This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.70 release. There are 27 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 Dec 17 09:22:42 UTC 2017. 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-4.9.70-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 4.9.70-rc1

Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org RDMA/cxgb4: Annotate r2 and stag as __be32

Zdenek Kabelac zkabelac@redhat.com md: free unused memory after bitmap resize

Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1

Keefe Liu liuqifa@huawei.com ipvlan: fix ipv6 outbound device

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kbuild: do not call cc-option before KBUILD_CFLAGS initialization

Paul Mackerras paulus@ozlabs.org powerpc/64: Fix checksum folding in csum_tcpudp_nofold and ip_fast_csum_nofold

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Preserve the revious read from the pending table

Al Viro viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk fix kcm_clone()

Vincent Pelletier plr.vincent@gmail.com usb: gadget: ffs: Forbid usb_ep_alloc_request from sleeping

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390: always save and restore all registers on context switch

Masamitsu Yamazaki m-yamazaki@ah.jp.nec.com ipmi: Stop timers before cleaning up the module

Debabrata Banerjee dbanerje@akamai.com Fix handling of verdicts after NF_QUEUE

Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com tipc: call tipc_rcv() only if bearer is up in tipc_udp_recv()

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix thinko in IPv4 multicast address tracking

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix GSO throughput regression

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: build max size GSO skbs on L2 devices

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp/dccp: block bh before arming time_wait timer

Lars Persson lars.persson@axis.com stmmac: reset last TSO segment size after device open

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: remove hlist_nulls_add_tail_rcu()

Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no usbnet: fix alignment for frames with no ethernet header

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()

Mike Maloney maloney@google.com packet: fix crash in fanout_demux_rollover()

Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com sit: update frag_off info

Håkon Bugge Haakon.Bugge@oracle.com rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __rds_rdma_map

Jon Maloy jon.maloy@ericsson.com tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix early exit from error path

Sebastian Sjoholm ssjoholm@mac.com net: qmi_wwan: add Quectel BG96 2c7c:0296

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 25 ++++---- arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h | 17 ++++-- arch/s390/include/asm/switch_to.h | 19 +++--- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 44 +++++++------- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4fw_ri_api.h | 4 +- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 9 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 3 + drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 5 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 3 + drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 31 ++++++++++ drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 4 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 13 +++-- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- include/linux/rculist_nulls.h | 38 ------------ include/linux/usb/usbnet.h | 1 + include/net/sock.h | 6 +- kernel/audit.c | 10 ++-- net/dccp/minisocks.c | 6 ++ net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 6 ++ net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 71 ++++++++--------------- net/netfilter/core.c | 5 ++ net/packet/af_packet.c | 37 +++++------- net/packet/internal.h | 1 - net/rds/rdma.c | 2 +- net/tipc/server.c | 1 + net/tipc/udp_media.c | 4 -- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 2 +- 30 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)