This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.157 release. There are 24 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 Feb 15 18:36:26 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-4.9.157-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 4.9.157-rc1 Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: Force mac header to start of data on xmit Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: Avoid WARN on net_device without parent in netns Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> xfrm: refine validation of template and selector families Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> libceph: avoid KEEPALIVE_PENDING races in ceph_con_keepalive() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "cifs: In Kconfig CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX needs depends on legacy (insecure cifs)" Vladis Dronov <vdronov@xxxxxxxxxx> HID: debug: fix the ring buffer implementation J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd4: catch some false session retries J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd4: fix cached replies to solo SEQUENCE compounds Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/vmwgfx: Return error code from vmw_execbuf_copy_fence_user Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/vmwgfx: Fix setting of dma masks Tina Zhang <tina.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> drm/modes: Prevent division by zero htotal Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> mac80211: ensure that mgmt tx skbs have tailroom for encryption Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@xxxxxxx> ARM: tango: Improve ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM compatibility Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: iop32x/n2100: fix PCI IRQ mapping Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: VDSO: Include $(ccflags-vdso) in o32,n32 .lds builds Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> MIPS: OCTEON: don't set octeon_dma_bar_type if PCI is disabled Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mips: cm: reprime error cause Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> debugfs: fix debugfs_rename parameter checking Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> misc: vexpress: Off by one in vexpress_syscfg_exec() Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> signal: Better detection of synchronous signals Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> signal: Always notice exiting tasks Matt Ranostay <matt.ranostay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> iio: chemical: atlas-ph-sensor: correct IIO_TEMP values to millicelsius Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: rawnand: gpmi: fix MX28 bus master lockup problem ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-iop32x/n2100.c | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-tango/pm.c | 6 +- arch/arm/mach-tango/pm.h | 7 ++ arch/arm/mach-tango/setup.c | 2 + arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c | 2 +- arch/mips/pci/pci-octeon.c | 10 +-- arch/mips/vdso/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 9 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 122 +++++++++++++------------------- drivers/iio/chemical/atlas-ph-sensor.c | 7 +- drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c | 15 ++-- fs/cifs/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 7 ++ fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 57 +++++++++++++-- fs/nfsd/state.h | 2 + fs/nfsd/xdr4.h | 13 +++- include/linux/hid-debug.h | 9 ++- kernel/signal.c | 58 ++++++++++++++- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 5 +- net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 2 + net/ceph/messenger.c | 5 +- net/mac80211/tx.c | 12 +++- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 13 ++-- samples/mei/mei-amt-version.c | 2 +- 28 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)