This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.297 release.
There are 21 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, 12 Jan 2022 07:18:05 +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-4.9.297-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 4.9.297-rc1

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    power: reset: ltc2952: Fix use of floating point literals

wolfgang huang <huangjinhui@kylinos.cn>
    mISDN: change function names to avoid conflicts

yangxingwu <xingwu.yang@gmail.com>
    net: udp: fix alignment problem in udp4_seq_show()

William Zhao <wizhao@redhat.com>
    ip6_vti: initialize __ip6_tnl_parm struct in vti6_siocdevprivate

Lixiaokeng <lixiaokeng@huawei.com>
    scsi: libiscsi: Fix UAF in iscsi_conn_get_param()/iscsi_conn_teardown()

Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@gmail.com>
    phonet: refcount leak in pep_sock_accep

James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
    arm64: sysreg: Move to use definitions for all the SCTLR bits

Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    arm64: move !VHE work to end of el2_setup

Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    arm64: reduce el2_setup branching

Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
    arm64: Remove a redundancy in sysreg.h

Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
    bug: split BUILD_BUG stuff out into <linux/build_bug.h>

Thomas Toye <thomas@toye.io>
    rndis_host: support Hytera digital radios

Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
    xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    sch_qfq: prevent shift-out-of-bounds in qfq_init_qdisc

Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com>
    i40e: Fix incorrect netdev's real number of RX/TX queues

Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
    mac80211: initialize variable have_higher_than_11mbit

Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
    ieee802154: atusb: fix uninit value in atusb_set_extended_addr

Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
    virtio_pci: Support surprise removal of virtio pci device

Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    tracing: Tag trace_percpu_buffer as a percpu pointer

Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    tracing: Fix check for trace_percpu_buffer validity in get_trace_buf()

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    Bluetooth: btusb: Apply QCA Rome patches for some ATH3012 models


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

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                    |  4 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h             | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S                    | 49 +++++++----------
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S                        | 24 +--------
 drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c                   | 32 ++++++++---
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.c                   |  6 +--
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/core.h                   |  4 +-
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/layer1.c                 |  4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 32 ++++++++---
 drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c              | 10 ++--
 drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c                |  5 ++
 drivers/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.c      |  4 +-
 drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c                     |  6 ++-
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c          |  7 +++
 fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c                          |  3 +-
 include/linux/bug.h                         | 72 +------------------------
 include/linux/build_bug.h                   | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/trace/trace.c                        |  6 +--
 net/ipv4/udp.c                              |  2 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c                          |  2 +
 net/mac80211/mlme.c                         |  2 +-
 net/phonet/pep.c                            |  1 +
 net/sched/sch_qfq.c                         |  6 +--
 23 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)

On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 at 12:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.297 release.
> There are 21 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, 12 Jan 2022 07:18:05 +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-4.9.297-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

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: 4.9.297-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git branch: linux-4.9.y
* git commit: 166c7a334704473e72e891612b8ffa513e43754d
* git describe: v4.9.296-22-g166c7a334704
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.296-22-g166c7a334704

## Test Regressions (compared to v4.9.296)
No test regressions found.

## Metric Regressions (compared to v4.9.296)
No metric regressions found.

## Test Fixes (compared to v4.9.296)
No test fixes found.

## Metric Fixes (compared to v4.9.296)
No metric fixes found.

## Test result summary
total: 61520, pass: 48909, fail: 438, skip: 10557, xfail: 1616

## 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 1/9/22 11:22 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.297 release.
> There are 21 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, 12 Jan 2022 07:18:05 +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-4.9.297-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 1/10/22 12:22 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.297 release.
> There are 21 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, 12 Jan 2022 07:18:05 +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-4.9.297-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

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:22:47AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.297 release.
> There are 21 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, 12 Jan 2022 07:18:05 +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