This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.11 release. There are 32 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 18 17:53:00 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-4.9.11-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 4.9.11-rc1 Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5: Don't unlock fte while still using it Pau Espin Pedrol <pespin.shar@xxxxxxxxx> tcp: fix mark propagation with fwmark_reflect enabled Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> igmp, mld: Fix memory leak in igmpv3/mld_del_delrec() Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> mld: do not remove mld souce list info when set link down Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: do not use udp_ioctl() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: Do not destroy invalid network devices WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> ping: fix a null pointer dereference Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: round up linear to header len Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> net: introduce device min_header_len WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> sit: fix a double free on error path David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> lwtunnel: valid encap attr check should return 0 when lwtunnel is disabled Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: avoid BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> catc: Use heap buffer for memory size test Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> catc: Combine failure cleanup code in catc_probe() Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtl8150: Use heap buffers for all register access Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> macvtap: read vnet_hdr_size once Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> tun: read vnet_hdr_sz once Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: avoid infinite loop in tcp_splice_read() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: tcp: add a missing tcp_v6_restore_cb() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ip6_gre: fix ip6gre_err() invalid reads Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> netlabel: out of bound access in cipso_v4_validate() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv4: keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: use a work queue to defer net_disable_timestamp() work Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> stmmac: Discard masked flags in interrupt status register Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: fix 0 divide in __tcp_select_window() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: pointer math error in ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim() Yotam Gigi <yotamg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/sched: matchall: Fix configuration race Gal Pressman <galp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5e: Fix update of hash function/key via ethtool Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> can: Fix kernel panic at security_sock_rcv_skb ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h | 3 +- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 13 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 198 ++++++++++----------- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 6 +- .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c | 4 + drivers/net/loopback.c | 1 + drivers/net/macvtap.c | 4 +- drivers/net/tun.c | 10 +- drivers/net/usb/catc.c | 56 +++--- drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 29 ++- drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c | 34 +++- include/linux/can/core.h | 7 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 + include/net/cipso_ipv4.h | 4 + include/net/lwtunnel.h | 5 +- net/can/af_can.c | 12 +- net/can/af_can.h | 3 +- net/can/bcm.c | 4 +- net/can/gw.c | 2 +- net/can/raw.c | 4 +- net/core/dev.c | 31 ++-- net/dsa/dsa2.c | 1 + net/ethernet/eth.c | 1 + net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 4 + net/ipv4/igmp.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 9 +- net/ipv4/ping.c | 2 + net/ipv4/tcp.c | 6 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 6 +- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 40 +++-- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 34 ++-- net/ipv6/mcast.c | 50 +++--- net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 25 +-- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 1 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 27 ++- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 7 +- net/sched/cls_matchall.c | 127 +++++-------- net/sctp/socket.c | 3 +- 43 files changed, 458 insertions(+), 333 deletions(-)