This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.162 release. There are 32 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 Mar 6 08:15:49 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-4.9.162-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 4.9.162-rc1 Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/uaccess: Don't leak the AC flag into __put_user() value evaluation Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: enforce min addr even if capable() in expand_downwards() Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx> mmc: spi: Fix card detection during probe Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc: Always initialize input array when calling epapr_hypercall() Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: nSVM: clear events pending from svm_complete_interrupts() when exiting to L1 Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx> svm: Fix AVIC incomplete IPI emulation Chaitanya Tata <chaitanya.tata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cfg80211: extend range deviation for DMG Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> mac80211: Add attribute aligned(2) to struct 'action' Balaji Pothunoori <bpothuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mac80211: don't initiate TDLS connection if station is not associated to AP Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ibmveth: Do not process frames after calling napi_reschedule Zhang Run <zhang.run@xxxxxxxxxx> net: usb: asix: ax88772_bind return error when hw_reset fail Atsushi Nemoto <atsushi.nemoto@xxxxxxxxxx> net: altera_tse: fix connect_local_phy error path Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: csiostor: fix NULL pointer dereference in csio_vport_set_state() Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx> direct-io: allow direct writes to empty inodes Tomonori Sakita <tomonori.sakita@xxxxxxxxxx> serial: fsl_lpuart: fix maximum acceptable baud rate with over-sampling Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxx> locking/rwsem: Fix (possible) missed wakeup Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mac80211: fix miscounting of ttl-dropped frames Aaron Hill <aa1ronham@xxxxxxxxx> drivers: thermal: int340x_thermal: Fix sysfs race condition Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ARC: fix __ffs return value to avoid build warnings Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@xxxxxxxxx> ASoC: imx-audmux: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@xxxxxxxxx> ASoC: dapm: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> usb: gadget: Potential NULL dereference on allocation error Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix the uninitialized link_state when udc starts Bo He <bo.he@xxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: gadget: synchronize_irq dwc irq in suspend Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> thermal: int340x_thermal: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: compress: prevent potential divide by zero bugs Rander Wang <rander.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: Intel: Haswell/Broadwell: fix setting for .dynamic field Kristian H. Kristensen <hoegsberg@xxxxxxxxx> drm/msm: Unblock writer if reader closes file John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libsas: Fix rphy phy_identifier for PHYs with end devices attached Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "loop: Fold __loop_release into loop_release" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "loop: Get rid of loop_index_mutex" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "loop: Fix double mutex_unlock(&loop_ctl_mutex) in loop_control_ioctl()" ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/include/asm/bitops.h | 6 +-- arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h | 12 +++--- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 7 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 27 ++++++------- drivers/block/loop.c | 47 ++++++++++++---------- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_rd.c | 7 +++- drivers/mmc/host/mmc_spi.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 2 - drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c | 9 ++++- drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_attr.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 2 + .../int340x_thermal/processor_thermal_device.c | 30 +++++++------- drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 3 ++ drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_sourcesink.c | 2 +- fs/direct-io.c | 5 ++- kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 11 ++++- mm/mmap.c | 7 ++-- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 4 ++ net/mac80211/rx.c | 6 ++- net/wireless/reg.c | 4 +- sound/core/compress_offload.c | 3 +- sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c | 24 +++++------ sound/soc/intel/boards/broadwell.c | 2 +- sound/soc/intel/boards/haswell.c | 2 +- sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 10 ++--- 28 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)