This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.8 release.
There are 77 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 Jan 16 00:27:35 UTC 2014.
Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.12.8-rc1.gz
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <
gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 3.12.8-rc1
Paul Turner <
p...@google.com>
sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight
Ben Segall <
bse...@google.com>
sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock
Ben Segall <
bse...@google.com>
sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining
Ben Segall <
bse...@google.com>
sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used
Linus Torvalds <
torv...@linux-foundation.org>
x86, fpu, amd: Clear exceptions in AMD FXSAVE workaround
Daniel Borkmann <
dbor...@redhat.com>
netfilter: nf_nat: fix access to uninitialized buffer in IRC NAT helper
Phil Oester <
ker...@linuxace.com>
netfilter: fix wrong byte order in nf_ct_seqadj_set internal information
Bernd Schubert <
bernd.s...@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
SCSI: sd: Reduce buffer size for vpd request
Dirk Brandewie <
dirk.j.b...@intel.com>
intel_pstate: Add X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF to cpu match parameters.
Felix Fietkau <
n...@openwrt.org>
mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan
Lan Tianyu <
tiany...@intel.com>
ACPI / Battery: Add a _BIX quirk for NEC LZ750/LS
Jiang Liu <
jian...@linux.intel.com>
ACPI / TPM: fix memory leak when walking ACPI namespace
Thomas Gleixner <
tg...@linutronix.de>
mfd: rtsx_pcr: Disable interrupts before cancelling delayed works
Milo Kim <
milo...@ti.com>
leds: lp5521/5523: Remove duplicate mutex
Andrew Bresticker <
abre...@chromium.org>
clk: exynos5250: fix sysmmu_mfc{l,r} gate clocks
Abhilash Kesavan <
a.ke...@samsung.com>
clk: samsung: exynos5250: Add CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED flag for the sysreg clock
Abhilash Kesavan <
a.ke...@samsung.com>
clk: samsung: exynos5250: Add MDMA0 clocks
Abhilash Kesavan <
a.ke...@samsung.com>
clk: samsung: exynos5250: Fix ACP gate register offset
Seung-Woo Kim <
sw031...@samsung.com>
clk: samsung: exynos4: Correct SRC_MFC register
James Hogan <
james...@imgtec.com>
clk: clk-divider: fix divisor > 255 bug
Simon Guinot <
sgu...@lacie.com>
ahci: add PCI ID for Marvell 88SE9170 SATA controller
John David Anglin <
dave....@bell.net>
parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap
Ilia Mirkin <
imi...@alum.mit.edu>
drm/nouveau/bios: make jump conditional
Laurent Pinchart <
laurent.pinc...@ideasonboard.com>
ARM: shmobile: mackerel: Fix coherent DMA mask
Laurent Pinchart <
laurent.pinc...@ideasonboard.com>
ARM: shmobile: armadillo: Fix coherent DMA mask
Laurent Pinchart <
laurent.pinc...@ideasonboard.com>
ARM: shmobile: kzm9g: Fix coherent DMA mask
Abhilash Kesavan <
a.ke...@samsung.com>
ARM: dts: exynos5250: Fix MDMA0 clock number
Steven Capper <
steve....@linaro.org>
ARM: 7923/1: mm: fix dcache flush logic for compound high pages
Russell King <
rmk+k...@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: fix "bad mode in ... handler" message for undefined instructions
Russell King <
rmk+k...@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: fix footbridge clockevent device
Robert Stonehouse <
rston...@solarflare.com>
sfc: Poll for MCDI completion once before timeout occurs
Robert Stonehouse <
rston...@solarflare.com>
sfc: Refactor efx_mcdi_poll() by introducing efx_mcdi_poll_once()
Andrew Rybchenko <
Andrew.R...@oktetlabs.ru>
sfc: RX buffer allocation takes prefix size into account in IP header alignment
Ben Hutchings <
bhutc...@solarflare.com>
sfc: Maintain current frequency adjustment when applying a time offset
Alexandre Rames <
ara...@solarflare.com>
sfc: Stop/re-start PTP when stopping/starting the datapath.
Ben Hutchings <
bhutc...@solarflare.com>
sfc: Rate-limit log message for PTP packets without a matching timestamp event
Laurence Evans <
lev...@solarflare.com>
sfc: PTP: Moderate log message on event queue overflow
Ben Hutchings <
bhutc...@solarflare.com>
sfc: Add length checks to efx_xmit_with_hwtstamp() and efx_ptp_is_ptp_tx()
Curt Brune <
cu...@cumulusnetworks.com>
bridge: use spin_lock_bh() in br_multicast_set_hash_max
David S. Miller <
da...@davemloft.net>
netpoll: Fix missing TXQ unlock and and OOPS.
Daniel Borkmann <
dbor...@redhat.com>
net: llc: fix use after free in llc_ui_recvmsg
Jason Wang <
jaso...@redhat.com>
virtio-net: fix refill races during restore
Wei-Chun Chao <
weic...@plumgrid.com>
ipv4: fix tunneled VM traffic over hw VXLAN/GRE GSO NIC
Michael S. Tsirkin <
m...@redhat.com>
virtio_net: don't leak memory or block when too many frags
Michael S. Tsirkin <
m...@redhat.com>
virtio-net: make all RX paths handle errors consistently
Michael S. Tsirkin <
m...@redhat.com>
virtio_net: fix error handling for mergeable buffers
David S. Miller <
da...@davemloft.net>
vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload.
Florian Westphal <
f...@strlen.de>
net: rose: restore old recvmsg behavior
Eric Dumazet <
eric.d...@gmail.com>
arc_emac: fix potential use after free
Sasha Levin <
sasha...@oracle.com>
rds: prevent dereference of a NULL device
Li RongQing <
roy.q...@gmail.com>
ipv6: always set the new created dst's from in ip6_rt_copy
Eric Dumazet <
edum...@google.com>
net: fec: fix potential use after free
Salva Peiró <
spe...@ai2.upv.es>
hamradio/yam: fix info leak in ioctl
Wenliang Fan <
fanw...@gmail.com>
drivers/net/hamradio: Integer overflow in hdlcdrv_ioctl()
Daniel Borkmann <
dbor...@redhat.com>
net: inet_diag: zero out uninitialized idiag_{src,dst} fields
Timo Teräs <
timo....@iki.fi>
ip_gre: fix msg_name parsing for recvfrom/recvmsg
Sasha Levin <
sasha...@oracle.com>
net: unix: allow bind to fail on mutex lock
Hannes Frederic Sowa <
han...@stressinduktion.org>
ipv6: fix illegal mac_header comparison on 32bit
Jason Wang <
jaso...@redhat.com>
netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during setting mtu
Nat Gurumoorthy <
na...@google.com>
tg3: Initialize REG_BASE_ADDR at PCI config offset 120 to 0
Fan Du <
fan...@windriver.com>
vxlan: release rt when found circular route
Sasha Levin <
sasha...@oracle.com>
net: unix: allow set_peek_off to fail
Stefan Tomanek <
stefan....@wertarbyte.de>
inet: fix NULL pointer Oops in fib(6)_rule_suppress
Changli Gao <
xia...@gmail.com>
net: drop_monitor: fix the value of maxattr
Hannes Frederic Sowa <
han...@stressinduktion.org>
ipv6: don't count addrconf generated routes against gc limit
Daniel Borkmann <
dbor...@redhat.com>
packet: fix send path when running with proto == 0
Jiri Pirko <
ji...@resnulli.us>
br: fix use of ->rx_handler_data in code executed on non-rx_handler path
Andrey Vagin <
ava...@openvz.org>
virtio: delete napi structures from netdev before releasing memory
Jason Wang <
jaso...@redhat.com>
macvtap: signal truncated packets
Vlad Yasevich <
vyas...@redhat.com>
macvtap: Do not double-count received packets
Jason Wang <
jaso...@redhat.com>
tun: unbreak truncated packet signalling
Zhi Yong Wu <
wu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
tun: update file current position
Zhi Yong Wu <
wu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
macvtap: update file current position
Hannes Frederic Sowa <
han...@stressinduktion.org>
net: clear local_df when passing skb between namespaces
Venkat Venkatsubra <
venkat.x.v...@oracle.com>
rds: prevent BUG_ON triggered on congestion update to loopback
Eric Dumazet <
edum...@google.com>
net: do not pretend FRAGLIST support
Kamala R <
kam...@aristanetworks.com>
IPv6: Fixed support for blackhole and prohibit routes
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Diffstat:
.../devicetree/bindings/clock/exynos5250-clock.txt | 2 +
Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 10 ++
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250.dtsi | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 8 +-
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285-timer.c | 5 +-
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-armadillo800eva.c | 4 +-
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-kzm9g.c | 2 +-
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c | 4 +-
arch/arm/mm/flush.c | 6 +-
arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 12 +--
arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h | 5 +-
arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 35 ------
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h | 13 +--
drivers/acpi/battery.c | 21 +++-
drivers/ata/ahci.c | 3 +
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c | 15 +--
drivers/clk/clk-divider.c | 2 +-
drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos4.c | 2 +-
drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5250.c | 14 ++-
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 3 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/init.c | 6 +-
drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c | 12 +--
drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c | 12 +--
drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.c | 10 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 3 +
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 8 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c | 39 +++++--
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/net_driver.h | 3 +
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.h | 2 +
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c | 66 ++++++++++--
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/tehuti/tehuti.c | 1 -
drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c | 2 +
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 1 +
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 1 -
drivers/net/macvtap.c | 23 ++--
drivers/net/tun.c | 18 ++--
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 119 +++++++++++++++------
drivers/net/vxlan.c | 2 +-
drivers/scsi/sd.c | 5 +-
include/linux/net.h | 2 +-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 22 ++++
include/linux/skbuff.h | 5 +
kernel/sched/core.c | 9 +-
kernel/sched/fair.c | 48 ++++++---
kernel/sched/sched.h | 3 +-
net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 19 +++-
net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 +-
net/bridge/br_private.h | 10 ++
net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 2 +-
net/core/drop_monitor.c | 1 -
net/core/neighbour.c | 2 +-
net/core/netpoll.c | 11 +-
net/core/skbuff.c | 1 +
net/core/sock.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/fib_rules.c | 5 +-
net/ipv4/gre_offload.c | 11 +-
net/ipv4/inet_diag.c | 16 +++
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/udp.c | 6 +-
net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 37 +++----
net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c | 6 +-
net/ipv6/route.c | 34 +++---
net/ipv6/udp_offload.c | 2 +-
net/llc/af_llc.c | 5 +-
net/mac80211/tx.c | 23 ++--
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c | 4 +-
net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c | 32 +++++-
net/packet/af_packet.c | 65 ++++++-----
net/rds/ib.c | 3 +-
net/rds/ib_send.c | 5 +-
net/rose/af_rose.c | 16 +--
net/unix/af_unix.c | 16 ++-
79 files changed, 625 insertions(+), 328 deletions(-)