This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.312 release.
There are 24 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 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:17:22 +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-4.9.312-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 4.9.312-rc1

Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
    block/compat_ioctl: fix range check in BLKGETSIZE

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    ext4: force overhead calculation if the s_overhead_cluster makes no sense

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    ext4: fix overhead calculation to account for the reserved gdt blocks

Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
    ext4: limit length to bitmap_maxbytes - blocksize in punch_hole

Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich@synopsys.com>
    ARC: entry: fix syscall_trace_exit argument

Sasha Neftin <sasha.neftin@intel.com>
    e1000e: Fix possible overflow in LTR decoding

Xiaomeng Tong <xiam0nd.tong@gmail.com>
    ASoC: soc-dapm: fix two incorrect uses of list iterator

Paolo Valerio <pvalerio@redhat.com>
    openvswitch: fix OOB access in reserve_sfa_size()

Xiaomeng Tong <xiam0nd.tong@gmail.com>
    dma: at_xdmac: fix a missing check on list iterator

Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@gmail.com>
    ata: pata_marvell: Check the 'bmdma_addr' beforing reading

Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
    drm/msm/mdp5: check the return of kzalloc()

Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    brcmfmac: sdio: Fix undefined behavior due to shift overflowing the constant

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    cifs: Check the IOCB_DIRECT flag, not O_DIRECT

Hongbin Wang <wh_bin@126.com>
    vxlan: fix error return code in vxlan_fdb_append

Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    ALSA: usb-audio: Fix undefined behavior due to shift overflowing the constant

Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
    platform/x86: samsung-laptop: Fix an unsigned comparison which can never be negative

Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    ARM: vexpress/spc: Avoid negative array index when !SMP

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    netlink: reset network and mac headers in netlink_dump()

Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
    net/packet: fix packet_sock xmit return value checking

Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
    dmaengine: imx-sdma: Fix error checking in sdma_event_remap

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    ALSA: usb-audio: Clear MIDI port active flag after draining

Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
    gfs2: assign rgrp glock before compute_bitstructs

Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@gmail.com>
    mm: page_alloc: fix building error on -Werror=array-compare

Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    etherdevice: Adjust ether_addr* prototypes to silence -Wstringop-overead


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

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                              |  4 ++--
 arch/arc/kernel/entry.S                               |  1 +
 arch/arm/mach-vexpress/spc.c                          |  2 +-
 block/compat_ioctl.c                                  |  2 +-
 drivers/ata/pata_marvell.c                            |  2 ++
 drivers/dma/at_xdmac.c                                | 12 +++++++-----
 drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c                                |  4 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/msm/mdp/mdp5/mdp5_plane.c             |  3 +++
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c           |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/vxlan.c                                   |  4 ++--
 .../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c                 |  2 --
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c                                      |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/inode.c                                       | 11 ++++++++++-
 fs/ext4/super.c                                       | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 fs/gfs2/rgrp.c                                        |  9 +++++----
 include/linux/etherdevice.h                           |  5 ++---
 mm/page_alloc.c                                       |  2 +-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c                              |  7 +++++++
 net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c                        |  2 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c                                | 13 +++++++++----
 sound/soc/soc-dapm.c                                  |  6 ++----
 sound/usb/midi.c                                      |  1 +
 sound/usb/usbaudio.h                                  |  2 +-
 24 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 13:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.312 release.
> There are 24 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 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:17:22 +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-4.9.312-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: 4.9.312-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git branch: linux-4.9.y
* git commit: 73ad06e1327e6e3dfd8ae7c18bcf71b07fbe4683
* git describe: v4.9.311-25-g73ad06e1327e
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.9.y/build/v4.9.311-25-g73ad06e1327e

## Test Regressions (compared to v4.9.311)
No test regressions found.

## Metric Regressions (compared to v4.9.311)
No metric regressions found.

## Test Fixes (compared to v4.9.311)
No test fixes found.

## Metric Fixes (compared to v4.9.311)
No metric fixes found.

## Test result summary
total: 69281, pass: 54230, fail: 779, skip: 12094, xfail: 2178

## 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-arm64
* 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
* vdso

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

On 4/26/22 2:20 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.312 release.
> There are 24 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 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:17:22 +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-4.9.312-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 Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.312 release.
> There are 24 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 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:17:22 +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

Hi!

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.312 release.
> There are 24 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.

CIP testing did not find any problems here:

https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/tree/linux-4.9.y

Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@denx.de>

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel
-- 
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany

On 4/26/22 01:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.312 release.
> There are 24 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 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:17:22 +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-4.9.312-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