This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.48 release. There are 18 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 Thu Sep 7 07:09:06 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-4.9.48-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 4.9.48-rc1 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> epoll: fix race between ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) and ep_free()/ep_remove() Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> kvm: arm/arm64: Force reading uncached stage2 PGD Xiangliang.Yu <Xiangliang.Yu@xxxxxxx> drm/ttm: Fix accounting error when fail to get pages for pool Vladis Dronov <vdronov@xxxxxxxxxx> xfrm: policy: check policy direction value Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> lib/mpi: kunmap after finishing accessing buffer Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init() Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> CIFS: remove endian related sparse warning Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Fix maximum SMB2 header size Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> cpuset: Fix incorrect memory_pressure control file mapping Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> cpumask: fix spurious cpumask_of_node() on non-NUMA multi-node configs Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> ceph: fix readpage from fscache Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm, madvise: ensure poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: ismt: Return EMSGSIZE for block reads with bogus length Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: ismt: Don't duplicate the receive length for block reads James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> irqchip: mips-gic: SYNC after enabling GIC region ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h | 2 +- arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h | 12 +++++++++- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 9 ++++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c | 6 +++-- drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c | 5 ++++- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/main.c | 1 + fs/ceph/addr.c | 24 ++++++++++++-------- fs/ceph/cache.c | 12 +++------- fs/cifs/dir.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h | 4 ++-- fs/eventpoll.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------- include/asm-generic/topology.h | 6 ++++- kernel/cpuset.c | 1 + kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 -- kernel/fork.c | 8 +++++++ lib/mpi/mpicoder.c | 4 +++- mm/madvise.c | 7 ++++++ net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 6 +++++ 21 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)