This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.93 release. There are 102 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 Apr 8 08:42:55 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-4.9.93-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 4.9.93-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org spi: davinci: fix up dma_mapping_error() incorrect patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ip6_vti: adjust vti mtu according to mtu of lower device"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "spi: bcm-qspi: shut up warning about cfi header inclusion"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ARM: dts: omap3-n900: Fix the audio CODEC's reset pin"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ARM: dts: am335x-pepper: Fix the audio CODEC's reset pin"

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Fix slab name "biovec-(1<<(21-12))"

Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg@gmail.com net: hns: Fix ethtool private flags

Guoqing Jiang gqjiang@suse.com md/raid10: reset the 'first' at the end of loop

Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com ARM: dts: am57xx-idk-common: Add overide powerhold property

Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com ARM: dts: am57xx-beagle-x15-common: Add overide powerhold property

Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com ARM: dts: dra7: Add power hold and power controller properties to palmas

Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com Documentation: pinctrl: palmas: Add ti,palmas-powerhold-override property definition

Mike Frysinger vapier@chromium.org vt: change SGR 21 to follow the standards

Ondrej Zary linux@rainbow-software.org Input: i8042 - enable MUX on Sony VAIO VGN-CS series to fix touchpad

Dennis Wassenberg dennis.wassenberg@secunet.com Input: i8042 - add Lenovo ThinkPad L460 to i8042 reset list

Masaki Ota masaki.ota@jp.alps.com Input: ALPS - fix TrackStick detection on Thinkpad L570 and Latitude 7370

Frank Mori Hess fmh6jj@gmail.com staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: ack ai fifo error interrupts.

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: x86/cast5-avx - fix ECB encryption when long sg follows short one

Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: ahash - Fix early termination in hash walk

Alexander Gerasiov gq@redlab-i.ru parport_pc: Add support for WCH CH382L PCI-E single parallel port card.

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com media: usbtv: prevent double free in error case

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com mei: remove dev_err message on an unsupported ioctl

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: cp210x: add ELDAT Easywave RX09 id

Clemens Werther clemens.werther@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add support for Harman FirmwareHubEmulator

Major Hayden major@mhtx.net USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add RT Systems VX-8 cable

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: idmap: Use "awx" flags for .idmap.text .pushsection directives

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: entry: Reword comment about post_ttbr_update_workaround

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Force KPTI to be disabled on Cavium ThunderX

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: kpti: Add ->enable callback to remap swapper using nG mappings

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: kpti: Make use of nG dependent on arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()

Jayachandran C jnair@caviumnetworks.com arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it

Jayachandran C jnair@caviumnetworks.com arm64: cputype: Add MIDR values for Cavium ThunderX2 CPUs

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com arm64: capabilities: Handle duplicate entries for a capability

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Allow checking of a CPU-local erratum

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: Take into account ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV3

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: Kconfig: Reword UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 kconfig entry

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: Kconfig: Add CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: kaslr: Put kernel vectors address in separate data page

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: entry: Add fake CPU feature for unmapping the kernel at EL0

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: tls: Avoid unconditional zeroing of tpidrro_el0 for native tasks

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: entry: Hook up entry trampoline to exception vectors

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: entry: Explicitly pass exception level to kernel_ventry macro

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: mm: Map entry trampoline into trampoline and kernel page tables

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: entry: Add exception trampoline page for exceptions from EL0

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi@linaro.org module: extend 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to module mappings

Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: factor out entry stack manipulation

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: mm: Invalidate both kernel and user ASIDs when performing TLBI

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: mm: Add arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0 helper

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: mm: Allocate ASIDs in pairs

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: mm: Move ASID from TTBR0 to TTBR1

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: mm: Use non-global mappings for kernel space

John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org usb: dwc2: Improve gadget state disconnection handling

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com scsi: virtio_scsi: always read VPD pages for multiqueue too

Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com llist: clang: introduce member_address_is_nonnull()

Szymon Janc szymon.janc@codecoup.pl Bluetooth: Fix missing encryption refresh on Security Request

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: add and use xt_check_proc_name

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: bridge: ebt_among: add more missing match size checks

Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com xfrm: Refuse to insert 32 bit userspace socket policies on 64 bit systems

Greg Hackmann ghackmann@google.com net: xfrm: use preempt-safe this_cpu_read() in ipcomp_alloc_tfms()

Roland Dreier roland@purestorage.com RDMA/ucma: Introduce safer rdma_addr_size() variants

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check that device exists prior to accessing it

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check that device is connected prior to access it

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Ensure that CM_ID exists prior to access it

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Fix use-after-free access in ucma_close

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check AF family prior resolving address

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de xfrm_user: uncoditionally validate esn replay attribute struct

Nick Desaulniers nick.desaulniers@gmail.com mm/vmscan.c: fix unsequenced modification and access warning

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org selinux: Remove redundant check for unknown labeling behavior

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com arm64: avoid overflow in VA_START and PAGE_OFFSET

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org btrfs: Remove extra parentheses from condition in copy_items()

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org mac80211: ibss: Fix channel type enum in ieee80211_sta_join_ibss()

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org mac80211: Fix clang warning about constant operand in logical operation

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org netfilter: ctnetlink: Make some parameters integer to avoid enum mismatch

Frank Praznik frank.praznik@gmail.com HID: sony: Use LED_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org cfg80211: Fix array-bounds warning in fragment copy

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org nl80211: Fix enum type of variable in nl80211_put_sta_rate()

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de xgene_enet: remove bogus forward declarations

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch usb: gadget: remove redundant self assignment

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org jiffies.h: declare jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp

Mark Charlebois charlebm@gmail.com fs: compat: Remove warning from COMPATIBLE_IOCTL

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org selinux: Remove unnecessary check of array base in selinux_set_mapping()

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org cpumask: Add helper cpumask_available()

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org genirq: Use cpumask_available() for check of cpumask variable

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com netfilter: nf_nat_h323: fix logical-not-parentheses warning

Nick Desaulniers nick.desaulniers@gmail.com Input: mousedev - fix implicit conversion warning

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org dm ioctl: remove double parentheses

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org PCI: Make PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK a 32-bit constant

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Fix to set RWX bits correctly before releasing trampoline

Richard Narron comet.berkeley@gmail.com partitions/msdos: Unable to mount UFS 44bsd partitions

Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s: Fix i-side SLB miss bad address handler saving nonvolatile GPRs

Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s: Fix lost pending interrupt due to race causing lost update to irq_happened

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com ipc/shm.c: add split function to shm_vm_ops

Yan, Zheng zyan@redhat.com ceph: only dirty ITER_IOVEC pages for direct read

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ALSA: pcm: potential uninitialized return values

Stefan Roese sr@denx.de ALSA: pcm: Use dma_bytes as size parameter in dma_mmap_coherent()

Nobutaka Okabe nob77413@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add native DSD support for TEAC UD-301

Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org mtd: jedec_probe: Fix crash in jedec_read_mfr()

Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com ARM: 8746/1: vfp: Go back to clearing vfp_current_hw_state[]

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Diffstat:

.../devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-palmas.txt | 9 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-pepper.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-beagle-x15-common.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-idk-common.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7-evm.dts | 2 + arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts | 4 +- arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 12 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 3 + arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 3 + arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h | 6 + arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 6 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h | 11 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 7 + arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h | 35 ++-- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h | 6 - arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 16 +- arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 6 +- arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 135 +++++++++++-- arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 188 +++++++++++++++--- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 12 +- arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 22 ++- arch/arm64/mm/context.c | 25 ++- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 31 +++ arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 216 +++++++++++++++++++-- arch/frv/include/asm/timex.h | 6 + arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 8 + arch/x86/crypto/cast5_avx_glue.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 9 + block/bio.c | 4 +- block/partitions/msdos.c | 4 +- crypto/ahash.c | 7 +- drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 36 ++-- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 45 ++--- drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 16 ++ drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 61 +++--- drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 24 ++- drivers/input/mousedev.c | 62 +++--- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 24 +++ drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 4 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 1 + drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c | 2 + drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 1 - drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c | 50 +++-- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_gmac.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_ppe.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ethtool.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/mdio-xgene.c | 50 +++-- drivers/net/phy/mdio-xgene.h | 4 - drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 4 + drivers/pci/probe.c | 2 +- drivers/pci/setup-res.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 1 + drivers/spi/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 2 + drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 9 + fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 2 +- fs/ceph/file.c | 9 +- fs/compat_ioctl.c | 2 +- include/linux/cpumask.h | 10 + include/linux/init.h | 3 + include/linux/jiffies.h | 13 +- include/linux/llist.h | 21 +- include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h | 2 + include/rdma/ib_addr.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 2 +- init/main.c | 7 +- ipc/shm.c | 12 ++ kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 30 +-- kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +- kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +- kernel/module.c | 20 +- mm/vmscan.c | 13 +- net/bluetooth/smp.c | 8 +- net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_among.c | 34 ++++ net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_h323.c | 57 +++--- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 20 -- net/mac80211/ibss.c | 4 +- net/mac80211/rate.c | 6 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 7 +- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 30 +++ net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c | 11 +- net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 6 +- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 2 +- net/wireless/util.c | 6 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 5 + net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 21 +- security/selinux/hooks.c | 16 -- security/selinux/ss/services.c | 2 +- sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 4 +- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 2 +- sound/usb/quirks.c | 1 + 110 files changed, 1205 insertions(+), 446 deletions(-)