This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.16 release. There are 44 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 Mar 18 14:29:11 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-4.9.16-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 4.9.16-rc1 Kamal Heib <kamalh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> IB/mlx5: Verify that Q counters are supported Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: don't BUG when truncating encrypted inodes on the orphan list Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> rc: raw decoder for keymap protocol is not loaded on register Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> dm: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock Jintack Lim <jintack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: arm/arm64: Let vcpu thread modify its own active state Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: s390: Fix guest migration for huge guests resulting in panic Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> serial: samsung: Continue to work if DMA request fails Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: io_ti: fix information leak in completion handler Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: io_ti: fix NULL-deref in interrupt callback Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: iowarrior: fix NULL-deref in write Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: iowarrior: fix NULL-deref at probe Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: omninet: fix reference leaks at open Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: safe_serial: fix information leak in completion handler Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: host: xhci-plat: Fix timeout on removal of hot pluggable xhci controllers Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> usb: host: xhci-dbg: HCIVERSION should be a binary number Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> Revert "usb: gadget: uvc: Add missing call for additional setup data" Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: gadget: function: f_fs: pass companion descriptor along Jelle Martijn Kok <jmkok@xxxxxxxxx> usb: ohci-at91: Do not drop unhandled USB suspend control requests Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> usb: dwc3-omap: Fix missing break in dwc3_omap_set_mailbox() Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: gadget: make Set Endpoint Configuration macros safe Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> usb: gadget: dummy_hcd: clear usb_gadget region before registration Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@xxxxxxxxxx> PCI: Prevent VPD access for QLogic ISP2722 Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> powerpc/xics: Work around limitations of OPAL XICS priority handling Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE Qi Hou <qi.hou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: add missing of_node_put in i2c_mux_del_adapters Jonathan McDowell <noodles@xxxxxxxx> dw2102: don't do DMA on stack Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> efi/arm: Fix boot crash with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ucount: Remove the atomicity from ucount->count Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Add #undef to fix compile error Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> cpmac: remove hopeless #warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> bcm63xx_enet: avoid uninitialized variable warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: ralink: Remove unused rt*_wdt_reset functions Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: ralink: Remove unused timer functions John Crispin <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: ralink: Cosmetic change to prom_init(). Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> mtd: pmcmsp: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpy Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: Update lemote2f_defconfig for CPU_FREQ_STAT change Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: ip22: Fix ip28 build for modern gcc Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: Update ip27_defconfig for SCSI_DH change Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: ip27: Disable qlge driver in defconfig Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: VDSO: avoid duplicate CAC_BASE definition Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: Update defconfigs for NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP/UDPLITE change Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> crypto: improve gcc optimization flags for serpent and wp512 Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix OOB-event processing Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix OOB data sanity check ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/configs/ip22_defconfig | 4 +- arch/mips/configs/ip27_defconfig | 3 +- arch/mips/configs/lemote2f_defconfig | 2 +- arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig | 4 +- arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_defconfig | 4 +- arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_guest_defconfig | 4 +- arch/mips/configs/maltaup_xpa_defconfig | 4 +- arch/mips/configs/nlm_xlp_defconfig | 2 +- arch/mips/configs/nlm_xlr_defconfig | 2 +- arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip27/spaces.h | 6 +- arch/mips/ralink/prom.c | 9 +- arch/mips/ralink/rt288x.c | 10 -- arch/mips/ralink/rt305x.c | 11 -- arch/mips/ralink/rt3883.c | 10 -- arch/mips/ralink/timer.c | 14 -- arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform | 2 +- arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c | 20 --- arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-opal.c | 10 ++ arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/xics-common.c | 17 +- arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 19 ++- crypto/Makefile | 2 + drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c | 1 + drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c | 2 + drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 14 +- drivers/md/dm.c | 55 ++++++ drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 7 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c | 244 ++++++++++++++++----------- drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c | 2 +- drivers/pci/quirks.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-omap.c | 1 + drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.h | 14 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 15 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c | 7 - drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c | 2 + drivers/usb/host/ohci-at91.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbg.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c | 2 + drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c | 21 ++- drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c | 14 +- drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c | 6 - drivers/usb/serial/safe_serial.c | 5 + fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 + include/linux/user_namespace.h | 2 +- include/trace/events/syscalls.h | 1 + kernel/ucount.c | 18 +- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c | 32 +++- 51 files changed, 403 insertions(+), 260 deletions(-)