This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.228 release. There are 128 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, 21 Jun 2020 14:15:50 +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-4.9.228-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 4.9.228-rc1
Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf symbols: Fix debuginfo search for Ubuntu
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Do not show the skipped events
H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com w1: omap-hdq: cleanup to add missing newline for some dev_dbg
Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal@bootlin.com mtd: rawnand: pasemi: Fix the probe error path
Álvaro Fernández Rojas noltari@gmail.com mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: fix hamming oob layout
NeilBrown neilb@suse.de sunrpc: clean up properly in gss_mech_unregister()
NeilBrown neilb@suse.de sunrpc: svcauth_gss_register_pseudoflavor must reject duplicate registrations.
Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org kbuild: force to build vmlinux if CONFIG_MODVERSION=y
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au drivers/macintosh: Fix memleak in windfarm_pm112 driver
Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com ARM: tegra: Correct PL310 Auxiliary Control Register initialization
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org kernel/cpu_pm: Fix uninitted local in cpu_pm
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk sparc64: fix misuses of access_process_vm() in genregs32_[sg]et()
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk sparc32: fix register window handling in genregs32_[gs]et()
Jonathan Bakker xc-racer2@live.ca pinctrl: samsung: Save/restore eint_mask over suspend for EINT_TYPE GPIOs
Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org power: vexpress: add suppress_bind_attrs to true
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com igb: Report speed and duplex as unknown when device is runtime suspended
Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net b43_legacy: Fix connection problem with WPA3
Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net b43: Fix connection problem with WPA3
Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com media: go7007: fix a miss of snd_card_free
Christian Lamparter chunkeey@gmail.com carl9170: remove P2P_GO support
Punit Agrawal punit1.agrawal@toshiba.co.jp e1000e: Relax condition to trigger reset for ME workaround
Ashok Raj ashok.raj@intel.com PCI: Program MPS for RCiEP devices
Giuliano Procida gprocida@google.com blk-mq: move blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues synchronize_rcu call
Omar Sandoval osandov@fb.com btrfs: fix error handling when submitting direct I/O bio
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename()
Harshad Shirwadkar harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com ext4: fix EXT_MAX_EXTENT/INDEX to check for zeroed eh_max
Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu@huawei.com evm: Fix possible memory leak in evm_calc_hmac_or_hash()
Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu@huawei.com ima: Directly assign the ima_default_policy pointer to ima_rules
Krzysztof Struczynski krzysztof.struczynski@huawei.com ima: Fix ima digest hash table key calculation
Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()
Marcos Paulo de Souza mpdesouza@suse.com btrfs: send: emit file capabilities after chown
Qiushi Wu wu000273@umn.edu cpuidle: Fix three reference count leaks
Serge Semin Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru spi: dw: Return any value retrieved from the dma_transfer callback
Haibo Chen haibo.chen@nxp.com mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: fix the mask for tuning start point
Xie XiuQi xiexiuqi@huawei.com ixgbe: fix signed-integer-overflow warning
Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson@linaro.org staging: greybus: sdio: Respect the cmd->busy_timeout from the mmc core
YuanJunQing yuanjunqing66@163.com MIPS: Fix IRQ tracing when call handle_fpe() and handle_msa_fpe()
Jiaxun Yang jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com PCI: Don't disable decoding when mmio_always_on is set
Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com macvlan: Skip loopback packets in RX handler
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au m68k: mac: Don't call via_flush_cache() on Mac IIfx
Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu x86/mm: Stop printing BRK addresses
Serge Semin Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru mips: Add udelay lpj numbers adjustment
Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu x86/boot: Correct relocation destination on old linkers
Pali Rohár pali@kernel.org mwifiex: Fix memory corruption in dump_station
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com rtlwifi: Fix a double free in _rtl_usb_tx_urb_setup()
Guoqing Jiang guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com md: don't flush workqueue unconditionally in md_open
Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org kgdb: Fix spurious true from in_dbg_master()
Serge Semin Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru mips: cm: Fix an invalid error code of INTVN_*_ERR
Jiaxun Yang jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel
Jeremy Kerr jk@ozlabs.org powerpc/spufs: fix copy_to_user while atomic
Yunjian Wang wangyunjian@huawei.com net: allwinner: Fix use correct return type for ndo_start_xmit()
Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com net: lpc-enet: fix error return code in lpc_mii_init()
Jann Horn jannh@google.com exit: Move preemption fixup up, move blocking operations down
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com lib/mpi: Fix 64-bit MIPS build with Clang
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_nat: return EOPNOTSUPP if type or flags are not supported
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn MIPS: Make sparse_init() using top-down allocation
Kieran Bingham kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com media: platform: fcp: Set appropriate DMA parameters
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com media: dvb: return -EREMOTEIO on i2c transfer failure.
Jitao Shi jitao.shi@mediatek.com dt-bindings: display: mediatek: control dpi pins mode to avoid leakage
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org e1000: Distribute switch variables for initialization
Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de staging: android: ion: use vmap instead of vm_map_ram
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com net: vmxnet3: fix possible buffer overflow caused by bad DMA value in vmxnet3_get_rss()
Jon Doron arilou@gmail.com x86/kvm/hyper-v: Explicitly align hcall param for kvm_hyperv_exit
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org ARM: 8978/1: mm: make act_mm() respect THREAD_SIZE
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: do not ignore error from btrfs_next_leaf() when inserting checksums
Serge Semin Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Fix missing clockevent timers
Serge Semin Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru spi: dw: Enable interrupts in accordance with DMA xfer mode
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org kgdb: Prevent infinite recursive entries to the debugger
Hsin-Yu Chao hychao@chromium.org Bluetooth: Add SCO fallback for invalid LMP parameters error
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com spi: dw: Zero DMA Tx and Rx configurations on stack
Arthur Kiyanovski akiyano@amazon.com net: ena: fix error returning in ena_com_get_hash_function()
Julien Thierry jthierry@redhat.com objtool: Ignore empty alternatives
Brad Love brad@nextdimension.cc media: si2157: Better check for running tuner in init
Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org ACPI: GED: use correct trigger type field in _Exx / _Lxx handling
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com media: dvb_frontend: ensure that inital front end status initialized
Xiaolong Huang butterflyhuangxx@gmail.com can: kvaser_usb: kvaser_usb_leaf: Fix some info-leaks to USB devices
Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk agp/intel: Reinforce the barrier after GTT updates
Barret Rhoden brho@google.com perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()
OGAWA Hirofumi hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp fat: don't allow to mount if the FAT length == 0
Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()
Casey Schaufler casey@schaufler-ca.com Smack: slab-out-of-bounds in vsscanf
Qiujun Huang hqjagain@gmail.com ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb
Qiujun Huang hqjagain@gmail.com ath9x: Fix stack-out-of-bounds Write in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb
Qiujun Huang hqjagain@gmail.com ath9k: Fix use-after-free Write in ath9k_htc_rx_msg
Qiujun Huang hqjagain@gmail.com ath9k: Fix use-after-free Read in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org KVM: arm64: Make vcpu_cp1x() work on Big Endian hosts
Xing Li lixing@loongson.cn KVM: MIPS: Fix VPN2_MASK definition for variable cpu_vmbits
Xing Li lixing@loongson.cn KVM: MIPS: Define KVM_ENTRYHI_ASID to cpu_asid_mask(&boot_cpu_data)
Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com KVM: nVMX: Consult only the "basic" exit reason when routing nested exit
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: nSVM: leave ASID aside in copy_vmcb_control_area
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr video: fbdev: w100fb: Fix a potential double free.
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com proc: Use new_inode not new_inode_pseudo
Yuxuan Shui yshuiv7@gmail.com ovl: initialize error in ovl_copy_xattr
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: bcm2835: Fix controller unregister order
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: pxa2xx: Fix controller unregister order
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: Fix controller unregister order
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com spi: No need to assign dummy value in spi_unregister_controller()
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: dw: Fix controller unregister order
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org spi: dw: fix possible race condition
Anthony Steinhauser asteinhauser@google.com x86/speculation: PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE enforcement for indirect branches.
Anthony Steinhauser asteinhauser@google.com x86/speculation: Avoid force-disabling IBPB based on STIBP and enhanced IBRS.
Thomas Lendacky Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode
Waiman Long longman@redhat.com x86/speculation: Change misspelled STIPB to STIBP
Michał Mirosław mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl ALSA: pcm: disallow linking stream to itself
Justin Chen justinpopo6@gmail.com spi: bcm-qspi: when tx/rx buffer is NULL set to 0
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: bcm2835aux: Fix controller unregister order
Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: fix null pointer dereference at nilfs_segctor_do_construct()
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org cgroup, blkcg: Prepare some symbols for module and !CONFIG_CGROUP usages
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: PM: Avoid using power resources if there are none for D0
Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org ACPI: GED: add support for _Exx / _Lxx handler methods
Qiushi Wu wu000273@umn.edu ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in acpi_cppc_processor_probe()
Qiushi Wu wu000273@umn.edu ACPI: sysfs: Fix reference count leak in acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile()
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Fix inconsistent card PM state after resume
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com ALSA: es1688: Add the missed snd_card_free()
Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org efi/efivars: Add missing kobject_put() in sysfs entry creation error path
Hill Ma maahiuzeon@gmail.com x86/reboot/quirks: Add MacBook6,1 reboot quirk
Anthony Steinhauser asteinhauser@google.com x86/speculation: Prevent rogue cross-process SSBD shutdown
Xiaochun Lee lixc17@lenovo.com x86/PCI: Mark Intel C620 MROMs as having non-compliant BARs
Bob Haarman inglorion@google.com x86_64: Fix jiffies ODR violation
Masashi Honma masashi.honma@gmail.com ath9k_htc: Silence undersized packet warnings
Thomas Falcon tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com drivers/net/ibmvnic: Update VNIC protocol version reporting
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads
Fredrik Strupe fredrik@strupe.net ARM: 8977/1: ptrace: Fix mask for thumb breakpoint hook
Su Kang Yin cantona@cantona.net crypto: talitos - fix ECB and CBC algs ivsize
Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de scsi: return correct blkprep status code in case scsi_init_io() fails.
Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com vxlan: Avoid infinite loop when suppressing NS messages with invalid options
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com ipv6: fix IPV6_ADDRFORM operation logic
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Diffstat:
.../bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,dpi.txt | 6 + Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 2 + Makefile | 17 +- arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra.c | 4 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 3 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 +- arch/m68k/include/asm/mac_via.h | 1 + arch/m68k/mac/config.c | 21 +- arch/m68k/mac/via.c | 6 +- arch/mips/Makefile | 13 +- arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +- arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 +- arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 6 +- arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c | 6 +- arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 10 + arch/mips/kernel/time.c | 70 +++++++ arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c | 113 ++++++---- arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_32.c | 228 +++++++++------------ arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c | 17 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 5 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 94 ++++++--- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 28 +-- arch/x86/kernel/process.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 8 + arch/x86/kernel/time.c | 4 - arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 - arch/x86/pci/fixup.c | 4 + block/blk-mq.c | 8 +- drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 4 +- drivers/acpi/device_pm.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/evged.c | 22 +- drivers/acpi/scan.c | 28 ++- drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 4 +- drivers/char/agp/intel-gtt.c | 4 +- drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c | 6 +- drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c | 6 +- drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 2 +- drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 4 +- drivers/macintosh/windfarm_pm112.c | 21 +- drivers/md/md.c | 3 +- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.c | 5 + drivers/media/tuners/si2157.c | 15 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c | 35 ++-- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-esdhc-imx.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 11 +- drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c | 4 +- drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/sun4i-emac.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 12 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c | 3 +- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 4 + drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c | 2 + drivers/net/vxlan.c | 4 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c | 58 ++++-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h | 6 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c | 10 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c | 5 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.h | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c | 21 +- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/main.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 14 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 8 +- drivers/pci/probe.c | 24 ++- drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-exynos.c | 9 + drivers/power/reset/vexpress-poweroff.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-bcm-qspi.c | 8 +- drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-dw-mid.c | 16 +- drivers/spi/spi-dw.c | 14 +- drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi.c | 5 +- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/greybus/sdio.c | 10 +- drivers/video/fbdev/w100fb.c | 2 + drivers/w1/masters/omap_hdq.c | 10 +- fs/btrfs/file-item.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/send.c | 67 ++++++ fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h | 9 +- fs/ext4/fsync.c | 28 ++- fs/fat/inode.c | 6 + fs/fs-writeback.c | 1 + fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2 + fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 +- fs/proc/inode.c | 2 +- fs/proc/self.c | 2 +- fs/proc/thread_self.c | 2 +- include/linux/kgdb.h | 2 +- include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h | 1 + include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h | 3 +- include/uapi/linux/dvb/frontend.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 2 + kernel/cpu_pm.c | 4 +- kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 1 + kernel/events/core.c | 23 ++- kernel/exit.c | 25 ++- kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +- lib/mpi/longlong.h | 2 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 31 ++- mm/slub.c | 4 +- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 13 +- net/netfilter/nft_nat.c | 4 +- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c | 12 +- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c | 18 +- security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | 2 +- security/integrity/ima/ima.h | 7 +- security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 3 +- security/smack/smackfs.c | 10 + sound/core/pcm_native.c | 5 + sound/isa/es1688/es1688.c | 4 +- sound/usb/card.c | 20 +- sound/usb/usbaudio.h | 2 +- tools/objtool/check.c | 6 + tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 3 + tools/perf/util/dso.c | 16 ++ tools/perf/util/dso.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 + 142 files changed, 1010 insertions(+), 566 deletions(-)