This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.143 release. There are 50 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 Dec 6 10:36:59 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-4.9.143-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 4.9.143-rc1 Chris Fries <cfries@xxxxxxxxxx> kbuild: Set KBUILD_CFLAGS before incl. arch Makefile Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> efi/libstub: Make file I/O chunking x86-specific Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> workqueue: avoid clang warning Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> ARM: trusted_foundations: do not use naked function Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> bus: arm-cci: remove unnecessary unreachable() Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> ARM: 8767/1: add support for building ARM kernel with clang Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> ARM: 8766/1: drop no-thumb-interwork in EABI mode Alistair Strachan <astrachan@xxxxxxxxxx> efi/libstub: arm: support building with clang YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> misc: mic/scif: fix copy-paste error in scif_create_remote_lookup Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Drivers: hv: vmbus: check the creation_status in vmbus_establish_gpadl() Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: use swp_offset as key in shmem_replace_page() Martin Kelly <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> iio:st_magn: Fix enable device after trigger Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "usb: dwc3: gadget: skip Set/Clear Halt when invalid" Michael Niewöhner <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: core: quirks: add RESET_RESUME quirk for Cherry G230 Stream series Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: usb-storage: Add new IDs to ums-realtek Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> btrfs: release metadata before running delayed refs Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix module unloading Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix memory leak in at_dma_xlate() Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> ext2: fix potential use after free Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: sparc: Fix invalid snd_free_pages() at error path Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: control: Fix race between adding and removing a user element Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: ac97: Fix incorrect bit shift at AC97-SPSA control write Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: wss: Fix invalid snd_free_pages() at error path Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@xxxxxxxxx> fs: fix lost error code in dio_complete Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86/intel: Add generic branch tracing check to intel_pmu_has_bts() Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86/intel: Move branch tracing setup to the Intel-specific source file Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Btrfs: ensure path name is null terminated at btrfs_control_ioctl Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> xtensa: fix coprocessor context offset definitions Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> xtensa: enable coprocessors that are being flushed Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: X86: Fix scan ioapic use-before-initialization Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> kvm: svm: Ensure an IBPB on all affected CPUs when freeing a vmcb Junaid Shahid <junaids@xxxxxxxxxx> kvm: mmu: Fix race in emulated page table writes Bernd Eckstein <3erndeckstein@xxxxxxxxx> usbnet: ipheth: fix potential recvmsg bug and recvmsg bug 2 Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> s390/qeth: fix length check in SNMP processing Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> rapidio/rionet: do not free skb before reading its length Petr Machata <petrm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: skb_scrub_packet(): Scrub offload_fwd_mark Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> Revert "wlcore: Add missing PM call for wlcore_cmd_wait_for_event_or_timeout()" Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@xxxxxxxxxx> media: em28xx: Fix use-after-free when disconnecting Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() do not crash on Compound Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() without freezing new_page Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/khugepaged: minor reorderings in collapse_shmem() Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() remember to clear holes Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/khugepaged: fix crashes due to misaccounted holes Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> shmem: introduce shmem_inode_acct_block Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> shmem: shmem_charge: verify max_block is not exceeded before inode update Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() stop if punched or truncated Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/huge_memory: fix lockdep complaint on 32-bit i_size_read() Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/huge_memory: splitting set mapping+index before unfreeze Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm/huge_memory.c: reorder operations in __split_huge_page_tail() Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/huge_memory: rename freeze_page() to unmap_page() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 69 ++++++------- arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/firmware/trusted_foundations.c | 14 ++- arch/x86/events/core.c | 20 ---- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 52 +++++++--- arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 13 ++- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 27 ++---- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 20 +++- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 16 +-- arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 5 +- drivers/bus/arm-cci.c | 2 - drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 10 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 11 ++- drivers/hv/channel.c | 8 ++ drivers/iio/magnetometer/st_magn_buffer.c | 12 +-- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c | 2 +- drivers/net/rionet.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c | 10 +- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/cmd.c | 6 -- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 27 +++--- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 + drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 5 - drivers/usb/storage/unusual_realtek.h | 10 ++ fs/btrfs/super.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 6 +- fs/direct-io.c | 4 +- fs/ext2/xattr.c | 2 +- include/linux/workqueue.h | 4 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 79 +++++++-------- mm/khugepaged.c | 129 ++++++++++++++----------- mm/shmem.c | 97 ++++++++++--------- net/core/skbuff.c | 4 + sound/core/control.c | 80 ++++++++------- sound/isa/wss/wss_lib.c | 2 - sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c | 2 +- sound/sparc/cs4231.c | 8 +- 40 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 351 deletions(-)