4.9.23-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.23 release. There are 31 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 Tue Apr 18 08:02:08 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-4.9.23-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 <[email protected]>

    Linux 4.9.23-rc1

Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl

Jack Morgenstein <[email protected]>
net/mlx4_core: Fix when to save some qp context flags for dynamic VST to VGT transitions

Jack Morgenstein <[email protected]>
net/mlx4_core: Fix racy CQ (Completion Queue) free

Eugenia Emantayev <[email protected]>
net/mlx4_en: Fix bad WQE issue

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
usb: hub: Wait for connection to be reestablished after port reset

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <[email protected]>
blk-mq: Avoid memory reclaim when remapping queues

Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "drm/i915/execlists: Reset RING registers upon resume"

Horia Geantă <[email protected]>
crypto: caam - fix invalid dereference in caam_rsa_init_tfm()

Horia Geantă <[email protected]>
crypto: caam - fix RNG deinstantiation error checking

Matt Redfearn <[email protected]>
MIPS: IRQ Stack: Fix erroneous jal to plat_irq_dispatch

Matt Redfearn <[email protected]>
MIPS: Select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK

Matt Redfearn <[email protected]>
MIPS: Switch to the irq_stack in interrupts

Matt Redfearn <[email protected]>
MIPS: Only change $28 to thread_info if coming from user mode

Matt Redfearn <[email protected]>
MIPS: Stack unwinding while on IRQ stack

Matt Redfearn <[email protected]>
MIPS: Introduce irq_stack

Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
mtd: bcm47xxpart: fix parsing first block after aligned TRX

Vishal Thanki <[email protected]>
rt2x00: Fix incorrect usage of CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_USB

Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
rt2x00usb: do not anchor rx and tx urb's

Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
rt2x00usb: fix anchor initialization

Noralf Trønnes <[email protected]>
i2c: bcm2835: Fix hang for writing messages larger than 16 bytes

Mike Marshall <[email protected]>
orangefs: fix buffer size mis-match between kernel space and user space.

Mike Marshall <[email protected]>
orangefs: Dan Carpenter influenced cleanups...

Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
orangefs: fix memory leak of string 'new' on exit path

Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Avoid rcu_barrier() from reclaim paths (shrinker)

Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Stop using RP_DOWN_EI on Baytrail

Kenneth Graunke <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Drop support for I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_* execbuf parameters.

Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Only enable hotplug interrupts if the display interrupts are enabled

Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Avoid tweaking evaluation thresholds on Baytrail v3

Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Nuke debug messages from the pipe update critical section

Imre Deak <[email protected]>
drm/i915/gen9: Increase PCODE request timeout to 50ms

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/mips/Kconfig                                  |  1 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/irq.h                        | 12 ++++
 arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h                 |  7 ++
 arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c                     |  1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/genex.S                           | 81 +++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/mips/kernel/irq.c                             | 11 +++
 arch/mips/kernel/process.c                         | 15 +++-
 block/blk-mq.c                                     |  6 +-
 drivers/crypto/caam/caampkc.c                      |  2 +-
 drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c                         |  3 +-
 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c                          |  3 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c                    |  4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h                    |  4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c                    |  2 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c         | 52 +-------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_shrinker.c           |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c                    | 83 ++++++++++------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c               | 12 +---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hotplug.c               | 14 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c                   | 50 +++++--------
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c                    | 23 ++++--
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c                   | 22 +++---
 drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c                          | 10 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c            | 38 +++++-----
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c         |  8 ++-
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c  |  5 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c     |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c     | 17 +++--
 drivers/usb/core/hub.c                             | 11 ++-
 fs/orangefs/devorangefs-req.c                      |  5 +-
 fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c                     | 19 ++---
 fs/orangefs/orangefs-dev-proto.h                   |  3 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c                             |  4 +-
 34 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 233 deletions(-)