This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.18 release. There are 24 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 Sun Mar 26 15:12:08 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-4.9.18-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 4.9.18-rc1 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix fencepost in s_first_meta_bg validation Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> drm/amdgpu/si: add dpm quirk for Oland Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> cgroup/pids: remove spurious suspicious RCU usage warning Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx> percpu: acquire pcpu_lock when updating pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> gfs2: Avoid alignment hole in struct lm_lockname Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> isdn/gigaset: fix NULL-deref at probe Max Lohrmann <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Fix VERIFY_16 handling in sbc_parse_cdb Chris Leech <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libiscsi: add lock around task lists to fix list corruption regression Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> scsi: lpfc: Add shutdown method for kexec Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target/pscsi: Fix TYPE_TAPE + TYPE_MEDIMUM_CHANGER export Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> md/raid1/10: fix potential deadlock Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> cpufreq: Fix and clean up show_cpuinfo_cur_freq() Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> NFS prevent double free in async nfs4_exchange_id Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> xprtrdma: Squelch kbuild sparse complaint Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf/core: Fix use-after-free in perf_release() Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc: Fix system shutdown halt John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> parisc: Optimize flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx> qla2xxx: Fix request queue corruption. Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx> qla2xxx: Fix memory leak for abts processing Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> give up on gcc ilog2() constant optimizations Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/vc4: Use runtime autosuspend to avoid thrashing V3D power state. Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/vc4: Fix termination of the initial scan for branch targets. ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 23 ++------------- arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 22 ++++++++++++++ arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 2 ++ arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S | 1 + drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 8 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/si_dpm.c | 6 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c | 9 ++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_gem.c | 6 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_v3d.c | 2 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c | 19 +++++------- drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c | 3 ++ drivers/md/raid10.c | 18 ++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c | 14 +++++++-- drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c | 47 ++++++++---------------------- drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c | 10 +++++-- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/incore.h | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 9 +++--- include/linux/log2.h | 13 ++------- include/scsi/libiscsi.h | 1 + kernel/cgroup_pids.c | 2 +- kernel/events/core.c | 16 ++++++++-- mm/percpu.c | 5 +++- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c | 3 +- tools/include/linux/log2.h | 13 ++------- 28 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)