This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.172 release. There are 41 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 02 May 2019 11:34:41 AM UTC. 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-4.9.172-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 4.9.172-rc1

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com net: IP6 defrag: use rbtrees in nf_conntrack_reasm.c

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com net: IP6 defrag: use rbtrees for IPv6 defrag

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de ipv6: remove dependency of nf_defrag_ipv6 on ipv6 module

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com net: IP defrag: encapsulate rbtree defrag code into callable functions

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: frags: fix a lockdep false positive

ZhangXiaoxu zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com ipv4: set the tcp_min_rtt_wlen range from 0 to one day

Vinod Koul vkoul@kernel.org net: stmmac: move stmmac_check_ether_addr() to driver probe

Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com team: fix possible recursive locking when add slaves

Zhu Yanjun yanjun.zhu@oracle.com net: rds: exchange of 8K and 1M pool

Erez Alfasi ereza@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: ethtool, Remove unsupported SFP EEPROM high pages query

Amit Cohen amitc@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum: Fix autoneg status in ethtool

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv4: add sanity checks in ipv4_link_failure()

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "block/loop: Use global lock for ioctl() operation."

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com tipc: check link name with right length in tipc_nl_compat_link_set

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com tipc: check bearer name with right length in tipc_nl_compat_bearer_enable

Yue Haibing yuehaibing@huawei.com fm10k: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: ebtables: CONFIG_COMPAT: drop a bogus WARN_ON

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp NFS: Forbid setting AF_INET6 to "struct sockaddr_in"->sin_family.

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: Fix a NULL pointer dereference

Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com intel_th: gth: Fix an off-by-one in output unassigning

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org slip: make slhc_free() silently accept an error pointer

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com tipc: handle the err returned from cmd header function

Adalbert Lazăr alazar@bitdefender.com vsock/virtio: fix kernel panic from virtio_transport_reset_no_sock

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com USB: Consolidate LPM checks to avoid enabling LPM twice

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com USB: Add new USB LPM helpers

Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com drm/vc4: Fix compilation error reported by kbuild test bot

Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com drm/vc4: Fix memory leak during gpu reset.

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org ARM: 8857/1: efi: enable CP15 DMB instructions before cleaning the cache

Dirk Behme dirk.behme@de.bosch.com dmaengine: sh: rcar-dmac: With cyclic DMA residue 0 is valid

Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de Input: synaptics-rmi4 - write config register values to the right offset

NeilBrown neilb@suse.com sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID.

Trond Myklebust trondmy@gmail.com nfsd: Don't release the callback slot unless it was actually held

Yan, Zheng zyan@redhat.com ceph: fix ci->i_head_snapc leak

Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org ceph: ensure d_name stability in ceph_dentry_hash()

Xie XiuQi xiexiuqi@huawei.com sched/numa: Fix a possible divide-by-zero

Josh Collier josh.d.collier@intel.com IB/rdmavt: Fix frwr memory registration

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse

Aurelien Jarno aurelien@aurel32.net MIPS: scall64-o32: Fix indirect syscall number load

Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu tracing: Fix a memory leak by early error exit in trace_pid_write()

Frank Sorenson sorenson@redhat.com cifs: do not attempt cifs operation on smb2+ rename error

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kbuild: simplify ld-option implementation

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Diffstat:

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 1 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 16 +- arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S | 2 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 42 +-- drivers/block/loop.h | 1 + drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_crtc.c | 2 +- drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/gth.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c | 17 +- drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f11.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 2 + .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/port.c | 4 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/slip/slhc.c | 2 +- drivers/net/team/team.c | 6 + drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 23 +- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 16 +- drivers/usb/core/message.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/core/usb.h | 10 +- fs/ceph/dir.c | 6 +- fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 9 + fs/ceph/snap.c | 7 +- fs/cifs/inode.c | 4 + fs/nfs/super.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 8 +- fs/nfsd/state.h | 1 + fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 6 +- include/net/inet_frag.h | 16 +- include/net/ipv6.h | 29 -- include/net/ipv6_frag.h | 111 +++++++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 + kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 +- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 3 +- net/ieee802154/6lowpan/reassembly.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 293 +++++++++++++++++ net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 295 ++--------------- net/ipv4/route.c | 32 +- net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 5 +- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 273 +++++----------- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_defrag_ipv6_hooks.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 361 ++++++--------------- net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 1 + net/rds/ib_fmr.c | 11 + net/rds/ib_rdma.c | 3 - net/sunrpc/cache.c | 3 + net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 24 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 22 +- scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 +- 53 files changed, 866 insertions(+), 854 deletions(-)