[PATCH 4.9 0/9] 4.9.299-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jan 27 2022 - 13:08:42 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.299 release.
There are 9 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 Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:02:51 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.299-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-4.9.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 4.9.299-rc1

Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
ion: Do not 'put' ION handle until after its final use

Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx>
ion: Protect kref from userspace manipulation

Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx>
ion: Fix use after free during ION_IOC_ALLOC

Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
ARM: 8800/1: use choice for kernel unwinders

Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
KVM: X86: MMU: Use the correct inherited permissions to get shadow page

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
KVM: nVMX: fix EPT permissions as reported in exit qualification

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
NFSv4: Initialise connection to the server in nfs4_alloc_client()

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
media: firewire: firedtv-avc: fix a buffer overflow in avc_ca_pmt()

Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxx>
drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store


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Diffstat:

Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 4 +-
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | 44 +++++++++------
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 44 +++++++++------
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 5 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c | 4 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 6 +++
drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c | 14 +++--
drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c | 2 +
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 19 +++++--
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h | 4 ++
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_priv.h | 4 ++
fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 82 ++++++++++++++--------------
lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 +--
16 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)