[PATCH 4.9 00/21] 4.9.25-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.25 release.
There are 21 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 Apr 27 15:08:14 UTC 2017.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.25-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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Linux 4.9.25-rc1

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
    device-dax: switch to srcu, fix rcu_read_lock() vs pte allocation

Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
    x86/mce: Make the MCE notifier a blocking one

Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
    x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 when accessed with legacy MSRs

Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    powerpc/kprobe: Fix oops when kprobed on 'stdu' instruction

Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    ubi/upd: Always flush after prepared for an update

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
    mac80211: fix MU-MIMO follow-MAC mode

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
    mac80211: reject ToDS broadcast data frames

Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
    ubifs: Fix O_TMPFILE corner case in ubifs_link()

Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
    ubifs: Fix RENAME_WHITEOUT support

Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@xxxxxxx>
    mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: increase the pad I/O drive strength for DDR50 card

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
    ACPI / power: Avoid maybe-uninitialized warning

Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Input: elantech - add Fujitsu Lifebook E547 to force crc_enabled

Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
    s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others

Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@xxxxxxxxxx>
    CIFS: remove bad_network_name flag

Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
    cifs: Do not send echoes before Negotiate is complete

Rabin Vincent <rabinv@xxxxxxxx>
    mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative

Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when empty

Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    tracing: Allocate the snapshot buffer before enabling probe

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
    KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings

David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
    KEYS: Change the name of the dead type to ".dead" to prevent user access

David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
    KEYS: Disallow keyrings beginning with '.' to be joined as session keyrings


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                  |  4 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S            |  6 +--
 arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h           |  2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-genpool.c  |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c          | 16 ++----
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c      |  2 +-
 drivers/acpi/power.c                      |  1 +
 drivers/dax/Kconfig                       |  1 +
 drivers/dax/dax.c                         | 13 ++---
 drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c            |  8 +++
 drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-esdhc-imx.c        |  1 +
 drivers/mtd/ubi/upd.c                     |  8 +--
 fs/cifs/cifsglob.h                        |  1 -
 fs/cifs/smb1ops.c                         | 10 ++++
 fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c                         |  5 --
 fs/ubifs/dir.c                            | 10 ++--
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c                | 16 +++++-
 kernel/trace/trace.c                      |  8 +--
 mm/migrate.c                              |  2 +-
 net/mac80211/rx.c                         | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 security/keys/gc.c                        |  2 +-
 security/keys/keyctl.c                    | 20 +++----
 security/keys/process_keys.c              | 44 ++++++++++------
 24 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)