4.9.78-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.78 release. There are 47 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 Wed Jan 24 08:39:11 UTC 2018. 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-4.9.78-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 4.9.78-rc1

Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB

zhenwei.pi <[email protected]>
x86/pti: Document fix wrong index

Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk

Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes

Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected

Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
usbip: fix warning in vhci_hcd_probe/lockdep_init_map

Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls

Dennis Yang <[email protected]>
dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6

Joe Thornber <[email protected]>
dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath()

Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
workqueue: avoid hard lockups in show_workqueue_state()

Xinyu Lin <[email protected]>
libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices

Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race

Xi Kangjie <[email protected]>
scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py: fix get_thread_info

Stephane Grosjean <[email protected]>
can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation

Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>
ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7

Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
ARM: sunxi_defconfig: Enable CMA

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices

Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>

    Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup

Nir Perry <[email protected]>
Input: ALPS - fix multi-touch decoding on SS4 plus touchpads

Jiada Wang <[email protected]>
perf tools: Fix build with ARCH=x86_64

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path

Joe Lawrence <[email protected]>
pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit

Len Brown <[email protected]>
x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon

Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey

Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC

Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument

Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros

David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs

Xunlei Pang <[email protected]>
sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks

Tomas Henzl <[email protected]>
scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state

Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
iser-target: Fix possible use-after-free in connection establishment error

Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs()

Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len()

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON()

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: seq: Make ioctls race-free

Li Jinyue <[email protected]>
futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation

Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA

Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
libnvdimm, btt: Fix an incompatibility in the log layout

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/x86/pti.txt                    |   2 +-
 Makefile                                     |   4 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dts |  10 +-
 arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig             |   2 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c                 |   4 +-
 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 +-
 59 files changed, 525 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)