This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.304 release.
There are 29 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, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +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-4.9.304-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 4.9.304-rc1

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation

Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
    memblock: use kfree() to release kmalloced memblock regions

daniel.starke@siemens.com <daniel.starke@siemens.com>
    tty: n_gsm: fix proper link termination after failed open

daniel.starke@siemens.com <daniel.starke@siemens.com>
    tty: n_gsm: fix encoding of control signal octet bit DV

Hongyu Xie <xiehongyu1@kylinos.cn>
    xhci: Prevent futile URB re-submissions due to incorrect return value.

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    usb: dwc3: gadget: Let the interrupt handler disable bottom halves.

Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@gmail.com>
    USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910R1 compositions

Slark Xiao <slark_xiao@163.com>
    USB: serial: option: add support for DW5829e

Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    tracefs: Set the group ownership in apply_options() not parse_options()

Szymon Heidrich <szymon.heidrich@gmail.com>
    USB: gadget: validate endpoint index for xilinx udc

Daehwan Jung <dh10.jung@samsung.com>
    usb: gadget: rndis: add spinlock for rndis response list

Dmytro Bagrii <dimich.dmb@gmail.com>
    Revert "USB: serial: ch341: add new Product ID for CH341A"

Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
    ata: pata_hpt37x: disable primary channel on HPT371

Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
    iio: adc: men_z188_adc: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path

Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
    RDMA/ib_srp: Fix a deadlock

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong2@huawei.com>
    configfs: fix a race in configfs_{,un}register_subsystem()

Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
    net/mlx5e: Fix wrong return value on ioctl EEPROM query failure

Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
    drm/edid: Always set RGB444

Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com>
    openvswitch: Fix setting ipv6 fields causing hw csum failure

Tao Liu <thomas.liu@ucloud.cn>
    gso: do not skip outer ip header in case of ipip and net_failover

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    net: __pskb_pull_tail() & pskb_carve_frag_list() drop_monitor friends

Robert Hancock <robert.hancock@calian.com>
    serial: 8250: of: Fix mapped region size when using reg-offset property

Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
    serial: 8250: fix error handling in of_platform_serial_probe()

Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
    USB: zaurus: support another broken Zaurus

Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
    sr9700: sanity check for packet length

Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    parisc/unaligned: Fix ldw() and stw() unalignment handlers

Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    parisc/unaligned: Fix fldd and fstd unaligned handlers on 32-bit kernel

Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
    vhost/vsock: don't check owner in vhost_vsock_stop() while releasing

david regan <dregan@mail.com>
    mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: Fixed incorrect sub-page ECC status


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

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c                     | 14 ++---
 drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c                          | 14 +++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c                     |  9 ++-
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c                |  6 +-
 drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c               |  2 +-
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c                        | 12 ++++
 drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c                           |  2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/zaurus.c                           | 12 ++++
 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c                                |  4 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c                  | 30 ++++++---
 drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c                          |  2 +
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c                |  8 +++
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.h                |  1 +
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/udc-xilinx.c                |  6 ++
 drivers/usb/host/xhci.c                            |  9 ++-
 drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c                         |  1 -
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        | 12 ++++
 drivers/vhost/vsock.c                              | 21 ++++---
 fs/configfs/dir.c                                  | 14 +++++
 fs/file.c                                          | 73 +++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/tracefs/inode.c                                 |  5 +-
 include/net/checksum.h                             |  5 ++
 mm/memblock.c                                      | 10 ++-
 net/core/skbuff.c                                  |  4 +-
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c                                 |  5 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c                             |  2 +
 net/openvswitch/actions.c                          | 46 +++++++++++---
 30 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

On 2/28/2022 9:23 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.304 release.
> There are 29 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, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +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-4.9.304-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, 28 Feb 2022 at 22:56, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.304 release.
> There are 29 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, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +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-4.9.304-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: 4.9.304-rc1
* git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
* git branch: linux-4.9.y
* git commit: 796b7c82bdd7bb76761023d7077dc83ebc321efd
* git describe: v4.9.303-30-g796b7c82bdd7
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.303-30-g796b7c82bdd7

## Test Regressions (compared to v4.9.302-34-g6686f147d38f)
No test regressions found.

## Metric Regressions (compared to v4.9.302-34-g6686f147d38f)
No metric regressions found.

## Test Fixes (compared to v4.9.302-34-g6686f147d38f)
No test fixes found.

## Metric Fixes (compared to v4.9.302-34-g6686f147d38f)
No metric fixes found.

## Test result summary
total: 77979, pass: 64313, fail: 294, skip: 11828, xfail: 1544

## 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
* igt-gpu-tools
* kselftest-android
* kselftest-bpf
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-cgroup
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-cpufreq
* 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-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
* vdso

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

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022, at 12:23 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.304 release.
> There are 29 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, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

4.9.304-rc1 compiled and booted with no errors or regressions on my x86_64 test system.

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

Cheers, 
Slade

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 06:23:27PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.304 release.
> There are 29 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, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +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:

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

Guenter

On 2/28/22 10:23 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.304 release.
> There are 29 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, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +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-4.9.304-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