This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.74 release. There are 75 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 Jan 3 14:00:03 UTC 2018. 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-4.9.74-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 4.9.74-rc1

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org tty: fix tty_ldisc_receive_buf() documentation

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org n_tty: fix EXTPROC vs ICANON interaction with TIOCINQ (aka FIONREAD)

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/smpboot: Remove stale TLB flush invocations

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de nohz: Prevent a timer interrupt storm in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Reinitialize per cpu bases on hotplug

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Invoke timer_start_debug() where it makes sense

Anna-Maria Gleixner anna-maria@linutronix.de timers: Use deferrable base independent of base::nohz_active

Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org usb: xhci: Add XHCI_TRUST_TX_LENGTH for Renesas uPD720201

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com USB: Fix off by one in type-specific length check of BOS SSP capability

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com usb: add RESET_RESUME for ELSA MicroLink 56K

Dmitry Fleytman Dmitry Fleytman dmitry.fleytman@gmail.com usb: Add device quirk for Logitech HD Pro Webcam C925e

SZ Lin (林上智) sz.lin@moxa.com USB: serial: option: adding support for YUGA CLM920-NC5

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add support for Telit ME910 PID 0x1101

Reinhard Speyerer rspmn@arcor.de USB: serial: qcserial: add Sierra Wireless EM7565

Max Schulze max.schulze@posteo.de USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add id for Airbus DS P8GR

Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: vhci: stop printing kernel pointer addresses in messages

Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: stub: stop printing kernel pointer addresses in messages

Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: prevent leaking socket pointer address in messages

Juan Zea juan.zea@qindel.com usbip: fix usbip bind writing random string after command in match_busid

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: update takeover IPs after configuration change

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: lock IP table while applying takeover changes

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: don't apply takeover changes to RXIP

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: apply takeover changes when mode is toggled

Moni Shoua monis@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix error flow in CREATE_QP command

Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Prevent possible races in VXLAN control flow

Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Add refcount to VXLAN structure

Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Fix possible deadlock of VXLAN lock

Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Fix features check of IPv6 traffic

Eran Ben Elisha eranbe@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix rate limit packet pacing naming and struct

Yousuk Seung ysseung@google.com tcp: invalidate rate samples during SACK reneging

Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com sock: free skb in skb_complete_tx_timestamp on error

Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com net: phy: micrel: ksz9031: reconfigure autoneg after phy autoneg workaround

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com net: Fix double free and memory corruption in get_net_ns_by_id()

Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch net: fec: Allow reception of frames bigger than 1522 bytes

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com net: bridge: fix early call to br_stp_change_bridge_id and plug newlink leaks

Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com ipv4: Fix use-after-free when flushing FIB tables

Nikita V. Shirokov tehnerd@fb.com adding missing rcu_read_unlock in ipxip6_rcv

Tonghao Zhang xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com sctp: Replace use of sockets_allocated with specified macro.

Tobias Jordan Tobias.Jordan@elektrobit.com net: mvmdio: disable/unprepare clocks in EPROBE_DEFER case

Mohamed Ghannam simo.ghannam@gmail.com net: ipv4: fix for a race condition in raw_sendmsg

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com tg3: Fix rx hang on MTU change with 5717/5719

Christoph Paasch cpaasch@apple.com tcp md5sig: Use skb's saddr when replying to an incoming segment

Neal Cardwell ncardwell@google.com tcp_bbr: record "full bw reached" decision in new full_bw_reached bit

Avinash Repaka avinash.repaka@oracle.com RDS: Check cmsg_len before dereferencing CMSG_DATA

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com ptr_ring: add barriers

Shaohua Li shli@fb.com net: reevalulate autoflowlabel setting after sysctl setting

Sebastian Sjoholm ssjoholm@mac.com net: qmi_wwan: add Sierra EM7565 1199:9091

Kevin Cernekee cernekee@chromium.org netlink: Add netns check on taps

Kevin Cernekee cernekee@chromium.org net: igmp: Use correct source address on IGMPv3 reports

Fugang Duan fugang.duan@nxp.com net: fec: unmap the xmit buffer that are not transferred by DMA

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: mcast: better catch silly mtu values

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv4: igmp: guard against silly MTU values

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org kbuild: add '-fno-stack-check' to kernel build options

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm/64: Fix reboot interaction with CR4.PCIDE

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm: Enable CR4.PCIDE on supported systems

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm: Disable PCID on 32-bit kernels

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm: Remove the UP asm/tlbflush.h code, always use the (formerly) SMP code

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm: Reimplement flush_tlb_page() using flush_tlb_mm_range()

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm: Make flush_tlb_mm_range() more predictable

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/vm86/32: Switch to flush_tlb_mm_range() in mark_screen_rdonly()

Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda - fix headset mic detection issue on a Dell machine

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda: Drop useless WARN_ON()

Andrew F. Davis afd@ti.com ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: Fix GPIO1 register definition

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ASoC: twl4030: fix child-node lookup

Maciej S. Szmigiero mail@maciej.szmigiero.name ASoC: fsl_ssi: AC'97 ops need regmap, clock and cleaning up on failure

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ASoC: da7218: fix fix child-node lookup

Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk ASoC: wm_adsp: Fix validation of firmware and coeff lengths

Steve Wise swise@opengridcomputing.com iw_cxgb4: Only validate the MSN for successful completions

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length

Jing Xia jing.xia@spreadtrum.com tracing: Fix crash when it fails to alloc ring buffer

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix possible double free on failure of allocating trace buffer

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Remove extra zeroing out of the ring buffer page

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org sync objtool's copy of x86-opcode-map.txt

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Diffstat:

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 + Makefile | 7 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h | 6 -- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 2 - arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 99 +++-------------------- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 8 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 40 +++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 4 + arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 9 --- arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 - arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 73 +++-------------- arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 6 ++ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cq.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 14 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/qp.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/rl.c | 22 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vxlan.c | 64 ++++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vxlan.h | 1 + drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 1 + drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 6 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 6 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3.h | 2 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 36 +++++++-- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_sys.c | 75 +++++++++-------- drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/config.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 3 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 6 ++ drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 17 ++++ drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c | 3 + drivers/usb/usbip/stub_dev.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c | 14 +--- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c | 12 +-- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c | 23 +++--- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_tx.c | 3 +- include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 2 +- include/linux/ipv6.h | 3 +- include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h | 8 +- include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 9 +++ include/linux/tcp.h | 3 +- include/linux/timer.h | 4 +- include/net/ip.h | 2 + include/net/tcp.h | 2 +- kernel/cpu.c | 4 +- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 19 ++++- kernel/time/timer.c | 35 +++++--- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 +-- net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 11 +-- net/core/net_namespace.c | 2 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 9 ++- net/ipv4/igmp.c | 44 +++++++--- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/raw.c | 15 ++-- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 10 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_rate.c | 10 ++- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 1 - net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 12 ++- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 1 + net/ipv6/mcast.c | 25 +++--- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 3 + net/rds/send.c | 3 + net/sctp/socket.c | 4 +- sound/hda/hdac_i915.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 5 ++ sound/soc/codecs/da7218.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic31xx.h | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/twl4030.c | 4 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm_adsp.c | 12 +-- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_ssi.c | 18 +++-- tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/x86-opcode-map.txt | 2 +- tools/usb/usbip/src/utils.c | 9 ++- 94 files changed, 550 insertions(+), 429 deletions(-)