This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.162 release. There are 32 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 Mar 6 08:15:49 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-4.9.162-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 4.9.162-rc1
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/uaccess: Don't leak the AC flag into __put_user() value evaluation
Jann Horn jannh@google.com mm: enforce min addr even if capable() in expand_downwards()
Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschaefer@gmx.net mmc: spi: Fix card detection during probe
Seth Forshee seth.forshee@canonical.com powerpc: Always initialize input array when calling epapr_hypercall()
Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets@redhat.com KVM: nSVM: clear events pending from svm_complete_interrupts() when exiting to L1
Suravee Suthikulpanit suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com svm: Fix AVIC incomplete IPI emulation
Chaitanya Tata chaitanya.tata@bluwirelesstechnology.com cfg80211: extend range deviation for DMG
Mathieu Malaterre malat@debian.org mac80211: Add attribute aligned(2) to struct 'action'
Balaji Pothunoori bpothuno@codeaurora.org mac80211: don't initiate TDLS connection if station is not associated to AP
Thomas Falcon tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com ibmveth: Do not process frames after calling napi_reschedule
Zhang Run zhang.run@zte.com.cn net: usb: asix: ax88772_bind return error when hw_reset fail
Atsushi Nemoto atsushi.nemoto@sord.co.jp net: altera_tse: fix connect_local_phy error path
Varun Prakash varun@chelsio.com scsi: csiostor: fix NULL pointer dereference in csio_vport_set_state()
Ernesto A. Fernández ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com direct-io: allow direct writes to empty inodes
Tomonori Sakita tomonori.sakita@sord.co.jp serial: fsl_lpuart: fix maximum acceptable baud rate with over-sampling
Xie Yongji xieyongji@baidu.com locking/rwsem: Fix (possible) missed wakeup
Bob Copeland me@bobcopeland.com mac80211: fix miscounting of ttl-dropped frames
Aaron Hill aa1ronham@gmail.com drivers: thermal: int340x_thermal: Fix sysfs race condition
Eugeniy Paltsev Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com ARC: fix __ffs return value to avoid build warnings
Silvio Cesare silvio.cesare@gmail.com ASoC: imx-audmux: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow
Silvio Cesare silvio.cesare@gmail.com ASoC: dapm: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com usb: gadget: Potential NULL dereference on allocation error
Zeng Tao prime.zeng@hisilicon.com usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix the uninitialized link_state when udc starts
Bo He bo.he@intel.com usb: dwc3: gadget: synchronize_irq dwc irq in suspend
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com thermal: int340x_thermal: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ALSA: compress: prevent potential divide by zero bugs
Rander Wang rander.wang@linux.intel.com ASoC: Intel: Haswell/Broadwell: fix setting for .dynamic field
Kristian H. Kristensen hoegsberg@gmail.com drm/msm: Unblock writer if reader closes file
John Garry john.garry@huawei.com scsi: libsas: Fix rphy phy_identifier for PHYs with end devices attached
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "loop: Fold __loop_release into loop_release"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "loop: Get rid of loop_index_mutex"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "loop: Fix double mutex_unlock(&loop_ctl_mutex) in loop_control_ioctl()"
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h | 6 +-- arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h | 12 +++--- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 7 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 27 ++++++------- drivers/block/loop.c | 47 ++++++++++++---------- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_rd.c | 7 +++- drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 2 - drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c | 9 ++++- drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_attr.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 2 + .../int340x_thermal/processor_thermal_device.c | 30 +++++++------- drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 3 ++ drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_sourcesink.c | 2 +- fs/direct-io.c | 5 ++- kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 11 ++++- mm/mmap.c | 7 ++-- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 4 ++ net/mac80211/rx.c | 6 ++- net/wireless/reg.c | 4 +- sound/core/compress_offload.c | 3 +- sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c | 24 +++++------ sound/soc/intel/boards/broadwell.c | 2 +- sound/soc/intel/boards/haswell.c | 2 +- sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 10 ++--- 28 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)