This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.153 release. There are 39 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 Jan 26 19:04:38 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-4.9.153-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 4.9.153-rc1

Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com locking/qspinlock: Pull in asm/byteorder.h to ensure correct endianness

Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com ipmi:ssif: Fix handling of multi-part return messages

Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps

Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com mm/page-writeback.c: don't break integrity writeback on ->writepage() error

Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: fix panic due to unrecovered local alloc

Qian Cai cai@lca.pw scsi: megaraid: fix out-of-bound array accesses

Kevin Barnett kevin.barnett@microsemi.com scsi: smartpqi: correct lun reset issues

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch sysfs: Disable lockdep for driver bind/unbind files

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: bebob: fix model-id of unit for Apogee Ensemble

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm snapshot: Fix excessive memory usage and workqueue stalls

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools lib subcmd: Don't add the kernel sources to the include path

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm kcopyd: Fix bug causing workqueue stalls

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf parse-events: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf svghelper: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix error with config term "pt=0"

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com tty/serial: do not free trasnmit buffer page under port lock

Jonas Danielsson jonas@orbital-systems.com mmc: atmel-mci: do not assume idle after atmci_request_end

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kconfig: fix file name and line number of warn_ignored_character()

Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de clk: imx6q: reset exclusive gates on init

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de scsi: target: use consistent left-aligned ASCII INQUIRY data

yupeng yupeng0921@gmail.com net: call sk_dst_reset when set SO_DONTROUTE

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com media: firewire: Fix app_info parameter type in avc_ca{,_app}_info

Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Fix preempt warning

Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org powerpc/xmon: Fix invocation inside lock region

Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid

Daniel Santos daniel.santos@pobox.com jffs2: Fix use of uninitialized delayed_work, lockdep breakage

Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com rxe: IB_WR_REG_MR does not capture MR's iova field

Ondrej Mosnacek omosnace@redhat.com selinux: always allow mounting submounts

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org arm64: perf: set suppress_bind_attrs flag to true

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org MIPS: SiByte: Enable swiotlb for SWARM, LittleSur and BigSur

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: oxfw: add support for APOGEE duet FireWire

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org serial: set suppress_bind_attrs flag only if builtin

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com e1000e: allow non-monotonic SYSTIM readings

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-wmi: Tell the EC the OS will handle the display off hotkey

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Take rcu_read_lock in __inet6_bind for mapped addresses

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to a v4 mapped address

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com r8169: Add support for new Realtek Ethernet

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Diffstat:

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 +++- Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 + arch/mips/Kconfig | 3 +++ arch/mips/sibyte/common/Makefile | 1 + arch/mips/sibyte/common/dma.c | 14 ++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 18 +++++++++++---- drivers/base/bus.c | 7 ++++-- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 25 ++++++++++++++------- drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx6q.c | 6 ++++- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 8 ++++++- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c | 1 + drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 19 +++++++++++----- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c | 6 +++-- drivers/media/firewire/firedtv.h | 6 +++-- drivers/mmc/host/atmel-mci.c | 3 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c | 13 ++++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 2 ++ drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 3 ++- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fp.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 3 +++ drivers/target/target_core_spc.c | 17 +++++++++----- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 2 ++ drivers/tty/serial/pic32_uart.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 22 +++++++++++++----- drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c | 1 + fs/jffs2/super.c | 3 ++- fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c | 9 ++++++-- fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 5 +++++ include/asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h | 2 ++ include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 8 +++++++ mm/page-writeback.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++------------ net/core/sock.c | 1 + net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 14 +++++++++++- scripts/kconfig/zconf.l | 4 +++- security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/Kconfig | 1 + sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c | 8 +++++++ tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile | 2 -- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 11 +++++++++ tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/svghelper.c | 2 +- 45 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)