This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.178 release. There are 44 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 22 May 2019 11:50:58 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-4.9.178-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 4.9.178-rc1

Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com KVM: x86: Skip EFER vs. guest CPUID checks for host-initiated writes

Michał Wadowski wadosm@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix for Lenovo B50-70 inverted internal microphone bug

Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com ext4: fix data corruption caused by overlapping unaligned and aligned IO

Sriram Rajagopalan sriramr@arista.com ext4: zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block

Jiufei Xue jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com fs/writeback.c: use rcu_barrier() to wait for inflight wb switches going into workqueue when umount

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org fib_rules: fix error in backport of e9919a24d302 ("fib_rules: return 0...")

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: arm/aes-neonbs - don't access already-freed walk.iv

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: salsa20 - don't access already-freed walk.iv

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: gcm - fix incompatibility between "gcm" and "gcm_base"

Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com crypto: gcm - Fix error return code in crypto_gcm_create_common()

Kamlakant Patel kamlakantp@marvell.com ipmi:ssif: compare block number correctly for multi-part return messages

Coly Li colyli@suse.de bcache: never set KEY_PTRS of journal key to 0 in journal_reclaim()

Liang Chen liangchen.linux@gmail.com bcache: fix a race between cache register and cacheset unregister

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: do not start a transaction at iterate_extent_inodes()

Debabrata Banerjee dbanerje@akamai.com ext4: fix ext4_show_options for file systems w/o journal

Kirill Tkhai ktkhai@virtuozzo.com ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow

Jiufei Xue jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com jbd2: check superblock mapped prior to committing

Sergei Trofimovich slyfox@gentoo.org tty/vt: fix write/write race in ioctl(KDSKBSENT) handler

Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com mfd: max77620: Fix swapped FPS_PERIOD_MAX_US values

Steve Twiss stwiss.opensource@diasemi.com mfd: da9063: Fix OTP control register names to match datasheets for DA9063/63L

Shuning Zhang sunny.s.zhang@oracle.com ocfs2: fix ocfs2 read inode data panic in ocfs2_iget

Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz mm/mincore.c: make mincore() more conservative

Curtis Malainey cujomalainey@chromium.org ASoC: RT5677-SPI: Disable 16Bit SPI Transfers

Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com ASoC: max98090: Fix restore of DAPM Muxes

Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - EAPD turn on later

Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda/hdmi - Consider eld_valid when reporting jack event

Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda/hdmi - Read the pin sense from register when repolling

Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a memory leak bug

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: x86/crct10dif-pcl - fix use via crypto_shash_digest()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: crct10dif-generic - fix use via crypto_shash_digest()

Daniel Axtens dja@axtens.net crypto: vmx - fix copy-paste error in CTR mode

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: chacha20poly1305 - set cra_name correctly

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/x86: Save [ER]FLAGS on context switch

Jean-Philippe Brucker jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com arm64: Clear OSDLR_EL1 on CPU boot

Vincenzo Frascino vincenzo.frascino@arm.com arm64: compat: Reduce address limit

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com power: supply: axp288_charger: Fix unchecked return value

Wen Yang wen.yang99@zte.com.cn ARM: exynos: Fix a leaked reference by adding missing of_node_put

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Fix function fallthrough detection

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/speculation/mds: Improve CPU buffer clear documentation

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/speculation/mds: Revert CPU buffer clear on double fault exit

Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com PCI: hv: Fix a memory leak in hv_eject_device_work()

Waiman Long longman@redhat.com locking/rwsem: Prevent decrement of reader count before increment

Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org net: core: another layer of lists, around PF_MEMALLOC skb handling

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Diffstat:

Documentation/x86/mds.rst | 44 ++++------------------------ Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-glue.c | 4 +++ arch/arm/mach-exynos/firmware.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-exynos/suspend.c | 2 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 8 ++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 1 + arch/x86/crypto/crct10dif-pclmul_glue.c | 13 ++++----- arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 2 ++ arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 7 +++++ arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 8 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 8 ------ arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 33 ++++++++++++++------- crypto/chacha20poly1305.c | 4 +-- crypto/crct10dif_generic.c | 11 +++---- crypto/gcm.c | 36 ++++++++--------------- crypto/salsa20_generic.c | 2 +- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 6 +++- drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl | 4 +-- drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 11 ++++--- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 +- drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c | 1 + drivers/power/supply/axp288_charger.c | 4 +++ drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++---- fs/btrfs/backref.c | 18 ++++++++---- fs/ext4/extents.c | 17 +++++++++-- fs/ext4/file.c | 7 +++++ fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 4 +++ fs/ocfs2/export.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 1 + include/linux/list.h | 30 +++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/mfd/da9063/registers.h | 6 ++-- include/linux/mfd/max77620.h | 4 +-- kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++--------- mm/backing-dev.c | 1 + mm/mincore.c | 23 ++++++++++++++- net/core/fib_rules.c | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 11 +++++-- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 5 ++-- sound/soc/codecs/max98090.c | 12 ++++---- sound/soc/codecs/rt5677-spi.c | 35 +++++++++++----------- sound/usb/mixer.c | 2 ++ tools/objtool/check.c | 3 +- 48 files changed, 379 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)