This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.43 release. There are 16 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 Aug 13 22:01:23 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-4.9.43-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 4.9.43-rc1 Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@xxxxxxx> KVM: arm/arm64: Handle hva aging while destroying the vm Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx> sparc64: Prevent perf from running during super critical sections Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> udp: consistently apply ufo or fragmentation Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> revert "ipv4: Should use consistent conditional judgement for ip fragment in __ip_append_data and ip_finish_output" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> revert "net: account for current skb length when deciding about UFO" Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: fix tp_reserve race in packet_set_ring Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> igmp: Fix regression caused by igmp sysctl namespace code. Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> net: avoid skb_warn_bad_offload false positives on UFO Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: fastopen: tcp_connect() must refresh the route Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> net: sched: set xt_tgchk_param par.nft_compat as 0 in ipt_init_target Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_en: don't set CHECKSUM_COMPLETE on SCTP packets Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf, s390: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: fix keepalive code vs TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: avoid setting cwnd to invalid ssthresh after cwnd reduction states Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ppp: fix xmit recursion detection on ppp channels Gao Feng <gfree.wind@xxxxxxxxxxx> ppp: Fix false xmit recursion detect with two ppp devices ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 4 +++ arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 3 +- arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_context_64.h | 14 ++++++---- arch/sparc/kernel/tsb.S | 12 ++++++++ arch/sparc/power/hibernate.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 29 ++++++++++++-------- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 7 +++++ net/ipv4/igmp.c | 6 ---- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 8 ++++-- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 4 +-- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 3 ++ net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 7 +++-- net/ipv6/udp_offload.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 13 ++++++--- net/sched/act_ipt.c | 2 +- 21 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)