Linux 4.9.78
From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 23 2018 - 14:58:00 EST
I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.78 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:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
thanks,
greg k-h
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Documentation/x86/pti.txt | 2
Makefile | 2
arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dts | 10 +
arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig | 2
arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 4
arch/mips/ar7/platform.c | 2
arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 11 +
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 13 +
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 16 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h | 1
arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c | 7
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 36 ++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 1
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 23 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 1
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7
arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 5
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7
drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1
drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c | 1
drivers/input/misc/twl4030-vibra.c | 6
drivers/input/misc/twl6040-vibra.c | 3
drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 23 +--
drivers/input/mouse/alps.h | 10 -
drivers/input/touchscreen/88pm860x-ts.c | 16 +-
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 6
drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 19 --
drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c | 21 +-
drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 203 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/nvdimm/btt.h | 45 +++++
drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4
drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 1
drivers/scsi/sg.c | 30 +--
drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c | 1
fs/pipe.c | 17 +-
fs/proc/array.c | 7
include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 -
include/scsi/sg.h | 1
kernel/futex.c | 3
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2
kernel/time/timer.c | 2
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 16 +-
kernel/workqueue.c | 13 +
net/key/af_key.c | 8 +
scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | 2
sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 1
sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 3
sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.h | 1
sound/pci/hda/patch_cirrus.c | 1
sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1
tools/objtool/elf.c | 4
tools/perf/Makefile.config | 38 ++---
tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2
tools/perf/arch/Build | 2
tools/perf/pmu-events/Build | 4
tools/perf/tests/Build | 2
tools/perf/util/header.c | 2
60 files changed, 525 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
Alexey Dobriyan (1):
proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race
Andi Kleen (2):
module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
Arnd Bergmann (1):
phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices
David Woodhouse (1):
x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
Dennis Yang (1):
dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6
Eric Biggers (2):
af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len()
af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs()
Eric W. Biederman (1):
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey
Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
Linux 4.9.78
Hannes Reinecke (1):
scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA
Jiada Wang (1):
perf tools: Fix build with ARCH=x86_64
Joe Lawrence (1):
pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit
Joe Thornber (1):
dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath()
Johan Hovold (3):
Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup
Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup
Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup
Jonas Gorski (1):
MIPS: AR7: ensure the port type's FCR value is used
Josh Poimboeuf (1):
objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
Len Brown (1):
x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon
Li Jinyue (1):
futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation
Marc Zyngier (1):
arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
Masami Hiramatsu (3):
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
Maxime Ripard (1):
ARM: sunxi_defconfig: Enable CMA
Nir Perry (1):
Input: ALPS - fix multi-touch decoding on SS4 plus touchpads
Paolo Bonzini (1):
x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features
Sagi Grimberg (1):
iser-target: Fix possible use-after-free in connection establishment error
Sergey Senozhatsky (1):
workqueue: avoid hard lockups in show_workqueue_state()
Shuah Khan (1):
usbip: fix warning in vhci_hcd_probe/lockdep_init_map
Stephane Grosjean (1):
can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation
Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1):
tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()
Takashi Iwai (4):
ALSA: seq: Make ioctls race-free
ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON()
ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant
ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1
Thomas Gleixner (3):
timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base
x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path
x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
Thomas Petazzoni (1):
ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7
Tom Lendacky (2):
x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros
x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
Tomas Henzl (1):
scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state
Vishal Verma (1):
libnvdimm, btt: Fix an incompatibility in the log layout
Xi Kangjie (1):
scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py: fix get_thread_info
Xinyu Lin (1):
libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices
Xunlei Pang (1):
sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks
zhenwei.pi (1):
x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
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