This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.108 release. There are 31 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 Jun 14 16:46:09 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.108-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 4.9.108-rc1 Philip Müller <philm@xxxxxxxxxxx> complete e390f9a port for v4.9.106 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> objtool: Fix gcov check for older versions of GCC Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> dm bufio: avoid false-positive Wmaybe-uninitialized warning Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: VMX: Expose SSBD properly to guests, 4.9 supplement Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: metrics: add proper netlink validation Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: phy: broadcom: Fix bcm_write_exp() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink() Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4: Fix irq-unsafe spinlock usage Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@xxxxxxxxx> vrf: check the original netdevice for generating redirect Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> vhost: synchronize IOTLB message with dev cleanup Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> team: use netdev_features_t instead of u32 Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: not allow transport timeout value less than HZ/5 for hb_timer Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@xxxxxxxxxx> qed: Fix mask for physical address in ILT entry Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: fix reserve calculation Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@xxxxxxxxx> net: usb: cdc_mbim: add flag FLAG_SEND_ZLP Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net/packet: refine check for priv area size Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kcm: Fix use-after-free caused by clonned sockets Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx> isdn: eicon: fix a missing-check bug Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv4: remove warning in ip_recv_error Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@xxxxxxxxx> enic: set DMA mask to 47 bit Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> dccp: don't free ccid2_hc_tx_sock struct in dccp_disconnect() Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> bnx2x: use the right constant Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> drm: set FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET for drm files Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1 Anand Jain <Anand.Jain@xxxxxxxxxx> btrfs: define SUPER_FLAG_METADUMP_V2 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mmap: relax file size limit for regular files Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tpm: self test failure should not cause suspend to fail Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tpm: do not suspend/resume if power stays on ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt | 9 +++++++ Makefile | 4 +-- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 -- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 2 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 13 ++++++++++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 7 ++++++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c | 1 + drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.c | 22 ++++++++++------ drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.h | 5 ++-- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasmain.c | 18 +++++++------ drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 17 ++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 8 +++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/qp.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_cxt.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/bcm-cygnus.c | 6 ++--- drivers/net/phy/bcm-phy-lib.h | 7 ++++++ drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/team/team.c | 3 ++- drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c | 2 +- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 +++ fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 ++- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h | 1 + mm/mmap.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 +++--- net/dccp/proto.c | 2 -- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 ++ net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 -- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 ++- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 3 ++- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 6 +++++ net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +-- net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +- scripts/Makefile.build | 3 +++ scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 +- 38 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)