This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.47 release. There are 12 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 Sep 2 15:42:31 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-4.9.47-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 4.9.47-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> lz4: fix bogus gcc warning Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> scsi: sg: reset 'res_in_use' after unlinking reserved array Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> scsi: sg: protect accesses to 'reserved' page array Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> locking/spinlock/debug: Remove spinlock lockup detection code Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> x86/io: Add "memory" clobber to insb/insw/insl/outsb/outsw/outsl Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> kvm: arm/arm64: Fix race in resetting stage2 PGD Martin Liska <mliska@xxxxxxx> gcov: support GCC 7.1 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> staging: wilc1000: simplify vif[i]->ndev accesses Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> scsi: isci: avoid array subscript warning Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> p54: memset(0) whole array ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 16 +++--- arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 2 + arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 5 +- arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/fwio.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/isci/remote_node_context.c | 3 ++ drivers/scsi/sg.c | 49 ++++++++++-------- drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 34 ++++--------- kernel/gcov/base.c | 6 +++ kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c | 4 +- kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c | 86 ++------------------------------ lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c | 2 +- 13 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)