4.9.227-rc2 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.227 release. There are 42 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, 11 Jun 2020 19:01:14 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.227-rc2.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 4.9.227-rc2

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

    uprobes: ensure that uprobe->offset and ->ref_ctr_offset are properly aligned

Mathieu Othacehe <[email protected]>
iio: vcnl4000: Fix i2c swapped word reading.

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id

Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]>
nvmem: qfprom: remove incorrect write support

Pascal Terjan <[email protected]>

    staging: rtl8712: Fix IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
tty: hvc_console, fix crashes on parallel open/close

Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
vt: keyboard: avoid signed integer overflow in k_ascii

Dinghao Liu <[email protected]>
usb: musb: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error

Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910C1-EUX compositions

Bin Liu <[email protected]>
USB: serial: usb_wwan: do not resubmit rx urb on fatal errors

Matt Jolly <[email protected]>
USB: serial: qcserial: add DW5816e QDL support

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
l2tp: add sk_family checks to l2tp_validate_socket

Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
vsock: fix timeout in vsock_accept()

Chuhong Yuan <[email protected]>
NFC: st21nfca: add missed kfree_skb() in an error path

Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Telit LE910C1-EUX composition

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
l2tp: do not use inet_hash()/inet_unhash()

Yang Yingliang <[email protected]>
devinet: fix memleak in inetdev_init()

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
airo: Fix read overflows sending packets

Can Guo <[email protected]>
scsi: ufs: Release clock if DMA map fails

yangerkun <[email protected]>
slip: not call free_netdev before rtnl_unlock in slip_open

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
slcan: Fix double-free on slcan_open() error path

Jérôme Pouiller <[email protected]>
mmc: fix compilation of user API

Daniel Axtens <[email protected]>
kernel/relay.c: handle alloc_percpu returning NULL in relay_open

Giuseppe Marco Randazzo <[email protected]>
p54usb: add AirVasT USB stick device-id

Julian Sax <[email protected]>
HID: i2c-hid: add Schneider SCL142ALM to descriptor override

Fan Yang <[email protected]>
mm: Fix mremap not considering huge pmd devmap

Guillaume Nault <[email protected]>
pppoe: only process PADT targeted at local interfaces

Dinghao Liu <[email protected]>
net: smsc911x: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error

Jonathan McDowell <[email protected]>
net: ethernet: stmmac: Enable interface clocks on probe for IPQ806x

Valentin Longchamp <[email protected]>
net/ethernet/freescale: rework quiesce/activate for ucc_geth

Jeremy Kerr <[email protected]>
net: bmac: Fix read of MAC address from ROM

Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
x86/mmiotrace: Use cpumask_available() for cpumask_var_t variables

Eugeniy Paltsev <[email protected]>
ARC: Fix ICCM & DCCM runtime size checks

Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
s390/ftrace: save traced function caller

Xinwei Kong <[email protected]>
spi: dw: use "smp_mb()" to avoid sending spi data error

Zhen Lei <[email protected]>
esp6: fix memleak on error path in esp6_input

Eugeniu Rosca <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: f_uac2: fix error handling in afunc_bind (again)

Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
scsi: scsi_devinfo: fixup string compare

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   1 +
 Documentation/hw-vuln/index.rst                    |   3 +-
 .../special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst      | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt                |  20 +++
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/arc/kernel/setup.c                            |   5 +-
 arch/s390/kernel/mcount.S                          |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_device_id.h               |  27 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h                 |  30 +++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h                   |   4 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h                     |   1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                         | 106 +++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                       |  54 ++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h                          |   1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/match.c                        |   7 +-
 arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c                             |   4 +-
 drivers/base/cpu.c                                 |   8 ++
 drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-dmi-quirks.c           |   8 ++
 drivers/iio/light/vcnl4000.c                       |   6 +-
 drivers/net/can/slcan.c                            |   3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/apple/bmac.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c          |  13 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c               |   9 +-
 .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-ipq806x.c    |  13 ++
 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c                            |   3 +
 drivers/net/slip/slip.c                            |   3 +
 drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c                         |   1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c                  |  12 ++
 drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/p54usb.c         |   1 +
 drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c                         |   4 +-
 drivers/nvmem/qfprom.c                             |  14 --
 drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c                        |  23 ++--
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c                          |   1 +
 drivers/spi/spi-dw.c                               |   3 +
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h                     |   9 +-
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c                      |  23 ++--
 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c                          |  26 ++--
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac2.c               |   4 +-
 drivers/usb/musb/musb_debugfs.c                    |  10 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        |   4 +
 drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c                      |   1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c                      |   4 +
 include/linux/mod_devicetable.h                    |   6 +
 include/uapi/linux/mmc/ioctl.h                     |   1 +
 kernel/events/uprobes.c                            |  14 +-
 kernel/relay.c                                     |   5 +
 mm/mremap.c                                        |   2 +-
 net/ipv4/devinet.c                                 |   1 +
 net/ipv6/esp6.c                                    |   4 +-
 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c                               |   2 +
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c                                 |  29 +++-
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c                                |  30 +++--
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                           |   2 +-
 53 files changed, 585 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------

kernel: 4.9.227-rc2
git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
git branch: linux-4.9.y
git commit: 2d9a8182e06a681d0d198e8fb777ff32d9c581c7
git describe: v4.9.226-43-g2d9a8182e06a
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-4.9-oe/build/v4.9.226-43-g2d9a8182e06a

No regressions (compared to build v4.9.226)

No fixes (compared to build v4.9.226)

Ran 22181 total tests in the following environments and test suites.

Environments
--------------
- dragonboard-410c - arm64
- hi6220-hikey - arm64
- i386
- juno-r2 - arm64
- qemu_arm
- qemu_arm64
- qemu_i386
- qemu_x86_64
- x15 - arm
- x86_64
- x86-kasan

Test Suites
-----------
* build
* install-android-platform-tools-r2600
* install-android-platform-tools-r2800
* kselftest
* kselftest/drivers
* kselftest/filesystems
* libhugetlbfs
* linux-log-parser
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-crypto-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-dio-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-tests
* ltp-fs-tests
* ltp-fs_bind-tests
* ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
* ltp-fsx-tests
* ltp-hugetlb-tests
* ltp-io-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-mm-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* perf
* v4l2-compliance
* kvm-unit-tests
* ltp-controllers-tests
* network-basic-tests
* ltp-open-posix-tests
* kselftest/net

Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org

All tests are passing for Tegra ...

Test results for stable-v4.9:

    8 builds:	8 pass, 0 fail
    16 boots:	16 pass, 0 fail
    28 tests:	28 pass, 0 fail

Linux version: 4.9.227-rc2-g2d9a8182e06a
Boards tested: tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra20-ventana,

                tegra210-p2371-2180, tegra30-cardhu-a04

Cheers
Jon

nvpublic

Build results:

	total: 171 pass: 171 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 384 pass: 384 fail: 0

Guenter

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

thanks,
-- Shuah