[PATCH 5.4 00/15] 5.4.173-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 18 2022 - 11:08:22 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.173 release.
There are 15 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, 20 Jan 2022 16:04:42 +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-5.4.173-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 5.4.173-rc1

Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: 9025/1: Kconfig: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depends on !LD_IS_LLD

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
mtd: fixup CFI on ixp4xx

Christian Lachner <gladiac@xxxxxxxxx>
ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix silent output on Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master after reboot from Windows

Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
KVM: x86: remove PMU FIXED_CTR3 from msrs_to_save_all

Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix kobject leak in probe error path

Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix NULL-pointer deref on duplicate entries

Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix sysfs information leak

Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix WARNING when calling local_irq_restore() with interrupts enabled

Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
media: uvcvideo: fix division by zero at stream start

Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
KVM: s390: Clarify SIGP orders versus STOP/RESTART

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU

Jamie Hill-Daniel <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
vfs: fs_context: fix up param length parsing in legacy_parse_param

Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
orangefs: Fix the size of a memory allocation in orangefs_bufmap_alloc()

NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
devtmpfs regression fix: reconfigure on each mount

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
kbuild: Add $(KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS) to 'has_libelf' test


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 6 ++---
arch/arm/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 17 +++++++-----
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 18 ++++++++-----
arch/csky/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 6 +++--
arch/nds32/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c | 17 +++++++-----
arch/riscv/kernel/perf_callchain.c | 7 +++--
arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 7 +++++
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 9 +++++--
arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h | 1 +
arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/events/core.c | 17 +++++++-----
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 9 ++++---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 8 ++++++
drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 20 ++++++---------
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 4 +++
drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig | 2 ++
drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig | 2 +-
.../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c | 1 +
fs/fs_context.c | 2 +-
fs/orangefs/orangefs-bufmap.c | 7 +++--
fs/super.c | 4 +--
include/linux/fs_context.h | 2 ++
include/linux/perf_event.h | 13 +++++++++-
kernel/events/core.c | 13 +++++++---
sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++-
27 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)