[PATCH 5.5 00/23] 5.5.2-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.5.2 release.
There are 23 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 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:17:59 +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-5.5.2-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-5.5.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 5.5.2-rc1

Michal Koutnà <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>
    cgroup: Prevent double killing of css when enabling threaded cgroup

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Bluetooth: Fix race condition in hci_release_sock()

Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxx>
    ttyprintk: fix a potential deadlock in interrupt context issue

Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    tomoyo: Use atomic_t for statistics counter

Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
    media: dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c: initialize actlen to 0

Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
    media: gspca: zero usb_buf

Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx>
    media: vp7045: do not read uninitialized values if usb transfer fails

Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx>
    media: af9005: uninitialized variable printked

Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx>
    media: digitv: don't continue if remote control state can't be read

Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
    reiserfs: Fix memory leak of journal device string

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
    mm/mempolicy.c: fix out of bounds write in mpol_parse_str()

Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    arm64: kbuild: remove compressed images on 'make ARCH=arm64 (dist)clean'

Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    tools lib: Fix builds when glibc contains strlcpy()

Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    PM / devfreq: Add new name attribute for sysfs

Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    perf c2c: Fix return type for histogram sorting comparision functions

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    lib/test_bitmap: correct test data offsets for 32-bit

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
    gfs2: Another gfs2_find_jhead fix

David Michael <fedora.dm0@xxxxxxxxx>
    KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix -Werror=return-type build failure

Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@xxxxxxxxx>
    x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free due to inaccurate refcount of rdtgroup

Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@xxxxxxxxx>
    x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free when deleting resource groups

Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@xxxxxxxxx>
    x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference

Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx>
    cifs: fix soft mounts hanging in the reconnect code

Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    vfs: fix do_last() regression


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Diffstat:

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devfreq |  7 +++
 Makefile                                      |  4 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/Makefile                      |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c                  |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c        | 32 ++++++++-----
 drivers/char/ttyprintk.c                      | 15 +++---
 drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c                     |  9 ++++
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/digitv.c            | 10 ++--
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c       |  2 +-
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/vp7045.c            | 21 ++++++---
 drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c               |  2 +-
 fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c                             |  2 +-
 fs/gfs2/lops.c                                | 68 +++++++++++++++++----------
 fs/namei.c                                    |  4 +-
 fs/reiserfs/super.c                           |  2 +
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c                        | 11 +++--
 lib/test_bitmap.c                             |  9 ++--
 mm/mempolicy.c                                |  6 +--
 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c                      |  3 ++
 security/tomoyo/common.c                      | 11 ++---
 tools/include/linux/string.h                  |  8 ++++
 tools/lib/string.c                            |  7 +++
 tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c                      | 10 ++--
 24 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)