This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.108 release. There are 31 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 Thu Jun 14 16:46:09 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-4.9.108-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 4.9.108-rc1
Philip Müller philm@manjaro.org complete e390f9a port for v4.9.106
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Fix gcov check for older versions of GCC
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de dm bufio: avoid false-positive Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk KVM: VMX: Expose SSBD properly to guests, 4.9 supplement
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: metrics: add proper netlink validation
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: broadcom: Fix bcm_write_exp()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink()
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il net/mlx4: Fix irq-unsafe spinlock usage
Stephen Suryaputra ssuryaextr@gmail.com vrf: check the original netdevice for generating redirect
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com vhost: synchronize IOTLB message with dev cleanup
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com team: use netdev_features_t instead of u32
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: not allow transport timeout value less than HZ/5 for hb_timer
Shahed Shaikh shahed.shaikh@cavium.com qed: Fix mask for physical address in ILT entry
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com packet: fix reserve calculation
Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com net: usb: cdc_mbim: add flag FLAG_SEND_ZLP
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/packet: refine check for priv area size
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports
Kirill Tkhai ktkhai@virtuozzo.com kcm: Fix use-after-free caused by clonned sockets
Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu isdn: eicon: fix a missing-check bug
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com ipv4: remove warning in ip_recv_error
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds
Govindarajulu Varadarajan gvaradar@cisco.com enic: set DMA mask to 47 bit
Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com dccp: don't free ccid2_hc_tx_sock struct in dccp_disconnect()
Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr bnx2x: use the right constant
Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com drm: set FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET for drm files
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1
Anand Jain Anand.Jain@oracle.com btrfs: define SUPER_FLAG_METADUMP_V2
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org mmap: relax file size limit for regular files
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits
Chris Chiu chiu@endlessm.com tpm: self test failure should not cause suspend to fail
Enric Balletbo i Serra enric.balletbo@collabora.com tpm: do not suspend/resume if power stays on
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Diffstat:
Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt | 9 +++++++ Makefile | 4 +-- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 -- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 2 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 13 ++++++++++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 7 ++++++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c | 1 + drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.c | 22 ++++++++++------ drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.h | 5 ++-- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasmain.c | 18 +++++++------ drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 17 ++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 8 +++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/qp.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_cxt.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/bcm-cygnus.c | 6 ++--- drivers/net/phy/bcm-phy-lib.h | 7 ++++++ drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/team/team.c | 3 ++- drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c | 2 +- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 +++ fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 ++- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h | 1 + mm/mmap.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 +++--- net/dccp/proto.c | 2 -- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 ++ net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 -- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 ++- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 3 ++- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 6 +++++ net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +-- net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +- scripts/Makefile.build | 3 +++ scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 +- 38 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)