[PATCH 3.8 34/91] sctp: Perform software checksum if packet has to be fragmented.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Vlad Yasevich [ Upstream commit d2dbbba77e95dff4b4f901fee236fef6d9552072 ] IP/IPv6 fragmentation knows how to compute only TCP/UDP checksum. This causes problems if SCTP packets has to

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree

On 11/07/2013 08:08 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:53:07PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:04:57 -0600 Dave Kleikamp >> wrote: >>> >>> Can you please drop the aio-direct tree for the time being? >> >> OK, I was afraid of this, but,

sysfs related lockdep trace in current tree.

Haven't seen this before today, so I'm guessing it's related to the sysfs changes that just got merged? Dave [ 853.451912] == [ 853.451934] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [ 853.451959] 3.12.0+ #113 Not

[PATCH 3.8 86/91] staging: wlags49_h2: buffer overflow setting station name

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dan Carpenter commit b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054 upstream. We need to check the length parameter before doing the memcpy(). I've actually changed it to strlcpy() as well

[PATCH 3.8 28/91] unix_diag: fix info leak

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mathias Krause [ Upstream commit 6865d1e834be84ddd5808d93d5035b492346c64a ] When filling the netlink message we miss to wipe the pad field, therefore leak one byte of heap memory to

[PATCH 3.8 35/91] wanxl: fix info leak in ioctl

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: =?UTF-8?q?Salva=20Peir=C3=B3?= [ Upstream commit 2b13d06c9584b4eb773f1e80bbaedab9a1c344e1 ] The wanxl_ioctl() code fails to initialize the two padding bytes of struct

[PATCH 3.8 23/91] xen-netback: Don't destroy the netdev until the vif is shut down

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Paul Durrant [ Upstream commit 279f438e36c0a70b23b86d2090aeec50155034a9 ] Without this patch, if a frontend cycles through states Closing and Closed (which Windows frontends need to

[PATCH 3.8 91/91] scripts/kallsyms: filter symbols not in kernel address space

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Ming Lei commit f6537f2f0eba4eba3354e48dbe3047db6d8b6254 upstream. This patch uses CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET to filter symbols which are not in kernel address space because these symbols are

[PATCH 3.8 36/91] net: unix: inherit SOCK_PASS{CRED, SEC} flags from socket to fix race

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Daniel Borkmann [ Upstream commit 90c6bd34f884cd9cee21f1d152baf6c18bcac949 ] In the case of credentials passing in unix stream sockets (dgram sockets seem not affected), we get a

[PATCH 3.8 31/91] bridge: Correctly clamp MAX forward_delay when enabling STP

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Vlad Yasevich [ Upstream commit 4b6c7879d84ad06a2ac5b964808ed599187a188d ] Commit be4f154d5ef0ca147ab6bcd38857a774133f5450 bridge: Clamp forward_delay when enabling STP had a

[PATCH 3.8 29/91] connector: use nlmsg_len() to check message length

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mathias Krause [ Upstream commit 162b2bedc084d2d908a04c93383ba02348b648b0 ] The current code tests the length of the whole netlink message to be at least as long to fit a cn_msg. This

[PATCH 3.8 71/91] drm/i915: quirk away phantom LVDS on Intel's D510MO mainboard

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Chris Wilson commit e5614f0c2d0f4d7f0b8ef745d34593baf2c5dbf8 upstream. This replaceable mainboard only has a VGA-out, yet it claims to also have a connected LVDS header. Addresses

[PATCH 3.8 90/91] lib/scatterlist.c: don't flush_kernel_dcache_page on slab page

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Ming Lei commit 3d77b50c5874b7e923be946ba793644f82336b75 upstream. Commit b1adaf65ba03 ("[SCSI] block: add sg buffer copy helper functions") introduces two sg buffer copy helpers, and

Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 1/2] userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted

On 11/02/2013 02:06 PM, Gao feng wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On 08/28/2013 05:44 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Rely on the fact that another flavor of the filesystem is already >> mounted and do not rely on state in the user namespace. >> >> Verify that the mounted filesystem is not covered in any

[PATCH 3.8 82/91] ASoC: wm_hubs: Add missing break in hp_supply_event()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Takashi Iwai commit 268ff14525edba31da29a12a9dd693cdd6a7872e upstream. Spotted by coverity CID 115170. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Kamal

[PATCH 3.8 46/91] ath9k: fix tx queue scheduling after channel changes

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Felix Fietkau commit ec30326ea773900da210c495e14cfeb532550ba2 upstream. Otherwise, if queues are full during a scan, tx scheduling does not resume after switching back to the home

[PATCH 3.8 38/91] inet: fix possible memory corruption with UDP_CORK and UFO

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Hannes Frederic Sowa [ This is a simplified -stable version of a set of upstream commits. ] This is a replacement patch only for stable which does fix the problems handled by the

[PATCH 3.8 42/91] mac80211: drop spoofed packets in ad-hoc mode

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Felix Fietkau commit 6329b8d917adc077caa60c2447385554130853a3 upstream. If an Ad-Hoc node receives packets with the Cell ID or its own MAC address as source address, it hits a WARN_ON

[PATCH 3.8 27/91] farsync: fix info leak in ioctl

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: =?UTF-8?q?Salva=20Peir=C3=B3?= [ Upstream commit 96b340406724d87e4621284ebac5e059d67b2194 ] The fst_get_iface() code fails to initialize the two padding bytes of struct

[PATCH 3.8 43/91] mac80211: use sta_info_get_bss() for nl80211 tx and client probing

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Felix Fietkau commit 03bb7f42765ce596604f03d179f3137d7df05bba upstream. This allows calls for clients in AP_VLANs (e.g. for 4-addr) to succeed Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau

[PATCH 3.8 68/91] xtensa: don't use alternate signal stack on threads

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Baruch Siach commit cba9a90053e3b7973eff4f1946f33032e98eeed5 upstream. According to create_thread(3): "The new thread does not inherit the creating thread's alternate signal stack".

[PATCH 3.8 85/91] aacraid: missing capable() check in compat ioctl

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dan Carpenter commit f856567b930dfcdbc3323261bf77240ccdde01f5 upstream. In commit d496f94d22d1 ('[SCSI] aacraid: fix security weakness') we added a check on CAP_SYS_RAWIO to the ioctl.

[PATCH 3.8 30/91] virtio-net: don't respond to cpu hotplug notifier if we're not ready

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Jason Wang [ Upstream commit 3ab098df35f8b98b6553edc2e40234af512ba877 ] We're trying to re-configure the affinity unconditionally in cpu hotplug callback. This may lead the issue

Re: [PATCH] arch: arc: uapi: be sure of "_UAPI" prefix for all guard macros

On 11/08/2013 10:36 AM, Chen Gang wrote: > For all uapi headers, need use "_UAPI" prefix for its guard macro > (which will be stripped by "scripts/headers_installler.sh"). > > And be sure of all "endif" append (or have correct) related comment. > > Also reserve guard macro in empty file, since

[PATCH 3.8 88/91] Staging: sb105x: info leak in mp_get_count()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dan Carpenter commit a8b33654b1e3b0c74d4a1fed041c9aae50b3c427 upstream. The icount.reserved[] array isn't initialized so it leaks stack information to userspace. Reported-by: Nico

[PATCH 3.8 45/91] mwifiex: fix SDIO interrupt lost issue

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Amitkumar Karwar commit 453b0c3f6910672f79da354077af728d92f95c5b upstream. 601216e "mwifiex: process RX packets in SDIO IRQ thread directly" introduced a command timeout issue which

[PATCH 3.8 26/91] l2tp: must disable bh before calling l2tp_xmit_skb()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit 455cc32bf128e114455d11ad919321ab89a2c312 ] François Cachereul made a very nice bug report and suspected the bh_lock_sock() / bh_unlok_sock() pair used in

[PATCH 3.8 41/91] cfg80211: fix warning when using WEXT for IBSS

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Bruno Randolf commit f478f33a93f9353dcd1fe55445343d76b1c3f84a upstream. Fix kernel warning when using WEXT for configuring ad-hoc mode, e.g. "iwconfig wlan0 essid test channel 1"

[PATCH] arch: arc: uapi: be sure of "_UAPI" prefix for all guard macros

For all uapi headers, need use "_UAPI" prefix for its guard macro (which will be stripped by "scripts/headers_installler.sh"). And be sure of all "endif" append (or have correct) related comment. Also reserve guard macro in empty file, since some of "usr/include/*" header files may check guard

[PATCH 3.8 25/91] vti: get rid of nf mark rule in prerouting

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Christophe Gouault [ Upstream commit 7263a5187f9e9de45fcb51349cf0e031142c19a1 ] This patch fixes and improves the use of vti interfaces (while lightly changing the way of configuring

[PATCH 3.8 70/91] ASoC: dapm: Fix source list debugfs outputs

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Takashi Iwai commit ff18620c2157671a8ee21ebb8e6a3520ea209b1f upstream. ... due to a copy & paste error. Spotted by coverity CID 710923. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by:

[PATCH 3.8 53/91] drm/vmwgfx: Don't put resources with invalid id's on lru list

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Thomas Hellstrom commit 26682480c202e7360cbcdc3bc9e962bf749c6b8d upstream. The evict code may try to swap them out causing a BUG in the destroy function. Signed-off-by: Thomas

[PATCH 3.8 48/91] mac80211: correctly close cancelled scans

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Emmanuel Grumbach commit a754055a1296fcbe6f32de3a5eaca6efb2fd1865 upstream. __ieee80211_scan_completed is called from a worker. This means that the following flow is possible. *

[PATCH 3.8 50/91] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix error in pointer arithmetic

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mark Cave-Ayland commit 9473ca6e920a3b9ca902753ce52833657f9221cc upstream. An error in calculating the offset in an skb causes the driver to read essential device info from the wrong

[PATCH 3.8 69/91] ALSA: hda - Fix unbalanced runtime PM refcount after S3/S4

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Takashi Iwai commit e6bbe73ab044a3d39ddb74e4d9a401cf1d6f upstream. When a machine goes to S3/S4 after power-save is enabled, the runtime PM refcount might be incorrectly decreased

[PATCH 3.8 37/91] net: fix cipso packet validation when !NETLABEL

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Seif Mazareeb [ Upstream commit f2e5ddcc0d12f9c4c7b254358ad245c9dddce13b ] When CONFIG_NETLABEL is disabled, the cipso_v4_validate() function could loop forever in the main loop if

[PATCH 3.8 60/91] md: avoid deadlock when md_set_badblocks.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Bian Yu commit 905b0297a9533d7a6ee00a01a990456636877dd6 upstream. When operate harddisk and hit errors, md_set_badblocks is called after scsi_restart_operations which already disabled

[PATCH 3.8 66/91] dmi: add support for exact DMI matches in addition to substring matching

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Jani Nikula commit 5017b2851373ee15c7035151853bb1448800cae2 upstream. dmi_match() considers a substring match to be a successful match. This is not always sufficient to distinguish

[PATCH 3.8 33/91] sctp: Use software crc32 checksum when xfrm transform will happen.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Fan Du [ Upstream commit 27127a82561a2a3ed955ce207048e1b066a80a2a ] igb/ixgbe have hardware sctp checksum support, when this feature is enabled and also IPsec is armed to protect sctp

[PATCH 3.8 62/91] raid5: avoid finding "discard" stripe

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Shaohua Li commit d47648fcf0611812286f68131b40251c6fa54f5e upstream. SCSI discard will damage discard stripe bio setting, eg, some fields are changed. If the stripe is reused very

[PATCH 3.8 58/91] drm/radeon/atom: workaround vbios bug in transmitter table on rs780

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Alex Deucher commit c23632d4e57c0dd20bf50eca08fa0eb8ad3ff680 upstream. Some rs780 asics seem to be affected as well. See:

[PATCH 3.8 51/91] wireless: radiotap: fix parsing buffer overrun

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Johannes Berg commit f5563318ff1bde15b10e736e97ffce13be08bc1a upstream. When parsing an invalid radiotap header, the parser can overrun the buffer that is passed in because it doesn't

[PATCH 3.8 47/91] libata: make ata_eh_qc_retry() bump scmd->allowed on bogus failures

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Gwendal Grignou commit f13e220161e738c2710b9904dcb3cf8bb0bcce61 upstream. libata EH decrements scmd->retries when the command failed for reasons unrelated to the command itself so

[PATCH 3.8 54/91] drm/vmwgfx: Don't kill clients on VT switch

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Thomas Hellstrom commit c4249855ac5b2a383704d31e040d3831d6a25c6f upstream. DRI clients that tried to grab the TTM lock when the master (X server) was switched away during a VT switch

[PATCH 3.8 65/91] parisc: Do not crash 64bit SMP kernels on machines with >= 4GB RAM

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Helge Deller commit 54e181e073fc1415e41917d725ebdbd7de956455 upstream. Since the beginning of the parisc-linux port, sometimes 64bit SMP kernels were not able to bring up other CPUs

[PATCH 3.8 49/91] can: flexcan: fix mx28 detection by rearanging OF match table

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Marc Kleine-Budde commit e358784297992b012e8071764d996191dd2b1a54 upstream. The current implemetation of of_match_device() relies that the of_device_id table in the driver is sorted

[PATCH 3.8 61/91] raid5: set bio bi_vcnt 0 for discard request

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Shaohua Li commit 37c61ff31e9b5e3fcf3cc6579f5c68f6ad40c4b1 upstream. SCSI layer will add new payload for discard request. If two bios are merged to one, the second bio has bi_vcnt 1

[PATCH 3.8 67/91] clk: fixup argument order when setting VCO parameters

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Jonathan Austin commit 2f9f64bc5aa31836810cd25301aa4772ad73ebab upstream. The order of arguments in the call to vco_set() for the ICST clocks appears to have been switched in error,

[PATCH 3.8 63/91] target/pscsi: fix return value check

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Wei Yongjun commit 58932e96e438cd78f75e765d7b87ef39d3533d15 upstream. In case of error, the function scsi_host_lookup() returns NULL pointer not ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the

[PATCH 3.8 55/91] ecryptfs: Fix memory leakage in keystore.c

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: "Geyslan G. Bem" commit 3edc8376c06133e3386265a824869cad03a4efd4 upstream. In 'decrypt_pki_encrypted_session_key' function: Initializes 'payload' pointer and releases it on exit.

[PATCH 3.8 56/91] drm: Prevent overwriting from userspace underallocating core ioctl structs

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Chris Wilson commit b062672e305ce071f21eb9e18b102c2a430e0999 upstream. Apply the protections from commit 1b2f1489633888d4a06028315dc19d65768a1c05 Author: Dave Airlie Date: Sat Aug

[PATCH 3.8 52/91] mac80211: fix crash if bitrate calculation goes wrong

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Johannes Berg commit d86aa4f8ca58898ec6a94c0635da20b948171ed7 upstream. If a frame's timestamp is calculated, and the bitrate calculation goes wrong and returns zero, the system will

[PATCH 3.8 59/91] md: Fix skipping recovery for read-only arrays.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Lukasz Dorau commit 61e4947c99c4494336254ec540c50186d186150b upstream. Since: commit 7ceb17e87bde79d285a8b988cfed9eaeebe60b86 md: Allow devices to be re-added to a

[PATCH 3.8 64/91] vhost/scsi: Fix incorrect usage of get_user_pages_fast write parameter

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Nicholas Bellinger commit 60a01f558af9c48b0bb31f303c479e32721add3f upstream. This patch addresses a long-standing bug where the get_user_pages_fast() write parameter used for setting

[PATCH 3.8 57/91] drm: Pad drm_mode_get_connector to 64-bit boundary

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Chris Wilson commit bc5bd37ce48c66e9192ad2e7231e9678880f6f8e upstream. Pavel Roskin reported that DRM_IOCTL_MODE_GETCONNECTOR was overwritting the 4 bytes beyond the end of its

[PATCH 3.8 40/91] jfs: fix error path in ialloc

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dave Kleikamp commit 8660998608cfa1077e560034db81885af8e1e885 upstream. If insert_inode_locked() fails, we shouldn't be calling unlock_new_inode(). Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp

[PATCH 3.8 78/91] mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mel Gorman commit 3f926ab945b60a5824369d21add7710622a2eac0 upstream. THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations but there are cases like this still open

[PATCH 3.8 20/91] ipv4: fix ineffective source address selection

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Jiri Benc [ Upstream commit 0a7e22609067ff524fc7bbd45c6951dd08561667 ] When sending out multicast messages, the source address in inet->mc_addr is ignored and rewritten by an

[PATCH 3.8 87/91] Staging: bcm: info leak in ioctl

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dan Carpenter commit 8d1e72250c847fa96498ec029891de4dc638a5ba upstream. The DevInfo.u32Reserved[] array isn't initialized so it leaks kernel information to user space. Reported-by:

[PATCH 3.8 39/91] davinci_emac.c: Fix IFF_ALLMULTI setup

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mariusz Ceier [ Upstream commit d69e0f7ea95fef8059251325a79c004bac01f018 ] When IFF_ALLMULTI flag is set on interface and IFF_PROMISC isn't, emac_dev_mcast_set should only enable RX of

[PATCH 3.8 73/91] drm/i915: No LVDS hardware on Intel D410PT and D425KT

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Rob Pearce commit 645378d85ee524e429aa4cf52806047b56cdc596 upstream. The Intel D410PT(LW) and D425KT Mini-ITX desktop boards both show up as having LVDS but the hardware is not

[PATCH 3.8 24/91] net: vlan: fix nlmsg size calculation in vlan_get_size()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Marc Kleine-Budde [ Upstream commit c33a39c575068c2ea9bffb22fd6de2df19c74b89 ] This patch fixes the calculation of the nlmsg size, by adding the missing nla_total_size(). Cc: Patrick

[PATCH 3.8 77/91] mm: numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mel Gorman commit c61109e34f60f6e85bb43c5a1cd51c0e3db40847 upstream. There are three callers of task_numa_fault(): - do_huge_pmd_numa_page(): Accounts against the current node,

[PATCH 3.8 89/91] ALSA: fix oops in snd_pcm_info() caused by ASoC DPCM

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Russell King commit a4461f41b94cb52e0141af717dcf4ef6558c8e2e upstream. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0008 pgd = d530 [0008]

[PATCH 3.8 76/91] mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mel Gorman commit 587fe586f44a48f9691001ba6c45b86c8e4ba21f upstream. THP migrations are serialised by the page lock but on its own that does not prevent THP splits. If the page is

[PATCH 3.8 84/91] staging: ozwpan: prevent overflow in oz_cdev_write()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dan Carpenter commit c2c65cd2e14ada6de44cb527e7f1990bede24e15 upstream. We need to check "count" so we don't overflow the ei->data buffer. Reported-by: Nico Golde Reported-by: Fabian

[PATCH 3.8 75/91] mm: numa: cleanup flow of transhuge page migration

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Hugh Dickins commit 340ef3902cf20cec43cdcd1e72ae5cb518be7328 upstream. When correcting commit 04fa5d6a6547 ("mm: migrate: check page_count of THP before migrating") Hugh Dickins noted

[PATCH 3.8 44/91] mac80211: update sta->last_rx on acked tx frames

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Felix Fietkau commit 0c5b93290b2f3c7a376567c03ae8d385b0e99851 upstream. When clients are idle for too long, hostapd sends nullfunc frames for probing. When those are acked by the

[PATCH 3.8 72/91] drm/i915: quirk away phantom LVDS on Intel's D525MW mainboard

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Jani Nikula commit dcf6d294830d46b0e6901477fb4bf455281d90c8 upstream. This replaceable mainboard only has a VGA-out, yet it claims to also have a connected LVDS header. Addresses

[PATCH 3.8 32/91] net: dst: provide accessor function to dst->xfrm

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Vlad Yasevich [ Upstream commit e87b3998d795123b4139bc3f25490dd236f68212 ] dst->xfrm is conditionally defined. Provide accessor funtion that is always available. Signed-off-by: Vlad

[PATCH 3.8 74/91] mm: Wait for THP migrations to complete during NUMA hinting faults

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mel Gorman commit 42836f5f8baa33085f547098b74aa98991ee9216 upstream. The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration prevents parallel accesses using a migration

[PATCH 3.8 79/91] mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one PTE update

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mel Gorman commit 0255d491848032f6c601b6410c3b8ebded3a37b1 upstream. A THP PMD update is accounted for as 512 pages updated in vmstat. This is large difference when estimating the

[PATCH 3.8 22/91] net: secure_seq: Fix warning when CONFIG_IPV6 and CONFIG_INET are not selected

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Fabio Estevam [ Upstream commit cb03db9d0e964568407fb08ea46cc2b6b7f67587 ] net_secret() is only used when CONFIG_IPV6 or CONFIG_INET are selected. Building a defconfig with both of

[PATCH 3.8 80/91] Fix a few incorrectly checked [io_]remap_pfn_range() calls

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Linus Torvalds commit 7314e613d5ff9f0934f7a0f74ed7973b903315d1 upstream. Nico Golde reports a few straggling uses of [io_]remap_pfn_range() that really should use the vm_iomap_memory()

[PATCH 3.8 07/91] tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit c9eeec26e32e087359160406f96e0949b3cc6f10 ] When TCP Small Queues was added, we used a sysctl to limit amount of packets queues on Qdisc/device queues for

[PATCH 3.8 81/91] ALSA: hda - Add a fixup for ASUS N76VZ

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Takashi Iwai commit 6fc16e58adf50c0f1e4478538983fb5ff6f453d4 upstream. ASUS N76VZ needs the same fixup as N56VZ for supporting the boost speaker. Bugzilla:

[PATCH 3.8 08/91] net: Add skb_unclone() helper function.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Pravin B Shelar commit 14bbd6a565e1bcdc240d44687edb93f721cfdf99 upstream. This function will be used in next GRE_GSO patch. This patch does not change any functionality.

[PATCH 3.8 04/91] ACPICA: Fix for a Store->ArgX when ArgX contains a reference to a field.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Bob Moore commit 4be4be8fee2ee99a52f94f90d03d2f287ee1db86 upstream. This change fixes a problem where a Store operation to an ArgX object that contained a reference to a field object

[3.8.y.z extended stable] Linux 3.8.13.13 stable review

This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.8.13.13 stable kernel. This version contains 91 new patches, summarized below. The new patches are posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch:

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:53:07PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:04:57 -0600 Dave Kleikamp > wrote: > > > > Can you please drop the aio-direct tree for the time being? > > OK, I was afraid of this, but, yes, I can drop it. I am not quite sure > what

Re: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: Ensure handle is never 0 on success

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:06:26AM -0800, Luigi Semenzato wrote: > If I may add my usual 2c (and some news): > > zram is used by default on all Chrome OS devices. I can't say how > many devices, but it's not a small number, google it, and it's an > important market, low-end laptops for education

[PATCH v2] staging: zsmalloc: Ensure handle is never 0 on success

zsmalloc encodes a handle using the pfn and an object index. On hardware platforms with physical memory starting at 0x0 the pfn can be 0. This causes the encoded handle to be 0 and is incorrectly interpreted as an allocation failure. To prevent this false error we ensure that the encoded handle

Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree

Hi all, On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:04:57 -0600 Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > Can you please drop the aio-direct tree for the time being? OK, I was afraid of this, but, yes, I can drop it. I am not quite sure what affect this will have on Andrew's tree, though (hopefully not too much). This is a bit

Re: [trivial PATCH] module.h: Remove unnecessary semicolon

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 11:56 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > Joe Perches writes: > > On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 09:41 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > >> Joe Perches writes: > >> > That's a trust issue. > >> > I've done it. It isn't necessary. > >> > >> WTF? Now you just said it's not necessary, I

Re: [PATCH linux-next] cifs: Use data structures to compute NTLMv2 response offsets

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:40:57 -0700 Tim Gardner wrote: > A bit of cleanup plus some gratuitous variable renaming. I think using > structures instead of numeric offsets makes this code much more > understandable. > > Also added a comment about current time range expected by > the server. > > Cc:

Re: [PATCH] PCI: Introduce two new MSI infrastructure calls for masking/unmasking.

On 2013-11-07 07:51, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: [+cc Thomas, Ingo, Peter, x86 list] On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: Certain platforms do not allow writes in the MSI-X bars to setup or tear down vector values. To combat against the generic code trying to write to that

Re: [PATCH] ARM: pxa/colibri: fix build with CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y

Dear Dmitry Artamonow, > Fix following build failure observed when support for > OHCI host controller is enabled. > > CC arch/arm/mach-pxa/colibri-evalboard.o > arch/arm/mach-pxa/colibri-evalboard.c: In function 'colibri_ohci_init': > arch/arm/mach-pxa/colibri-evalboard.c:68: error:

Re: [PATCH] x86: make reboot task only run on the appropriate processor

On 11/05/13 at 05:16pm, Baoquan He wrote: > Currently system always reboot after below message when execute "kexec -e". > > [0.572119] smpboot: Booting Node 0, Processors # 1 OK > > In commit 1b3a5d02ee070c8f994b9b6370f486601e0f, reboot= handling was > moved to kerne/reboot.c.

Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use udiv/sdiv for __aeabi_{u}idiv library functions

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote: > If we're running on a v7 ARM CPU, detect if the CPU supports the > sdiv/udiv instructions and replace the signed and unsigned > division library functions with an sdiv/udiv instruction. [snip] > diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/Makefile

Re: [trivial PATCH] module.h: Remove unnecessary semicolon

Joe Perches writes: > On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 09:41 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Joe Perches writes: >> > That's a trust issue. >> > I've done it. It isn't necessary. >> >> WTF? Now you just said it's not necessary, I *know* I can't trust you. > > "It" in this case is the grep that I did >

[PATCH] ARM: Save/Restore 64-bit TTBR registers on LPAE suspend/resume

From: Mahesh Sivasubramanian LPAE enabled kernels use the 64-bit version of TTBR0 and TTBR1 registers. If we're running an LPAE kernel, fill the upper half of TTBR0 with 0 because we're setting it to the idmap here (the idmap is guaranteed to be < 4Gb) and fully restore TTBR1 instead of just

Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] MCS Lock: Barrier corrections

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 14:43 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:15:51PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote: > >> Michel, are you planning to do an implementation of > >> load-acquire/store-release functions of various

Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] ARM: add initial support for Marvell Berlin SoCs

Dear Sebastian, On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:22:35 -0800 Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > On 11/07/2013 05:20 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 07 November 2013, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > >> Actually, IIRC smp_twd does not compile without SMP set, so the above > >> should at least be

linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with Linus' tree

Hi Al, Today's linux-next merge of the vfs tree got a conflict in drivers/usb/core/file.c between commit 469271f8c48f ("drivers: usb: core: {file,hub,sysfs,usb}.c: Whitespace fixes") from Linus' tree and commit e84f9e57b90c ("consolidate the reassignments of ->f_op in ->open() instances") from

Re: [PATCH] net: don't forget to free sk_filter

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 00:56 +, Keller, Jacob E wrote: > Has there been any mention of a forthcoming patch > to ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches which documents this? I do not remember if this point was raised, but you certainly can submit a patch ! Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/rcutorture.c: be sure of enough memory for result printing

On 11/08/2013 04:59 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 10:30:25AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote: >> > If the contents is more than 4096 bytes (e.g. if have 1K cpus), current >> > sprintf() will cause memory overflow. And this fix patch is to be sure >> > of memory large enough. >> >

Re: [PATCH] net: don't forget to free sk_filter

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 11:28 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 20:19 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > > > When you send v2 with Alexei's feedback, please also be more specific > > in your subject like "net: x86: bpf: don't forget to free sk_filter" > > or the like. Also it's enough

[PATCH 0/3] panic: improvements

Hi, While debugging a hang after panic in my laptop (I cannot hard-reboot, or unplug the battery), I noticed the panic code has some areas of improvment. Only the first patch is really needed, the rest seem like good to have. Felipe Contreras (3): panic: setup panic_timeout early panic:

[PATCH 1/3] panic: setup panic_timeout early

Otherwise we might not reboot when the user needs it the most (early on). Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras --- kernel/panic.c | 14 +- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index b6c482c..46e37ff 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++

[PATCH 3/3] panic: enable local IRQs for restart timeout too

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras --- kernel/panic.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 5a0bdaa..e32919f 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)

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