[PATCH 4.9 00/32] 4.9.255-rc1 review

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

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.255 release.
There are 32 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, 04 Feb 2021 13:29:33 +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-4.9.255-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 4.9.255-rc1

Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
    NFC: fix possible resource leak

Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
    NFC: fix resource leak when target index is invalid

Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
    iommu/vt-d: Don't dereference iommu_device if IOMMU_API is not built

David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
    iommu/vt-d: Gracefully handle DMAR units with no supported address widths

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    can: dev: prevent potential information leak in can_fill_info()

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    mac80211: pause TX while changing interface type

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    iwlwifi: pcie: reschedule in long-running memory reads

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    iwlwifi: pcie: use jiffies for memory read spin time limit

Kamal Heib <kamalheib1@gmail.com>
    RDMA/cxgb4: Fix the reported max_recv_sge value

Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik@metanetworks.com>
    xfrm: Fix oops in xfrm_replay_advance_bmp

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
    netfilter: nft_dynset: add timeout extension to template

Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09@gmail.com>
    ARM: imx: build suspend-imx6.S with arm instruction set

Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
    mt7601u: fix rx buffer refcounting

Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
    mt7601u: fix kernel crash unplugging the device

Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
    leds: trigger: fix potential deadlock with libata

Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>
    KVM: x86: get smi pending status correctly

Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
    KVM: x86/pmu: Fix HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES event pseudo-encoding in intel_arch_events[]

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Prevent exit livelock

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Add mutex around futex exit

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Sanitize exit state handling

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    futex: Move futex exit handling into futex code

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c

Giacinto Cifelli <gciofono@gmail.com>
    net: usb: qmi_wwan: added support for Thales Cinterion PLSx3 modem family

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    wext: fix NULL-ptr-dereference with cfg80211's lack of commit()

Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
    ACPI: sysfs: Prefer "compatible" modalias


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                        |   4 +-
 arch/arm/mach-imx/suspend-imx6.S                |   1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu_intel.c                        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                              |   5 +
 drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c                     |  20 +-
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c                |   2 +-
 drivers/iommu/dmar.c                            |  41 ++-
 drivers/leds/led-triggers.c                     |  10 +-
 drivers/net/can/dev.c                           |   2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c                      |   1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c |  14 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/dma.c     |   5 +-
 fs/exec.c                                       |   2 +-
 include/linux/compat.h                          |   2 -
 include/linux/futex.h                           |  44 ++-
 include/linux/intel-iommu.h                     |   2 +
 include/linux/sched.h                           |   9 +-
 kernel/Makefile                                 |   3 -
 kernel/exit.c                                   |  29 +-
 kernel/fork.c                                   |  40 +--
 kernel/futex.c                                  | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/futex_compat.c                           | 201 -----------
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h                      |   1 +
 net/mac80211/iface.c                            |   6 +
 net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c                      |   4 +-
 net/nfc/netlink.c                               |   1 +
 net/nfc/rawsock.c                               |   2 +-
 net/wireless/wext-core.c                        |   5 +-
 net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c                           |   2 +-
 29 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 361 deletions(-)