This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.164 release. There are 31 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 20 08:42:01 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-4.9.164-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 4.9.164-rc1

Zha Bin zhabin@linux.alibaba.com vhost/vsock: fix vhost vsock cid hashing inconsistent

Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com of: Support const and non-const use for to_of_node()

Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com mmc: tmio_mmc_core: don't claim spurious interrupts

Xiao Ni xni@redhat.com It's wrong to add len to sector_nr in raid10 reshape twice

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: bebob: use more identical mod_alias for Saffire Pro 10 I/O against Liquid Saffire 56

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org perf/x86: Fixup typo in stub functions

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp/dccp: remove reqsk_put() from inet_child_forget()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com gro_cells: make sure device is up in gro_cells_receive()

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix client call queueing, waiting for channel

Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com vxlan: Fix GRO cells race condition between receive and link delete

Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net ipvlan: disallow userns cap_net_admin to change global mode/flags

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk missing barriers in some of unix_sock ->addr and ->path accesses

Kalash Nainwal kalash@arista.com net: Set rtm_table to RT_TABLE_COMPAT for ipv6 for tables > 255

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com mdio_bus: Fix use-after-free on device_register fails

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/x25: fix a race in x25_bind()

Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il net/mlx4_core: Fix qp mtt size calculation

Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il net/mlx4_core: Fix locking in SRIOV mode when switching between events and polling

Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il net/mlx4_core: Fix reset flow when in command polling mode

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com vxlan: test dev->flags & IFF_UP before calling gro_cells_receive()

Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com tcp: handle inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() failures

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com route: set the deleted fnhe fnhe_daddr to 0 in ip_del_fnhe to fix a race

Masaru Nagai masaru.nagai.vx@renesas.com ravb: Decrease TxFIFO depth of Q3 and Q2 to one

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com pptp: dst_release sk_dst_cache in pptp_sock_destruct

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/x25: reset state in x25_connect()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/x25: fix use-after-free in x25_device_event()

Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com net: sit: fix UBSAN Undefined behaviour in check_6rd

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/hsr: fix possible crash in add_timer()

Mao Wenan maowenan@huawei.com net: hsr: fix memory leak in hsr_dev_finalize()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com l2tp: fix infoleak in l2tp_ip6_recvmsg()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: restrict /proc/keys by credentials at open time

Erik Schmauss erik.schmauss@intel.com ACPICA: Reference Counts: increase max to 0x4000 for large servers

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 4 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 1 - drivers/mmc/host/tmio_mmc_pio.c | 11 +++-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c | 9 ++++ .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 9 +++- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 1 - drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c | 1 + drivers/net/vxlan.c | 14 ++++++- drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +- include/acpi/acconfig.h | 2 +- include/linux/of.h | 20 +++++---- include/net/gro_cells.h | 22 ++++++++-- net/hsr/hsr_device.c | 18 ++++---- net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c | 12 ++++++ net/hsr/hsr_framereg.h | 1 + net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/route.c | 4 ++ net/ipv4/syncookies.c | 7 +++- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 8 +++- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/sit.c | 5 ++- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 4 +- net/rxrpc/conn_client.c | 4 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 48 +++++++++++++--------- net/unix/diag.c | 3 +- net/x25/af_x25.c | 20 ++++++--- security/keys/proc.c | 8 +--- security/lsm_audit.c | 10 +++-- sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c | 14 ++++++- 32 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)