This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.83 release. There are 77 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 Fri Feb 23 12:44:14 UTC 2018. 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-4.9.83-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 4.9.83-rc1
yinbo.zhu yinbo.zhu@nxp.com mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: fix the mmc error after sleep on ls1046ardb
yinbo.zhu yinbo.zhu@nxp.com mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: fix eMMC couldn't work after kexec
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de media: r820t: fix r820t_write_reg for KASAN
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org ARM: dts: Delete bogus reference to the charlcd
Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg@gmail.com arm: dts: mt2701: Add reset-cells
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: dts: s5pv210: add interrupt-parent for ohci
Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org arm64: dts: msm8916: Add missing #phy-cells
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: pxa/tosa-bt: add MODULE_LICENSE tag
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: dts: exynos: fix RTC interrupt for exynos5410
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org vfs: don't do RCU lookup of empty pathnames
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de x86: fix build warnign with 32-bit PAE
Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com x86/spectre: Fix an error message
Jia Zhang qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping
Rui Wang rui.y.wang@intel.com selftests/x86/mpx: Fix incorrect bounds with old _sigfault
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/speculation: Add <asm/msr-index.h> dependency
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com nospec: Move array_index_nospec() parameter checking into separate macro
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com x86/speculation: Fix up array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
Dominik Brodowski linux@dominikbrodowski.net selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in single_step_syscall.c
Dominik Brodowski linux@dominikbrodowski.net selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in test_mremap_vdso.c
Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org selftests/x86/pkeys: Remove unused functions
Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org x86/speculation: Clean up various Spectre related details
KarimAllah Ahmed karahmed@amazon.de X86/nVMX: Properly set spec_ctrl and pred_cmd before merging MSRs
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk KVM/x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range(), by always inlining iterator helper methods
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/speculation: Correct Speculation Control microcode blacklist again
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/speculation: Update Speculation Control microcode blacklist
Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __optimize function attribute
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com x86/entry/64/compat: Clear registers for compat syscalls, to reduce speculation attack surface
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org arm: spear13xx: Fix spics gpio controller's warning
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org arm: spear600: Add missing interrupt-parent of rtc
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: dts: nomadik: add interrupt-parent for clcd
Patrice Chotard patrice.chotard@st.com ARM: dts: STi: Add gpio polarity for "hdmi,hpd-gpio" property
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: lpc3250: fix uda1380 gpio numbers
Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org arm64: dts: msm8916: Correct ipc references for smsm
Eugene Syromiatnikov esyr@redhat.com s390: fix handling of -1 in set{,fs}[gu]id16 syscalls
Gang He ghe@suse.com ocfs2: try a blocking lock before return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org PM / devfreq: Propagate error from devfreq_add_device()
Shilpasri G Bhat shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com cpufreq: powernv: Dont assume distinct pstate values for nominal and pmin
Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com RDMA/rxe: Fix a race condition related to the QP error state
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de kselftest: fix OOM in memory compaction test
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il IB/mlx4: Fix incorrectly releasing steerable UD QPs when have only ETH ports
Mike Marciniszyn mike.marciniszyn@intel.com IB/qib: Fix comparison error with qperf compare/swap test
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc: fix build errors in stable tree
NeilBrown neilb@suse.com dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec_pending()
James Hogan jhogan@kernel.org usb: Move USB_UHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_* out of USB_SUPPORT
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com mvpp2: fix multicast address filter
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations
Lassi Ylikojola lassi.ylikojola@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: add implicit fb quirk for Behringer UFX1204
Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@fbihome.de ALSA: hda/realtek: PCI quirk for Fujitsu U7x7
Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Enable Thinkpad Dock device for ALC298 platform
Kirill Marinushkin k.marinushkin@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix UAC2 get_ctl request with a RANGE attribute
Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for two Dell machines
Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch mtd: nand: vf610: set correct ooblayout
Greg Kurz groug@kaod.org 9p/trans_virtio: discard zero-length reply
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix unexpected -EEXIST when creating new inode
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix btrfs_evict_inode to handle abnormal inodes correctly
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix extent state leak from tree log
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix crash due to not cleaning up tree log block's dirty bits
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix deadlock in run_delalloc_nocow
David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de target/iscsi: avoid NULL dereference in CHAP auth error path
Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly
Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre@linaro.org console/dummy: leave .con_font_get set to NULL
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org video: fbdev: atmel_lcdfb: fix display-timings lookup
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org PCI: keystone: Fix interrupt-controller-node lookup
Corentin Labbe clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com MIPS: Fix typo BIG_ENDIAN to CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
Jan H. Schönherr jschoenh@amazon.de mm: Fix memory size alignment in devm_memremap_pages_release()
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de mm: hide a #warning for COMPILE_TEST
Ernesto A. Fernández ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
Zhouyi Zhou zhouzhouyi@gmail.com ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
Harshad Shirwadkar harshads@google.com ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
Tobin C. Harding me@tobin.cc jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings
Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
Stewart Smith stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr drm/radeon: adjust tested variable
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/radeon: Add dpm quirk for Jet PRO (v2)
Steffen Weber steffen.weber@gmail.com scsi: smartpqi: allow static build ("built-in")
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Diffstat:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/snps-dma.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/arm-realview-eb-mp.dtsi | 5 - arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5410.dtsi | 1 - arch/arm/boot/dts/lpc3250-ea3250.dts | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/lpc3250-phy3250.dts | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/mt2701.dtsi | 2 + arch/arm/boot/dts/s5pv210.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/spear1310-evb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear1340.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear13xx.dtsi | 6 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear600.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/ste-nomadik-stn8815.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407.dtsi | 3 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/stih410.dtsi | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa-bt.c | 4 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8916.dtsi | 5 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 12 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 5 + arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c | 8 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 30 ++ arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 2 +- arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 2 +- arch/x86/events/intel/p6.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 26 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 28 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 10 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 31 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 8 +- arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 10 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 +- arch/x86/lib/cpu.c | 2 +- drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c | 6 +- drivers/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 4 +- drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c | 4 +- drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c | 6 +- drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c | 2 +- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 2 +- drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c | 2 +- drivers/edac/mce_amd.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_uvd.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/si_dpm.c | 5 + drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 6 +- drivers/hwmon/hwmon-vid.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/k10temp.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/k8temp.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c | 13 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_rc.c | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c | 2 + drivers/md/dm.c | 3 +- drivers/media/tuners/r820t.c | 13 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c | 8 + drivers/mtd/nand/vf610_nfc.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/qp.c | 3 + .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 5 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 1 + drivers/pci/host/pci-keystone.c | 5 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c | 12 +- drivers/scsi/smartpqi/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/Kconfig | 8 + drivers/usb/host/Kconfig | 8 - drivers/video/console/dummycon.c | 1 - drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c | 8 +- drivers/video/fbdev/geode/video_gx.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 7 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 32 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 16 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 1 + fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 5 +- fs/mbcache.c | 1 + fs/namei.c | 3 + fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 9 + include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 4 + include/linux/compiler.h | 4 + include/linux/jbd2.h | 431 +++++++++++++-------- include/linux/kaiser.h | 2 +- include/linux/nospec.h | 36 +- kernel/memremap.c | 3 +- mm/memory.c | 2 +- net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 3 +- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 8 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 70 ++++ sound/usb/mixer.c | 18 +- sound/usb/pcm.c | 9 + tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/x86/mpx-mini-test.c | 32 +- tools/testing/selftests/x86/protection_keys.c | 28 -- tools/testing/selftests/x86/single_step_syscall.c | 5 +- tools/testing/selftests/x86/test_mremap_vdso.c | 4 + 110 files changed, 766 insertions(+), 417 deletions(-)