This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.17.9 release. There are 101 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 22 12:13:52 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-4.17.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.17.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.17.9-rc1
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: undo prog rejection on read-only lock failure
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf, arm32: fix to use bpf_jit_binary_lock_ro api
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bpf: enforce correct alignment for instructions
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 discovery through ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: KVM: Handle guest's ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 requests
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: KVM: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 support for guests
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: KVM: Add HYP per-cpu accessors
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: ssbd: Add prctl interface for per-thread mitigation
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: ssbd: Introduce thread flag to control userspace mitigation
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: ssbd: Restore mitigation status on CPU resume
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: ssbd: Skip apply_ssbd if not using dynamic mitigation
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: ssbd: Add global mitigation state accessor
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Add 'ssbd' command-line option
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Add ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 probing
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Add per-cpu infrastructure to call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Call ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 on transitions between EL0 and EL1
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm/arm64: smccc: Add SMCCC-specific return codes
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com ipvs: initialize tbl->entries in ip_vs_lblc_init_svc()
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com ipvs: initialize tbl->entries after allocation
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp net/nfc: Avoid stalls when nfc_alloc_send_skb() returned NULL.
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: don't leave partial mangled prog in jit_subprogs error path
John Fastabend john.fastabend@gmail.com bpf: sockmap, consume_skb in close path
John Fastabend john.fastabend@gmail.com bpf: sockmap, fix crash when ipv6 sock is added
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk block: don't use blocking queue entered for recursive bio submits
Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com rds: avoid unenecessary cong_update in loop transport
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: reject any prog that failed read-only lock
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: ipv6: nf_defrag: drop skb dst before queueing
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com nsh: set mac len based on inner packet
Tomas Bortoli tomasbortoli@gmail.com autofs: fix slab out of bounds read in getname_kernel()
Dave Watson davejwatson@fb.com tls: Stricter error checking in zerocopy sendmsg path
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: DNS: fix parsing multiple options
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com reiserfs: fix buffer overflow with long warning messages
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: ebtables: reject non-bridge targets
Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com PCI: hv: Disable/enable IRQs rather than BH in hv_compose_msi_msg()
Stephan Mueller smueller@chronox.de crypto: af_alg - Initialize sg_num_bytes in error code path
Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com net: lan78xx: Fix race in tx pending skb size calculation
Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: fix firmware is not ready to run
Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com rtlwifi: Fix kernel Oops "Fw download fail!!"
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com net: cxgb3_main: fix potential Spectre v1
Janakarajan Natarajan Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com x86/kvm/Kconfig: Ensure CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD state at minimum matches KVM_AMD
Jesper Dangaard Brouer brouer@redhat.com virtio_net: split XDP_TX kick and XDP_REDIRECT map flushing
Bert Kenward bkenward@solarflare.com sfc: correctly initialise filter rwsem for farch
Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix race when setting MAC address
Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com s390/qeth: avoid using is_multicast_ether_addr_64bits on (u8 *)[6]
Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com Revert "s390/qeth: use Read device to query hypervisor for MAC"
Or Gerlitz ogerlitz@mellanox.com IB/mlx5: Avoid dealing with vport representors if not being e-switch manager
Jesper Dangaard Brouer brouer@redhat.com i40e: split XDP_TX tail and XDP_REDIRECT map flushing
Govindarajulu Varadarajan gvaradar@cisco.com enic: do not overwrite error code
Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com xen-netfront: Update features after registering netdev
Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com xen-netfront: Fix mismatched rtnl_unlock
John Hurley john.hurley@netronome.com nfp: reject binding to shared blocks
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com net: use dev_change_tx_queue_len() for SIOCSIFTXQLEN
Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com net: macb: initialize bp->queues[0].bp for at91rm9200
Pieter Jansen van Vuuren pieter.jansenvanvuuren@netronome.com nfp: flower: fix mpls ether type detection
Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com hinic: reset irq affinity before freeing irq
Claudio Imbrenda imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com VSOCK: fix loopback on big-endian systems
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com vhost_net: validate sock before trying to put its fd
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi tcp: prevent bogus FRTO undos with non-SACK flows
Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: fix Fast Open key endianness
Doron Roberts-Kedes doronrk@fb.com strparser: Remove early eaten to fix full tcp receive buffer stall
Bhadram Varka vbhadram@nvidia.com stmmac: fix DMA channel hang in half-duplex mode
Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qeth: don't clobber buffer on async TX completion
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz r8152: napi hangup fix after disconnect
Aleksander Morgado aleksander@aleksander.es qmi_wwan: add support for the Dell Wireless 5821e module
Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com qed: Limit msix vectors in kdump kernel to the minimum required count.
Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com qed: Fix use of incorrect size in memcpy call.
Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com qed: Fix setting of incorrect eswitch mode.
Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com qede: Adverstise software timestamp caps when PHC is not available.
David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com net/tcp: Fix socket lookups with SO_BINDTODEVICE
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: sungem: fix rx checksum support
Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru net_sched: blackhole: tell upper qdisc about dropped packets
Davide Caratti dcaratti@redhat.com net/sched: act_ife: preserve the action control in case of error
Davide Caratti dcaratti@redhat.com net/sched: act_ife: fix recursive lock and idr leak
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/packet: fix use-after-free
Antoine Tenart antoine.tenart@bootlin.com net: mvneta: fix the Rx desc DMA address in the Rx path
Shay Agroskin shayag@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix wrong size allocation for QoS ETC TC regitster
Eli Cohen eli@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix required capability for manipulating MPFS
Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix incorrect raw command length parsing
Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix command interface race in polling mode
Or Gerlitz ogerlitz@mellanox.com net/mlx5: E-Switch, Avoid setup attempt if not being e-switch manager
Or Gerlitz ogerlitz@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Don't attempt to dereference the ppriv struct if not being eswitch manager
Or Gerlitz ogerlitz@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Avoid dealing with vport representors if not being e-switch manager
Harini Katakam harini.katakam@xilinx.com net: macb: Fix ptp time adjustment for large negative delta
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net net: fix use-after-free in GRO with ESP
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: dccp: switch rx_tstamp_last_feedback to monotonic clock
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: dccp: avoid crash in ccid3_hc_rx_send_feedback()
Jesper Dangaard Brouer brouer@redhat.com ixgbe: split XDP_TX tail and XDP_REDIRECT map flushing
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com ipvlan: fix IFLA_MTU ignored on NEWLINK
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ipv6: sr: fix passing wrong flags to crypto_alloc_shash()
Stephen Hemminger sthemmin@microsoft.com hv_netvsc: split sub-channel setup into async and sync
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com atm: zatm: Fix potential Spectre v1
David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org atm: Preserve value of skb->truesize when accounting to vcc
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net alx: take rtnl before calling __alx_open from resume
Sean Wang sean.wang@mediatek.com pinctrl: mt7622: fix a kernel panic when gpio-hog is being applied
Sean Wang sean.wang@mediatek.com pinctrl: mt7622: stop using the deprecated pinctrl_add_gpio_range
Sean Wang sean.wang@mediatek.com pinctrl: mt7622: fix error path on failing at groups building
Niklas Söderlund niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a77970: remove SH_PFC_PIN_CFG_DRIVE_STRENGTH flag
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com x86/paravirt: Make native_save_fl() extern inline
H. Peter Anvin hpa@linux.intel.com x86/asm: Add _ASM_ARG* constants for argument registers to <asm/asm.h>
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com compiler-gcc.h: Add __attribute__((gnu_inline)) to all inline declarations
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Diffstat:
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 17 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 12 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 5 + arch/arm/net/bpf_jit_32.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 9 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 22 +++ arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 30 +++- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 26 +++ arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 24 +++ arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 30 ++++ arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c | 11 ++ arch/arm64/kernel/ssbd.c | 110 +++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/suspend.c | 8 + arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S | 38 ++++- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 42 +++++ arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c | 4 + arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h | 59 +++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/irqflags.S | 26 +++ arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 2 +- block/blk-core.c | 4 +- block/blk-merge.c | 10 ++ crypto/af_alg.c | 4 +- drivers/atm/zatm.c | 2 + drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_ptp.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_rx.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 24 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 24 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 12 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c | 2 +- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fw.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mpfs.c | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/port.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sriov.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/bpf/main.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/match.c | 14 ++ .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/offload.c | 11 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dcbx.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dev.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c | 8 + drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c | 19 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ptp.c | 10 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/farch.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 10 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sungem.c | 22 +-- drivers/net/geneve.c | 2 +- drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h | 2 +- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 37 ++++- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 17 +- drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c | 61 ++----- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 5 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 3 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 30 ++-- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 17 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.h | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 11 +- drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c | 8 +- drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7622.c | 25 ++- drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77970.c | 12 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 11 ++ drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 24 ++- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 19 ++- drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +- fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 22 +-- fs/reiserfs/prints.c | 141 +++++++++------- include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 10 ++ include/linux/atmdev.h | 15 ++ include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 2 +- include/linux/blk_types.h | 2 + include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 29 +++- include/linux/filter.h | 42 ++--- include/linux/mlx5/eswitch.h | 2 + include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h | 2 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 20 +++ include/net/pkt_cls.h | 5 + kernel/bpf/core.c | 25 ++- kernel/bpf/sockmap.c | 63 ++++++-- kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 4 +- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 11 +- mm/backing-dev.c | 20 +-- net/8021q/vlan.c | 2 +- net/atm/br2684.c | 3 +- net/atm/clip.c | 3 +- net/atm/common.c | 3 +- net/atm/lec.c | 3 +- net/atm/mpc.c | 3 +- net/atm/pppoatm.c | 3 +- net/atm/raw.c | 4 +- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 13 ++ net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 11 +- net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c | 16 +- net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 28 ++-- net/ipv4/fou.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/gre_offload.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 18 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 9 ++ net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/inet6_hashtables.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 2 + net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblc.c | 1 + net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_lblcr.c | 1 + net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 9 +- net/nsh/nsh.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 16 +- net/rds/loop.c | 1 + net/rds/rds.h | 5 + net/rds/recv.c | 5 + net/sched/act_ife.c | 12 +- net/sched/sch_blackhole.c | 2 +- net/strparser/strparser.c | 17 +- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 2 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 2 +- virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 4 + virt/kvm/arm/psci.c | 18 ++- 140 files changed, 1448 insertions(+), 450 deletions(-)