[PATCH 4.9 0/9] 4.9.299-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

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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


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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(-)