This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.299 release.
There are 9 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 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:02:51 +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-4.9.299-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 4.9.299-rc1

Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
    ion: Do not 'put' ION handle until after its final use

Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
    ion: Protect kref from userspace manipulation

Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
    ion: Fix use after free during ION_IOC_ALLOC

Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
    ARM: 8800/1: use choice for kernel unwinders

Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
    KVM: X86: MMU: Use the correct inherited permissions to get shadow page

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    KVM: nVMX: fix EPT permissions as reported in exit qualification

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
    NFSv4: Initialise connection to the server in nfs4_alloc_client()

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    media: firewire: firedtv-avc: fix a buffer overflow in avc_ca_pmt()

Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
    drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store


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

Diffstat:

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt       |  4 +-
 Makefile                                |  4 +-
 arch/arm/Kconfig.debug                  | 44 +++++++++------
 arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h              | 44 +++++++++------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h         |  5 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c         | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c     |  4 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h         |  6 +++
 drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c    | 14 +++--
 drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c     |  2 +
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c       | 19 +++++--
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h       |  4 ++
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_priv.h  |  4 ++
 fs/nfs/nfs4client.c                     | 82 ++++++++++++++--------------
 lib/Kconfig.debug                       |  6 +--
 16 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)

On 1/27/2022 10:08 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.299 release.
> There are 9 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 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:02:51 +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-4.9.299-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 Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 23:38, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.299 release.
> There are 9 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 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:02:51 +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-4.9.299-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: 4.9.299-rc1
* git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
* git branch: linux-4.9.y
* git commit: f4e33f5b11f3a84227cb47f295ec793d83af7eda
* git describe: v4.9.298-10-gf4e33f5b11f3
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.298-10-gf4e33f5b11f3

## Test Regressions (compared to v4.9.297-156-ge1c2457686e4)
No test regressions found.

## Metric Regressions (compared to v4.9.297-156-ge1c2457686e4)
No metric regressions found.

## Test Fixes (compared to v4.9.297-156-ge1c2457686e4)
No test fixes found.

## Metric Fixes (compared to v4.9.297-156-ge1c2457686e4)
No metric fixes found.

## Test result summary
total: 62622, pass: 50324, fail: 445, skip: 10424, xfail: 1429

## Build Summary
* arm: 254 total, 238 passed, 16 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
* 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 Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 07:08:18PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.299 release.
> There are 9 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 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:02:51 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
Build results:
	total: 163 pass: 163 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 397 pass: 397 fail: 0

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

Guenter

On 1/27/22 11:08 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.299 release.
> There are 9 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 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:02:51 +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-4.9.299-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