This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.179 release. There are 53 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 25 May 2019 06:15:18 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-4.9.179-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 4.9.179-rc1

Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com btrfs: Honour FITRIM range constraints during free space trim

Nigel Croxon ncroxon@redhat.com md/raid: raid5 preserve the writeback action after the parity check

Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com Revert "Don't jump to compute_result state from check_result state"

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf bench numa: Add define for RUSAGE_THREAD if not present

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk ufs: fix braino in ufs_get_inode_gid() for solaris UFS flavour

Andrey Smirnov andrew.smirnov@gmail.com power: supply: sysfs: prevent endless uevent loop with CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY_DEBUG

Andrew Jones drjones@redhat.com KVM: arm/arm64: Ensure vcpu target is unset on reset failure

Bhagavathi Perumal S bperumal@codeaurora.org mac80211: Fix kernel panic due to use of txq after free

Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com xfrm4: Fix uninitialized memory read in _decode_session4

Jeremy Sowden jeremy@azazel.net vti4: ipip tunnel deregistration fixes.

Su Yanjun suyj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com xfrm6_tunnel: Fix potential panic when unloading xfrm6_tunnel module

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com xfrm: policy: Fix out-of-bound array accesses in __xfrm_policy_unlink

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm delay: fix a crash when invalid device is specified

Stefan Mätje stefan.maetje@esd.eu PCI: Work around Pericom PCIe-to-PCI bridge Retrain Link erratum

Stefan Mätje stefan.maetje@esd.eu PCI: Factor out pcie_retrain_link() function

James Prestwood james.prestwood@linux.intel.com PCI: Mark Atheros AR9462 to avoid bus reset

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: fix crashes and garbled display during DPMS modesetting

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: use 1024x768 by default on non-MIPS, fix garbled display

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: fix support for 1024x768-16 mode

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: fix crashes during framebuffer writes by correctly mapping VRAM

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: fix boot screen glitch when sm712fb replaces VGA

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: fix white screen of death on reboot, don't set CR3B-CR3F

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: fix VRAM detection, don't set SR70/71/74/75

Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me fbdev: sm712fb: fix brightness control on reboot, don't set SR30

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com objtool: Allow AR to be overridden with HOSTAR

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix sample timestamp wrt non-taken branches

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix improved sample timestamp

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix instructions sampling rate

Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com memory: tegra: Fix integer overflow on tick value calculation

Elazar Leibovich elazar@lightbitslabs.com tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file

Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org ceph: flush dirty inodes before proceeding with remount

Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com iommu/tegra-smmu: Fix invalid ASID bits on Tegra30/114

Liu Bo bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com fuse: honor RLIMIT_FSIZE in fuse_file_fallocate

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: fix writepages on 32bit

Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com clk: tegra: Fix PLLM programming on Tegra124+ when PMC overrides divider

ZhangXiaoxu zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com NFS4: Fix v4.0 client state corruption when mount

Janusz Krzysztofik jmkrzyszt@gmail.com media: ov6650: Fix sensor possibly not detected on probe

Christoph Probst kernel@probst.it cifs: fix strcat buffer overflow and reduce raciness in smb21_set_oplock_level()

Phong Tran tranmanphong@gmail.com of: fix clang -Wunsequenced for be32_to_cpu()

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com p54: drop device reference count if fails to enable device

Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com intel_th: msu: Fix single mode with IOMMU

Yufen Yu yuyufen@huawei.com md: add mddev->pers to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

Tingwei Zhang tingwei@codeaurora.org stm class: Fix channel free in stm output free path

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Rename LEVEL to PA_ASM_LEVEL to avoid name clash with DRBD code

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Skip registering LED when running in QEMU

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Export running_on_qemu symbol for modules

Jorge E. Moreira jemoreira@google.com vsock/virtio: Initialize core virtio vsock before registering the driver

Junwei Hu hujunwei4@huawei.com tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration

Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vsock/virtio: free packets during the socket release

Junwei Hu hujunwei4@huawei.com tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com ppp: deflate: Fix possible crash in deflate_init

Yunjian Wang wangyunjian@huawei.com net/mlx4_core: Change the error print to info print

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: avoid weird emergency message

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 11 +- arch/parisc/include/asm/assembly.h | 6 +- arch/parisc/kernel/head.S | 4 +- arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S | 2 +- drivers/clk/tegra/clk-pll.c | 4 +- drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c | 35 ++- drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 2 +- drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c | 25 ++- drivers/md/dm-delay.c | 3 +- drivers/md/md.c | 6 +- drivers/md/raid5.c | 29 ++- drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/ov6650.c | 2 + drivers/memory/tegra/mc.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mcg.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_deflate.c | 20 +- drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/p54pci.c | 3 +- drivers/parisc/led.c | 3 + drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c | 49 +++-- drivers/pci/quirks.c | 18 ++ drivers/power/supply/power_supply_sysfs.c | 6 - drivers/video/fbdev/sm712.h | 12 +- drivers/video/fbdev/sm712fb.c | 242 +++++++++++++++++---- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 25 ++- fs/ceph/super.c | 7 + fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 14 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 9 +- fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 4 + fs/ufs/util.h | 2 +- include/linux/of.h | 4 +- include/linux/pci.h | 2 + kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 - net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_vti.c | 5 +- net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c | 24 +- net/ipv6/xfrm6_tunnel.c | 4 + net/mac80211/iface.c | 3 + net/tipc/core.c | 14 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 13 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 7 + net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +- tools/objtool/Makefile | 3 +- tools/perf/bench/numa.c | 4 + .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 31 ++- 45 files changed, 499 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)