This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.97 release. There are 74 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 Sun Apr 29 13:56:52 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-4.9.97-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 4.9.97-rc1
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI / video: Only default only_lcd to true on Win8-ready _desktops_
Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390/uprobes: implement arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
Stefan Haberland sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/dasd: fix IO error for newly defined devices
Sebastian Ott sebott@linux.ibm.com s390/cio: update chpid descriptor after resource accessibility event
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com cdrom: information leak in cdrom_ioctl_media_changed()
Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com scsi: mptsas: Disable WRITE SAME
Doron Roberts-Kedes doronrk@fb.com strparser: Fix incorrect strp->need_bytes value.
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: add RTA_TABLE and RTA_PREFSRC to rtm_ipv6_policy
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: af_packet: fix race in PACKET_{R|T}X_RING
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: md5: reject TCP_MD5SIG or TCP_MD5SIG_EXT on established sockets
Wolfgang Bumiller w.bumiller@proxmox.com net: fix deadlock while clearing neighbor proxy table
Ivan Khoronzhuk ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix tx vlan priority mapping
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: fix NULL pointer deref for SOCK_ZAPPED
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: hold llc_sap before release_sock()
Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: sched: ife: signal not finding metaid
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: do not check port in sctp_inet6_cmp_addr
Toshiaki Makita makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp vlan: Fix reading memory beyond skb->tail in skb_vlan_tagged_multi
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr pppoe: check sockaddr length in pppoe_connect()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tipc: add policy for TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com packet: fix bitfield update race
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com team: fix netconsole setup over team
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com team: avoid adding twice the same option to the event list
Jann Horn jannh@google.com tcp: don't read out-of-bounds opsize
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: delete timers synchronously in llc_sk_free()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: validate attribute sizes in neigh_dump_table()
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: check sockaddr length in pppol2tp_connect()
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: DNS: limit the length of option strings
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com bonding: do not set slave_dev npinfo before slave_enable_netpoll in bond_enslave
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: correct module section names for expoline code revert
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: correct nospec auto detection init order
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add sysfs attributes for spectre
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: report spectre mitigation via syslog
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add automatic detection of the spectre defense
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: move nobp parameter functions to nospec-branch.c
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390/entry.S: fix spurious zeroing of r0
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: do not bypass BPENTER for interrupt system calls
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: Replace IS_ENABLED(EXPOLINE_*) with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EXPOLINE_*)
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com KVM: s390: force bp isolation for VSIE
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: run user space and KVM guests with modified branch prediction
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add options to change branch prediction behaviour for the kernel
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390/alternative: use a copy of the facility bit mask
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add optimized array_index_mask_nospec
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: scrub registers on kernel entry and KVM exit
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: enable CPU alternatives unconditionally
Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: introduce CPU alternatives
Sinan Kaya okaya@codeaurora.org PCI: Wait up to 60 seconds for device to become ready after FLR
Karthikeyan Periyasamy periyasa@codeaurora.org Revert "ath10k: send (re)assoc peer command when NSS changed"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "pinctrl: intel: Initialize GPIO properly when used through irqchip"
Grant Grundler grundler@chromium.org r8152: add Linksys USB3GIGV1 id
Benjamin Beichler benjamin.beichler@uni-rostock.de mac80211_hwsim: fix use-after-free bug in hwsim_exit_net
Imre Deak imre.deak@intel.com drm/i915/bxt, glk: Increase PCODE timeouts during CDCLK freq changing
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix NULL dereference while accessing XRC_TGT QPs
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf: Return proper values for user stack errors
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf: Fix sample_max_stack maximum check
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading DSO data"
Sahitya Tummala stummala@codeaurora.org jbd2: fix use after free in kjournald2()
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name ath9k_hw: check if the chip failed to wake up
Paul Burton paul.burton@imgtec.com OF: Prevent unaligned access in of_alias_scan()
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com stk-webcam: fix an endian bug in stk_camera_read_reg()
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com power: supply: bq2415x: check for NULL acpi_id to avoid null pointer dereference
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: drv260x - fix initializing overdrive voltage
Matt Redfearn matt.redfearn@imgtec.com MIPS: Generic: Fix big endian CPUs on generic machine
Merlijn Wajer merlijn@wizzup.org usb: musb: Fix external abort in musb_remove on omap2430
Merlijn Wajer merlijn@wizzup.org usb: musb: call pm_runtime_{get,put}_sync before reading vbus registers
Andreas Kemnade andreas@kemnade.info usb: musb: fix enumeration after resume
Jean Delvare jdelvare@suse.de i2c: i801: Restore configuration at shutdown
Jean Delvare jdelvare@suse.de i2c: i801: Save register SMBSLVCMD value only once
Benjamin Tissoires benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com i2c: i801: store and restore the SLVCMD register at load and unload
Imre Deak imre.deak@intel.com drm/i915: Fix LSPCON TMDS output buffer enabling from low-power state
Daniel J Blueman daniel@quora.org drm/vc4: Fix memory leak during BO teardown
Xiaoming Gao gxm.linux.kernel@gmail.com x86/tsc: Prevent 32bit truncation in calc_hpet_ref()
Steve French smfrench@gmail.com cifs: do not allow creating sockets except with SMB1 posix exensions
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Diffstat:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 + arch/s390/Kconfig | 47 ++++++ arch/s390/Makefile | 10 ++ arch/s390/include/asm/alternative.h | 149 +++++++++++++++++ arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h | 24 +++ arch/s390/include/asm/facility.h | 18 +++ arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +- arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h | 7 +- arch/s390/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 17 ++ arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h | 4 + arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 + arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 5 +- arch/s390/kernel/Makefile | 6 +- arch/s390/kernel/alternative.c | 112 +++++++++++++ arch/s390/kernel/early.c | 5 + arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | 250 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 1 + arch/s390/kernel/module.c | 65 +++++++- arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c | 169 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/s390/kernel/processor.c | 18 +++ arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 14 +- arch/s390/kernel/smp.c | 7 +- arch/s390/kernel/uprobes.c | 9 ++ arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 37 +++++ arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 13 +- arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 30 ++++ arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 27 +++- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c | 39 ++++- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_bo.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c | 1 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c | 29 +++- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c | 3 +- drivers/input/misc/drv260x.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-sensor.c | 6 +- drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.c | 11 +- drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.h | 2 +- drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c | 1 + drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 4 + drivers/net/team/team.c | 38 ++++- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c | 10 ++ drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 5 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c | 4 + drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 7 +- drivers/of/base.c | 2 +- drivers/pci/pci.c | 52 ++++-- drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-intel.c | 23 +-- drivers/power/supply/bq2415x_charger.c | 5 + drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 13 +- drivers/s390/char/Makefile | 2 + drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c | 14 +- drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c | 8 +- fs/cifs/dir.c | 9 +- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 2 +- include/linux/if_vlan.h | 7 +- include/net/llc_conn.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 + kernel/events/callchain.c | 21 +-- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/core/neighbour.c | 40 +++-- net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 13 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 7 + net/llc/af_llc.c | 14 +- net/llc/llc_c_ac.c | 9 +- net/llc/llc_conn.c | 22 ++- net/packet/af_packet.c | 82 +++++++--- net/packet/internal.h | 10 +- net/sched/act_ife.c | 2 +- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 60 +++---- net/strparser/strparser.c | 7 +- net/tipc/netlink.c | 3 +- tools/perf/util/dso.c | 16 -- 85 files changed, 1459 insertions(+), 262 deletions(-)