This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.38 release. There are 25 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 Jul 15 15:39:46 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-4.9.38-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 4.9.38-rc1 Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> saa7134: fix warm Medion 7134 EEPROM read Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/mm/pat: Don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: check return value of kstrtoull correctly in reserved_clusters_store Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - use constant time memory comparison for MACs Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> crypto: caam - fix gfp allocation flags (part I) Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init() Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> staging: vt6556: vnt_start Fix missing call to vnt_key_init_table. Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> locking/rwsem-spinlock: Fix EINTR branch in __down_write_common() Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx> md: fix super_offset endianness in super_1_rdev_size_change Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx> md: fix incorrect use of lexx_to_cpu in does_sb_need_changing Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> perf probe: Add error checks to offline probe post-processing Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> perf probe: Fix to probe on gcc generated symbols for offline kernel Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx> perf scripting perl: Fix compile error with some perl5 versions Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf header: Fix handling of PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__SCALE Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf bench numa: Avoid possible truncation when using snprintf() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf tests: Avoid possible truncation with dirent->d_name + snprintf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf intel-pt: Use __fallthrough Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf thread_map: Correctly size buffer used with dirent->dt_name Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf top: Use __fallthrough Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> tools strfilter: Use __fallthrough Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> tools string: Use __fallthrough in perf_atoll() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> tools include: Add a __fallthrough statement Josh Zimmerman <joshz@xxxxxxxxxx> tpm: Issue a TPM2_Shutdown for TPM2 devices. Josh Zimmerman <joshz@xxxxxxxxxx> Add "shutdown" to "struct class". Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 +++ arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 28 ++++------ crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c | 2 +- drivers/base/core.c | 6 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 36 ++++++++++++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c | 5 ++ drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c | 3 +- drivers/md/md.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-i2c.c | 31 +++++++++++ drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 1 + drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 3 + fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 2 +- include/linux/device.h | 2 + ipc/mqueue.c | 4 +- kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 4 +- tools/include/linux/compiler.h | 9 +++ tools/perf/bench/numa.c | 6 +- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +- tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 8 +-- tools/perf/util/header.c | 1 + .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 5 ++ .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.c | 2 + tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++- tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/Build | 2 +- tools/perf/util/strfilter.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/string.c | 2 + tools/perf/util/thread_map.c | 2 +- 29 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)