This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.68 release. There are 109 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 Sat Dec 9 12:56:03 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.68-rc1.gz 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 4.9.68-rc1

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com usb: host: fix incorrect updating of offset

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com USB: usbfs: Filter flags passed in from user space

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: devio: Prevent integer overflow in proc_do_submiturb()

Mateusz Berezecki mateuszb@fastmail.fm USB: Increase usbfs transfer limit

Masakazu Mokuno masakazu.mokuno@gmail.com USB: core: Add type-specific length check of BOS descriptors

Yu Chen chenyu56@huawei.com usb: xhci: fix panic in xhci_free_virt_devices_depth_first

Mike Looijmans mike.looijmans@topic.nl usb: hub: Cycle HUB power when initialization fails

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch dma-buf: Update kerneldoc for sync_file_create

Gustavo Padovan gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk dma-buf/sync_file: hold reference to fence when creating sync_file

Dominik Behr dbehr@chromium.org dma-buf/sw_sync: force signal all unsignaled fences on dying timeline

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-fence: Introduce drm_fence_set_error() helper

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-fence: Wrap querying the fence->status

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-fence: Clear fence->status during dma_fence_init()

Gustavo Padovan gustavo.padovan@collabora.com dma-buf/sw_sync: clean up list before signaling the fence

Gustavo Padovan gustavo.padovan@collabora.com dma-buf/sw_sync: move timeline_fence_ops around

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-buf/sw-sync: Use an rbtree to sort fences in the timeline

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-buf/sw-sync: Fix locking around sync_timeline lists

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-buf/sw-sync: sync_pt is private and of fixed size

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-buf/sw-sync: Reduce irqsave/irqrestore from known context

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-buf/sw-sync: Prevent user overflow on timeline advance

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-buf/sw-sync: Fix the is-signaled test to handle u32 wraparound

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk dma-buf/dma-fence: Extract __dma_fence_is_later()

Rui Sousa rui.sousa@nxp.com net: fec: fix multicast filtering hardware setup

Mart van Santen mart@greenhost.nl xen-netback: vif counters from int/long to u64

Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl cec: initiator should be the same as the destination for, poll

Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com xen-netfront: Improve error handling during initialization

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz mm: avoid returning VM_FAULT_RETRY from ->page_mkwrite handlers

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik@ozlabs.ru vfio/spapr: Fix missing mutex unlock when creating a window

Ivan Vecera cera@cera.cz be2net: fix initial MAC setting

Vincent vincent.stehle@laposte.net net: thunderx: avoid dereferencing xcv when NULL

Sean Nyekjaer sean.nyekjaer@prevas.dk net: phy: micrel: KSZ8795 do not set SUPPORTED_[Asym_]Pause

Andreas Schultz aschultz@tpip.net gtp: fix cross netns recv on gtp socket

Andreas Schultz aschultz@tpip.net gtp: clear DF bit on GTP packet tx

Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me nvmet: cancel fatal error and flush async work before free controller

Mike Looijmans mike.looijmans@topic.nl i2c: i2c-cadence: Initialize configuration before probing devices

Jason Baron jbaron@akamai.com tcp: correct memory barrier usage in tcp_check_space()

Iago Abal mail@iagoabal.eu dmaengine: pl330: fix double lock

Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com tipc: fix cleanup at module unload

Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com tipc: fix nametbl_lock soft lockup at module exit

Ram Amrani Ram.Amrani@Cavium.com RDMA/qedr: Fix RDMA CM loopback

Ram Amrani Ram.Amrani@Cavium.com RDMA/qedr: Return success when not changing QP state

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: don't try to sleep in rate_control_rate_init()

Xiangliang Yu Xiangliang.Yu@amd.com drm/amdgpu: fix unload driver issue for virtual display

Kevin Hao haokexin@gmail.com x86/fpu: Set the xcomp_bv when we fake up a XSAVES area

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com net: sctp: fix array overrun read on sctp_timer_tbl

Andrzej Hajda a.hajda@samsung.com drm/exynos/decon5433: set STANDALONE_UPDATE_F on output enablement

Rex Zhu Rex.Zhu@amd.com drm/amdgpu: fix bug set incorrect value to vce register

Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com qla2xxx: Fix wrong IOCB type assumption

Reza Arbab arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/mm: Fix memory hotplug BUG() on radix

Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf/x86/intel: Account interrupts for PEBS errors

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com NFSv4: Fix client recovery when server reboots multiple times

Michal Kazior michal.kazior@tieto.com mac80211: prevent skb/txq mismatch

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall@linaro.org KVM: arm/arm64: Fix occasional warning from the timer work function

Andrzej Hajda a.hajda@samsung.com drm/exynos/decon5433: set STANDALONE_UPDATE_F also if planes are disabled

Andrzej Hajda a.hajda@samsung.com drm/exynos/decon5433: update shadow registers iff there are active windows

Benjamin Coddington bcodding@redhat.com nfs: Don't take a reference on fl->fl_file for LOCK operation

Kazuya Mizuguchi kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@renesas.com ravb: Remove Rx overflow log messages

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: calculate min channel width correctly

Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com mm: fix remote numa hits statistics

Stephen Boyd sboyd@codeaurora.org net: qrtr: Mark 'buf' as little endian

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com libfs: Modify mount_pseudo_xattr to be clear it is not a userspace mount

Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure

Ivan Vecera cera@cera.cz be2net: fix unicast list filling

Ivan Vecera cera@cera.cz be2net: fix accesses to unicast list

David Forster dforster@brocade.com vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND

Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com ARM: OMAP1: DMA: Correct the number of logical channels

Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com ARM: OMAP2+: Fix WL1283 Bluetooth Baud Rate

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: systemport: Pad packet before inserting TSB

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: systemport: Utilize skb_put_padto()

Varun Prakash varun@chelsio.com libcxgb: fix error check for ip6_route_output()

Vincent Pelletier plr.vincent@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix ExtCompat descriptor validation

M'boumba Cedric Madianga cedric.madianga@gmail.com dmaengine: stm32-dma: Fix null pointer dereference in stm32_dma_tx_status

M'boumba Cedric Madianga cedric.madianga@gmail.com dmaengine: stm32-dma: Set correct args number for DMA request from DT

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: take remote address into account in l2tp_ip and l2tp_ip6 socket lookups

Slava Shwartsman slavash@mellanox.com net/mlx4_en: Fix type mismatch for 32-bit systems

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals

Ladislav Michl ladis@linux-mips.org iio: adc: ti-ads1015: add 10% to conversion wait time

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools include: Do not use poison with C++

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Disable preemption in ftrace-based jprobes

Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk usbip: tools: Install all headers needed for libusbip development

Jibin Xu jibin.xu@windriver.com sysrq : fix Show Regs call trace on ARM

Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com EDAC, sb_edac: Fix missing break in switch

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/entry: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE() macros for sys_modify_ldt()

Aaron Sierra asierra@xes-inc.com serial: 8250: Preserve DLD[7:4] for PORT_XR17V35X

Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru usb: phy: tahvo: fix error handling in tahvo_usb_probe()

John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org usb: dwc2: Error out of dwc2_hsotg_ep_disable() if we're in host mode

John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org usb: dwc2: Fix UDC state tracking

Subhash Jadavani subhashj@codeaurora.org mmc: sdhci-msm: fix issue with power irq

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: spi-axi: fix potential use-after-free after deregistration

Hiromitsu Yamasaki hiromitsu.yamasaki.ym@renesas.com spi: sh-msiof: Fix DMA transfer size check

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com staging: rtl8188eu: avoid a null dereference on pmlmepriv

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de serial: 8250_fintek: Fix rs485 disablement on invalid ioctl()

Greg Ungerer gerg@linux-m68k.org m68k: fix ColdFire node shift size calculation

Bryan O'Donoghue pure.logic@nexus-software.ie staging: greybus: loopback: Fix iteration count on async path

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org selftests/x86/ldt_get: Add a few additional tests for limits

Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@de.ibm.com s390/pci: do not require AIS facility

Boshi Wang wangboshi@huawei.com ima: fix hash algorithm initialization

Sebastian Sjoholm ssjoholm@mac.com USB: serial: option: add Quectel BG96 id

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390/runtime instrumentation: simplify task exit handling

Matt Wilson msw@amazon.com serial: 8250_pci: Add Amazon PCI serial device ID

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com usb: quirks: Add no-lpm quirk for KY-688 USB 3.1 Type-C Hub

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com uas: Always apply US_FL_NO_ATA_1X quirk to Seagate devices

Wang Nan wangnan0@huawei.com mm, oom_reaper: gather each vma to prevent leaking TLB entry

Horia Geantă horia.geanta@nxp.com Revert "crypto: caam - get rid of tasklet"

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch drm/fsl-dcu: enable IRQ before drm_atomic_helper_resume()

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch drm/fsl-dcu: avoid disabling pixel clock twice on suspend

Rui Hua huarui.dev@gmail.com bcache: recover data from backing when data is clean

Coly Li colyli@suse.de bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-omap1/dma.c | 16 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/pdata-quirks.c | 2 +- arch/m68k/mm/mcfmmu.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h | 4 + arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c | 18 ++ arch/s390/include/asm/pci_insn.h | 2 +- arch/s390/include/asm/runtime_instr.h | 4 +- arch/s390/kernel/process.c | 3 +- arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c | 30 +-- arch/s390/pci/pci.c | 5 +- arch/s390/pci/pci_insn.c | 6 +- arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 6 +- arch/x86/include/asm/syscalls.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/ftrace.c | 23 ++- arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 16 +- arch/x86/um/ldt.c | 7 +- drivers/crypto/caam/intern.h | 1 + drivers/crypto/caam/jr.c | 25 ++- drivers/dma-buf/fence.c | 26 +++ drivers/dma-buf/sw_sync.c | 211 +++++++++++++--------- drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.c | 39 ++-- drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.h | 27 ++- drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c | 22 +-- drivers/dma/pl330.c | 19 +- drivers/dma/stm32-dma.c | 17 +- drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_virtual.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vce_v3_0.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos5433_drm_decon.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/fsl-dcu/fsl_dcu_drm_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cadence.c | 8 +- drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads1015.c | 1 + drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/qedr_cm.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/verbs.c | 2 +- drivers/md/bcache/request.c | 9 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-msm.c | 18 ++ drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 23 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_xcv.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/libcxgb_cm.c | 12 +- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 45 +++-- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 23 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 8 +- drivers/net/gtp.c | 12 +- drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h | 8 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 8 +- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 29 ++- drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 3 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c | 8 +- drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-sh-msiof.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_mmap.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/media/cec/cec-adap.c | 7 +- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 6 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_fintek.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 3 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 9 +- drivers/usb/core/config.c | 28 ++- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 56 +++--- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 9 + drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 + drivers/usb/dwc2/gadget.c | 7 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 7 + drivers/usb/phy/phy-tahvo.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 3 + drivers/usb/storage/uas-detect.h | 4 + drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 11 +- fs/dax.c | 28 ++- fs/libfs.c | 3 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 3 - fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 1 - include/linux/buffer_head.h | 4 +- include/linux/fence.h | 67 ++++++- include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/usb/ch9.h | 3 + kernel/events/core.c | 47 +++-- mm/oom_kill.c | 7 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 15 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 19 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 20 +- net/mac80211/chan.c | 3 - net/mac80211/tx.c | 17 +- net/qrtr/qrtr.c | 4 +- net/sctp/debug.c | 2 +- net/tipc/server.c | 20 +- security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 4 + tools/include/linux/poison.h | 5 + tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/x86/ldt_gdt.c | 17 +- tools/usb/usbip/Makefile.am | 3 +- virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 3 - 102 files changed, 759 insertions(+), 522 deletions(-)