This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.73 release. There are 21 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 Fri Dec 29 16:45:43 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-4.9.73-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 4.9.73-rc1 Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@xxxxxxxxxxx> net: mvneta: eliminate wrong call to handle rx descriptor error Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@xxxxxxxxxxx> net: mvneta: use proper rxq_number in loop on rx queues Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@xxxxxxxxxxx> net: mvneta: clear interface link status on port disable Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> libnvdimm, pfn: fix start_pad handling for aligned namespaces Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/perf: Dereference BHRB entries safely Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx> clk: sunxi: sun9i-mmc: Implement reset callback for reset controls Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> kvm: x86: fix RSM when PCID is non-zero Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: X86: Fix load RFLAGS w/o the fixed bit Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: cherryview: Mask all interrupts on Intel_Strago based systems Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> spi: xilinx: Detect stall with Unknown commands Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc: Hide Diva-built-in serial aux and graphics card Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> PCI / PM: Force devices to D0 in pci_pm_thaw_noirq() Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Fix the missing ctl name suffix at parsing SU Jussi Laako <jussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Add native DSD support for Esoteric D-05X Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: rawmidi: Avoid racy info ioctl via ctl device Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> mfd: twl6040: Fix child-node lookup Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> mfd: twl4030-audio: Fix sibling-node lookup Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> mfd: cros ec: spi: Don't send first message too soon Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: mcryptd - protect the per-CPU queue with a lock Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> acpi, nfit: fix health event notification Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ACPI: APEI / ERST: Fix missing error handling in erst_reader() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 8 ++++++-- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- crypto/mcryptd.c | 23 +++++++++------------ drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 9 +++++++- drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sun9i-mmc.c | 12 +++++++++++ drivers/mfd/cros_ec_spi.c | 1 + drivers/mfd/twl4030-audio.c | 9 ++++++-- drivers/mfd/twl6040.c | 12 +++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c | 5 +++-- drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 7 ++++++- drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-cherryview.c | 16 +++++++++++++++ drivers/spi/spi-xilinx.c | 11 ++++++++++ include/crypto/mcryptd.h | 1 + sound/core/rawmidi.c | 15 +++++++++++--- sound/usb/mixer.c | 27 ++++++++++++++---------- sound/usb/quirks.c | 7 ++++--- 21 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)