This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

alpha: fix reboot on Avanti platform

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: alpha-fix-reboot-on-avanti-platform.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 55fc633c41a08ce9244ff5f528f420b16b1e04d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:59:54 -0500 Subject: alpha: fix reboot on Avanti platform

From: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com

commit 55fc633c41a08ce9244ff5f528f420b16b1e04d6 upstream.

We need to define NEED_SRM_SAVE_RESTORE on the Avanti, otherwise we get machine check exception when attempting to reboot the machine.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Matt Turner mattst88@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/alpha/kernel/pci_impl.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_impl.h +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_impl.h @@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ struct pci_iommu_arena };

#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM) && \ - (defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_CIA) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_LCA)) + (defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_CIA) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_LCA) || \ + defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_AVANTI)) # define NEED_SRM_SAVE_RESTORE #else # undef NEED_SRM_SAVE_RESTORE

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/alpha-fix-formating-of-stack-content.patch queue-4.9/pipe-fix-off-by-one-error-when-checking-buffer-limits.patch queue-4.9/alpha-fix-crash-if-pthread_create-races-with-signal-delivery.patch queue-4.9/pipe-actually-allow-root-to-exceed-the-pipe-buffer-limits.patch queue-4.9/alpha-fix-reboot-on-avanti-platform.patch