This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.301 release.
There are 2 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 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:12:41 +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-4.9.301-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 4.9.301-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    moxart: fix potential use-after-free on remove path

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent


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

Diffstat:

 Makefile                      |  4 ++--
 drivers/mmc/host/moxart-mmc.c |  2 +-
 kernel/cgroup.c               | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

On 2/9/2022 11:13 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.301 release.
> There are 2 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 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:12:41 +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-4.9.301-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 Wed, Feb 9, 2022, at 2:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.301 release.
> There are 2 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 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:12:41 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

Compiled and booted 4.9.301-rc1 on my x86_64 test system successfully without errors or regressions.

Tested-by: Slade Watkins <slade@sladewatkins.com>

Thanks,
Slade

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 08:13:31PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.301 release.
> There are 2 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 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:12:41 +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 2/9/22 12:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.301 release.
> There are 2 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 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:12:41 +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-4.9.301-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 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 00:44, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.301 release.
> There are 2 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 Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:12:41 +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-4.9.301-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: 4.9.301-rc1
* git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
* git branch: linux-4.9.y
* git commit: 2b86ebafad46c4f70ed4fbe3a0aff9c3e9b61763
* git describe: v4.9.299-52-g2b86ebafad46
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.299-52-g2b86ebafad46

## Test Regressions (compared to v4.9.299-49-gfa39f098578a)
No test regressions found.

## Metric Regressions (compared to v4.9.299-49-gfa39f098578a)
No metric regressions found.

## Test Fixes (compared to v4.9.299-49-gfa39f098578a)
No test fixes found.

## Metric Fixes (compared to v4.9.299-49-gfa39f098578a)
No metric fixes found.

## Test result summary
total: 54263, pass: 45234, fail: 188, skip: 7979, xfail: 862

## Build Summary
* arm: 254 total, 238 passed, 16 failed
* arm64: 32 total, 32 passed, 0 failed
* i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed
* mips: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 12 total, 12 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-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-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
* ssuite
* v4l2-compliance

--
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https://lkft.linaro.org