This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.106 release. There are 29 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 Jun 6 06:57:52 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-4.9.106-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 4.9.106-rc1
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org x86/xen: Add unwind hint annotations to xen_setup_gdt
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org objtool: header file sync-up
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org perf/tools: header file sync up
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool, x86: Add several functions and files to the objtool whitelist
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Fix "noreturn" detection for recursive sibling calls
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Detect RIP-relative switch table references, part 2
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Detect RIP-relative switch table references
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Support GCC 8 switch tables
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org objtool: sync up with the 4.14.47 version of objtool
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Include missing headers for fls() and types in linux/log2.h
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Drop ARRAY_SIZE() definition from linux/hashtable.h
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Move ARRAY_SIZE() to linux/kernel.h
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Adopt __same_type() and __must_be_array() from the kernel
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Introduce linux/bug.h, from the kernel sources
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include uapi: Grab copies of stat.h and fcntl.h
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf tools: Move headers check into bash script
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf tools: Force fixdep compilation at the start of the build
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Adopt kernel's refcount.h
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Add UINT_MAX def to kernel.h
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Introduce atomic_cmpxchg_{relaxed,release}()
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Adopt __compiletime_error
Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com radix tree test suite: Remove types.h
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Introduce linux/compiler-gcc.h
Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com tools: enable endian checks for all sparse builds
Matthew Wilcox willy@linux.intel.com tools: add more bitmap functions
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org tools lib: Add for_each_clear_bit macro
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Move checking code to check.c
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/crypto/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/crypto/sha1-mb/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/crypto/sha256-mb/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h | 107 + arch/x86/include/asm/unwind_hints.h | 103 + arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/acpi/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 9 +- arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 + arch/x86/lib/msr-reg.S | 8 +- arch/x86/net/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/platform/efi/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/power/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/xen/Makefile | 3 + arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 5 +- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 13 +- kernel/kexec_core.c | 4 +- tools/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 13 + tools/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 6 + tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 + tools/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 5 +- tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 44 +- tools/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h | 7 +- tools/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h | 3 +- tools/include/asm-generic/bitops.h | 1 + tools/include/asm-generic/bitops/__ffz.h | 12 + tools/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h | 28 + tools/include/linux/atomic.h | 6 + tools/include/linux/bitmap.h | 26 + tools/include/linux/bitops.h | 5 + tools/include/linux/bug.h | 10 + tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 21 + tools/include/linux/compiler.h | 23 +- tools/include/linux/hashtable.h | 4 - tools/include/linux/kernel.h | 7 + tools/include/linux/log2.h | 3 + tools/include/linux/refcount.h | 151 ++ tools/include/linux/spinlock.h | 5 + tools/include/linux/types.h | 5 +- tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 5 + tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 51 + tools/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 67 + tools/include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 45 + tools/lib/find_bit.c | 25 + tools/objtool/Build | 4 + tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt | 195 +- tools/objtool/Makefile | 35 +- tools/objtool/arch.h | 66 +- tools/objtool/arch/x86/Build | 10 +- tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.c | 407 +++- .../objtool/arch/x86/{insn => include/asm}/inat.h | 2 +- .../arch/x86/{insn => include/asm}/inat_types.h | 0 .../objtool/arch/x86/{insn => include/asm}/insn.h | 2 +- tools/objtool/arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h | 107 + tools/objtool/arch/x86/{insn => lib}/inat.c | 2 +- tools/objtool/arch/x86/{insn => lib}/insn.c | 4 +- .../arch/x86/{insn => lib}/x86-opcode-map.txt | 0 .../arch/x86/{insn => tools}/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk | 0 tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 1297 +----------- tools/objtool/builtin-orc.c | 68 + tools/objtool/builtin.h | 6 + tools/objtool/cfi.h | 55 + tools/objtool/check.c | 2209 ++++++++++++++++++++ tools/objtool/check.h | 82 + tools/objtool/elf.c | 326 ++- tools/objtool/elf.h | 23 +- tools/objtool/objtool.c | 12 +- tools/objtool/orc.h | 30 + tools/objtool/orc_dump.c | 213 ++ tools/objtool/orc_gen.c | 221 ++ tools/objtool/special.c | 6 +- tools/objtool/sync-check.sh | 29 + tools/objtool/warn.h | 10 + tools/perf/MANIFEST | 6 + tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 144 +- tools/perf/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 7 +- tools/perf/check-headers.sh | 61 + tools/perf/util/util.h | 2 - 82 files changed, 4804 insertions(+), 1694 deletions(-)