Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/18] 4.9.48-stable review

[Sumit Semwal]

Hi Greg,

On 5 September 2017 at 12:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.48 release.
> There are 18 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 Sep  7 07:09:06 UTC 2017.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

For ARM64, built and boot-tested with defconfig on Hikey - no regressions noted.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>         kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.48-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 4.9.48-rc1
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     epoll: fix race between ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) and ep_free()/ep_remove()
>
> Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
>     kvm: arm/arm64: Force reading uncached stage2 PGD
>
> Xiangliang.Yu <Xiangliang.Yu@xxxxxxx>
>     drm/ttm: Fix accounting error when fail to get pages for pool
>
> Vladis Dronov <vdronov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     xfrm: policy: check policy direction value
>
> Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     lib/mpi: kunmap after finishing accessing buffer
>
> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
>     wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init()
>
> Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
>     CIFS: remove endian related sparse warning
>
> Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     CIFS: Fix maximum SMB2 header size
>
> Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
>
> Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     cpuset: Fix incorrect memory_pressure control file mapping
>
> Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     cpumask: fix spurious cpumask_of_node() on non-NUMA multi-node configs
>
> Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     ceph: fix readpage from fscache
>
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     mm, madvise: ensure poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists
>
> Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area
>
> Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages
>
> Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     i2c: ismt: Return EMSGSIZE for block reads with bogus length
>
> Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     i2c: ismt: Don't duplicate the receive length for block reads
>
> James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     irqchip: mips-gic: SYNC after enabling GIC region
>
>
> -------------
>
> Diffstat:
>
>  Makefile                              |  4 ++--
>  arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h        |  2 +-
>  arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h   | 12 +++++++++-
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c                    |  2 +-
>  crypto/algif_skcipher.c               |  9 ++++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c  |  2 +-
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c         |  6 +++--
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c        |  5 ++++-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/main.c |  1 +
>  fs/ceph/addr.c                        | 24 ++++++++++++--------
>  fs/ceph/cache.c                       | 12 +++-------
>  fs/cifs/dir.c                         |  2 +-
>  fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h                     |  4 ++--
>  fs/eventpoll.c                        | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  include/asm-generic/topology.h        |  6 ++++-
>  kernel/cpuset.c                       |  1 +
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c               |  2 --
>  kernel/fork.c                         |  8 +++++++
>  lib/mpi/mpicoder.c                    |  4 +++-
>  mm/madvise.c                          |  7 ++++++
>  net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c                |  6 +++++
>  21 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>
>



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Thanks and regards,

Sumit Semwal
Linaro Mobile Group - Kernel Team Lead
Linaro.org â Open source software for ARM SoCs