This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.157 release. There are 24 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 Fri Feb 15 18:36:26 UTC 2019. 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-4.9.157-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 4.9.157-rc1
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Force mac header to start of data on xmit
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid WARN on net_device without parent in netns
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de xfrm: refine validation of template and selector families
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: avoid KEEPALIVE_PENDING races in ceph_con_keepalive()
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "cifs: In Kconfig CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX needs depends on legacy (insecure cifs)"
Vladis Dronov vdronov@redhat.com HID: debug: fix the ring buffer implementation
J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com nfsd4: catch some false session retries
J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com nfsd4: fix cached replies to solo SEQUENCE compounds
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Return error code from vmw_execbuf_copy_fence_user
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix setting of dma masks
Tina Zhang tina.zhang@intel.com drm/modes: Prevent division by zero htotal
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: ensure that mgmt tx skbs have tailroom for encryption
Marc Gonzalez marc.w.gonzalez@free.fr ARM: tango: Improve ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM compatibility
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: iop32x/n2100: fix PCI IRQ mapping
Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: VDSO: Include $(ccflags-vdso) in o32,n32 .lds builds
Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi MIPS: OCTEON: don't set octeon_dma_bar_type if PCI is disabled
Vladimir Kondratiev vladimir.kondratiev@linux.intel.com mips: cm: reprime error cause
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org debugfs: fix debugfs_rename parameter checking
Tomas Winkler tomas.winkler@intel.com samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com misc: vexpress: Off by one in vexpress_syscfg_exec()
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Better detection of synchronous signals
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Always notice exiting tasks
Matt Ranostay matt.ranostay@konsulko.com iio: chemical: atlas-ph-sensor: correct IIO_TEMP values to millicelsius
Martin Kepplinger martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com mtd: rawnand: gpmi: fix MX28 bus master lockup problem
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-iop32x/n2100.c | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-tango/pm.c | 6 +- arch/arm/mach-tango/pm.h | 7 ++ arch/arm/mach-tango/setup.c | 2 + arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c | 2 +- arch/mips/pci/pci-octeon.c | 10 +-- arch/mips/vdso/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 9 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 122 +++++++++++++------------------- drivers/iio/chemical/atlas-ph-sensor.c | 7 +- drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c | 15 ++-- fs/cifs/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 7 ++ fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 57 +++++++++++++-- fs/nfsd/state.h | 2 + fs/nfsd/xdr4.h | 13 +++- include/linux/hid-debug.h | 9 ++- kernel/signal.c | 58 ++++++++++++++- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 5 +- net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 2 + net/ceph/messenger.c | 5 +- net/mac80211/tx.c | 12 +++- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 13 ++-- samples/mei/mei-amt-version.c | 2 +- 28 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)