This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.50 release. There are 14 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 14 16:52:45 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-4.9.50-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 4.9.50-rc1 tarangg@xxxxxxxxxx <tarangg@xxxxxxxxxx> NFS: Sync the correct byte range during synchronous writes Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NFS: Fix 2 use after free issues in the I/O code Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> ARM: 8692/1: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> ARM64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: Fix GIC maintenance interrupt Ben Seri <ben@xxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: Properly check L2CAP config option output buffer length Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm/memory.c: fix mem_cgroup_oom_disable() call missing Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3 Aleksa Sarai <asarai@xxxxxxx> btrfs: resume qgroup rescan on rw remount Daniel Verkamp <daniel.verkamp@xxxxxxxxx> nvme-fabrics: generate spec-compliant UUID NQNs Abhishek Sahu <absahu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: nand: qcom: fix config error for BCH Abhishek Sahu <absahu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: nand: qcom: fix read failure without complete bootchain Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: nand: mxc: Fix mxc_v1 ooblayout ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 5 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi | 1 + drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c | 7 +-- drivers/mtd/nand/qcom_nandc.c | 18 +++++-- drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/super.c | 2 + fs/nfs/file.c | 6 +-- fs/nfs/internal.h | 1 - fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 26 +++++---- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 2 - kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 6 +++ mm/memory.c | 10 ++-- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 80 +++++++++++++++------------- sound/isa/msnd/msnd_midi.c | 30 +++++------ sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c | 23 ++++---- tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c | 41 +++++++++++--- 17 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)