This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.153 release. There are 39 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 Sat Jan 26 19:04:38 UTC 2019. 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-4.9.153-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 4.9.153-rc1 Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> locking/qspinlock: Pull in asm/byteorder.h to ensure correct endianness Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> ipmi:ssif: Fix handling of multi-part return messages Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/page-writeback.c: don't break integrity writeback on ->writepage() error Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: fix panic due to unrecovered local alloc Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> scsi: megaraid: fix out-of-bound array accesses Kevin Barnett <kevin.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: smartpqi: correct lun reset issues Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> sysfs: Disable lockdep for driver bind/unbind files Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: bebob: fix model-id of unit for Apogee Ensemble Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@xxxxxxxxxxx> dm snapshot: Fix excessive memory usage and workqueue stalls Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> tools lib subcmd: Don't add the kernel sources to the include path Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@xxxxxxxxxxx> dm kcopyd: Fix bug causing workqueue stalls Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf parse-events: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf svghelper: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy() Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> perf intel-pt: Fix error with config term "pt=0" Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> tty/serial: do not free trasnmit buffer page under port lock Jonas Danielsson <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mmc: atmel-mci: do not assume idle after atmci_request_end Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kconfig: fix file name and line number of warn_ignored_character() Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> clk: imx6q: reset exclusive gates on init David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> scsi: target: use consistent left-aligned ASCII INQUIRY data yupeng <yupeng0921@xxxxxxxxx> net: call sk_dst_reset when set SO_DONTROUTE Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> media: firewire: Fix app_info parameter type in avc_ca{,_app}_info Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Fix preempt warning Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/xmon: Fix invocation inside lock region Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@xxxxxxxxx> jffs2: Fix use of uninitialized delayed_work, lockdep breakage Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> rxe: IB_WR_REG_MR does not capture MR's iova field Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> selinux: always allow mounting submounts Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> arm64: perf: set suppress_bind_attrs flag to true Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: SiByte: Enable swiotlb for SWARM, LittleSur and BigSur Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: oxfw: add support for APOGEE duet FireWire Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> serial: set suppress_bind_attrs flag only if builtin Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> e1000e: allow non-monotonic SYSTIM readings João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@xxxxxxxxx> platform/x86: asus-wmi: Tell the EC the OS will handle the display off hotkey David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: Take rcu_read_lock in __inet6_bind for mapped addresses David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to a v4 mapped address Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> r8169: Add support for new Realtek Ethernet ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 +++- Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 + arch/mips/Kconfig | 3 +++ arch/mips/sibyte/common/Makefile | 1 + arch/mips/sibyte/common/dma.c | 14 ++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 18 +++++++++++---- drivers/base/bus.c | 7 ++++-- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 25 ++++++++++++++------- drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx6q.c | 6 ++++- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 8 ++++++- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c | 1 + drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 19 +++++++++++----- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c | 6 +++-- drivers/media/firewire/firedtv.h | 6 +++-- drivers/mmc/host/atmel-mci.c | 3 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c | 13 ++++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 2 ++ drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 3 ++- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fp.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 3 +++ drivers/target/target_core_spc.c | 17 +++++++++----- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 2 ++ drivers/tty/serial/pic32_uart.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 22 +++++++++++++----- drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c | 1 + fs/jffs2/super.c | 3 ++- fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c | 9 ++++++-- fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 5 +++++ include/asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h | 2 ++ include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 8 +++++++ mm/page-writeback.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++------------ net/core/sock.c | 1 + net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 14 +++++++++++- scripts/kconfig/zconf.l | 4 +++- security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/Kconfig | 1 + sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c | 8 +++++++ tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile | 2 -- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 11 +++++++++ tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/svghelper.c | 2 +- 45 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)