[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 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 Y

[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 P

[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 cost

[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 the

[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 t

[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 client

[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, n

[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] *pgd=0d2658

[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 split

[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 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 M

[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 T

[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 autoselect

[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: Nic

[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 https

[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 populate

[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 Tested

[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. Sign

[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 1

[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 at

[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 read-

[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 th

[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 that,

[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 we

[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 tha

[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 fro

[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 whi

[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, whi

[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 t

[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 bet

[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 t

[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 soon,

[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 retu

[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: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

[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 c

[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: Mar

[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 Hellstro

[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 structur

[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 opt[

[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. * drive

[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 lo

[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 b

[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" WARN

[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 ma

[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 th

[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 can

[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 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 during

[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". Sin

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 so

[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 Gold

[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 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 http

[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 c

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 Most

[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 chann

[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 use

[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 sync_serial_settin

[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 do)

[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 g

[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 follow

[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 i

[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 rather

[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 ty

[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 sync_serial_sett

[PATCH 3.8 83/91] uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dan Carpenter commit 201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b upstream. We don't cap the size of buffer from the user so we could write past the end of the array here. Only root can wr

[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, y

[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 Signed-off-

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 tainted

[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 i

[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 s

[PATCH 3.8 06/91] tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet commit 95bd09eb27507691520d39ee1044d6ad831c1168 upstream. commit 02cf4ebd82ff0ac7254b88e466820a290ed8289a upstream. commit 7eec4174ff29cd42f2acfae8112f51c228545d40 upstream.

[PATCH 3.8 05/91] vxlan: fix ip_select_ident skb parameter

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Kamal Mostafa [3.8-stable only] Fix a call to ip_select_ident() that I missed in commit 1a3365ee55bc5b7e9a752e3a535fd983714d8db2, which is the 3.8 backport of commit 703133de331a7a7df47f

[PATCH 3.8 02/91] ACPICA: DeRefOf operator: Update to fully resolve FieldUnit and BufferField refs.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Bob Moore commit 63660e05ec719613b518547b40a1c501c10f0bc4 upstream. Previously, references to these objects were resolved only to the actual FieldUnit or BufferField object. The correct

[PATCH 3.8 16/91] net: mv643xx_eth: update statistics timer from timer context only

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Sebastian Hesselbarth [ Upstream commit 041b4ddb84989f06ff1df0ca869b950f1ee3cb1c ] Each port driver installs a periodic timer to update port statistics by calling mib_counters_update. A

[PATCH 3.8 18/91] net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Dan Carpenter [ Upstream commit 1661bf364ae9c506bc8795fef70d1532931be1e8 ] We need to cap ->msg_namelen or it leads to a buffer overflow when we to the memcpy() in __audit_sockaddr().

[PATCH 3.8 13/91] net: do not call sock_put() on TIMEWAIT sockets

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit 80ad1d61e72d626e30ebe8529a0455e660ca4693 ] commit 3ab5aee7fe84 ("net: Convert TCP & DCCP hash tables to use RCU / hlist_nulls") incorrectly used sock_put(

[PATCH 3.8 01/91] ACPICA: Interpreter: Fix Store() when implicit conversion is not possible.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Bob Moore commit 3f654bad3257427bea7ba1c4d43a23d99a03622b upstream. For the cases such as a store of a string to an existing package object, implement the store as a CopyObject(). This

[PATCH 3.8 03/91] ACPICA: Return error if DerefOf resolves to a null package element.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Bob Moore commit a50abf4842dd7d603a2ad6dcc7f1467fd2a66f03 upstream. Disallow the dereference of a reference (via index) to an uninitialized package element. Provides compatibility with

[PATCH 3.8 15/91] l2tp: Fix build warning with ipv6 disabled.

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: "David S. Miller" [ Upstream commit 8d8a51e26a6d415e1470759f2cf5f3ee3ee86196 ] net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c: In function ‘l2tp_verify_udp_checksum’: net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:499:22: warning: unused

[PATCH 3.8 09/91] ipv6: fix warning in xfrm6_mode_tunnel_input

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: stephen hemminger commit 0d4bfa297c3f7efb71367449ee44f9d3fb0f5871 upstream. Should not use assignment in conditional: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value

[PATCH 3.8 12/91] tcp: do not forget FIN in tcp_shifted_skb()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit 5e8a402f831dbe7ee831340a91439e46f0d38acd ] Yuchung found following problem : There are bugs in the SACK processing code, merging part in tcp_shift_skb_

Re: [PATCH 3/6] Squashfs: add multi-threaded decompression using percpu variables

Hello Phillip, On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 08:24:22PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote: > Add a multi-threaded decompression implementation which uses > percpu variables. > > Using percpu variables has advantages and disadvantages over > implementations which do not use percpu variables. > > Advantages:

[PATCH 3.8 11/91] tcp: must unclone packets before mangling them

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Eric Dumazet [ Upstream commit c52e2421f7368fd36cbe330d2cf41b10452e39a9 ] TCP stack should make sure it owns skbs before mangling them. We had various crashes using bnx2x, and it turne

[PATCH 3.8 19/91] proc connector: fix info leaks

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Mathias Krause [ Upstream commit e727ca82e0e9616ab4844301e6bae60ca7327682 ] Initialize event_data for all possible message types to prevent leaking kernel stack contents to userland (up

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

On Fri, Nov 08 2013, 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 affect this will have on An

[PATCH v2] 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_installer.sh"). And be sure that all "endif" need append (or have correct) related comment, and all normal uapi header files need content guard macro. Also reserve guard macro in empty fi

[PATCH 3.8 21/91] can: dev: fix nlmsg size calculation in can_get_size()

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Marc Kleine-Budde [ Upstream commit fe119a05f8ca481623a8d02efcc984332e612528 ] This patch fixes the calculation of the nlmsg size, by adding the missing nla_total_size(). Signed-off-by

[PATCH 3.8 10/91] ip: fix warning in xfrm4_mode_tunnel_input

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: stephen hemminger commit 9aac22deb11a3da4df5b868fc3d30b07185b0d71 upstream. Same problem as IPv6 Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal

Re: [PATCH v11 3/3] DMA: Freescale: update driver to support 8-channel DMA engine

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Hongbo Zhang wrote: > Hi Vinod Koul and Dan Williams, > Ping? > Not much to review from the dmaengine side, just one question below. It would be helpful if you can send these to the new dmaengine patchwork at dmaeng...@vger.kernel.org with the Acks you have already

[PATCH 3.8 14/91] l2tp: fix kernel panic when using IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: =?UTF-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois=20Cachereul?= [ Upstream commit e18503f41f9b12132c95d7c31ca6ee5155e44e5c ] IPv4 mapped addresses cause kernel panic. The patch juste check whether the IPv6 addre

[PATCH] scripts: kallsyms: Use %zu to print 'size_t'

From: Fabio Estevam Commit f3462aa95 (Kbuild: Handle longer symbols in kallsyms.c) introduced the following warning on ARM: scripts/kallsyms.c:121:4: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat] Use %zu to print 'size_t'. Sign

[PATCH 3.8 17/91] net: mv643xx_eth: fix orphaned statistics timer crash

3.8.13.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Sebastian Hesselbarth [ Upstream commit f564412c935111c583b787bcc18157377b208e2e ] The periodic statistics timer gets started at port _probe() time, but is stopped on _stop() only. In a

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PATCH] LEDS: tca6507 - fix up some comments.

In particular fix the capitalisation of GPIO and LED and correct TCA6507_MAKE_CPIO, but also rewrite the comment about platform-data to include reference to devicetree. Reported-by: Bryan Wu Signed-off-by: NeilBrown diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c b/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c index 9

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