This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.217 release. There are 90 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 Sat, 21 Mar 2020 12:37:04 +0000. 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-4.9.217-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 4.9.217-rc1
Matteo Croce mcroce@redhat.com ipv4: ensure rcu_read_lock() in cipso_v4_error()
Jann Horn jannh@google.com mm: slub: add missing TID bump in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk()
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org ARM: 8958/1: rename missed uaccess .fixup section
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com ARM: 8957/1: VDSO: Match ARMv8 timer in cntvct_functional()
Qian Cai cai@lca.pw jbd2: fix data races at struct journal_head
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org signal: avoid double atomic counter increments for user accounting
Madhuparna Bhowmik madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com mac80211: rx: avoid RCU list traversal under mutex
Marek Vasut marex@denx.de net: ks8851-ml: Fix IRQ handling and locking
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com cfg80211: check reg_rule for NULL in handle_channel_custom()
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com HID: i2c-hid: add Trekstor Surfbook E11B to descriptor override
Mansour Behabadi mansour@oxplot.com HID: apple: Add support for recent firmware on Magic Keyboards
Jean Delvare jdelvare@suse.de ACPI: watchdog: Allow disabling WDAT at boot
Kim Phillips kim.phillips@amd.com perf/amd/uncore: Replace manual sampling check with CAP_NO_INTERRUPT flag
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Use explicit tvlv padding for ELP packets
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leak
Matthias Schiffer mschiffer@universe-factory.net batman-adv: update data pointers after skb_cow()
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Don't schedule OGM for disabled interface
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid free/alloc race when handling OGM buffer
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid free/alloc race when handling OGM2 buffer
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Fix duplicated OGMs on NETDEV_UP
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Prevent duplicated gateway_node entry
Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue batman-adv: Fix multicast TT issues with bogus ROAM flags
Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue batman-adv: Avoid storing non-TT-sync flags on singular entries too
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Fix debugfs path for renamed softif
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Fix debugfs path for renamed hardif
Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch batman-adv: prevent TT request storms by not sending inconsistent TT TLVLs
Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue batman-adv: Fix TT sync flags for intermediate TT responses
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid race in TT TVLV allocator helper
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Fix internal interface indices types
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Fix lock for ogm cnt access in batadv_iv_ogm_calc_tq
Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com batman-adv: Fix check of retrieved orig_gw in batadv_v_gw_is_eligible
Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com batman-adv: Always initialize fragment header priority
Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com batman-adv: Avoid spurious warnings from bat_v neigh_cmp implementation
Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue batman-adv: fix TT sync flag inconsistencies
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Accept only filled wifi station info
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Use default throughput value on cfg80211 error
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Fix rx packet/bytes stats on local ARP reply
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Initialize gw sel_class via batadv_algo
Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue batman-adv: Fix transmission of final, 16th fragment
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Fix double free during fragment merge error
Vladis Dronov vdronov@redhat.com efi: Add a sanity check to efivar_store_raw()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: restrict IPV6_ADDRFORM operation
Daniel Drake drake@endlessm.com iommu/vt-d: Ignore devices with out-of-spec domain number
Zhenzhong Duan zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com iommu/vt-d: Fix the wrong printing in RHSA parsing
qize wang wangqize888888888@gmail.com mwifiex: Fix heap overflow in mmwifiex_process_tdls_action_frame()
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org netfilter: cthelper: add missing attribute validation for cthelper
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nl80211: add missing attribute validation for channel switch
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nl80211: add missing attribute validation for beacon report scanning
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nl80211: add missing attribute validation for critical protocol indication
Yonghyun Hwang yonghyun@google.com iommu/vt-d: Fix a bug in intel_iommu_iova_to_phys() for huge page
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com iommu/vt-d: dmar: replace WARN_TAINT with pr_warn + add_taint
Vladis Dronov vdronov@redhat.com efi: Fix a race and a buffer overflow while reading efivars via sysfs
Eugeniy Paltsev Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com ARC: define __ALIGN_STR and __ALIGN symbols for ARC
Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets@redhat.com KVM: x86: clear stale x86_emulate_ctxt->intercept value
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk gfs2_atomic_open(): fix O_EXCL|O_CREAT handling on cold dcache
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk cifs_atomic_open(): fix double-put on late allocation failure
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com drm/amd/display: remove duplicated assignment to grph_obj_type
Hillf Danton hdanton@sina.com workqueue: don't use wq_select_unbound_cpu() for bound works
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com iommu/vt-d: quirk_ioat_snb_local_iommu: replace WARN_TAINT with pr_warn + add_taint
Halil Pasic pasic@linux.ibm.com virtio-blk: fix hw_queue stopped on arbitrary error
Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com net: phy: fix MDIO bus PM PHY resuming
Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com cgroup: memcg: net: do not associate sock with unrelated cgroup
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bonding/alb: make sure arp header is pulled before accessing it
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com slip: make slhc_compress() more robust against malicious packets
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: fec: validate the new settings in fec_enet_set_coalesce()
Mahesh Bandewar maheshb@google.com macvlan: add cond_resched() during multicast processing
Mahesh Bandewar maheshb@google.com ipvlan: don't deref eth hdr before checking it's set
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipvlan: do not use cond_resched_rcu() in ipvlan_process_multicast()
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com ipvlan: egress mcast packets are not exceptional
Jiri Wiesner jwiesner@suse.com ipvlan: do not add hardware address of master to its unicast filter list
Mahesh Bandewar maheshb@google.com ipvlan: add cond_resched_rcu() while processing muticast backlog
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nfc: add missing attribute validation for vendor subcommand
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nfc: add missing attribute validation for SE API
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org team: add missing attribute validation for array index
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org team: add missing attribute validation for port ifindex
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: fq: add missing attribute validation for orphan mask
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org macsec: add missing attribute validation for port
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nl802154: add missing attribute validation for dev_type
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nl802154: add missing attribute validation
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org fib: add missing attribute validation for tun_id
Vasundhara Volam vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com bnxt_en: reinitialize IRQs when MTU is modified
You-Sheng Yang vicamo.yang@canonical.com r8152: check disconnect status after long sleep
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com net: nfc: fix bounds checking bugs on "pipe"
Dmitry Bogdanov dbogdanov@marvell.com net: macsec: update SCI upon MAC address change.
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com ipv6/addrconf: call ipv6_mc_up() for non-Ethernet interface
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com gre: fix uninit-value in __iptunnel_pull_header
Dmitry Yakunin zeil@yandex-team.ru cgroup, netclassid: periodically release file_lock on classid updating
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: Avoid multiple suspends
David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net phy: Revert toggling reset changes.
Petr Malat oss@malat.biz NFS: Remove superfluous kmap in nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array
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Diffstat:
Documentation/filesystems/porting | 7 ++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h | 2 + arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c | 2 + arch/arm/lib/copy_from_user.S | 2 +- arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c | 14 +-- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 1 + drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c | 12 ++- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 8 +- drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 32 ++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c | 3 +- drivers/hid/hid-apple.c | 3 +- drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-dmi-quirks.c | 8 ++ drivers/iommu/dmar.c | 21 ++-- drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 13 ++- drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 20 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c | 14 +-- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 19 ++-- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 5 +- drivers/net/macsec.c | 12 ++- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 2 + drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 18 ++-- drivers/net/slip/slhc.c | 14 ++- drivers/net/team/team.c | 2 + drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 6 ++ drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c | 70 +++++++++++-- fs/cifs/dir.c | 1 - fs/gfs2/inode.c | 2 +- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 8 +- fs/nfs/dir.c | 2 - fs/open.c | 3 - include/linux/phy.h | 2 + include/net/fib_rules.h | 1 + kernel/cgroup.c | 4 + kernel/signal.c | 23 +++-- kernel/workqueue.c | 14 +-- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 + mm/slub.c | 9 ++ net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 105 +++++++++++++++---- net/batman-adv/bat_v.c | 25 +++-- net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c | 22 ++-- net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c | 42 ++++++-- net/batman-adv/debugfs.c | 40 +++++++ net/batman-adv/debugfs.h | 11 ++ net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c | 5 +- net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c | 22 ++-- net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c | 11 +- net/batman-adv/gateway_common.c | 5 + net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 51 +++++++-- net/batman-adv/originator.c | 4 +- net/batman-adv/originator.h | 4 +- net/batman-adv/routing.c | 11 +- net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 1 - net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- net/batman-adv/types.h | 22 +++- net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c | 47 +++++++-- net/ieee802154/nl_policy.c | 6 ++ net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/gre_demux.c | 12 ++- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 + net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 10 +- net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 2 + net/nfc/hci/core.c | 19 +++- net/nfc/netlink.c | 3 + net/sched/sch_fq.c | 1 + net/wireless/nl80211.c | 5 + net/wireless/reg.c | 2 +- 71 files changed, 809 insertions(+), 242 deletions(-)