* arm: 254 total, 226 passed, 28 failed
* arm64: 32 total, 32 passed, 0 failed
* dragonboard-410c: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* hi6220-hikey: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* i386: 19 total, 19 passed, 0 failed
* juno-r2: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* mips: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 12 total, 12 passed, 0 failed
* x15: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x86: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x86_64: 31 total, 31 passed, 0 failed

## Test suites summary
* fwts
* igt-gpu-tools
* kselftest-android
* kselftest-arm64
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.btitest.bti_c_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.btitest.bti_j_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.btitest.bti_jc_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.btitest.bti_none_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.btitest.nohint_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.btitest.paciasp_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.nobtitest.bti_c_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.nobtitest.bti_j_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.nobtitest.bti_jc_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.nobtitest.bti_none_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.nobtitest.nohint_func
* kselftest-arm64/arm64.nobtitest.paciasp_func
* kselftest-bpf
* kselftest-breakpoints
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-cgroup
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-cpufreq
* kselftest-drivers
* kselftest-efivarfs
* kselftest-filesystems
* kselftest-firmware
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-gpio
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-ipc
* kselftest-ir
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-kexec
* kselftest-kvm
* kselftest-lib
* kselftest-livepatch
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-openat2
* kselftest-pid_namespace
* kselftest-pidfd
* kselftest-proc
* kselftest-pstore
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-seccomp
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-splice
* kselftest-static_keys
* kselftest-sync
* kselftest-sysctl
* kselftest-timens
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user
* kselftest-vm
* kselftest-x86
* kselftest-zram
* kvm-unit-tests
* libhugetlbfs
* linux-log-parser
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-controllers-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-crypto-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-dio-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-tests
* ltp-fs-tests
* ltp-fs_bind-tests
* ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
* ltp-fsx-tests
* ltp-hugetlb-tests
* ltp-io-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-mm-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-open-posix-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* ltp-tracing-tests
* network-basic-tests
* packetdrill
* perf
* ssuite
* v4l2-compliance

--
Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org

On 12/20/21 7:34 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.294 release.
> There are 31 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.9.294-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
> 

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah