This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.172 release. There are 41 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 02 May 2019 11:34:41 AM UTC. 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-4.9.172-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 4.9.172-rc1 Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx> net: IP6 defrag: use rbtrees in nf_conntrack_reasm.c Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx> net: IP6 defrag: use rbtrees for IPv6 defrag Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: remove dependency of nf_defrag_ipv6 on ipv6 module Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx> net: IP defrag: encapsulate rbtree defrag code into callable functions Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: frags: fix a lockdep false positive ZhangXiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv4: set the tcp_min_rtt_wlen range from 0 to one day Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> net: stmmac: move stmmac_check_ether_addr() to driver probe Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> team: fix possible recursive locking when add slaves Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@xxxxxxxxxx> net: rds: exchange of 8K and 1M pool Erez Alfasi <ereza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5e: ethtool, Remove unsupported SFP EEPROM high pages query Amit Cohen <amitc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mlxsw: spectrum: Fix autoneg status in ethtool Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv4: add sanity checks in ipv4_link_failure() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "block/loop: Use global lock for ioctl() operation." Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> tipc: check link name with right length in tipc_nl_compat_link_set Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> tipc: check bearer name with right length in tipc_nl_compat_bearer_enable Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> fm10k: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: ebtables: CONFIG_COMPAT: drop a bogus WARN_ON Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NFS: Forbid setting AF_INET6 to "struct sockaddr_in"->sin_family. YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: Fix a NULL pointer dereference Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> intel_th: gth: Fix an off-by-one in output unassigning Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> slip: make slhc_free() silently accept an error pointer Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> tipc: handle the err returned from cmd header function Adalbert Lazăr <alazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vsock/virtio: fix kernel panic from virtio_transport_reset_no_sock Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: Consolidate LPM checks to avoid enabling LPM twice Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: Add new USB LPM helpers Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/vc4: Fix compilation error reported by kbuild test bot Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/vc4: Fix memory leak during gpu reset. Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> ARM: 8857/1: efi: enable CP15 DMB instructions before cleaning the cache Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: sh: rcar-dmac: With cyclic DMA residue 0 is valid Lucas Stach <l.stach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: synaptics-rmi4 - write config register values to the right offset NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID. Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxx> nfsd: Don't release the callback slot unless it was actually held Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> ceph: fix ci->i_head_snapc leak Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> ceph: ensure d_name stability in ceph_dentry_hash() Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@xxxxxxxxxx> sched/numa: Fix a possible divide-by-zero Josh Collier <josh.d.collier@xxxxxxxxx> IB/rdmavt: Fix frwr memory registration Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: scall64-o32: Fix indirect syscall number load Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx> tracing: Fix a memory leak by early error exit in trace_pid_write() Frank Sorenson <sorenson@xxxxxxxxxx> cifs: do not attempt cifs operation on smb2+ rename error Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kbuild: simplify ld-option implementation ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 1 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 16 +- arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S | 2 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 42 +-- drivers/block/loop.h | 1 + drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_crtc.c | 2 +- drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/gth.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c | 17 +- drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f11.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 2 + .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/port.c | 4 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/slip/slhc.c | 2 +- drivers/net/team/team.c | 6 + drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 23 +- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 16 +- drivers/usb/core/message.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/core/usb.h | 10 +- fs/ceph/dir.c | 6 +- fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 9 + fs/ceph/snap.c | 7 +- fs/cifs/inode.c | 4 + fs/nfs/super.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 8 +- fs/nfsd/state.h | 1 + fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 6 +- include/net/inet_frag.h | 16 +- include/net/ipv6.h | 29 -- include/net/ipv6_frag.h | 111 +++++++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 + kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 +- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 3 +- net/ieee802154/6lowpan/reassembly.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 293 +++++++++++++++++ net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 295 ++--------------- net/ipv4/route.c | 32 +- net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 5 +- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 273 +++++----------- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_defrag_ipv6_hooks.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 361 ++++++--------------- net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 1 + net/rds/ib_fmr.c | 11 + net/rds/ib_rdma.c | 3 - net/sunrpc/cache.c | 3 + net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 24 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 22 +- scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 +- 53 files changed, 866 insertions(+), 854 deletions(-)