[PATCH 5.9 00/14] 5.9.10-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 06:08:15 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.9.10 release.
There are 14 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 Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:45:32 +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-5.9.10-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-5.9.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 5.9.10-rc1

Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
ACPI: GED: fix -Wformat

David Edmondson <david.edmondson@xxxxxxxxxx>
KVM: x86: clflushopt should be treated as a no-op by emulation

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix Add BW copypasta

Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/smp: Call rcu_cpu_starting() earlier

Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
selftests/harness: prettify SKIP message whitespace again

Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
can: proc: can_remove_proc(): silence remove_proc_entry warning

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
mac80211: always wind down STA state

Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Input: sunkbd - avoid use-after-free in teardown paths

Gabriel David <ultracoolguy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
leds: lm3697: Fix out-of-bound access

Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx>
selftests/powerpc: entry flush test

Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc: Only include kup-radix.h for 64-bit Book3S

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry

Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx>
selftests/powerpc: rfi_flush: disable entry flush if present


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Diffstat:

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup-radix.h | 66 ++++---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 12 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h | 19 ++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h | 26 ++-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h | 7 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h | 4 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 80 +++++----
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 122 ++++++++++++-
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_64.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 14 ++
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 104 +++++++++++
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 17 ++
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 8 +
arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 8 +-
drivers/acpi/evged.c | 2 +-
drivers/input/keyboard/sunkbd.c | 41 ++++-
drivers/leds/leds-lm3697.c | 8 +-
net/can/proc.c | 6 +-
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 18 ++
tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h | 2 +-
.../testing/selftests/powerpc/security/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/Makefile | 2 +-
.../selftests/powerpc/security/entry_flush.c | 198 +++++++++++++++++++++
.../testing/selftests/powerpc/security/rfi_flush.c | 35 +++-
28 files changed, 719 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)