This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.78 release. There are 47 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 24 08:39:11 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-4.9.78-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 4.9.78-rc1

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB

zhenwei.pi zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com x86/pti: Document fix wrong index

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected

Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: fix warning in vhci_hcd_probe/lockdep_init_map

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls

Dennis Yang dennisyang@qnap.com dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6

Joe Thornber thornber@redhat.com dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath()

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com workqueue: avoid hard lockups in show_workqueue_state()

Xinyu Lin xinyu0123@gmail.com libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices

Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan@gmail.com proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race

Xi Kangjie imxikangjie@gmail.com scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py: fix get_thread_info

Stephane Grosjean s.grosjean@peak-system.com can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com ARM: sunxi_defconfig: Enable CMA

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup

Nir Perry nirperry@gmail.com Input: ALPS - fix multi-touch decoding on SS4 plus touchpads

Jiada Wang jiada_wang@mentor.com perf tools: Fix build with ARCH=x86_64

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path

Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence@redhat.com pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit

Len Brown len.brown@intel.com x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs

Xunlei Pang xlpang@redhat.com sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks

Tomas Henzl thenzl@redhat.com scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state

Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me iser-target: Fix possible use-after-free in connection establishment error

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Make ioctls race-free

Li Jinyue lijinyue@huawei.com futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation

Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA

Vishal Verma vishal.l.verma@intel.com libnvdimm, btt: Fix an incompatibility in the log layout

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Diffstat:

Documentation/x86/pti.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dts | 10 +- arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig | 2 + arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 4 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 11 ++ arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 13 +- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 16 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c | 7 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 36 +++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 1 - arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 23 ++- arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 1 - arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 + arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 5 +- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 + drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c | 1 + drivers/input/misc/twl4030-vibra.c | 6 +- drivers/input/misc/twl6040-vibra.c | 3 +- drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 23 +-- drivers/input/mouse/alps.h | 10 +- drivers/input/touchscreen/88pm860x-ts.c | 16 ++- drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 6 +- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 19 +-- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c | 21 +-- drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 203 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/nvdimm/btt.h | 45 +++++- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 + drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sg.c | 30 ++-- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c | 1 + fs/pipe.c | 17 ++- fs/proc/array.c | 7 +- include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 +- include/scsi/sg.h | 1 - kernel/futex.c | 3 + kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 + kernel/time/timer.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 16 ++- kernel/workqueue.c | 13 ++ net/key/af_key.c | 8 ++ scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | 2 + sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 1 - sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 3 + sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.h | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_cirrus.c | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 + tools/objtool/elf.c | 4 +- tools/perf/Makefile.config | 38 ++--- tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/Build | 2 +- tools/perf/pmu-events/Build | 4 +- tools/perf/tests/Build | 2 +- tools/perf/util/header.c | 2 +- 59 files changed, 525 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)