This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.8 release. There are 51 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 Feb 4 18:33:31 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-4.9.8-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.9.8-rc1 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs: fix bmv_count confusion w/ shared extents Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs: clear _XBF_PAGES from buffers when readahead page Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> xfs: extsize hints are not unlikely in xfs_bmap_btalloc Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs: remove racy hasattr check from attr ops Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs: verify dirblocklog correctly Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> xfs: fix COW writeback race Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> xfs: fix xfs_mode_to_ftype() prototype Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs: don't wrap ID in xfs_dq_get_next_id Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: sanity check inode di_mode Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: sanity check inode mode when creating new dentry Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: replace xfs_mode_to_ftype table with switch statement Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: add missing include dependencies to xfs_dir2.h Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: sanity check directory inode di_size Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: make the ASSERT() condition likely Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> xfs: don't print warnings when xfs_log_force fails Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> xfs: don't rely on ->total in xfs_alloc_space_available Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> xfs: adjust allocation length in xfs_alloc_space_available Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> xfs: fix bogus minleft manipulations Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> xfs: bump up reserved blocks in xfs_alloc_set_aside Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: Bring back device detaching in dsa_slave_suspend() Robert Shearman <rshearma@xxxxxxxxxxx> lwtunnel: Fix oops on state free after encap module unload Robert Shearman <rshearma@xxxxxxxxxxx> net: Specify the owning module for lwtunnel ops Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> qmi_wwan/cdc_ether: add device ID for HP lt2523 (Novatel E371) WWAN card WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> af_unix: move unix_mknod() out of bindlock hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> r8152: don't execute runtime suspend if the tx is not empty David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: mpls: Fix multipath selection for LSR use case Ivan Vecera <cera@xxxxxxx> bridge: netlink: call br_changelink() during br_dev_newlink() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5e: Do not recycle pages from emergency reserve Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: initialize max window for a new fastopen socket Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: addrconf: Avoid addrconf_disable_change() using RCU read-side lock David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> lwtunnel: fix autoload of lwt modules Daniel Gonzalez Cabanelas <dgcbueu@xxxxxxxxx> net: phy: bcm63xx: Utilize correct config_intr function Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: fix harmonize_features() vs NETIF_F_HIGHDMA Lance Richardson <lrichard@xxxxxxxxxx> vxlan: fix byte order of vxlan-gpe port number Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio-net: restore VIRTIO_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on receiving Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio: don't set VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID on xmit Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net sched actions: fix refcnt when GETing of action after bind Basil Gunn <basil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ax25: Fix segfault after sock connection timeout Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@xxxxxxxxxx> ip6_tunnel: Account for tunnel header in tunnel MTU Masaru Nagai <masaru.nagai.vx@xxxxxxxxxxx> ravb: do not use zero-length alignment DMA descriptor Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> mlx4: do not call napi_schedule() without care Lance Richardson <lrichard@xxxxxxxxxx> openvswitch: maintain correct checksum state in conntrack actions Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: fix tcp_fastopen unaligned access complaints on sparc Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: systemport: Decouple flow control from __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: ipv4: fix table id in getroute response David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: lwtunnel: Handle lwtunnel_fill_encap failure Elad Raz <eladr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mlxsw: pci: Fix EQE structure definition Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mlxsw: switchx2: Fix memory leak at skb reallocation Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mlxsw: spectrum: Fix memory leak at skb reallocation stephen hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> netvsc: add rcu_read locking to netvsc callback hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> r8152: fix the sw rx checksum is unavailable ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 25 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/pci.h | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/switchx2.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 13 +++ drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 + drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/bcm63xx.c | 21 ++++- drivers/net/tun.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c | 8 ++ drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 7 ++ drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 11 ++- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c | 115 ++++++------------------ fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.h | 2 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 6 -- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 51 +++++++---- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.h | 6 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap_btree.c | 3 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.c | 39 ++++---- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_dir2.h | 8 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c | 10 ++- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_sb.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 28 +++--- fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 1 + fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c | 4 + fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 50 ++++++++--- fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 12 +-- include/linux/tcp.h | 7 +- include/linux/virtio_net.h | 6 +- include/net/lwtunnel.h | 18 +++- net/ax25/ax25_subr.c | 2 +- net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 33 ++++--- net/core/dev.c | 4 +- net/core/lwtunnel.c | 74 +++++++++++++-- net/dsa/slave.c | 2 + net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 8 ++ net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 11 ++- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 2 + net/ipv4/route.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 15 +++- net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 48 +++++----- net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c | 1 + net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 6 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +- net/sched/act_api.c | 5 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 27 +++--- 57 files changed, 474 insertions(+), 274 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html