This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.98 release. There are 61 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 May 2 18:39:31 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-4.9.98-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 4.9.98-rc1
Michael Neuling mikey@neuling.org powerpc/eeh: Fix race with driver un/bind
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/microcode/intel: Save microcode patch unconditionally
Yazen Ghannam yazen.ghannam@amd.com x86/smpboot: Don't use mwait_play_dead() on AMD systems
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de x86/ipc: Fix x32 version of shmid64_ds and msqid64_ds
Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c: do not alias select() params
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error
Nicolai Hähnle nicolai.haehnle@amd.com drm/amdgpu: set COMPUTE_PGM_RSRC1 for SGPR/VGPR clearing shaders
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com rtc: opal: Fix OPAL RTC driver OPAL_BUSY loops
Shilpasri G Bhat shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com cpufreq: powernv: Fix hardlockup due to synchronous smp_call in timer interrupt
Daniel Kurtz djkurtz@chromium.org earlycon: Use a pointer table to fix __earlycon_table stride
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: validate con->state at the top of try_write()
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: reschedule a tick in finish_hunting()
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: un-backoff on tick when we have a authenticated session
Nicolin Chen nicoleotsuka@gmail.com ASoC: fsl_esai: Fix divisor calculation failure at lower ratio
Stephan Mueller smueller@chronox.de crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be ARM: amba: Don't read past the end of sysfs "driver_override" buffer
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be ARM: amba: Fix race condition with driver_override
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be ARM: amba: Make driver_override output consistent with other buses
Evan Wang xswang@marvell.com PCI: aardvark: Fix PCIe Max Read Request Size setting
Victor Gu xigu@marvell.com PCI: aardvark: Set PIO_ADDR_LS correctly in advk_pcie_rd_conf()
Victor Gu xigu@marvell.com PCI: aardvark: Fix logic in advk_pcie_{rd,wr}_conf()
Mahesh Rajashekhara mahesh.rajashekhara@microsemi.com scsi: sd: Defer spinning up drive while SANITIZE is in progress
Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures
Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com mtd: cfi: cmdset_0002: Do not allow read/write to suspend erase block.
Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se mtd: cfi: cmdset_0001: Workaround Micron Erase suspend bug.
Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se mtd: cfi: cmdset_0001: Do not allow read/write to suspend erase block.
Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Add some fixes for ALC233
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: oss: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: oss: Fix unbalanced use lock for synth MIDI device
David Henningsson diwic@ubuntu.com ALSA: core: Report audio_tstamp in snd_pcm_sync_ptr
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: control: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: rme9652: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hdspm: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: asihpi: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: opl3: Hardening for potential Spectre v1
Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: dice: fix error path to destroy initialized stream data
Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: dice: fix OUI for TC group
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp tty: Use __GFP_NOFAIL for tty_ldisc_get()
Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com tty: n_gsm: Fix DLCI handling for ADM mode if debug & 2 is not set
Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com tty: n_gsm: Fix long delays with control frame timeouts in ADM mode
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp tty: Don't call panic() at tty_ldisc_init()
Gerd Hoffmann kraxel@redhat.com drm/virtio: fix vq wait_event condition
Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio_console: free buffers after reset
Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio: add ability to iterate over vqs
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Skip broken EU on Dell dock USB-audio
Ravi Chandra Sadineni ravisadineni@chromium.org USB: Increment wakeup count on remote wakeup.
Kamil Lulko kamilx.lulko@intel.com usb: core: Add quirk for HP v222w 16GB Mini
Kyle Roeschley kyle.roeschley@ni.com USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for NI USB serial console
Vasyl Vavrychuk vvavrychuk@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: use jtag quirk for Arrow USB Blaster
Collin May collin@collinswebsite.com USB: serial: simple: add libtransistor console
Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: vhci_hcd: Fix usb device and sockfd leaks
Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: usbip_host: fix to hold parent lock for device_attach() calls
Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: usbip_event: fix to not print kernel pointer address
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu random: rate limit unseeded randomness warnings
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu random: fix possible sleeping allocation from irq context
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized
Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com ext4: fix bitmap position validation
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: add validity checks for bitmap block numbers
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: set h_journal if there is a failure starting a reserved handle
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ext4: prevent right-shifting extents beyond EXT_MAX_BLOCKS
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c | 61 +++++++++++++--------- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-rtc.c | 8 +-- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msgbuf.h | 31 +++++++++++ arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/shmbuf.h | 42 +++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 + crypto/drbg.c | 2 + drivers/amba/bus.c | 17 ++++--- drivers/char/random.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 49 +++++++++--------- drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 14 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v8_0.c | 7 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c | 4 +- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c | 33 ++++++++++-- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 9 ++-- drivers/of/fdt.c | 7 ++- drivers/pci/host/pci-aardvark.c | 12 ++--- drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c | 37 +++++++++----- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 2 + drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 23 ++++++++- drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c | 6 ++- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 16 +++--- drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 10 +++- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 ++ drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial-simple.c | 7 +++ drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c | 5 ++ drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_event.c | 4 -- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 17 ++++++- fs/ext4/extents.c | 16 ++++-- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 7 +++ fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 1 + include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +- include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h | 1 + include/linux/serial_core.h | 21 +++++--- include/linux/tty.h | 2 +- include/linux/virtio.h | 3 ++ include/sound/control.h | 7 ++- lib/kobject.c | 12 ++--- net/ceph/messenger.c | 7 +++ net/ceph/mon_client.c | 14 +++-- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 1 + sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_event.c | 15 +++--- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c | 2 + sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++------------- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.h | 3 +- sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c | 7 ++- sound/firewire/dice/dice-stream.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/dice/dice.c | 2 +- sound/pci/asihpi/hpimsginit.c | 13 +++-- sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c | 4 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_hwdep.c | 12 ++++- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 + sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c | 24 +++++---- sound/pci/rme9652/rme9652.c | 6 ++- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_esai.c | 7 +++ sound/usb/mixer_maps.c | 3 ++ tools/lib/str_error_r.c | 2 +- tools/lib/subcmd/pager.c | 5 +- 65 files changed, 587 insertions(+), 233 deletions(-)