This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.73 release. There are 21 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 Fri Dec 29 16:45:43 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.73-rc1.gz 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 4.9.73-rc1
Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com net: mvneta: eliminate wrong call to handle rx descriptor error
Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com net: mvneta: use proper rxq_number in loop on rx queues
Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com net: mvneta: clear interface link status on port disable
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com libnvdimm, pfn: fix start_pad handling for aligned namespaces
Ravi Bangoria ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/perf: Dereference BHRB entries safely
Chen-Yu Tsai wens@csie.org clk: sunxi: sun9i-mmc: Implement reset callback for reset controls
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com kvm: x86: fix RSM when PCID is non-zero
Wanpeng Li wanpeng.li@hotmail.com KVM: X86: Fix load RFLAGS w/o the fixed bit
Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com pinctrl: cherryview: Mask all interrupts on Intel_Strago based systems
Ricardo Ribalda Delgado ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com spi: xilinx: Detect stall with Unknown commands
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Hide Diva-built-in serial aux and graphics card
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com PCI / PM: Force devices to D0 in pci_pm_thaw_noirq()
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Fix the missing ctl name suffix at parsing SU
Jussi Laako jussi@sonarnerd.net ALSA: usb-audio: Add native DSD support for Esoteric D-05X
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: rawmidi: Avoid racy info ioctl via ctl device
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org mfd: twl6040: Fix child-node lookup
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org mfd: twl4030-audio: Fix sibling-node lookup
Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com mfd: cros ec: spi: Don't send first message too soon
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de crypto: mcryptd - protect the per-CPU queue with a lock
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com acpi, nfit: fix health event notification
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ACPI: APEI / ERST: Fix missing error handling in erst_reader()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 8 ++++++-- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- crypto/mcryptd.c | 23 +++++++++------------ drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 9 +++++++- drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sun9i-mmc.c | 12 +++++++++++ drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c | 1 + drivers/mfd/twl4030-audio.c | 9 ++++++-- drivers/mfd/twl6040.c | 12 +++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c | 5 +++-- drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 7 ++++++- drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-cherryview.c | 16 +++++++++++++++ drivers/spi/spi-xilinx.c | 11 ++++++++++ include/crypto/mcryptd.h | 1 + sound/core/rawmidi.c | 15 +++++++++++--- sound/usb/mixer.c | 27 ++++++++++++++---------- sound/usb/quirks.c | 7 ++++--- 21 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)