[PATCH 4.9 00/20] 4.9.307-rc1 review

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

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.307 release.
There are 20 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, 16 Mar 2022 11:27:22 +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-4.9.307-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 4.9.307-rc1

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: unlock newly allocated extent buffer after error

Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
    ARM: fix Thumb2 regression with Spectre BHB

Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
    batman-adv: Don't expect inter-netns unique iflink indices

Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
    batman-adv: Request iflink once in batadv-on-batadv check

James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
    KVM: arm64: Reset PMC_EL0 to avoid a panic() on systems with no PMU

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx()

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    ARM: Spectre-BHB: provide empty stub for non-config

Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
    selftests/memfd: clean up mapping in mfd_fail_write

Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
    tracing: Ensure trace buffer is at least 4096 bytes large

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
    Revert "xen-netback: Check for hotplug-status existence before watching"

suresh kumar <suresh2514@gmail.com>
    net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    sctp: fix kernel-infoleak for SCTP sockets

Mark Featherston <mark@embeddedTS.com>
    gpio: ts4900: Do not set DAT and OE together

Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
    NFC: port100: fix use-after-free in port100_send_complete

Mohammad Kabat <mohammadkab@nvidia.com>
    net/mlx5: Fix size field in bufferx_reg struct

Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
    ax25: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ax25_kill_by_device

Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn>
    net: ethernet: lpc_eth: Handle error for clk_enable

Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
    ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe

Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
    qed: return status of qed_iov_get_link

Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
    net: qlogic: check the return value of dma_alloc_coherent() in qed_vf_hw_prepare()


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                      |  4 ++--
 arch/arm/include/asm/spectre.h                |  6 ++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S                  |  4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c                     |  4 +++-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4900.c                    | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c            |  5 ++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c   | 18 +++++++++++-------
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c      |  7 +++++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c |  4 +++-
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c              | 12 ++++--------
 drivers/nfc/port100.c                         |  2 ++
 drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_lte.c             |  5 +++--
 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c                        |  1 +
 include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h                 |  4 ++--
 kernel/trace/trace.c                          | 10 ++++++----
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c                            |  7 +++++++
 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c               | 13 ++++++++-----
 net/core/net-sysfs.c                          |  2 +-
 net/sctp/sctp_diag.c                          |  9 +++------
 tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c    |  1 +
 20 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)