I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.228 kernel.
All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git%3Ba=summa...
thanks,
greg k-h
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Adrian Hunter (1): perf symbols: Fix debuginfo search for Ubuntu
Al Viro (2): sparc32: fix register window handling in genregs32_[gs]et() sparc64: fix misuses of access_process_vm() in genregs32_[sg]et()
Alexander Sverdlin (1): macvlan: Skip loopback packets in RX handler
Anders Roxell (1): power: vexpress: add suppress_bind_attrs to true
Andrea Arcangeli (1): mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()
Andy Shevchenko (2): spi: No need to assign dummy value in spi_unregister_controller() spi: dw: Zero DMA Tx and Rx configurations on stack
Anthony Steinhauser (3): x86/speculation: Prevent rogue cross-process SSBD shutdown x86/speculation: Avoid force-disabling IBPB based on STIBP and enhanced IBRS. x86/speculation: PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE enforcement for indirect branches.
Ard Biesheuvel (3): efi/efivars: Add missing kobject_put() in sysfs entry creation error path ACPI: GED: add support for _Exx / _Lxx handler methods ACPI: GED: use correct trigger type field in _Exx / _Lxx handling
Arthur Kiyanovski (1): net: ena: fix error returning in ena_com_get_hash_function()
Arvind Sankar (2): x86/boot: Correct relocation destination on old linkers x86/mm: Stop printing BRK addresses
Ashok Raj (1): PCI: Program MPS for RCiEP devices
Barret Rhoden (1): perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()
Bob Haarman (1): x86_64: Fix jiffies ODR violation
Brad Love (1): media: si2157: Better check for running tuner in init
Casey Schaufler (1): Smack: slab-out-of-bounds in vsscanf
Chris Wilson (1): agp/intel: Reinforce the barrier after GTT updates
Christian Lamparter (1): carl9170: remove P2P_GO support
Christoph Hellwig (1): staging: android: ion: use vmap instead of vm_map_ram
Christophe JAILLET (1): video: fbdev: w100fb: Fix a potential double free.
Chuhong Yuan (2): ALSA: es1688: Add the missed snd_card_free() media: go7007: fix a miss of snd_card_free
Colin Ian King (2): media: dvb_frontend: ensure that inital front end status initialized media: dvb: return -EREMOTEIO on i2c transfer failure.
Dan Carpenter (1): rtlwifi: Fix a double free in _rtl_usb_tx_urb_setup()
Daniel Thompson (1): kgdb: Fix spurious true from in_dbg_master()
Dmitry Osipenko (1): ARM: tegra: Correct PL310 Auxiliary Control Register initialization
Douglas Anderson (2): kgdb: Prevent infinite recursive entries to the debugger kernel/cpu_pm: Fix uninitted local in cpu_pm
Eric Biggers (1): ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename()
Eric W. Biederman (1): proc: Use new_inode not new_inode_pseudo
Filipe Manana (1): btrfs: do not ignore error from btrfs_next_leaf() when inserting checksums
Finn Thain (1): m68k: mac: Don't call via_flush_cache() on Mac IIfx
Fredrik Strupe (1): ARM: 8977/1: ptrace: Fix mask for thumb breakpoint hook
Giuliano Procida (1): blk-mq: move blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues synchronize_rcu call
Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 4.9.228
Guoqing Jiang (1): md: don't flush workqueue unconditionally in md_open
H. Nikolaus Schaller (1): w1: omap-hdq: cleanup to add missing newline for some dev_dbg
Haibo Chen (1): mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: fix the mask for tuning start point
Hangbin Liu (1): ipv6: fix IPV6_ADDRFORM operation logic
Harshad Shirwadkar (1): ext4: fix EXT_MAX_EXTENT/INDEX to check for zeroed eh_max
Hill Ma (1): x86/reboot/quirks: Add MacBook6,1 reboot quirk
Hsin-Yu Chao (1): Bluetooth: Add SCO fallback for invalid LMP parameters error
Ido Schimmel (1): vxlan: Avoid infinite loop when suppressing NS messages with invalid options
Jann Horn (1): exit: Move preemption fixup up, move blocking operations down
Jens Axboe (1): sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads
Jeremy Kerr (1): powerpc/spufs: fix copy_to_user while atomic
Jia-Ju Bai (1): net: vmxnet3: fix possible buffer overflow caused by bad DMA value in vmxnet3_get_rss()
Jiaxun Yang (2): MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel PCI: Don't disable decoding when mmio_always_on is set
Jitao Shi (1): dt-bindings: display: mediatek: control dpi pins mode to avoid leakage
Johannes Thumshirn (1): scsi: return correct blkprep status code in case scsi_init_io() fails.
Jon Doron (1): x86/kvm/hyper-v: Explicitly align hcall param for kvm_hyperv_exit
Jonathan Bakker (1): pinctrl: samsung: Save/restore eint_mask over suspend for EINT_TYPE GPIOs
Julien Thierry (1): objtool: Ignore empty alternatives
Justin Chen (1): spi: bcm-qspi: when tx/rx buffer is NULL set to 0
Kai-Heng Feng (1): igb: Report speed and duplex as unknown when device is runtime suspended
Kees Cook (1): e1000: Distribute switch variables for initialization
Kieran Bingham (1): media: platform: fcp: Set appropriate DMA parameters
Krzysztof Struczynski (1): ima: Fix ima digest hash table key calculation
Larry Finger (3): b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted b43: Fix connection problem with WPA3 b43_legacy: Fix connection problem with WPA3
Linus Walleij (1): ARM: 8978/1: mm: make act_mm() respect THREAD_SIZE
Lukas Wunner (5): spi: bcm2835aux: Fix controller unregister order spi: dw: Fix controller unregister order spi: Fix controller unregister order spi: pxa2xx: Fix controller unregister order spi: bcm2835: Fix controller unregister order
Marc Zyngier (1): KVM: arm64: Make vcpu_cp1x() work on Big Endian hosts
Marcos Paulo de Souza (1): btrfs: send: emit file capabilities after chown
Masahiro Yamada (1): kbuild: force to build vmlinux if CONFIG_MODVERSION=y
Masami Hiramatsu (1): perf probe: Do not show the skipped events
Masashi Honma (1): ath9k_htc: Silence undersized packet warnings
Michael Ellerman (1): drivers/macintosh: Fix memleak in windfarm_pm112 driver
Michał Mirosław (1): ALSA: pcm: disallow linking stream to itself
Miquel Raynal (1): mtd: rawnand: pasemi: Fix the probe error path
Nathan Chancellor (1): lib/mpi: Fix 64-bit MIPS build with Clang
NeilBrown (2): sunrpc: svcauth_gss_register_pseudoflavor must reject duplicate registrations. sunrpc: clean up properly in gss_mech_unregister()
OGAWA Hirofumi (1): fat: don't allow to mount if the FAT length == 0
Omar Sandoval (1): btrfs: fix error handling when submitting direct I/O bio
Pablo Neira Ayuso (1): netfilter: nft_nat: return EOPNOTSUPP if type or flags are not supported
Pali Rohár (1): mwifiex: Fix memory corruption in dump_station
Paolo Bonzini (1): KVM: nSVM: leave ASID aside in copy_vmcb_control_area
Punit Agrawal (1): e1000e: Relax condition to trigger reset for ME workaround
Qiujun Huang (4): ath9k: Fix use-after-free Read in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx ath9k: Fix use-after-free Write in ath9k_htc_rx_msg ath9x: Fix stack-out-of-bounds Write in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb
Qiushi Wu (3): ACPI: sysfs: Fix reference count leak in acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile() ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in acpi_cppc_processor_probe() cpuidle: Fix three reference count leaks
Rafael J. Wysocki (1): ACPI: PM: Avoid using power resources if there are none for D0
Roberto Sassu (2): ima: Directly assign the ima_default_policy pointer to ima_rules evm: Fix possible memory leak in evm_calc_hmac_or_hash()
Ryusuke Konishi (1): nilfs2: fix null pointer dereference at nilfs_segctor_do_construct()
Sasha Levin (1): spi: dw: fix possible race condition
Sean Christopherson (1): KVM: nVMX: Consult only the "basic" exit reason when routing nested exit
Serge Semin (5): spi: dw: Enable interrupts in accordance with DMA xfer mode clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Fix missing clockevent timers mips: cm: Fix an invalid error code of INTVN_*_ERR mips: Add udelay lpj numbers adjustment spi: dw: Return any value retrieved from the dma_transfer callback
Su Kang Yin (1): crypto: talitos - fix ECB and CBC algs ivsize
Takashi Iwai (1): ALSA: usb-audio: Fix inconsistent card PM state after resume
Tejun Heo (1): cgroup, blkcg: Prepare some symbols for module and !CONFIG_CGROUP usages
Thomas Falcon (1): drivers/net/ibmvnic: Update VNIC protocol version reporting
Thomas Lendacky (1): x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode
Tiezhu Yang (1): MIPS: Make sparse_init() using top-down allocation
Ulf Hansson (1): staging: greybus: sdio: Respect the cmd->busy_timeout from the mmc core
Waiman Long (1): x86/speculation: Change misspelled STIPB to STIBP
Wang Hai (1): mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()
Wei Yongjun (1): net: lpc-enet: fix error return code in lpc_mii_init()
Xiaochun Lee (1): x86/PCI: Mark Intel C620 MROMs as having non-compliant BARs
Xiaolong Huang (1): can: kvaser_usb: kvaser_usb_leaf: Fix some info-leaks to USB devices
Xie XiuQi (1): ixgbe: fix signed-integer-overflow warning
Xing Li (2): KVM: MIPS: Define KVM_ENTRYHI_ASID to cpu_asid_mask(&boot_cpu_data) KVM: MIPS: Fix VPN2_MASK definition for variable cpu_vmbits
YuanJunQing (1): MIPS: Fix IRQ tracing when call handle_fpe() and handle_msa_fpe()
Yunjian Wang (1): net: allwinner: Fix use correct return type for ndo_start_xmit()
Yuxuan Shui (1): ovl: initialize error in ovl_copy_xattr
Álvaro Fernández Rojas (1): mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: fix hamming oob layout