This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.169 release. There are 76 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 Apr 17 18:36:37 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-4.9.169-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 4.9.169-rc1
Andre Przywara andre.przywara@arm.com PCI: Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Marvell 9170 SATA controller
Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: fix return_address
Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net sched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com xen: Prevent buffer overflow in privcmd ioctl
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: futex: Fix FUTEX_WAKE_OP atomic ops with non-zero result value
David Engraf david.engraf@sysgo.com ARM: dts: at91: Fix typo in ISC_D0 on PC9
Cornelia Huck cohuck@redhat.com virtio: Honour 'may_reduce_num' in vring_create_virtqueue
Stephen Boyd swboyd@chromium.org genirq: Respect IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE in irq_chip_set_wake_parent()
Jérôme Glisse jglisse@redhat.com block: do not leak memory in bio_copy_user_iov()
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: do not allow trimming when a fs is mounted with the nologreplay option
S.j. Wang shengjiu.wang@nxp.com ASoC: fsl_esai: fix channel swap issue when stream starts
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de include/linux/bitrev.h: fix constant bitrev
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Detect QEMU earlier in boot process
Zubin Mithra zsm@chromium.org ALSA: seq: Fix OOB-reads from strlcpy
Sheena Mira-ato sheena.mira-ato@alliedtelesis.co.nz ip6_tunnel: Match to ARPHRD_TUNNEL6 for dev type
Li RongQing lirongqing@baidu.com net: ethtool: not call vzalloc for zero sized memory request
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com netns: provide pure entropy for net_hash_mix()
Yuval Avnery yuvalav@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Add a lock on tir list
Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Improve RX consumer index validity check.
Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Reset device on RX buffer errors.
Stephen Suryaputra ssuryaextr@gmail.com vrf: check accept_source_route on the original netdevice
Koen De Schepper koen.de_schepper@nokia-bell-labs.com tcp: Ensure DCTCP reacts to losses
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: initialize _pad of sockaddr_in before copying to user memory
Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no qmi_wwan: add Olicard 600
Andrea Righi andrea.righi@canonical.com openvswitch: fix flow actions reallocation
Mao Wenan maowenan@huawei.com net: rds: force to destroy connection if t_sock is NULL in rds_tcp_kill_sock().
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz kcm: switch order of device registration to fix a crash
Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com ipv6: sit: reset ip header pointer in ipip6_rcv
Junwei Hu hujunwei4@huawei.com ipv6: Fix dangling pointer when ipv6 fragment
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org tty: ldisc: add sysctl to prevent autoloading of ldiscs
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org tty: mark Siemens R3964 line discipline as BROKEN
Yueyi Li liyueyi@live.com arm64: kaslr: Reserve size of ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN in linear region
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/security: Fix spectre_v2 reporting
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc/fsl: Fix the flush of branch predictor.
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Fixed warning: orphan section `__btb_flush_fixup'
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Update Spectre v2 reporting
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Enable runtime patching if nospectre_v2 boot arg is used
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Flush branch predictor when entering KVM
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit)
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (64bit)
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Add nospectre_v2 command line argument
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Emulate SPRN_BUCSR register
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Fix spectre_v2 mitigations reporting
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Add macro to flush the branch predictor
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Add infrastructure to fixup branch predictor flush
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/powernv: Query firmware for count cache flush settings
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/pseries: Query hypervisor for count cache flush settings
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/64s: Add support for software count cache flush
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/64s: Add new security feature flags for count cache flush
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/asm: Add a patch_site macro & helpers for patching instructions
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Sanitize the syscall table for NXP PowerPC 32 bit platforms
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/fsl: Add barrier_nospec implementation for NXP PowerPC Book3E
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/64: Make meltdown reporting Book3S 64 specific
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/64: Call setup_barrier_nospec() from setup_arch()
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/64: Add CONFIG_PPC_BARRIER_NOSPEC
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/64: Make stf barrier PPC_BOOK3S_64 specific.
Diana Craciun diana.craciun@nxp.com powerpc/64: Disable the speculation barrier from the command line
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc64s: Show ori31 availability in spectre_v1 sysfs file not v2
Michal Suchanek msuchanek@suse.de powerpc/64s: Enhance the information in cpu_show_spectre_v1()
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/64: Use barrier_nospec in syscall entry
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc: Use barrier_nospec in copy_from_user()
Michal Suchanek msuchanek@suse.de powerpc/64s: Enable barrier_nospec based on firmware settings
Michal Suchanek msuchanek@suse.de powerpc/64s: Patch barrier_nospec in modules
Michael Neuling mikey@neuling.org powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections
Michal Suchanek msuchanek@suse.de powerpc/64s: Add support for ori barrier_nospec patching
Michal Suchanek msuchanek@suse.de powerpc/64s: Add barrier_nospec
Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org powerpc: Fix invalid use of register expressions
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com x86/vdso: Drop implicit common-page-size linker flag
Alistair Strachan astrachan@google.com x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com kbuild: clang: choose GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR not on LD
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org powerpc/tm: Limit TM code inside PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/power: Make restore_processor_context() sane
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/power/32: Move SYSENTER MSR restoration to fix_processor_context()
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/power/64: Use struct desc_ptr for the IDT in struct saved_context
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/power: Fix some ordering bugs in __restore_processor_context()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 6 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/sama5d2-pinfunc.h | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h | 16 +- arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +- arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 6 - arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c | 3 + arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 7 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 6 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h | 21 ++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching-asm.h | 18 ++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h | 2 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h | 21 ++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h | 2 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h | 23 ++- arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h | 7 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h | 21 ++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 11 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 3 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 10 + arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 69 +++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S | 27 ++- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h | 12 ++ arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S | 15 ++ arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c | 10 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 3 + arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 23 ++- arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_asm64.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 19 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/bookehv_interrupts.S | 4 + arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_emulate.c | 7 + arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 24 +++ arch/powerpc/lib/copypage_power7.S | 14 +- arch/powerpc/lib/copyuser_power7.S | 66 +++---- arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 93 +++++++++ arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_power7.S | 66 +++---- arch/powerpc/lib/string_64.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 + arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S | 7 + arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 7 + arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 7 + arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 22 +-- arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_32.h | 8 +- arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_64.h | 19 +- arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h | 3 + arch/x86/power/cpu.c | 96 ++++----- arch/xtensa/kernel/stacktrace.c | 6 +- block/bio.c | 5 +- drivers/char/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 14 +- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_common.c | 7 + drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/pci/quirks.c | 2 + drivers/tty/Kconfig | 23 +++ drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 3 + drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 47 +++++ drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 2 + fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 10 + include/linux/bitrev.h | 36 ++-- include/linux/mlx5/driver.h | 2 + include/linux/string.h | 3 + include/linux/virtio_ring.h | 2 +- include/net/ip.h | 2 +- include/net/net_namespace.h | 1 + include/net/netns/hash.h | 15 +- kernel/irq/chip.c | 4 + kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 +- lib/string.c | 20 ++ net/core/ethtool.c | 47 +++-- net/core/net_namespace.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ip_input.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/ip_options.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c | 36 ++-- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/sit.c | 4 + net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 16 +- net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 4 +- net/rds/tcp.c | 2 +- net/sctp/protocol.c | 1 + sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 6 +- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_esai.c | 47 ++++- 82 files changed, 1138 insertions(+), 288 deletions(-)