This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.79 release. There are 66 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 Jan 31 12:38:12 UTC 2018. 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-4.9.79-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 4.9.79-rc1
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: reject stores into ctx via st and xadd
Alexei Starovoitov ast@kernel.org bpf: fix 32-bit divide by zero
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bpf: fix divides by zero
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: avoid false sharing of map refcount with max_entries
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: arsh is not supported in 32 bit alu thus reject it
Alexei Starovoitov ast@kernel.org bpf: introduce BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON config
Alexei Starovoitov ast@fb.com bpf: fix bpf_tail_call() x64 JIT
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com x86: bpf_jit: small optimization in emit_bpf_tail_call()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de hrtimer: Reset hrtimer cpu base proper on CPU hotplug
Jia Zhang zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading further with LLC size check
Xiao Liang xiliang@redhat.com perf/x86/amd/power: Do not load AMD power module on !AMD platforms
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com flow_dissector: properly cap thoff field
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com tun: fix a memory leak for tfile->tx_array
Yuval Mintz yuvalm@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum_router: Don't log an error on missing neighbor
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com gso: validate gso_type in GSO handlers
Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com ip6_gre: init dev->mtu and dev->hard_header_len correctly
Ivan Vecera cera@cera.cz be2net: restore properly promisc mode after queues reconfiguration
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr ppp: unlock all_ppp_mutex before registering device
Jim Westfall jwestfall@surrealistic.net ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY
Jim Westfall jwestfall@surrealistic.net net: Allow neigh contructor functions ability to modify the primary_key
Neil Horman nhorman@tuxdriver.com vmxnet3: repair memory leak
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com tipc: fix a memory leak in tipc_nl_node_get_link()
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: return error if the asoc has been peeled off in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: do not allow the v4 socket to bind a v4mapped v6 address
Francois Romieu romieu@fr.zoreil.com r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr pppoe: take ->needed_headroom of lower device into account on xmit
Dan Streetman ddstreet@ieee.org net: tcp: close sock if net namespace is exiting
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: qdisc_pkt_len_init() should be more robust
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name net: igmp: fix source address check for IGMPv3 reports
Yuiko Oshino yuiko.oshino@microchip.com lan78xx: Fix failure in USB Full Speed
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: ip6_make_skb() needs to clear cork.base.dst
Mike Maloney maloney@google.com ipv6: fix udpv6 sendmsg crash caused by too small MTU
Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk ipv6: Fix getsockopt() for sockets with default IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com dccp: don't restart ccid2_hc_tx_rto_expire() if sk in closed state
Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org eventpoll.h: add missing epoll event masks
Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk vsyscall: Fix permissions for emulate mode with KAISER/PTI
Thomas Meyer thomas@m3y3r.de um: link vmlinux with -no-pie
Martin Brandenburg martin@omnibond.com orangefs: fix deadlock; do not write i_size in read_iter
Aaron Ma aaron.ma@canonical.com Input: trackpoint - force 3 buttons if 0 button is reported
Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org mm: fix 100% CPU kswapd busyloop on unreclaimable nodes
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC"
Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de scsi: libiscsi: fix shifting of DID_REQUEUE host byte
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz fs/fcntl: f_setown, avoid undefined behaviour
Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com reiserfs: don't preallocate blocks for extended attributes
Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com reiserfs: fix race in prealloc discard
Kevin Cernekee cernekee@chromium.org netfilter: xt_osf: Add missing permission checks
Kevin Cernekee cernekee@chromium.org netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Add missing permission checks
Seunghun Han kkamagui@gmail.com ACPICA: Namespace: fix operand cache leak
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI / scan: Prefer devices without _HID/_CID for _ADR matching
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz ipc: msg, make msgrcv work with LONG_MIN
Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz mm, page_alloc: fix potential false positive in __zone_watermark_ok
Doug Berger opendmb@gmail.com cma: fix calculation of aligned offset
Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages
Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com mm/mmap.c: do not blow on PROT_NONE MAP_FIXED holes in the stack
Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com drivers: base: cacheinfo: fix boot error message when acpi is enabled
Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com drivers: base: cacheinfo: fix x86 with CONFIG_OF enabled
Janakarajan Natarajan Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com Prevent timer value 0 for MWAITX
Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal@arm.com KVM: arm/arm64: Check pagesize when allocating a hugepage at Stage 2
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: af_can: canfd_rcv(): replace WARN_ONCE by pr_warn_once
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: af_can: can_rcv(): replace WARN_ONCE by pr_warn_once
Jonathan Dieter jdieter@lesbg.com usbip: Fix potential format overflow in userspace tools
Jonathan Dieter jdieter@lesbg.com usbip: Fix implicit fallthrough warning
Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: prevent vhci_hcd driver from leaking a socket pointer address
Martin Brandenburg martin@omnibond.com orangefs: initialize op on loop restart in orangefs_devreq_read
Martin Brandenburg martin@omnibond.com orangefs: use list_for_each_entry_safe in purge_waiting_ops
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/asm/32: Make sync_core() handle missing CPUID on all 32-bit kernels
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- arch/um/Makefile | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 7 ++-- arch/x86/events/amd/power.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 20 ++++++++- arch/x86/lib/delay.c | 7 ++++ arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 2 +- arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 13 +++--- drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c | 23 +++++------ drivers/acpi/glue.c | 12 +++--- drivers/base/cacheinfo.c | 15 +++++-- drivers/input/mouse/trackpoint.c | 3 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 9 +++++ .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 5 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 9 +---- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 5 ++- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 11 ++--- drivers/net/tun.c | 15 ++++++- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 1 + drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.h | 1 + drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c | 25 +++++++----- fs/fcntl.c | 4 ++ fs/orangefs/devorangefs-req.c | 3 +- fs/orangefs/file.c | 7 +--- fs/orangefs/orangefs-kernel.h | 11 ----- fs/orangefs/waitqueue.c | 4 +- fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c | 14 +++++-- include/linux/bpf.h | 16 ++++++-- include/linux/cacheinfo.h | 1 + include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 + include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 +--- include/net/arp.h | 3 ++ include/net/ipv6.h | 1 + include/net/net_namespace.h | 10 +++++ include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h | 13 ++++++ init/Kconfig | 7 ++++ ipc/msg.c | 5 ++- kernel/bpf/core.c | 24 +++++++++-- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++ kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 3 ++ lib/test_bpf.c | 11 +++-- mm/cma.c | 15 +++---- mm/internal.h | 6 +++ mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +- mm/memory-failure.c | 7 ++++ mm/mmap.c | 6 ++- mm/page_alloc.c | 15 +++---- mm/vmscan.c | 47 +++++++++++++++------- mm/vmstat.c | 2 +- net/can/af_can.c | 22 +++++----- net/core/dev.c | 19 +++++++-- net/core/filter.c | 10 +++-- net/core/flow_dissector.c | 3 +- net/core/neighbour.c | 4 +- net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 6 +++ net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c | 3 ++ net/ipv4/arp.c | 7 +++- net/ipv4/igmp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 ++ net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c | 3 ++ net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 15 +++++++ net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 3 ++ net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 14 +++---- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 9 +++-- net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c | 3 ++ net/ipv6/udp_offload.c | 3 ++ net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 10 +++++ net/netfilter/xt_osf.c | 7 ++++ net/sctp/offload.c | 3 ++ net/sctp/socket.c | 30 ++++++-------- net/socket.c | 9 +++++ net/tipc/node.c | 26 ++++++------ tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_common.c | 9 ++++- tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c | 28 ++++++++++--- tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/vhci_driver.c | 8 ++-- tools/usb/usbip/src/usbip.c | 2 + 83 files changed, 523 insertions(+), 231 deletions(-)