I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.204 kernel.
All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git%3Ba=summa...
thanks,
greg k-h
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Documentation/hw-vuln/mds.rst | 7 Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst | 5 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 Makefile | 2 arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 4 arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 3 arch/arm64/Makefile | 2 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 1 arch/m68k/kernel/uboot.c | 2 arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 3 arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h | 3 arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_pe.c | 2 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 6 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 3 arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c | 74 ++++- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 27 + arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/os-area.c | 2 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c | 2 arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c | 6 arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h | 7 arch/sparc/include/asm/parport.h | 2 arch/um/drivers/line.c | 2 arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 42 ++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 30 ++ arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 8 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk | 4 drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c | 2 drivers/atm/zatm.c | 42 +-- drivers/base/memory.c | 9 drivers/block/amiflop.c | 84 ++---- drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c | 3 drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 140 ++++------ drivers/clk/mmp/clk-of-mmp2.c | 4 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 9 drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c | 5 drivers/gpio/gpio-max77620.c | 6 drivers/isdn/mISDN/tei.c | 7 drivers/macintosh/windfarm_smu_sat.c | 25 - drivers/md/dm.c | 4 drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c | 8 drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c | 8 drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-sdr-cap.c | 8 drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-vid-cap.c | 3 drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-vid-out.c | 3 drivers/media/rc/imon.c | 3 drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c | 3 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c | 3 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 21 + drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 30 +- drivers/mfd/arizona-core.c | 8 drivers/mfd/max8997.c | 8 drivers/mfd/mc13xxx-core.c | 3 drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_fence.c | 2 drivers/mmc/host/mtk-sd.c | 2 drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/Kconfig | 2 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 2 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c | 8 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_ethtool.c | 1 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c | 2 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_dcb.c | 2 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c | 3 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 1 drivers/net/macsec.c | 20 + drivers/net/ntb_netdev.c | 2 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c | 23 - drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c | 2 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 30 ++ drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.h | 1 drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c | 2 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 13 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ioctl.h | 1 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 11 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c | 1 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192de/fw.c | 2 drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/vendor_cmd.c | 2 drivers/nfc/port100.c | 2 drivers/ntb/hw/intel/ntb_hw_intel.c | 2 drivers/pci/host/pci-keystone.c | 3 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-lpc18xx.c | 10 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynq.c | 9 drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-spmi-gpio.c | 21 + drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 21 + drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 2 drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.h | 1 drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c | 2 drivers/scsi/dc395x.c | 12 drivers/scsi/ips.c | 1 drivers/scsi/isci/host.c | 8 drivers/scsi/isci/host.h | 2 drivers/scsi/isci/request.c | 4 drivers/scsi/isci/task.c | 4 drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 3 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 2 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c | 20 + drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 2 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 11 drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli4.h | 1 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 4 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_config.c | 4 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 36 ++ drivers/spi/spi-omap2-mcspi.c | 26 - drivers/spi/spi-sh-msiof.c | 4 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbduxfast.c | 21 + drivers/thermal/rcar_thermal.c | 4 drivers/tty/synclink_gt.c | 16 - drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c | 15 - drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c | 24 + drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 4 drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 16 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 7 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 2 drivers/xen/balloon.c | 3 fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 4 fs/ceph/inode.c | 1 fs/dlm/member.c | 5 fs/dlm/user.c | 2 fs/f2fs/data.c | 8 fs/f2fs/dir.c | 1 fs/f2fs/segment.c | 4 fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 13 fs/hfs/brec.c | 1 fs/hfs/btree.c | 41 +- fs/hfs/btree.h | 1 fs/hfs/catalog.c | 16 + fs/hfs/extent.c | 10 fs/hfs/inode.c | 2 fs/hfsplus/attributes.c | 10 fs/hfsplus/brec.c | 1 fs/hfsplus/btree.c | 44 ++- fs/hfsplus/catalog.c | 24 + fs/hfsplus/extents.c | 8 fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 2 fs/hfsplus/inode.c | 1 fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 77 ++++- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdebug.c | 2 fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 2 fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c | 17 + fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c | 6 fs/ocfs2/stackglue.h | 3 fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 56 ++-- fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 38 ++ include/linux/bitmap.h | 9 include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 1 include/linux/mfd/max8997.h | 1 include/linux/mfd/mc13xxx.h | 1 kernel/auditsc.c | 2 kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 kernel/sched/fair.c | 13 mm/ksm.c | 14 - mm/memory_hotplug.c | 22 + mm/page-writeback.c | 33 +- net/core/dev.c | 2 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 23 + net/core/sock.c | 6 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 24 - net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 24 - net/sched/act_pedit.c | 5 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_seal.c | 1 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 34 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 2 sound/firewire/isight.c | 10 sound/i2c/cs8427.c | 2 sound/soc/tegra/tegra_sgtl5000.c | 17 + tools/gpio/Build | 1 tools/gpio/Makefile | 10 tools/objtool/arch/x86/tools/gen-insn-attr-x86.awk | 4 tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidump/apmain.c | 2 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_syntax.tc | 3 tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c | 8 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 26 + 173 files changed, 1263 insertions(+), 618 deletions(-)
Adrian Bunk (1): mwifiex: Fix NL80211_TX_POWER_LIMITED
Al Viro (1): synclink_gt(): fix compat_ioctl()
Alan Stern (1): media: usbvision: Fix races among open, close, and disconnect
Aleksander Morgado (2): USB: serial: option: add support for DW5821e with eSIM support USB: serial: option: add support for Foxconn T77W968 LTE modules
Alexander Kapshuk (1): x86/insn: Fix awk regexp warnings
Alexander Popov (1): media: vivid: Fix wrong locking that causes race conditions on streaming stop
Alexey Brodkin (1): ARC: perf: Accommodate big-endian CPU
Ali MJ Al-Nasrawy (2): brcmsmac: AP mode: update beacon when TIM changes brcmsmac: never log "tid x is not agg'able" by default
Andreas Gruenbacher (1): gfs2: Fix marking bitmaps non-full
Andrey Ryabinin (1): mm/ksm.c: don't WARN if page is still mapped in remove_stable_node()
Angelo Dureghello (1): m68k: fix command-line parsing when passed from u-boot
Anton Ivanov (1): um: Make line/tty semantics use true write IRQ
Bart Van Assche (1): dm: use blk_set_queue_dying() in __dm_destroy()
Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1): macintosh/windfarm_smu_sat: Fix debug output
Bernd Porr (1): staging: comedi: usbduxfast: usbduxfast_ai_cmdtest rounding error
Bo Yan (1): cpufreq: Skip cpufreq resume if it's not suspended
Brian Masney (1): pinctrl: qcom: spmi-gpio: fix gpio-hog related boot issues
Carl Huang (1): ath10k: allocate small size dma memory in ath10k_pci_diag_write_mem
Changwei Ge (1): ocfs2: don't put and assigning null to bh allocated outside
Chao Yu (1): f2fs: fix to spread clear_cold_data()
Chaotian Jing (1): mmc: mediatek: fix cannot receive new request when msdc_cmd_is_ready fail
Chester Lin (1): ARM: 8904/1: skip nomap memblocks while finding the lowmem/highmem boundary
Christoph Hellwig (2): scsi: dc395x: fix dma API usage in srb_done scsi: dc395x: fix DMA API usage in sg_update_list
Christophe JAILLET (1): wlcore: Fix the return value in case of error in 'wlcore_vendor_cmd_smart_config_start()'
Christopher M. Riedl (1): powerpc/64s: support nospectre_v2 cmdline option
Colin Ian King (3): usbip: tools: fix atoi() on non-null terminated string fs/hfs/extent.c: fix array out of bounds read of array extent ACPICA: Use %d for signed int print formatting instead of %u
Dan Carpenter (4): net: rtnetlink: prevent underflows in do_setvfinfo() powerpc: Fix signedness bug in update_flash_db() qlcnic: fix a return in qlcnic_dcb_get_capability() wireless: airo: potential buffer overflow in sprintf()
Dave Chinner (2): xfs: fix use-after-free race in xfs_buf_rele mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock
Dave Jiang (1): ntb: intel: fix return value for ndev_vec_mask()
David Barmann (1): sock: Reset dst when changing sk_mark via setsockopt
David Hildenbrand (1): mm/memory_hotplug: make add_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock
David S. Miller (2): sparc: Fix parport build warnings. sparc64: Rework xchg() definition to avoid warnings.
Davide Caratti (1): net/sched: act_pedit: fix WARN() in the traffic path
Denis Efremov (1): ath9k_hw: fix uninitialized variable data
Duncan Laurie (1): gsmi: Fix bug in append_to_eventlog sysfs handler
Eric Dumazet (1): net: do not abort bulk send on BQL status
Ernesto A. Fernández (8): hfsplus: fix BUG on bnode parent update hfs: fix BUG on bnode parent update hfsplus: prevent btree data loss on ENOSPC hfs: prevent btree data loss on ENOSPC hfsplus: fix return value of hfsplus_get_block() hfs: fix return value of hfs_get_block() hfsplus: update timestamps on truncate() hfs: update timestamp on truncate()
Fabio Estevam (1): mfd: mc13xxx-core: Fix PMIC shutdown when reading ADC values
Felipe Rechia (1): powerpc/process: Fix flush_all_to_thread for SPE
Gang He (1): ocfs2: remove ocfs2_is_o2cb_active()
Geert Uytterhoeven (1): thermal: rcar_thermal: Prevent hardware access during system suspend
Greg Kroah-Hartman (2): usb-serial: cp201x: support Mark-10 digital force gauge Linux 4.9.204
Guillaume Nault (1): l2tp: don't use l2tp_tunnel_find() in l2tp_ip and l2tp_ip6
Gustavo A. R. Silva (2): scsi: ips: fix missing break in switch rtl8xxxu: Fix missing break in switch
Halil Pasic (1): virtio_ring: fix return code on DMA mapping fails
Hans de Goede (1): platform/x86: asus-wmi: Only Tell EC the OS will handle display hotkeys from asus_nb_wmi
Hari Vyas (1): arm64: fix for bad_mode() handler to always result in panic
Hewenliang (1): usbip: tools: fix fd leakage in the function of read_attr_usbip_status
Ivan Khoronzhuk (1): net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: unsync mcast entries while switch promisc mode
J. Bruce Fields (1): sunrpc: safely reallow resvport min/max inversion
James Smart (1): scsi: lpfc: fcoe: Fix link down issue after 1000+ link bounces
Jia-Ju Bai (1): fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdebug.c: fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in dlm_print_one_mle()
Johan Hovold (2): USB: serial: mos7720: fix remote wakeup USB: serial: mos7840: fix remote wakeup
Jon Mason (1): ntb_netdev: fix sleep time mismatch
Joseph Qi (1): Revert "fs: ocfs2: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry()"
Kai Shen (1): cpufreq: Add NULL checks to show() and store() methods of cpufreq
Kiernan Hager (1): platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Support ALS on the Zenbook UX430UQ
Kishon Vijay Abraham I (1): PCI: keystone: Use quirk to limit MRRS for K2G
Kyeongdon Kim (1): net: fix warning in af_unix
Larry Chen (1): ocfs2: fix clusters leak in ocfs2_defrag_extent()
Laura Abbott (1): tools: gpio: Correctly add make dependencies for gpio_utils
Laurent Pinchart (1): media: uvcvideo: Fix error path in control parsing failure
Laurent Vivier (1): virtio_console: allocate inbufs in add_port() only if it is needed
Lubomir Rintel (1): clk: mmp2: fix the clock id for sdh2_clk and sdh3_clk
Luigi Rizzo (1): net/mlx4_en: fix mlx4 ethtool -N insertion
Marcel Ziswiler (1): ASoC: tegra_sgtl5000: fix device_node refcounting
Marek Szyprowski (1): mfd: max8997: Enale irq-wakeup unconditionally
Martin Habets (1): sfc: Only cancel the PPS workqueue if it exists
Masami Hiramatsu (1): selftests/ftrace: Fix to test kprobe $comm arg only if available
Mattias Jacobsson (1): USB: misc: appledisplay: fix backlight update_status return code
Michael Ellerman (2): powerpc/book3s64: Fix link stack flush on context switch KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush link stack on guest exit to host kernel
Michael S. Tsirkin (5): virtio_console: reset on out of memory virtio_console: don't tie bufs to a vq virtio_console: fix uninitialized variable use virtio_console: drop custom control queue cleanup virtio_console: move removal code
Miroslav Lichvar (1): igb: shorten maximum PHC timecounter update interval
Nathan Chancellor (8): scsi: isci: Use proper enumerated type in atapi_d2h_reg_frame_handler scsi: isci: Change sci_controller_start_task's return type to sci_status scsi: iscsi_tcp: Explicitly cast param in iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param atm: zatm: Fix empty body Clang warnings rtc: s35390a: Change buf's type to u8 in s35390a_init mISDN: Fix type of switch control variable in ctrl_teimanager pinctrl: lpc18xx: Use define directive for PIN_CONFIG_GPIO_PIN_INT pinctrl: zynq: Use define directive for PIN_CONFIG_IO_STANDARD
Netanel Belgazal (1): net: ena: Fix Kconfig dependency on X86
Nikolay Borisov (1): btrfs: handle error of get_old_root
Oliver Neukum (4): nfc: port100: handle command failure cleanly media: b2c2-flexcop-usb: add sanity checking USB: chaoskey: fix error case of a timeout appledisplay: fix error handling in the scheduled work
Omar Sandoval (1): amiflop: clean up on errors during setup
Pavel Löbl (1): USB: serial: mos7840: add USB ID to support Moxa UPort 2210
Philipp Klocke (1): ALSA: i2c/cs8427: Fix int to char conversion
Rasmus Villemoes (2): linux/bitmap.h: handle constant zero-size bitmaps correctly linux/bitmap.h: fix type of nbits in bitmap_shift_right()
Richard Guy Briggs (1): audit: print empty EXECVE args
Roi Dayan (1): net/mlx5e: Fix set vf link state error flow
Sabrina Dubroca (2): macsec: update operstate when lower device changes macsec: let the administrator set UP state even if lowerdev is down
Sam Bobroff (1): powerpc/eeh: Fix use of EEH_PE_KEEP on wrong field
Sapthagiri Baratam (1): mfd: arizona: Correct calling of runtime_put_sync
Sean Christopherson (1): KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE_DEVICE pages as being reserved
Sean Young (1): media: imon: invalid dereference in imon_touch_event
Sergei Shtylyov (1): spi: sh-msiof: fix deferred probing
Sergey Senozhatsky (1): printk: fix integer overflow in setup_log_buf()
Shaokun Zhang (1): rtlwifi: rtl8192de: Fix misleading REG_MCUFWDL information
Shivasharan S (1): scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix msleep granularity
Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1): kprobes, x86/ptrace.h: Make regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() not fault on bad stack
Suganath Prabu (2): scsi: mpt3sas: Fix Sync cache command failure during driver unload scsi: mpt3sas: Fix driver modifying persistent data in Manufacturing page11
Takashi Sakamoto (1): ALSA: isight: fix leak of reference to firewire unit in error path of .probe callback
Thierry Reding (1): gpio: max77620: Fixup debounce delays
Thomas Richter (1): s390/perf: Return error when debug_register fails
Tomas Bortoli (1): Bluetooth: Fix invalid-free in bcsp_close()
Trond Myklebust (1): SUNRPC: Fix a compile warning for cmpxchg64()
Tycho Andersen (2): dlm: fix invalid free dlm: don't leak kernel pointer to userspace
Uros Bizjak (1): KVM/x86: Fix invvpid and invept register operand size in 64-bit mode
Valentin Schneider (1): sched/fair: Don't increase sd->balance_interval on newidle balance
Vandana BN (1): media: vivid: Set vid_cap_streaming and vid_out_streaming to true
Victor Kamensky (1): arm64: makefile fix build of .i file in external module case
Vignesh R (2): spi: omap2-mcspi: Set FIFO DMA trigger level to word length spi: omap2-mcspi: Fix DMA and FIFO event trigger size mismatch
Vito Caputo (1): media: cxusb: detect cxusb_ctrl_msg error in query
Waiman Long (2): x86/speculation: Fix incorrect MDS/TAA mitigation status x86/speculation: Fix redundant MDS mitigation message
Wenwen Wang (1): misc: mic: fix a DMA pool free failure
Yan, Zheng (1): ceph: fix dentry leak in ceph_readdir_prepopulate
YueHaibing (1): net: bcmgenet: return correct value 'ret' from bcmgenet_power_down
zhong jiang (1): mm/memory_hotplug: Do not unlock when fails to take the device_hotplug_lock