[PATCH 5.5 00/23] 5.5.2-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-03T16:38:46Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.5.2 release.
There are 23 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, 05 Feb 2020 16:17:59 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.5.2-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-5.5.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 5.5.2-rc1

Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
cgroup: Prevent double killing of css when enabling threaded cgroup

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Bluetooth: Fix race condition in hci_release_sock()

Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com>
ttyprintk: fix a potential deadlock in interrupt context issue

Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
tomoyo: Use atomic_t for statistics counter

Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
media: dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c: initialize actlen to 0

Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
media: gspca: zero usb_buf

Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
media: vp7045: do not read uninitialized values if usb transfer fails

Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
media: af9005: uninitialized variable printked

Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
media: digitv: don't continue if remote control state can't be read

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
reiserfs: Fix memory leak of journal device string

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
mm/mempolicy.c: fix out of bounds write in mpol_parse_str()

Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>
arm64: kbuild: remove compressed images on 'make ARCH=arm64 (dist)clean'

Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
tools lib: Fix builds when glibc contains strlcpy()

Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
PM / devfreq: Add new name attribute for sysfs

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
perf c2c: Fix return type for histogram sorting comparision functions

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
lib/test_bitmap: correct test data offsets for 32-bit

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
gfs2: Another gfs2_find_jhead fix

David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix -Werror=return-type build failure

Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free due to inaccurate refcount of rdtgroup

Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free when deleting resource groups

Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference

Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
cifs: fix soft mounts hanging in the reconnect code

Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
vfs: fix do_last() regression

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Diffstat:

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devfreq | 7 +++
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm64/boot/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 32 ++++++++-----
drivers/char/ttyprintk.c | 15 +++---
drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 9 ++++
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/digitv.c | 10 ++--
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/vp7045.c | 21 ++++++---
drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c | 2 +-
fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 2 +-
fs/gfs2/lops.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++----------
fs/namei.c | 4 +-
fs/reiserfs/super.c | 2 +
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 11 +++--
lib/test_bitmap.c | 9 ++--
mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +--
net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 3 ++
security/tomoyo/common.c | 11 ++---
tools/include/linux/string.h | 8 ++++
tools/lib/string.c | 7 +++
tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 10 ++--
24 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)