This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.143 release. There are 50 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 Thu Dec 6 10:36:59 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-4.9.143-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 4.9.143-rc1

Chris Fries cfries@google.com kbuild: Set KBUILD_CFLAGS before incl. arch Makefile

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org efi/libstub: Make file I/O chunking x86-specific

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de workqueue: avoid clang warning

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch ARM: trusted_foundations: do not use naked function

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch bus: arm-cci: remove unnecessary unreachable()

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch ARM: 8767/1: add support for building ARM kernel with clang

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch ARM: 8766/1: drop no-thumb-interwork in EABI mode

Alistair Strachan astrachan@google.com efi/libstub: arm: support building with clang

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com misc: mic/scif: fix copy-paste error in scif_create_remote_lookup

Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com Drivers: hv: vmbus: check the creation_status in vmbus_establish_gpadl()

Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com mm: use swp_offset as key in shmem_replace_page()

Martin Kelly martin@martingkelly.com iio:st_magn: Fix enable device after trigger

Felipe Balbi felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com Revert "usb: dwc3: gadget: skip Set/Clear Halt when invalid"

Michael Niewöhner linux@mniewoehner.de usb: core: quirks: add RESET_RESUME quirk for Cherry G230 Stream series

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com USB: usb-storage: Add new IDs to ums-realtek

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: release metadata before running delayed refs

Richard Genoud richard.genoud@gmail.com dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix module unloading

Richard Genoud richard.genoud@gmail.com dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix memory leak in at_dma_xlate()

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com ext2: fix potential use after free

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: sparc: Fix invalid snd_free_pages() at error path

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: control: Fix race between adding and removing a user element

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: ac97: Fix incorrect bit shift at AC97-SPSA control write

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: wss: Fix invalid snd_free_pages() at error path

Maximilian Heyne mheyne@amazon.de fs: fix lost error code in dio_complete

Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf/x86/intel: Add generic branch tracing check to intel_pmu_has_bts()

Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf/x86/intel: Move branch tracing setup to the Intel-specific source file

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: ensure path name is null terminated at btrfs_control_ioctl

Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: fix coprocessor context offset definitions

Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: enable coprocessors that are being flushed

Wanpeng Li wanpengli@tencent.com KVM: X86: Fix scan ioapic use-before-initialization

Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com kvm: svm: Ensure an IBPB on all affected CPUs when freeing a vmcb

Junaid Shahid junaids@google.com kvm: mmu: Fix race in emulated page table writes

Bernd Eckstein 3erndeckstein@gmail.com usbnet: ipheth: fix potential recvmsg bug and recvmsg bug 2

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix length check in SNMP processing

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com rapidio/rionet: do not free skb before reading its length

Petr Machata petrm@mellanox.com net: skb_scrub_packet(): Scrub offload_fwd_mark

Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "wlcore: Add missing PM call for wlcore_cmd_wait_for_event_or_timeout()"

Matthias Schwarzott zzam@gentoo.org media: em28xx: Fix use-after-free when disconnecting

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() do not crash on Compound

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() without freezing new_page

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/khugepaged: minor reorderings in collapse_shmem()

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() remember to clear holes

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/khugepaged: fix crashes due to misaccounted holes

Mike Rapoport rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com shmem: introduce shmem_inode_acct_block

Mike Rapoport rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com shmem: shmem_charge: verify max_block is not exceeded before inode update

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() stop if punched or truncated

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/huge_memory: fix lockdep complaint on 32-bit i_size_read()

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/huge_memory: splitting set mapping+index before unfreeze

Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru mm/huge_memory.c: reorder operations in __split_huge_page_tail()

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/huge_memory: rename freeze_page() to unmap_page()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 69 ++++++------- arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/firmware/trusted_foundations.c | 14 ++- arch/x86/events/core.c | 20 ---- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 52 +++++++--- arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 13 ++- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 27 ++---- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 20 +++- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 16 +-- arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 5 +- drivers/bus/arm-cci.c | 2 - drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 10 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 11 ++- drivers/hv/channel.c | 8 ++ drivers/iio/magnetometer/st_magn_buffer.c | 12 +-- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c | 2 +- drivers/net/rionet.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c | 10 +- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.c | 6 -- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 27 +++--- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 + drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 5 - drivers/usb/storage/unusual_realtek.h | 10 ++ fs/btrfs/super.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 6 +- fs/direct-io.c | 4 +- fs/ext2/xattr.c | 2 +- include/linux/workqueue.h | 4 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 79 +++++++-------- mm/khugepaged.c | 129 ++++++++++++++----------- mm/shmem.c | 97 ++++++++++--------- net/core/skbuff.c | 4 + sound/core/control.c | 80 ++++++++------- sound/isa/wss/wss_lib.c | 2 - sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c | 2 +- sound/sparc/cs4231.c | 8 +- 40 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 351 deletions(-)