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
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 4.9.78-rc1
Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
zhenwei.pi <zhenwei...@youruncloud.com>
x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
Shuah Khan <sh...@kernel.org>
usbip: fix warning in vhci_hcd_probe/lockdep_init_map
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyng...@arm.com>
arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
Dennis Yang <dennisy...@qnap.com>
dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6
Joe Thornber <thorn...@redhat.com>
dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath()
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.w...@gmail.com>
workqueue: avoid hard lockups in show_workqueue_state()
Xinyu Lin <xinyu0...@gmail.com>
libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices
Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race
Xi Kangjie <imxikang...@gmail.com>
scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py: fix get_thread_info
Stephane Grosjean <s.grosj...@peak-system.com>
can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com>
ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7
Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com>
ARM: sunxi_defconfig: Enable CMA
Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org>
tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()
Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>
Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup
Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>
Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup
Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>
Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup
Nir Perry <nirpe...@gmail.com>
Input: ALPS - fix multi-touch decoding on SS4 plus touchpads
Jiada Wang <jiada_w...@mentor.com>
perf tools: Fix build with ARCH=x86_64
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawre...@redhat.com>
pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit
Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com>
x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon
Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com>
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey
Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC
Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros
David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk>
x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
Xunlei Pang <xlp...@redhat.com>
sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks
Tomas Henzl <the...@redhat.com>
scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state
Sagi Grimberg <s...@grimberg.me>
iser-target: Fix possible use-after-free in connection establishment error
Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs()
Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len()
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base
Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1
Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant
Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON()
Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
ALSA: seq: Make ioctls race-free
Li Jinyue <lijin...@huawei.com>
futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation
Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>
scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.ve...@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(-)
