I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.228 kernel. All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,dpi.txt | 6 Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 2 Makefile | 15 arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra.c | 4 arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 3 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 arch/m68k/include/asm/mac_via.h | 1 arch/m68k/mac/config.c | 21 arch/m68k/mac/via.c | 6 arch/mips/Makefile | 13 arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 6 arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c | 6 arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 10 arch/mips/kernel/time.c | 70 +++ arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c | 113 +++- arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_32.c | 228 ++++------ arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c | 17 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 5 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 1 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 94 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 28 - arch/x86/kernel/process.h | 2 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 8 arch/x86/kernel/time.c | 4 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 arch/x86/pci/fixup.c | 4 block/blk-mq.c | 8 drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 4 drivers/acpi/device_pm.c | 2 drivers/acpi/evged.c | 22 drivers/acpi/scan.c | 28 - drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 4 drivers/char/agp/intel-gtt.c | 4 drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c | 6 drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c | 6 drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 2 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 4 drivers/macintosh/windfarm_pm112.c | 22 drivers/md/md.c | 3 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 2 drivers/media/platform/rcar-fcp.c | 5 drivers/media/tuners/si2157.c | 15 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-mb.c | 2 drivers/media/usb/go7007/snd-go7007.c | 35 - drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-esdhc-imx.c | 2 drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 11 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c | 4 drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 6 drivers/net/ethernet/allwinner/sun4i-emac.c | 4 drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c | 6 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 8 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 4 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h | 1 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 12 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 3 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 2 drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c | 3 drivers/net/macvlan.c | 4 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c | 2 drivers/net/vxlan.c | 4 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c | 58 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.h | 6 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c | 10 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c | 6 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c | 3 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c | 5 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.h | 3 drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/fw.c | 4 drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c | 21 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c | 2 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/main.c | 1 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c | 1 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 14 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 8 drivers/pci/probe.c | 24 - drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-exynos.c | 9 drivers/power/reset/vexpress-poweroff.c | 1 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 4 drivers/spi/spi-bcm-qspi.c | 8 drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 4 drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835aux.c | 4 drivers/spi/spi-dw-mid.c | 16 drivers/spi/spi-dw.c | 14 drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c | 4 drivers/spi/spi.c | 5 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c | 4 drivers/staging/greybus/sdio.c | 10 drivers/video/fbdev/w100fb.c | 2 drivers/w1/masters/omap_hdq.c | 10 fs/btrfs/file-item.c | 6 fs/btrfs/inode.c | 6 fs/btrfs/send.c | 67 ++ fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h | 9 fs/ext4/fsync.c | 28 - fs/fat/inode.c | 6 fs/fs-writeback.c | 1 fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 fs/proc/inode.c | 2 fs/proc/self.c | 2 fs/proc/thread_self.c | 2 include/linux/kgdb.h | 2 include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h | 1 include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h | 3 include/uapi/linux/dvb/frontend.h | 1 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 2 kernel/cpu_pm.c | 4 kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 1 kernel/events/core.c | 23 - kernel/exit.c | 25 - kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 lib/mpi/longlong.h | 2 mm/huge_memory.c | 31 + mm/slub.c | 4 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 1 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 13 net/netfilter/nft_nat.c | 4 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c | 12 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c | 18 security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | 2 security/integrity/ima/ima.h | 7 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 3 security/smack/smackfs.c | 10 sound/core/pcm_native.c | 5 sound/isa/es1688/es1688.c | 4 sound/usb/card.c | 20 sound/usb/usbaudio.h | 2 tools/objtool/check.c | 6 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 3 tools/perf/util/dso.c | 16 tools/perf/util/dso.h | 1 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 1 tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 142 files changed, 1010 insertions(+), 565 deletions(-) Adrian Hunter (1): perf symbols: Fix debuginfo search for Ubuntu Al Viro (2): sparc32: fix register window handling in genregs32_[gs]et() sparc64: fix misuses of access_process_vm() in genregs32_[sg]et() Alexander Sverdlin (1): macvlan: Skip loopback packets in RX handler Anders Roxell (1): power: vexpress: add suppress_bind_attrs to true Andrea Arcangeli (1): mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked() Andy Shevchenko (2): spi: No need to assign dummy value in spi_unregister_controller() spi: dw: Zero DMA Tx and Rx configurations on stack Anthony Steinhauser (3): x86/speculation: Prevent rogue cross-process SSBD shutdown x86/speculation: Avoid force-disabling IBPB based on STIBP and enhanced IBRS. x86/speculation: PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE enforcement for indirect branches. Ard Biesheuvel (3): efi/efivars: Add missing kobject_put() in sysfs entry creation error path ACPI: GED: add support for _Exx / _Lxx handler methods ACPI: GED: use correct trigger type field in _Exx / _Lxx handling Arthur Kiyanovski (1): net: ena: fix error returning in ena_com_get_hash_function() Arvind Sankar (2): x86/boot: Correct relocation destination on old linkers x86/mm: Stop printing BRK addresses Ashok Raj (1): PCI: Program MPS for RCiEP devices Barret Rhoden (1): perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call() Bob Haarman (1): x86_64: Fix jiffies ODR violation Brad Love (1): media: si2157: Better check for running tuner in init Casey Schaufler (1): Smack: slab-out-of-bounds in vsscanf Chris Wilson (1): agp/intel: Reinforce the barrier after GTT updates Christian Lamparter (1): carl9170: remove P2P_GO support Christoph Hellwig (1): staging: android: ion: use vmap instead of vm_map_ram Christophe JAILLET (1): video: fbdev: w100fb: Fix a potential double free. Chuhong Yuan (2): ALSA: es1688: Add the missed snd_card_free() media: go7007: fix a miss of snd_card_free Colin Ian King (2): media: dvb_frontend: ensure that inital front end status initialized media: dvb: return -EREMOTEIO on i2c transfer failure. Dan Carpenter (1): rtlwifi: Fix a double free in _rtl_usb_tx_urb_setup() Daniel Thompson (1): kgdb: Fix spurious true from in_dbg_master() Dmitry Osipenko (1): ARM: tegra: Correct PL310 Auxiliary Control Register initialization Douglas Anderson (2): kgdb: Prevent infinite recursive entries to the debugger kernel/cpu_pm: Fix uninitted local in cpu_pm Eric Biggers (1): ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename() Eric W. Biederman (1): proc: Use new_inode not new_inode_pseudo Filipe Manana (1): btrfs: do not ignore error from btrfs_next_leaf() when inserting checksums Finn Thain (1): m68k: mac: Don't call via_flush_cache() on Mac IIfx Fredrik Strupe (1): ARM: 8977/1: ptrace: Fix mask for thumb breakpoint hook Giuliano Procida (1): blk-mq: move blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues synchronize_rcu call Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 4.9.228 Guoqing Jiang (1): md: don't flush workqueue unconditionally in md_open H. Nikolaus Schaller (1): w1: omap-hdq: cleanup to add missing newline for some dev_dbg Haibo Chen (1): mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: fix the mask for tuning start point Hangbin Liu (1): ipv6: fix IPV6_ADDRFORM operation logic Harshad Shirwadkar (1): ext4: fix EXT_MAX_EXTENT/INDEX to check for zeroed eh_max Hill Ma (1): x86/reboot/quirks: Add MacBook6,1 reboot quirk Hsin-Yu Chao (1): Bluetooth: Add SCO fallback for invalid LMP parameters error Ido Schimmel (1): vxlan: Avoid infinite loop when suppressing NS messages with invalid options Jann Horn (1): exit: Move preemption fixup up, move blocking operations down Jens Axboe (1): sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads Jeremy Kerr (1): powerpc/spufs: fix copy_to_user while atomic Jia-Ju Bai (1): net: vmxnet3: fix possible buffer overflow caused by bad DMA value in vmxnet3_get_rss() Jiaxun Yang (2): MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel PCI: Don't disable decoding when mmio_always_on is set Jitao Shi (1): dt-bindings: display: mediatek: control dpi pins mode to avoid leakage Johannes Thumshirn (1): scsi: return correct blkprep status code in case scsi_init_io() fails. Jon Doron (1): x86/kvm/hyper-v: Explicitly align hcall param for kvm_hyperv_exit Jonathan Bakker (1): pinctrl: samsung: Save/restore eint_mask over suspend for EINT_TYPE GPIOs Julien Thierry (1): objtool: Ignore empty alternatives Justin Chen (1): spi: bcm-qspi: when tx/rx buffer is NULL set to 0 Kai-Heng Feng (1): igb: Report speed and duplex as unknown when device is runtime suspended Kees Cook (1): e1000: Distribute switch variables for initialization Kieran Bingham (1): media: platform: fcp: Set appropriate DMA parameters Krzysztof Struczynski (1): ima: Fix ima digest hash table key calculation Larry Finger (3): b43legacy: Fix case where channel status is corrupted b43: Fix connection problem with WPA3 b43_legacy: Fix connection problem with WPA3 Linus Walleij (1): ARM: 8978/1: mm: make act_mm() respect THREAD_SIZE Lukas Wunner (5): spi: bcm2835aux: Fix controller unregister order spi: dw: Fix controller unregister order spi: Fix controller unregister order spi: pxa2xx: Fix controller unregister order spi: bcm2835: Fix controller unregister order Marc Zyngier (1): KVM: arm64: Make vcpu_cp1x() work on Big Endian hosts Marcos Paulo de Souza (1): btrfs: send: emit file capabilities after chown Masahiro Yamada (1): kbuild: force to build vmlinux if CONFIG_MODVERSION=y Masami Hiramatsu (1): perf probe: Do not show the skipped events Masashi Honma (1): ath9k_htc: Silence undersized packet warnings Michael Ellerman (1): drivers/macintosh: Fix memleak in windfarm_pm112 driver Michał Mirosław (1): ALSA: pcm: disallow linking stream to itself Miquel Raynal (1): mtd: rawnand: pasemi: Fix the probe error path Nathan Chancellor (1): lib/mpi: Fix 64-bit MIPS build with Clang NeilBrown (2): sunrpc: svcauth_gss_register_pseudoflavor must reject duplicate registrations. sunrpc: clean up properly in gss_mech_unregister() OGAWA Hirofumi (1): fat: don't allow to mount if the FAT length == 0 Omar Sandoval (1): btrfs: fix error handling when submitting direct I/O bio Pablo Neira Ayuso (1): netfilter: nft_nat: return EOPNOTSUPP if type or flags are not supported Pali Rohár (1): mwifiex: Fix memory corruption in dump_station Paolo Bonzini (1): KVM: nSVM: leave ASID aside in copy_vmcb_control_area Punit Agrawal (1): e1000e: Relax condition to trigger reset for ME workaround Qiujun Huang (4): ath9k: Fix use-after-free Read in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx ath9k: Fix use-after-free Write in ath9k_htc_rx_msg ath9x: Fix stack-out-of-bounds Write in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb Qiushi Wu (3): ACPI: sysfs: Fix reference count leak in acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile() ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in acpi_cppc_processor_probe() cpuidle: Fix three reference count leaks Rafael J. Wysocki (1): ACPI: PM: Avoid using power resources if there are none for D0 Roberto Sassu (2): ima: Directly assign the ima_default_policy pointer to ima_rules evm: Fix possible memory leak in evm_calc_hmac_or_hash() Ryusuke Konishi (1): nilfs2: fix null pointer dereference at nilfs_segctor_do_construct() Sasha Levin (1): spi: dw: fix possible race condition Sean Christopherson (1): KVM: nVMX: Consult only the "basic" exit reason when routing nested exit Serge Semin (5): spi: dw: Enable interrupts in accordance with DMA xfer mode clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Fix missing clockevent timers mips: cm: Fix an invalid error code of INTVN_*_ERR mips: Add udelay lpj numbers adjustment spi: dw: Return any value retrieved from the dma_transfer callback Su Kang Yin (1): crypto: talitos - fix ECB and CBC algs ivsize Takashi Iwai (1): ALSA: usb-audio: Fix inconsistent card PM state after resume Tejun Heo (1): cgroup, blkcg: Prepare some symbols for module and !CONFIG_CGROUP usages Thomas Falcon (1): drivers/net/ibmvnic: Update VNIC protocol version reporting Thomas Lendacky (1): x86/speculation: Add support for STIBP always-on preferred mode Tiezhu Yang (1): MIPS: Make sparse_init() using top-down allocation Ulf Hansson (1): staging: greybus: sdio: Respect the cmd->busy_timeout from the mmc core Waiman Long (1): x86/speculation: Change misspelled STIPB to STIBP Wang Hai (1): mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add() Wei Yongjun (1): net: lpc-enet: fix error return code in lpc_mii_init() Xiaochun Lee (1): x86/PCI: Mark Intel C620 MROMs as having non-compliant BARs Xiaolong Huang (1): can: kvaser_usb: kvaser_usb_leaf: Fix some info-leaks to USB devices Xie XiuQi (1): ixgbe: fix signed-integer-overflow warning Xing Li (2): KVM: MIPS: Define KVM_ENTRYHI_ASID to cpu_asid_mask(&boot_cpu_data) KVM: MIPS: Fix VPN2_MASK definition for variable cpu_vmbits YuanJunQing (1): MIPS: Fix IRQ tracing when call handle_fpe() and handle_msa_fpe() Yunjian Wang (1): net: allwinner: Fix use correct return type for ndo_start_xmit() Yuxuan Shui (1): ovl: initialize error in ovl_copy_xattr Álvaro Fernández Rojas (1): mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: fix hamming oob layout