This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.163 release. There are 96 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 Thu Mar 14 17:10:06 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-4.9.163-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 4.9.163-rc1
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org x86: Add TSX Force Abort CPUID/MSR
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org perf/x86/intel: Generalize dynamic constraint creation
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org perf/x86/intel: Make cpuc allocations consistent
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: exynos: Do not ignore real-world fuse values for thermal zone 0 on Exynos5420
Vincent Whitchurch vincent.whitchurch@axis.com ARM: 8781/1: Fix Thumb-2 syscall return for binutils 2.29+
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org drm: disable uncached DMA optimization for ARM and arm64
Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com ARM: dts: exynos: Add minimal clkout parameters to Exynos3250 PMU
Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com ARM: dts: exynos: Fix pinctrl definition for eMMC RTSN line on Odroid X2/U3
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex,rt_mutex: Restructure rt_mutex_finish_proxy_lock()
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com scsi: aacraid: Fix missing break in switch statement
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com iscsi_ibft: Fix missing break in switch statement
Vincent Batts vbatts@hashbangbash.com Input: elan_i2c - add id for touchpad found in Lenovo s21e-20
Jason Gerecke jason.gerecke@wacom.com Input: wacom_serial4 - add support for Wacom ArtPad II tablet
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp fs: ratelimit __find_get_block_slow() failure message.
Jun-Ru Chang jrjang@realtek.com MIPS: Remove function size check in get_frame_info()
Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com MIPS: Loongson: Introduce and use loongson_llsc_mb()
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf trace: Support multiple "vfs_getname" probes
Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com perf symbols: Filter out hidden symbols from labels
Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix use-after-free in error path
Martynas Pumputis martynas@weave.works netfilter: nf_nat: skip nat clash resolution for same-origin entries
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de selftests: netfilter: add simple masq/redirect test cases
Naresh Kamboju naresh.kamboju@linaro.org selftests: netfilter: fix config fragment CONFIG_NF_TABLES_INET
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com dmaengine: dmatest: Abort test in case of mapping error
Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vsock/virtio: reset connected sockets on device removal
Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vsock/virtio: fix kernel panic after device hot-unplug
Codrin Ciubotariu codrin.ciubotariu@microchip.com dmaengine: at_xdmac: Fix wrongfull report of a channel as in use
Paul Kocialkowski paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com drm/sun4i: tcon: Prepare and enable TCON channel 0 clock at init
Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk irqchip/mmp: Only touch the PJ4 IRQ & FIQ bits on enable/disable
Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org usb: phy: fix link errors
Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org arm64: dts: add msm8996 compatible to gicv3
Peng Hao peng.hao2@zte.com.cn ARM: pxa: ssp: unneeded to free devm_ allocated data
Madalin Bucur madalin.bucur@nxp.com soc: fsl: qbman: avoid race in clearing QMan interrupt
Ian Kent raven@themaw.net autofs: fix error return in autofs_fill_super()
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com autofs: drop dentry reference only when it is never used
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz fs/drop_caches.c: avoid softlockups in drop_pagecache_sb()
Mikhail Zaslonko zaslonko@linux.ibm.com mm, memory_hotplug: test_pages_in_a_zone do not pass the end of zone
Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com mm, memory_hotplug: is_mem_section_removable do not pass the end of a zone
Qian Cai cai@lca.pw x86_64: increase stack size for KASAN_EXTRA
Kairui Song kasong@redhat.com x86/kexec: Don't setup EFI info if EFI runtime is not enabled
James Morse james.morse@arm.com arm64: kprobe: Always blacklist the KVM world-switch code
Ronnie Sahlberg lsahlber@redhat.com cifs: fix computation for MAX_SMB2_HDR_SIZE
Sinan Kaya okaya@kernel.org platform/x86: Fix unmet dependency warning for SAMSUNG_Q10
Ming Lu ming.lu@citrix.com scsi: libfc: free skb when receiving invalid flogi resp
Manish Chopra manishc@marvell.com qed: Fix VF probe failure while FLR
Yao Liu yotta.liu@ucloud.cn nfs: Fix NULL pointer dereference of dev_name
Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch gpio: vf610: Mask all GPIO interrupts
Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: fix error handling in rk_gmac_powerup()
Yonglong Liu liuyonglong@huawei.com net: hns: Fix wrong read accesses via Clause 45 MDIO protocol
Yonglong Liu liuyonglong@huawei.com net: hns: Fix for missing of_node_put() after of_parse_phandle()
Tomonori Sakita tomonori.sakita@sord.co.jp net: altera_tse: fix msgdma_tx_completion on non-zero fill_level case
Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: SMP: limit number of possible CPUs by NR_CPUS
Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: SMP: mark each possible CPU as present
Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: smp_lx200_defconfig: fix vectors clash
Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: SMP: fix secondary CPU initialization
Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: SMP: fix ccount_timer_shutdown
Suravee Suthikulpanit suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com iommu/amd: Fix IOMMU page flush when detach device from a domain
ZhangXiaoxu zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com ipvs: Fix signed integer overflow when setsockopt timeout
Jerry Snitselaar jsnitsel@redhat.com iommu/amd: Unmap all mapped pages in error path of map_sg
Jerry Snitselaar jsnitsel@redhat.com iommu/amd: Call free_iova_fast with pfn in map_sg
Brian Welty brian.welty@intel.com IB/{hfi1, qib}: Fix WC.byte_len calculation for UD_SEND_WITH_IMM
Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com perf tools: Handle TOPOLOGY headers with no CPU
Stephane Eranian eranian@google.com perf core: Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug
Su Yanjun suyj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com vti4: Fix a ipip packet processing bug in 'IPCOMP' virtual tunnel
Alistair Strachan astrachan@google.com media: uvcvideo: Fix 'type' check leading to overflow
YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file
Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlbfs: fix races and page leaks during migration
Liu Xiang liu.xiang6@zte.com.cn MIPS: irq: Allocate accurate order pages for irq stack
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com applicom: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities
Jiaxun Yang jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com x86/CPU/AMD: Set the CPB bit unconditionally on F17h
Rajasingh Thavamani T.Rajasingh@landisgyr.com net: phy: Micrel KSZ8061: link failure after cable connect
Timur Celik mail@timurcelik.de tun: remove unnecessary memory barrier
Timur Celik mail@timurcelik.de tun: fix blocking read
Nazarov Sergey s-nazarov@yandex.ru net: avoid use IPCB in cipso_v4_error
Nazarov Sergey s-nazarov@yandex.ru net: Add __icmp_send helper.
Igor Druzhinin igor.druzhinin@citrix.com xen-netback: fix occasional leak of grant ref mappings under memory pressure
Igor Druzhinin igor.druzhinin@citrix.com xen-netback: don't populate the hash cache on XenBus disconnect
Mao Wenan maowenan@huawei.com net: sit: fix memory leak in sit_init_net()
YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com net: nfc: Fix NULL dereference on nfc_llcp_build_tlv fails
Sheng Lan lansheng@huawei.com net: netem: fix skb length BUG_ON in __skb_to_sgvec
Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com netlabel: fix out-of-bounds memory accesses
Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Fix u64 statistics
Haiyang Zhang haiyangz@microsoft.com hv_netvsc: Fix IP header checksum for coalesced packets
Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Drop oversize TX packets to prevent errors.
Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com team: Free BPF filter when unregistering netdev
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com sky2: Disable MSI on Dell Inspiron 1545 and Gateway P-79
YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com net-sysfs: Fix mem leak in netdev_register_kobject
Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com ip6mr: Do not call __IP6_INC_STATS() from preemptible context
Qing Xia saberlily.xia@hisilicon.com staging: android: ion: fix sys heap pool's gfp_flags
Ajay Singh ajay.kathat@microchip.com staging: wilc1000: fix to set correct value for 'vif_num'
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com staging: comedi: ni_660x: fix missing break in switch statement
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org isdn: isdn_tty: fix build warning of strncpy
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org ncpfs: fix build warning of strncpy
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org cpufreq: Use struct kobj_attribute instead of struct global_attr
Mans Rullgard mans@mansr.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add ID for Hjelmslund Electronics USB485
Ivan Mironov mironov.ivan@gmail.com USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for Ingenico 3070
Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit ME910 ECM composition
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos3250.dtsi | 3 + arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos4412-odroid-common.dtsi | 13 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420-tmu-sensor-conf.dtsi | 25 + arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420.dtsi | 10 +- arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 4 +- arch/arm/plat-pxa/ssp.c | 3 - arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/msm8996.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 6 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 15 + arch/mips/include/asm/atomic.h | 6 + arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h | 36 + arch/mips/include/asm/bitops.h | 5 + arch/mips/include/asm/futex.h | 3 + arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 + arch/mips/kernel/irq.c | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 7 +- arch/mips/loongson64/Platform | 23 + arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c | 10 + arch/x86/events/core.c | 13 +- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 80 ++- arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 11 +- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 6 + arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 4 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 8 +- arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c | 3 + arch/xtensa/configs/smp_lx200_defconfig | 1 + arch/xtensa/kernel/head.S | 5 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/smp.c | 41 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/time.c | 2 +- drivers/char/applicom.c | 35 +- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 +- drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 14 +- drivers/dma/at_xdmac.c | 19 +- drivers/dma/dmatest.c | 28 +- drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c | 1 + drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c | 5 + drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c | 2 + drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/ud.c | 1 - drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_ud.c | 1 - drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 1 + drivers/input/tablet/wacom_serial4.c | 2 + drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 19 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-mmp.c | 6 +- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_tty.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 14 +- drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_msgdma.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 6 + drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_enet.c | 5 + drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns_mdio.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 24 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c | 10 + drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c | 4 +- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 22 +- drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 13 +- drivers/net/team/team_mode_loadbalance.c | 15 + drivers/net/tun.c | 4 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c | 2 + drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 7 + drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 10 +- drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 15 +- drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_lport.c | 6 +- drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c | 9 +- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_660x.c | 1 + drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/phy/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 6 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 2 + fs/autofs4/expire.c | 3 +- fs/autofs4/inode.c | 4 +- fs/buffer.c | 19 +- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h | 4 +- fs/drop_caches.c | 8 +- fs/exec.c | 2 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 12 + fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/super.c | 5 + include/drm/drm_cache.h | 18 + include/linux/cpufreq.h | 12 +- include/net/icmp.h | 9 +- include/net/ip.h | 2 + kernel/events/core.c | 14 +- kernel/futex.c | 7 +- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 52 +- kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 8 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 14 +- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 +- mm/migrate.c | 11 + net/core/net-sysfs.c | 3 + net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 20 +- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/ip_options.c | 22 +- net/ipv4/ip_vti.c | 50 ++ net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 12 + net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 16 + net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c | 3 +- net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 20 + net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 24 +- net/sched/sch_netem.c | 10 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 29 +- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 25 +- tools/perf/util/cpumap.c | 11 +- tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c | 9 +- tools/testing/selftests/netfilter/Makefile | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/netfilter/config | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/netfilter/nft_nat.sh | 762 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 115 files changed, 1665 insertions(+), 282 deletions(-)