This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.170 release. There are 50 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 Apr 20 16:03:22 UTC 2019. 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-4.9.170-rc1... 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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.170-rc1
Lars Persson lars.persson@axis.com net: stmmac: Set dma ring length before enabling the DMA
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Adopt linux/bits.h
Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com tpm/tpm_crb: Avoid unaligned reads in crb_recv()
Pi-Hsun Shih pihsun@chromium.org include/linux/swap.h: use offsetof() instead of custom __swapoffset macro
Stanislaw Gruszka sgruszka@redhat.com lib/div64.c: off by one in shift
YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com appletalk: Fix use-after-free in atalk_proc_exit
Yang Shi yang.shi@linaro.org ARM: 8839/1: kprobe: make patch_lock a raw_spinlock_t
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr lkdtm: Add tests for NULL pointer dereference
Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com soc/tegra: pmc: Drop locking from tegra_powergate_is_powered()
Julia Cartwright julia@ni.com iommu/dmar: Fix buffer overflow during PCI bus notification
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org crypto: sha512/arm - fix crash bug in Thumb2 build
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org crypto: sha256/arm - fix crash bug in Thumb2 build
Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets@redhat.com kernel: hung_task.c: disable on suspend
Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com cifs: fallback to older infolevels on findfirst queryinfo retry
Ronald Tschalär ronald@innovation.ch ACPI / SBS: Fix GPE storm on recent MacBookPro's
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz b.zolnierkie@samsung.com ARM: samsung: Limit SAMSUNG_PM_CHECK config option to non-Exynos platforms
Julian Sax jsbc@gmx.de HID: i2c-hid: override HID descriptors for certain devices
Michal Simek michal.simek@xilinx.com serial: uartps: console_setup() can't be placed to init section
Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with current segment number
Dinu-Razvan Chis-Serban justcsdr@gmail.com 9p locks: add mount option for lock retry interval
Gertjan Halkes gertjan@google.com 9p: do not trust pdu content for stat item size
Siva Rebbagondla siva.rebbagondla@redpinesignals.com rsi: improve kernel thread handling to fix kernel panic
Robert Jarzmik robert.jarzmik@free.fr gpio: pxa: handle corner case of unprobed device
Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com ext4: prohibit fstrim in norecovery mode
Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com fix incorrect error code mapping for OBJECTID_NOT_FOUND
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com x86/hw_breakpoints: Make default case in hw_breakpoint_arch_parse() return an error
Lu Baolu baolu.lu@linux.intel.com iommu/vt-d: Check capability before disabling protected memory
Matthew Whitehead tedheadster@gmail.com x86/cpu/cyrix: Use correct macros for Cyrix calls on Geode processors
Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu x86/hpet: Prevent potential NULL pointer dereference
Jianguo Chen chenjianguo3@huawei.com irqchip/mbigen: Don't clear eventid when freeing an MSI
Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf tests: Fix a memory leak in test__perf_evsel__tp_sched_test()
Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf tests: Fix a memory leak of cpu_map object in the openat_syscall_event_on_all_cpus test
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf evsel: Free evsel->counts in perf_evsel__exit()
Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf hist: Add missing map__put() in error case
Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf top: Fix error handling in cmd_top()
Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf build-id: Fix memory leak in print_sdt_events()
Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf config: Fix a memory leak in collect_config()
Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf config: Fix an error in the config template documentation
David Arcari darcari@redhat.com tools/power turbostat: return the exit status of a command
Matthew Garrett matthewgarrett@google.com thermal/int340x_thermal: fix mode setting
Matthew Garrett matthewgarrett@google.com thermal/int340x_thermal: Add additional UUIDs
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com ALSA: opl3: fix mismatch between snd_opl3_drum_switch definition and declaration
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de mmc: davinci: remove extraneous __init annotation
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il IB/mlx4: Fix race condition between catas error reset and aliasguid flows
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu ALSA: echoaudio: add a check for ioremap_nocache
Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com ext4: report real fs size after failed resize
Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com ext4: add missing brelse() in add_new_gdb_meta_bg()
Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com perf/core: Restore mmap record type correctly
Eugeniy Paltsev Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com ARC: u-boot args: check that magic number is correct
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/kernel/head.S | 1 + arch/arc/kernel/setup.c | 8 + arch/arm/crypto/sha256-armv4.pl | 3 +- arch/arm/crypto/sha256-core.S_shipped | 3 +- arch/arm/crypto/sha512-armv4.pl | 3 +- arch/arm/crypto/sha512-core.S_shipped | 3 +- arch/arm/kernel/patch.c | 6 +- arch/arm/plat-samsung/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c | 14 +- arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 1 + drivers/acpi/sbs.c | 8 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c | 22 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-pxa.c | 6 + drivers/hid/i2c-hid/Makefile | 3 + drivers/hid/i2c-hid/{i2c-hid.c => i2c-hid-core.c} | 56 ++-- drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-dmi-quirks.c | 376 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.h | 20 ++ drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/alias_GUID.c | 2 +- drivers/iommu/dmar.c | 2 +- drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 3 + drivers/irqchip/irq-mbigen.c | 3 + drivers/misc/lkdtm.h | 2 + drivers/misc/lkdtm_core.c | 2 + drivers/misc/lkdtm_perms.c | 18 ++ drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 10 +- drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h | 1 - drivers/soc/tegra/pmc.c | 8 +- drivers/thermal/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c | 21 +- drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c | 2 +- fs/9p/v9fs.c | 21 ++ fs/9p/v9fs.h | 1 + fs/9p/vfs_dir.c | 8 +- fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 6 +- fs/cifs/inode.c | 67 ++-- fs/cifs/smb2maperror.c | 3 +- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 7 + fs/ext4/resize.c | 17 +- fs/f2fs/super.c | 34 +- include/linux/atalk.h | 2 +- include/linux/swap.h | 4 +- kernel/events/core.c | 2 + kernel/hung_task.c | 30 +- lib/div64.c | 4 +- net/9p/protocol.c | 3 +- net/appletalk/atalk_proc.c | 2 +- net/appletalk/ddp.c | 37 ++- net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c | 5 +- sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_voice.h | 2 +- sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 4 + sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c | 5 + tools/include/linux/bitops.h | 6 +- tools/include/linux/bits.h | 26 ++ tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt | 2 +- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 5 +- tools/perf/check-headers.sh | 1 + tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c | 1 + tools/perf/tests/openat-syscall-all-cpus.c | 4 +- tools/perf/util/build-id.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/config.c | 3 +- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/hist.c | 4 +- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 1 + tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 3 + 66 files changed, 807 insertions(+), 132 deletions(-)