This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.155 release. There are 30 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 Wed Feb 6 10:35:37 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-4.9.155-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 4.9.155-rc1

Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com fanotify: fix handling of events on child sub-directory

Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com fs: don't scan the inode cache before SB_BORN is set

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier

Paulo Alcantara paulo@paulo.ac cifs: Always resolve hostname before reconnecting

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com mm: migrate: don't rely on __PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it

Naoya Horiguchi n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com mm: hwpoison: use do_send_sig_info() instead of force_sig()

Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com mm, oom: fix use-after-free in oom_kill_process

Andrei Vagin avagin@gmail.com kernel/exit.c: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com mmc: sdhci-iproc: handle mmc_of_parse() errors during probe

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Drop mapping of 0x33 and 0x34 scan codes

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Map 0x35 to KEY_SCREENLOCK

Andreas Gruenbacher agruenba@redhat.com gfs2: Revert "Fix loop in gfs2_rbm_find"

James Morse james.morse@arm.com arm64: hibernate: Clean the __hyp_text to PoC after resume

James Morse james.morse@arm.com arm64: hyp-stub: Forbid kprobing of the hyp-stub

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org arm64: kaslr: ensure randomized quantities are clean also when kaslr is off

Koen Vandeputte koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com ARM: cns3xxx: Fix writing to wrong PCI config registers after alignment

Waiman Long longman@redhat.com fs/dcache: Fix incorrect nr_dentry_unused accounting in shrink_dcache_sb()

Pavel Shilovsky pshilov@microsoft.com CIFS: Do not count -ENODATA as failure for query directory

Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net ipvlan, l3mdev: fix broken l3s mode wrt local routes

Jacob Wen jian.w.wen@oracle.com l2tp: fix reading optional fields of L2TPv3

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com l2tp: remove l2specific_len dependency in l2tp_core

Aya Levin ayal@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Allow MAC invalidation while spoofchk is ON

Mathias Thore mathias.thore@infinera.com ucc_geth: Reset BQL queue when stopping device

Bernard Pidoux f6bvp@free.fr net/rose: fix NULL ax25_cb kernel panic

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com netrom: switch to sock timer API

Aya Levin ayal@mellanox.com net/mlx4_core: Add masking for a few queries on HCA caps

Jacob Wen jian.w.wen@oracle.com l2tp: copy 4 more bytes to linear part if necessary

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to an address

Jimmy Durand Wesolowski jdw@amazon.de fs: add the fsnotify call to vfs_iter_write

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Fix "net: ipv4: do not handle duplicate fragments as overlapping"

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/pcie.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 2 + arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c | 1 + drivers/base/core.c | 2 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-iproc.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 75 ++++++++++++++--------- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c | 19 ++---- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 6 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 3 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++ fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 4 +- fs/dcache.c | 6 +- fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 2 +- fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 8 ++- fs/read_write.c | 4 +- fs/super.c | 30 +++++++-- include/linux/kobject.h | 17 +++++ include/linux/netdevice.h | 8 +++ include/net/l3mdev.h | 3 +- kernel/exit.c | 12 +++- mm/memory-failure.c | 3 +- mm/migrate.c | 7 ++- mm/oom_kill.c | 8 +++ net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 3 + net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 43 ++++++------- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 31 ++++++++++ net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 3 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 3 + net/netrom/nr_timer.c | 20 +++--- net/rose/rose_route.c | 5 ++ 34 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)