[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Linux 3.8.13.5 stable review

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jul 17 22:45:32 UTC 2013


This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.8.13.5 stable kernel.

This version contains 145 new patches, summarized below.  The new patches are
posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;h=linux-3.8.y-review;a=shortlog

git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git  linux-3.8.y-review

The review period for version 3.8.13.5 will be open for the next three days.
To report a problem, please reply to the relevant follow-up patch message.

For more information about the Linux 3.8.y.z extended stable kernel version,
see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable .

 -Kamal

--
 Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4                 |   2 +-
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt                |   6 +
 arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c                       |   1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c                          |   2 +-
 arch/arm/mach-shmobile/setup-emev2.c               |   8 +-
 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c                    |   2 +-
 arch/parisc/lib/memcpy.c                           |  79 +++++++-----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c                       |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c                     |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_pe.c            |   3 +-
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c                   |  20 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h                         |   9 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/irq_remapping.h               |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c                 |  21 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c                    |  16 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c                     |  20 +++
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c                            |   3 +-
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c                        | 110 ++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/xen/time.c                                |  17 +--
 block/genhd.c                                      |   2 +-
 crypto/algapi.c                                    |   3 +-
 crypto/algboss.c                                   |  15 +--
 crypto/api.c                                       |   6 -
 crypto/internal.h                                  |   6 +
 drivers/acpi/acpica/hwxfsleep.c                    |   8 +-
 drivers/acpi/power.c                               |   4 +-
 drivers/ata/ahci.c                                 |   2 +
 drivers/ata/ata_piix.c                             |   2 +
 drivers/ata/libahci.c                              |   3 +-
 drivers/ata/libata-pmp.c                           |  33 ++---
 drivers/ata/sata_highbank.c                        |  20 ++-
 drivers/block/nbd.c                                |  10 +-
 drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c                              |   2 +-
 drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c              |   2 +-
 drivers/dma/pl330.c                                |   4 +-
 drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c                      |   1 +
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c                         |  18 +--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c                    |   3 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c            |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h                    |  15 ++-
 .../gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/disp/hdminva3.c    |   4 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/vm/base.c      |   6 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c         |   7 ++
 drivers/hid/hid-apple.c                            |   6 +
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c                             |   6 +
 drivers/hid/hid-ids.h                              |   3 +
 drivers/hv/hv_util.c                               |  12 +-
 drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig                         |   1 +
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c                     |   3 +-
 drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c                      |  36 +++++-
 drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c                          |   6 +-
 drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c                |  10 ++
 drivers/iommu/irq_remapping.c                      |   6 +
 drivers/iommu/irq_remapping.h                      |   2 +
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c                              |   3 +
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c                              |   8 +-
 drivers/md/dm-verity.c                             |   5 +-
 drivers/md/dm.c                                    |   9 +-
 drivers/md/raid10.c                                |   4 +-
 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c                    |   8 +-
 drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.c                             |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c     |   8 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.h        |   2 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/calib.c             |   1 -
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig                   |   4 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c             |  13 ++
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c            |   4 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c              |   3 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c              |   3 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c        |   1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/sw.c        |   6 +-
 drivers/pci/probe.c                                |   8 +-
 drivers/pci/quirks.c                               |   2 +
 drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c                         |   7 +-
 drivers/pcmcia/at91_cf.c                           |   4 +-
 drivers/power/charger-manager.c                    |   2 +-
 drivers/rtc/rtc-rv3029c2.c                         |   2 +-
 drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_aux.c                       |   5 +-
 drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fsf.c                       |  27 ++--
 drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_scsi.c                      |  10 +-
 drivers/scsi/aacraid/src.c                         |   3 +
 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c          |  10 +-
 drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c                |  14 +--
 drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.h                |   3 +
 drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c               | 136 +++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c               |  30 +++--
 drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c                         |   2 +-
 drivers/scsi/scsi.c                                |   8 +-
 drivers/scsi/sd.c                                  |  48 +++++---
 drivers/scsi/sd.h                                  |   1 +
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c                    |  36 ++++--
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h                    |   5 +-
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c                  |   2 +
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c       |   2 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c                 |   4 -
 drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c                      |   5 +
 drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c                |   2 +
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c                        |   4 +
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c                       |   1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        |   4 -
 drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c                      |   8 +-
 fs/block_dev.c                                     |   9 +-
 fs/btrfs/ctree.c                                   |  31 +++--
 fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h                             |   8 +-
 fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c                              |   6 +-
 fs/cifs/file.c                                     |   9 +-
 fs/cifs/inode.c                                    |   5 +
 fs/exec.c                                          |  16 +--
 fs/ext3/inode.c                                    |   3 +-
 fs/ext3/namei.c                                    |   7 +-
 fs/ext4/extents.c                                  |   4 +-
 fs/ext4/file.c                                     |  14 +--
 fs/ext4/inline.c                                   |   2 +-
 fs/ext4/inode.c                                    |   4 +-
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c                                  |  11 +-
 fs/ext4/namei.c                                    |   7 +-
 fs/ext4/resize.c                                   |   4 +-
 fs/ext4/super.c                                    |   6 -
 fs/hpfs/map.c                                      |   3 +-
 fs/hpfs/super.c                                    |   8 +-
 fs/jbd2/journal.c                                  |   3 +-
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c                              |   2 +-
 fs/lockd/svclock.c                                 |   4 +
 fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c                                  |   2 +-
 fs/ocfs2/xattr.c                                   |  10 ++
 fs/ubifs/dir.c                                     |  54 +++++---
 fs/ubifs/super.c                                   |   2 +-
 include/linux/efi.h                                |   9 +-
 include/linux/hugetlb.h                            |  16 +++
 include/linux/nbd.h                                |   1 +
 include/linux/netfilter_ipv6.h                     |  16 +++
 include/net/addrconf.h                             |   2 +-
 kernel/cgroup.c                                    |  34 ++++--
 kernel/events/core.c                               |  28 ++++-
 kernel/futex.c                                     |   3 +-
 kernel/irq/manage.c                                |   6 +-
 kernel/module.c                                    |  34 +++---
 kernel/printk.c                                    |   2 +-
 kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c                       |  10 +-
 kernel/timer.c                                     |   8 +-
 kernel/trace/trace.c                               |  10 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c                        |   4 +-
 mm/hugetlb.c                                       |  17 +++
 mm/page_alloc.c                                    |   4 +
 net/ceph/auth_none.c                               |   6 +
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.c                      |   6 +-
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c                                |   2 +-
 net/ipv6/netfilter.c                               |   7 ++
 net/netfilter/core.c                               |   2 +
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c                    |  38 +++++-
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c                     |   1 +
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c                     |   7 +-
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c                |   7 +-
 net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c                             |   2 +-
 net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c                          |  23 +++-
 net/netfilter/xt_TCPOPTSTRIP.c                     |  19 ++-
 net/netfilter/xt_addrtype.c                        |  27 ++--
 net/sunrpc/svcsock.c                               |   9 +-
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_marshal.c             |  20 ++-
 sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c                         |   2 +-
 sound/soc/codecs/wm8962.c                          |  24 ++--
 161 files changed, 1249 insertions(+), 470 deletions(-)

Al Viro (1):
      ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file->f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()

Alex Deucher (1):
      drm/radeon: add backlight quirk for hybrid mac

Alex Williamson (1):
      iommu/amd: Only unmap large pages from the first pte

Artem Bityutskiy (2):
      UBIFS: prepare to fix a horrid bug
      UBIFS: fix a horrid bug

Axel Lin (1):
      drivers/rtc/rtc-rv3029c2.c: fix disabling AIE irq

Bart Van Assche (1):
      timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
      drivers/dma/pl330.c: fix locking in pl330_free_chan_resources()

Baruch Siach (1):
      clocksource: dw_apb: Fix error check

Ben Hutchings (3):
      [SCSI] sd: Fix parsing of 'temporary ' cache mode prefix
      genirq: Fix can_request_irq() for IRQs without an action
      x86/efi: Fix dummy variable buffer allocation

Ben Widawsky (1):
      drm/i915: Fix context sizes on HSW

Bjørn Mork (1):
      [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix memory leak if SGL has zero length entries

Bu, Yitian (1):
      printk: Fix rq->lock vs logbuf_lock unlock lock inversion

Chen Gang (2):
      powerpc/smp: Section mismatch from smp_release_cpus to __initdata spinning_secondaries
      netfilter: ipt_ULOG: fix non-null terminated string in the nf_log path

Chris Wilson (1):
      drm/i915: Only clear write-domains after a successful wait-seqno

Dan Carpenter (2):
      ipvs: info leak in __ip_vs_get_dest_entries()
      svcrdma: underflow issue in decode_write_list()

Dan Williams (1):
      USB: option,qcserial: move Novatel Gobi1K IDs to qcserial

Daniel Hansel (1):
      [SCSI] zfcp: fix adapter (re)open recovery while link to SAN is down

Darren Hart (1):
      pch_uart: Add uart_clk selection for the MinnowBoard

David Daney (1):
      MIPS: Octeon: Don't clobber bootloader data structures.

David Jeffery (1):
      lockd: protect nlm_blocked access in nlmsvc_retry_blocked

Dmitry Osipenko (1):
      dma: tegra: avoid channel lock up after free

Emmanuel Grumbach (2):
      iwlwifi: pcie: fix race in queue unmapping
      iwlwifi: pcie: wake the queue if stopped when being unmapped

Florian Westphal (1):
      netfilter: add nf_ipv6_ops hook to fix xt_addrtype with IPv6

Gabor Juhos (1):
      rt2x00: read 5GHz TX power values from the correct offset

Gavin Shan (1):
      powerpc/eeh: Fix fetching bus for single-dev-PE

George Cherian (1):
      usb: host: xhci-plat: release mem region while removing module

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
      Revert "serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller"

Grzegorz Lyczba (1):
      ipvs: Fix reuse connection if real server is dead

Hannes Reinecke (1):
      dm mpath: fix ioctl deadlock when no paths

Hauke Mehrtens (1):
      b43: ensue that BCMA is "y" when B43 is "y"

Helge Deller (1):
      parisc: Fix gcc miscompilation in pa_memcpy()

Henrik Rydberg (2):
      HID: apple: Add support for the 2013 Macbook Air
      Input: bcm5974 - add support for the 2013 MacBook Air

Herbert Xu (1):
      crypto: algboss - Hold ref count on larval

Ilia Mirkin (1):
      drm/nva3/disp: Fix HDMI audio regression

J. Bruce Fields (3):
      nfsd4: fix decoding of compounds across page boundaries
      svcrpc: fix handling of too-short rpc's
      svcrpc: don't error out on small tcp fragment

Jan Kara (6):
      ext3: fix data=journal fast mount/umount hang
      ext4: fix overflow when counting used blocks on 32-bit architectures
      ext4: fix data offset overflow in ext4_xattr_fiemap() on 32-bit archs
      ext4: fix overflows in SEEK_HOLE, SEEK_DATA implementations
      ext4: fix data offset overflow on 32-bit archs in ext4_inline_data_fiemap()
      writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount

Jan Schmidt (1):
      Btrfs: fix unlock after free on rewinded tree blocks

Jason Liu (1):
      ARM: 7778/1: smp_twd: twd_update_frequency need be run on all online CPUs

Jed Davis (1):
      ARM: 7765/1: perf: Record the user-mode PC in the call chain.

Jiang Liu (6):
      zram: avoid invalid memory access in zram_exit()
      zram: use zram->lock to protect zram_free_page() in swap free notify path
      zram: destroy all devices on error recovery path in zram_init()
      zram: avoid access beyond the zram device
      zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access
      PCI: Fix refcount issue in pci_create_root_bus() error recovery path

Jiri Olsa (2):
      perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu
      perf: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() check in __perf_event_enable() for valid scenario

Jiri Slaby (1):
      MFD: rtsx_pcr: Fix probe fail path

Joachim Eastwood (1):
      pcmcia: at91_cf: fix gpio_get_value in at91_cf_get_status

Jonathan Salwan (1):
      drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware

Josef Bacik (2):
      Btrfs: hold the tree mod lock in __tree_mod_log_rewind
      Btrfs: only do the tree_mod_log_free_eb if this is our last ref

Julian Anastasov (1):
      ipvs: SCTP ports should be writable in ICMP packets

Junxiao Bi (1):
      ocfs2: xattr: fix inlined xattr reflink

Jörn Engel (1):
      iscsi-target: Fix tfc_tpg_nacl_auth_cit configfs length overflow

K. Y. Srinivasan (1):
      Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

Kees Cook (3):
      block: do not pass disk names as format strings
      crypto: sanitize argument for format string
      charger-manager: Ensure event is not used as format string

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1):
      xen/pcifront: Deal with toolstack missing 'XenbusStateClosing' state.

Larry Finger (2):
      rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new USB ID for TP-Link TL-WN8200ND
      rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix typo in firmware names

Laszlo Ersek (1):
      xen/time: remove blocked time accounting from xen "clockchip"

Li Zefan (2):
      cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_cfts_commit() race
      cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_event_remove() race

Lv Zheng (1):
      ACPICA: Do not use extended sleep registers unless HW-reduced bit is set

Maarten ter Huurne (1):
      ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size

Magnus Damm (1):
      ARM: shmobile: emev2 GIO3 resource fix

Mahesh Rajashekhara (1):
      [SCSI] aacraid: Fix for arrays are going offline in the system. System hangs

Marcin Slusarz (1):
      drm/nouveau: use vmalloc for pgt allocation

Mark Langsdorf (1):
      sata_highbank: increase retry count but shorten duration for Calxeda controller

Martin K. Petersen (1):
      [SCSI] sd: Update WRITE SAME heuristics

Mathias Nyman (1):
      xhci: check for failed dma pool allocation

Matt Fleming (1):
      x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code

Michael Neuling (1):
      powerpc/hw_brk: Fix setting of length for exact mode breakpoints

Michal Kubeček (1):
      netfilter: xt_LOG: fix mark logging for IPv6 packets

Mika Westerberg (1):
      ACPI / power: add missing newline to debug messages

Mikulas Patocka (3):
      hpfs: better test for errors
      dm ioctl: set noio flag to avoid __vmalloc deadlock
      dm verity: fix inability to use a few specific devices sizes

Neil Horman (1):
      iommu/vt-d: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets

NeilBrown (1):
      md/raid10: fix two bugs affecting RAID10 reshape.

Nicolin Chen (1):
      ASoC: wm8962: Remove remaining direct register cache accesses

Pablo Neira Ayuso (4):
      netfilter: xt_TCPOPTSTRIP: fix possible mangling beyond packet boundary
      netfilter: nfnetlink_cttimeout: fix incomplete dumping of objects
      netfilter: nfnetlink_acct: fix incomplete dumping of objects
      netfilter: xt_TCPOPTSTRIP: don't use tcp_hdr()

Paul Clements (1):
      nbd: correct disconnect behavior

Pavel Shilovsky (1):
      CIFS: Fix a deadlock when a file is reopened

Peter Zijlstra (1):
      perf: Fix perf_lock_task_context() vs RCU

Phil Oester (3):
      netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix violation of RFC879 in absence of MSS option
      netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix missing fragmentation handling
      netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: Fix IPv6 default MSS too

Reddy, Sreekanth (1):
      [SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix for issue Missing delay not getting set during system bootup

Richard Genoud (1):
      UBIFS: correct mount message

Richard Weinberger (2):
      x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter
      Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

Rusty Russell (1):
      module: do percpu allocation after uniqueness check.  No, really!

Satoru Takeuchi (1):
      x86, efi: remove duplicate code in setup_arch() by using, efi_is_native()

Seth Heasley (2):
      ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
      ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs

Shane Huang (3):
      ahci: Add AMD CZ SATA device ID
      i2c-piix4: Add AMD CZ SMBus device ID
      ahci: remove pmp link online check in FBS EH

Soeren Moch (1):
      [media] media: dmxdev: remove dvb_ringbuffer_flush() on writer side

Sreekanth Reddy (4):
      [SCSI] mpt2sas: Fix for device scan following host reset could get stuck in a infinite loop
      [SCSI] mpt2sas: fix firmware failure with wrong task attribute
      [SCSI] mpt3sas: fix for kernel panic when driver loads with HBA conected to non LUN 0 configured expander
      [SCSI] mpt3sas: Infinite loops can occur if MPI2_IOCSTATUS_CONFIG_INVALID_PAGE is not returned

Steffen Maier (2):
      [SCSI] zfcp: block queue limits with data router
      [SCSI] zfcp: status read buffers on first adapter open with link down

Stephane Eranian (1):
      perf: Disable monitoring on setuid processes for regular users

Steve French (2):
      Handle big endianness in NTLM (ntlmv2) authentication
      [CIFS] use sensible file nlink values if unprovided

Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (1):
      tracing: Use current_uid() for critical time tracing

Sujith Manoharan (2):
      ath9k_hw: Assign default xlna config for AR9485
      ath9k: Do not assign noise for NULL caldata

Takashi Iwai (1):
      ALSA: hda - Cache the MUX selection for generic HDMI

Tejun Heo (1):
      libata: skip SRST for all SIMG [34]7x port-multipliers

Theodore Ts'o (4):
      jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
      jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
      ext4: don't show usrquota/grpquota twice in /proc/mounts
      ext4: don't allow ext4_free_blocks() to fail due to ENOMEM

Thomas Gleixner (1):
      tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode

Tyler Hicks (1):
      libceph: Fix NULL pointer dereference in auth client code

UCHINO Satoshi (1):
      usb: gadget: f_mass_storage: add missing memory barrier for thread_wakeup_needed

Wanpeng Li (1):
      mm/memory-hotplug: fix lowmem count overflow when offline pages

Yinghai Lu (1):
      x86: Fix /proc/mtrr with base/size more than 44bits

Zach Bobroff (1):
      x86, efi: retry ExitBootServices() on failure

Zhang Yi (1):
      futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key

zhangwei(Jovi) (1):
      uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path




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