This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.173 release. There are 32 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 04 May 2019 02:32:02 PM 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-4.9.173-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 4.9.173-rc1

Alex Williamson alex.williamson@redhat.com vfio/type1: Limit DMA mappings per container

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu leds: pca9532: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com kconfig/[mn]conf: handle backspace (^H) key

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be gpio: of: Fix of_gpiochip_add() error path

raymond pang raymondpangxd@gmail.com libata: fix using DMA buffers on stack

Steffen Maier maier@linux.ibm.com scsi: zfcp: reduce flood of fcrscn1 trace records on multi-element RSCN

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk ceph: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal

Mukesh Ojha mojha@codeaurora.org usb: u132-hcd: fix resource leak

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu scsi: qla4xxx: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

Wen Yang wen.yang99@zte.com.cn net: ethernet: ti: fix possible object reference leak

Wen Yang wen.yang99@zte.com.cn net: ibm: fix possible object reference leak

Wen Yang wen.yang99@zte.com.cn net: xilinx: fix possible object reference leak

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_init_timeout_values()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com staging: rtl8712: uninitialized memory in read_bbreg_hdl()

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de net: ks8851: Set initial carrier state to down

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de net: ks8851: Delay requesting IRQ until opened

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de net: ks8851: Reassert reset pin if chip ID check fails

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de net: ks8851: Dequeue RX packets explicitly

Marco Felsch m.felsch@pengutronix.de ARM: dts: pfla02: increase phy reset duration

Guido Kiener guido@kiener-muenchen.de usb: gadget: net2272: Fix net2272_dequeue()

Guido Kiener guido@kiener-muenchen.de usb: gadget: net2280: Fix net2280_dequeue()

Guido Kiener guido@kiener-muenchen.de usb: gadget: net2280: Fix overrun of OUT messages

Petr Štetiar ynezz@true.cz serial: ar933x_uart: Fix build failure with disabled console

Mao Wenan maowenan@huawei.com sc16is7xx: missing unregister/delete driver on error in sc16is7xx_init()

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com netfilter: bridge: set skb transport_header before entering NF_INET_PRE_ROUTING

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: check for inactive element after flag mismatch

Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: limit brk randomization to 32MB

Helen Koike helen.koike@collabora.com ARM: dts: bcm283x: Fix hdmi hpd gpio pull

Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl media: vivid: check if the cec_adapter is valid

Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com usbnet: ipheth: fix potential null pointer dereference in ipheth_carrier_set

Alexander Kappner agk@godking.net usbnet: ipheth: prevent TX queue timeouts when device not ready

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2835-rpi-b-rev2.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-phytec-pfla02.dtsi | 1 + arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h | 11 ++++--- drivers/ata/libata-zpodd.c | 34 ++++++++++++++------ drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 8 ++++- drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c | 8 +++-- drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-vid-common.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851.c | 36 +++++++++++----------- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c | 8 +++-- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c | 33 ++++++++++++++------ drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fc.c | 21 ++++++++++--- drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c | 2 ++ drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c | 10 +----- drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.h | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/ar933x_uart.c | 24 +++++---------- drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 12 ++++++-- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2272.c | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c | 8 ++--- drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c | 3 ++ drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 14 +++++++++ fs/ceph/inode.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/client.c | 2 +- net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 1 + net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c | 2 ++ net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c | 7 ++--- scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.c | 3 +- scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 2 +- scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c | 3 +- 32 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)