[PATCH 5.4 00/13] 5.4.88-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-07T14:33:10Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.88 release.
There are 13 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, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +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-5.4.88-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-5.4.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 5.4.88-rc1

Zhang Xiaohui <ruc_zhangxiaohui@163.com>
mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
rwsem: Implement down_read_interruptible

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
rwsem: Implement down_read_killable_nested

peterz@infradead.org <peterz@infradead.org>
perf: Break deadlock involving exec_update_mutex

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
fuse: fix bad inode

Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
iio:imu:bmi160: Fix alignment and data leak issues

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
kdev_t: always inline major/minor helper functions

Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing kfree() call in at_dma_xlate()

Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing put_device() call in at_dma_xlate()

Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
dmaengine: at_hdmac: Substitute kzalloc with kmalloc

Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Revert "mtd: spinand: Fix OOB read"

Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Revert "drm/amd/display: Fix memory leaks in S3 resume"

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 11 +++--
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 3 +-
drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160.h | 7 +++
drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160_core.c | 6 +--
drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 4 --
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/join.c | 2 +
fs/exec.c | 12 +++---
fs/fuse/acl.c | 6 +++
fs/fuse/dir.c | 37 +++++++++++++---
fs/fuse/file.c | 19 +++++----
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 12 ++++++
fs/fuse/inode.c | 4 +-
fs/fuse/readdir.c | 4 +-
fs/fuse/xattr.c | 9 ++++
fs/proc/base.c | 10 ++---
include/linux/kdev_t.h | 22 +++++-----
include/linux/rwsem.h | 3 ++
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 11 ++---
init/init_task.c | 2 +-
kernel/events/core.c | 52 +++++++++++------------
kernel/fork.c | 6 +--
kernel/kcmp.c | 30 ++++++-------
kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++
24 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)