This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.23 release. There are 31 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 Tue Apr 18 08:02:08 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-4.9.23-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 4.9.23-rc1 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_core: Fix when to save some qp context flags for dynamic VST to VGT transitions Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_core: Fix racy CQ (Completion Queue) free Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_en: Fix bad WQE issue Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: hub: Wait for connection to be reestablished after port reset Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> blk-mq: Avoid memory reclaim when remapping queues Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "drm/i915/execlists: Reset RING registers upon resume" Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> crypto: caam - fix invalid dereference in caam_rsa_init_tfm() Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> crypto: caam - fix RNG deinstantiation error checking Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: IRQ Stack: Fix erroneous jal to plat_irq_dispatch Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Switch to the irq_stack in interrupts Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Only change $28 to thread_info if coming from user mode Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Stack unwinding while on IRQ stack Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Introduce irq_stack Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> mtd: bcm47xxpart: fix parsing first block after aligned TRX Vishal Thanki <vishalthanki@xxxxxxxxx> rt2x00: Fix incorrect usage of CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_USB Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> rt2x00usb: do not anchor rx and tx urb's Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> rt2x00usb: fix anchor initialization Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: bcm2835: Fix hang for writing messages larger than 16 bytes Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> orangefs: fix buffer size mis-match between kernel space and user space. Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> orangefs: Dan Carpenter influenced cleanups... Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> orangefs: fix memory leak of string 'new' on exit path Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Avoid rcu_barrier() from reclaim paths (shrinker) Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Stop using RP_DOWN_EI on Baytrail Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Drop support for I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_* execbuf parameters. Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Only enable hotplug interrupts if the display interrupts are enabled Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Avoid tweaking evaluation thresholds on Baytrail v3 Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Nuke debug messages from the pipe update critical section Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx> drm/i915/gen9: Increase PCODE request timeout to 50ms ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 + arch/mips/include/asm/irq.h | 12 ++++ arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 7 ++ arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 81 +++++++++++++++++++-- arch/mips/kernel/irq.c | 11 +++ arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 15 +++- block/blk-mq.c | 6 +- drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 3 +- drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 - drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 52 +------------- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c | 83 ++++++++++------------ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 12 +--- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c | 14 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 50 +++++-------- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 23 ++++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c | 22 +++--- drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c | 10 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c | 38 +++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 8 ++- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 5 +- drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c | 17 +++-- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 11 ++- fs/orangefs/devorangefs-req.c | 5 +- fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c | 19 ++--- fs/orangefs/orangefs-dev-proto.h | 3 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +- 34 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 233 deletions(-)