This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.116 release. There are 33 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 Jul 29 10:08:17 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-4.9.116-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 4.9.116-rc1
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de exec: avoid gcc-8 warning for get_task_comm
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de turn off -Wattribute-alias
Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix RX overflow interrupt not being enabled
Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix incorrect clear of non-processed interrupts
Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: keep only 1-2 frames in TX FIFO to fix TX accounting
Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix device dropping off bus on RX overrun
Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix recovery from error states not being propagated
Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix power management handling
Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix RX loop if RXNEMP is asserted without RXOK
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com driver core: Partially revert "driver core: correct device's shutdown order"
Jerry Zhang zhangjerry@google.com usb: gadget: f_fs: Only return delayed status when len is 0
Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com usb: core: handle hub C_PORT_OVER_CURRENT condition
Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk usb: cdc_acm: Add quirk for Castles VEGA3000
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: call tcp_drop() from tcp_data_queue_ofo()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: detect malicious patterns in tcp_collapse_ofo_queue()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: avoid collapses in tcp_prune_queue() if possible
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: free batches of packets in tcp_prune_ofo_queue()
Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: do not delay ACK in DCTCP upon CE status change
Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: do not cancel delay-AcK on DCTCP special ACK
Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: helpers to send special DCTCP ack
Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: fix dctcp delayed ACK schedule
Roopa Prabhu roopa@cumulusnetworks.com rtnetlink: add rtnl_link_state check in rtnl_configure_link
Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com net: phy: consider PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT in phy_start_aneg_priv
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com multicast: do not restore deleted record source filter mode to new one
Eran Ben Elisha eranbe@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Fix quota counting in aRFS expire flow
Eran Ben Elisha eranbe@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Don't allow aRFS for encapsulated packets
Ariel Levkovich lariel@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Adjust clock overflow work period
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: skb_segment() should not return NULL
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il net/mlx4_core: Save the qpn from the input modifier in RST2INIT wrapper
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com ip: in cmsg IP(V6)_ORIGDSTADDR call pskb_may_pull
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com ip: hash fragments consistently
Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Fix off-by-one in pci_resource_to_user()
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name MIPS: ath79: fix register address in ath79_ddr_wb_flush()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 5 +- arch/mips/ath79/common.c | 2 +- arch/mips/pci/pci.c | 2 +- drivers/base/dd.c | 8 - drivers/net/can/xilinx_can.c | 392 +++++++++++++++------ .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_clock.c | 12 +- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 3 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- fs/exec.c | 7 +- include/linux/sched.h | 6 +- include/linux/skbuff.h | 2 + include/net/tcp.h | 2 + net/core/rtnetlink.c | 9 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 10 +- net/ipv4/igmp.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 2 + net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c | 50 +-- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 40 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 33 +- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 + net/ipv6/mcast.c | 3 +- 27 files changed, 431 insertions(+), 197 deletions(-)