This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.6 release. There are 81 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 29 13:57:21 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-4.16.6-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.16.6-rc1

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI / video: Only default only_lcd to true on Win8-ready _desktops_

Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.ibm.com kprobes: Fix random address output of blacklist file

André Wild wild@linux.ibm.com s390/cpum_cf: rename IBM z13/z14 counter names

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390/uprobes: implement arch_uretprobe_is_alive()

Stefan Haberland sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/dasd: fix IO error for newly defined devices

Sebastian Ott sebott@linux.ibm.com s390/cio: update chpid descriptor after resource accessibility event

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (k10temp) Add support for AMD Ryzen w/ Vega graphics

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (k10temp) Add temperature offset for Ryzen 2700X

Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com tracing: Fix missing tab for hwlat_detector print format

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Fix IO error at end of medium

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Fix array bounds check

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Select appropriate drive on device open

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Rename macros to avoid inconsistent inverted logic

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Remove extra put_disk() call from error path

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Don't log an error message for an invalid ioctl

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Check drive type

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au m68k/mac: Don't remap SWIM MMIO region

Robert Kolchmeyer rkolchmeyer@google.com fsnotify: Fix fsnotify_mark_connector race

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com cdrom: information leak in cdrom_ioctl_media_changed()

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com scsi: mptsas: Disable WRITE SAME

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure.

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "mm/hmm: fix header file if/else/endif maze"

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio_net: fix adding vids on big-endian

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio_net: split out ctrl buffer

Igor Russkikh igor.russkikh@aquantia.com net: aquantia: oops when shutdown on already stopped device

Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no tun: fix vlan packet truncation

Igor Russkikh igor.russkikh@aquantia.com net: aquantia: Regression on reset with 1.x firmware

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha@redhat.com VSOCK: make af_vsock.ko removable again

Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com virtio-net: add missing virtqueue kick when flushing packets

Vasundhara Volam vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Fix memory fault in bnxt_ethtool_init()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: validate attribute sizes in neigh_dump_table()

Ivan Khoronzhuk ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix tx vlan priority mapping

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qeth: handle failure on workqueue creation

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: avoid control IO completion stalls

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix error handling in adapter command callbacks

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: fix NULL pointer deref for SOCK_ZAPPED

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: hold llc_sap before release_sock()

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: fix {pppol2tp, l2tp_dfs}_seq_stop() in case of seq_file overflow

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: hold reference on tunnels printed in l2tp/tunnels debugfs file

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: hold reference on tunnels printed in pppol2tp proc file

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: hold reference on tunnels in netlink dumps

Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: sched: ife: check on metadata length

Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: sched: ife: handle malformed tlv length

Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: sched: ife: signal not finding metaid

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com amd-xgbe: Only use the SFP supported transceiver signals

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com amd-xgbe: Improve KR auto-negotiation and training

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com amd-xgbe: Add pre/post auto-negotiation phy hooks

Ronak Doshi doshir@vmware.com vmxnet3: fix incorrect dereference when rxvlan is disabled

Toshiaki Makita makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp vlan: Fix reading memory beyond skb->tail in skb_vlan_tagged_multi

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tipc: add policy for TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com team: fix netconsole setup over team

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com team: avoid adding twice the same option to the event list

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: md5: reject TCP_MD5SIG or TCP_MD5SIG_EXT on established sockets

Jann Horn jannh@google.com tcp: don't read out-of-bounds opsize

Soheil Hassas Yeganeh soheil@google.com tcp: clear tp->packets_out when purging write queue

Doron Roberts-Kedes doronrk@fb.com strparser: Fix incorrect strp->need_bytes value.

Doron Roberts-Kedes doronrk@fb.com strparser: Do not call mod_delayed_work with a timeout of LONG_MAX

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: do not check port in sctp_inet6_cmp_addr

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Revert "macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink()"

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr pppoe: check sockaddr length in pppoe_connect()

Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com packet: fix bitfield update race

Jose Abreu Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com net: stmmac: Disable ACS Feature for GMAC >= 4

Ursula Braun ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com net/smc: fix shutdown in state SMC_LISTEN

Pawel Dembicki paweldembicki@gmail.com net: qmi_wwan: add Wistron Neweb D19Q1

Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com net: mvpp2: Fix DMA address mask size

Wolfgang Bumiller w.bumiller@proxmox.com net: fix deadlock while clearing neighbor proxy table

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: af_packet: fix race in PACKET_{R|T}X_RING

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: delete timers synchronously in llc_sk_free()

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: check sockaddr length in pppol2tp_connect()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: DNS: limit the length of option strings

Ahmed Abdelsalam amsalam20@gmail.com ipv6: sr: fix NULL pointer dereference in seg6_do_srh_encap()- v4 pkts

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: add RTA_TABLE and RTA_PREFSRC to rtm_ipv6_policy

Olivier Gayot olivier.gayot@sigexec.com docs: ip-sysctl.txt: fix name of some ipv6 variables

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com bonding: do not set slave_dev npinfo before slave_enable_netpoll in bond_enslave

Karthikeyan Periyasamy periyasa@codeaurora.org Revert "ath10k: send (re)assoc peer command when NSS changed"

James Bottomley James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com tpm: add retry logic

Winkler, Tomas tomas.winkler@intel.com tpm: tpm-interface: fix tpm_transmit/_cmd kdoc

Tomas Winkler tomas.winkler@intel.com tpm: cmd_ready command can be issued only after granting locality

Paweł Jabłoński pawel.jablonski@intel.com i40e: Fix attach VF to VM issue

Neil Armstrong narmstrong@baylibre.com drm: bridge: dw-hdmi: Fix overflow workaround for Amlogic Meson GX SoCs

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "pinctrl: intel: Initialize GPIO properly when used through irqchip"

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Diffstat:

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_cf_events.c | 8 +- arch/s390/kernel/uprobes.c | 9 + drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 27 ++- drivers/block/swim.c | 49 +++--- drivers/block/swim3.c | 6 +- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 2 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 131 +++++++++++--- drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 1 + drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c | 108 ++++++++---- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c | 3 + drivers/hwmon/k10temp.c | 17 +- drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c | 1 + drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-common.h | 8 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-debugfs.c | 16 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c | 24 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-pci.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-phy-v2.c | 196 +++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h | 9 + drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c | 8 +- .../aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c | 16 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 49 +++--- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_nvm_defs.h | 2 - drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 11 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 12 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c | 7 - drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 2 +- drivers/net/macsec.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 4 + drivers/net/team/team.c | 38 +++- drivers/net/tun.c | 7 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 79 +++++---- drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c | 17 +- drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 5 +- drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-intel.c | 23 +-- drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 13 +- drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c | 14 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 2 - drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 115 ++++++------ include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 4 +- include/linux/hmm.h | 9 +- include/linux/if_vlan.h | 7 +- include/linux/tpm.h | 2 +- include/net/ife.h | 3 +- include/net/llc_conn.h | 1 + kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 2 +- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/core/neighbour.c | 40 +++-- net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 12 +- net/ife/ife.c | 38 +++- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 8 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 + net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 2 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 40 ++--- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 3 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_debugfs.c | 18 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c | 11 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 34 +++- net/llc/af_llc.c | 14 +- net/llc/llc_c_ac.c | 9 +- net/llc/llc_conn.c | 22 ++- net/packet/af_packet.c | 83 ++++++--- net/packet/internal.h | 10 +- net/sched/act_ife.c | 9 +- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 60 +++---- net/smc/af_smc.c | 10 +- net/strparser/strparser.c | 9 +- net/tipc/netlink.c | 3 +- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 6 + security/commoncap.c | 2 + 80 files changed, 1084 insertions(+), 480 deletions(-)