This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.155 release. There are 30 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 Wed Feb 6 10:35:37 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-4.9.155-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 4.9.155-rc1 Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> fanotify: fix handling of events on child sub-directory Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> fs: don't scan the inode cache before SB_BORN is set Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier Paulo Alcantara <paulo@xxxxxxxx> cifs: Always resolve hostname before reconnecting David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: migrate: don't rely on __PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: hwpoison: use do_send_sig_info() instead of force_sig() Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> mm, oom: fix use-after-free in oom_kill_process Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> kernel/exit.c: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> mmc: sdhci-iproc: handle mmc_of_parse() errors during probe João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@xxxxxxxxx> platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Drop mapping of 0x33 and 0x34 scan codes João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@xxxxxxxxx> platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Map 0x35 to KEY_SCREENLOCK Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> gfs2: Revert "Fix loop in gfs2_rbm_find" James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> arm64: hibernate: Clean the __hyp_text to PoC after resume James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> arm64: hyp-stub: Forbid kprobing of the hyp-stub Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> arm64: kaslr: ensure randomized quantities are clean also when kaslr is off Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: cns3xxx: Fix writing to wrong PCI config registers after alignment Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> fs/dcache: Fix incorrect nr_dentry_unused accounting in shrink_dcache_sb() Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Do not count -ENODATA as failure for query directory Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipvlan, l3mdev: fix broken l3s mode wrt local routes Jacob Wen <jian.w.wen@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: fix reading optional fields of L2TPv3 Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: remove l2specific_len dependency in l2tp_core Aya Levin <ayal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5e: Allow MAC invalidation while spoofchk is ON Mathias Thore <mathias.thore@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ucc_geth: Reset BQL queue when stopping device Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@xxxxxxx> net/rose: fix NULL ax25_cb kernel panic Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> netrom: switch to sock timer API Aya Levin <ayal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_core: Add masking for a few queries on HCA caps Jacob Wen <jian.w.wen@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: copy 4 more bytes to linear part if necessary David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to an address Jimmy Durand Wesolowski <jdw@xxxxxxxxx> fs: add the fsnotify call to vfs_iter_write Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix "net: ipv4: do not handle duplicate fragments as overlapping" ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/pcie.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 2 + arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c | 1 + drivers/base/core.c | 2 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-iproc.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 75 ++++++++++++++--------- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c | 19 ++---- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 6 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 3 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++ fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 4 +- fs/dcache.c | 6 +- fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 2 +- fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 8 ++- fs/read_write.c | 4 +- fs/super.c | 30 +++++++-- include/linux/kobject.h | 17 +++++ include/linux/netdevice.h | 8 +++ include/net/l3mdev.h | 3 +- kernel/exit.c | 12 +++- mm/memory-failure.c | 3 +- mm/migrate.c | 7 ++- mm/oom_kill.c | 8 +++ net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 3 + net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 43 ++++++------- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 31 ++++++++++ net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 3 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 3 + net/netrom/nr_timer.c | 20 +++--- net/rose/rose_route.c | 5 ++ 34 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)