This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.317 release. There are 12 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 Sun, 05 Jun 2022 17:38:05 +0000. 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-4.9.317-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 4.9.317-rc1 Liu Jian <liujian56@xxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Enlarge offset check value to INT_MAX in bpf_skb_{load,store}_bytes Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> NFSD: Fix possible sleep during nfsd4_release_lockowner() Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> tpm: ibmvtpm: Correct the return value in tpm_ibmvtpm_probe() Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@xxxxxxxxxx> dm verity: set DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE feature flag Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> dm stats: add cond_resched when looping over entries Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> dm crypt: make printing of the key constant-time Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> exec: Force single empty string when argv is empty Haimin Zhang <tcs.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> block-map: add __GFP_ZERO flag for alloc_page in function bio_copy_kern Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: Fix -Wstringop-overflow warning in call to intel_read_wm_latency() Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@xxxxxxxxxx> assoc_array: Fix BUG_ON during garbage collect Piyush Malgujar <pmalgujar@xxxxxxxxxxx> drivers: i2c: thunderx: Allow driver to work with ACPI defined TWSI controllers Thomas Bartschies <thomas.bartschies@xxxxxx> net: af_key: check encryption module availability consistency ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- block/bio.c | 2 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-thunderx-pcidrv.c | 1 + drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 15 +++++++++++---- drivers/md/dm-stats.c | 8 ++++++++ drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 1 + fs/exec.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 12 ++++-------- lib/assoc_array.c | 8 ++++++++ net/core/filter.c | 4 ++-- net/key/af_key.c | 6 +++--- 13 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)