[PATCH 4.8 00/35] 4.8.8-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.8 release.
There are 35 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 Nov 15 11:24:10 UTC 2016.
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-4.8.8-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-4.8.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 4.8.8-rc1

Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
    usb: dwc3: gadget: properly account queued requests

Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
    arch/powerpc: Update parameters for csum_tcpudp_magic & csum_tcpudp_nofold

Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    packet: on direct_xmit, limit tso and csum to supported devices

Eli Cooper <elicooper@gmx.com>
    ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
    sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it

Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
    net sched filters: fix notification of filter delete with proper handle

David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
    net: ipv6: Do not consider link state for nexthop validation

Tobias Brunner <tobias@strongswan.org>
    macsec: Fix header length if SCI is added if explicitly disabled

Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
    netvsc: fix incorrect receive checksum offloading

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    udp: fix IP_CHECKSUM handling

Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
    sctp: fix the panic caused by route update

Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    net: sctp, forbid negative length

Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
    net: fec: Call swap_buffer() prior to IP header alignment

WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
    ipv4: use the right lock for ping_group_range

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    ipv4: disable BH in set_ping_group_range()

Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
    net: add recursion limit to GRO

Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
    net: core: Correctly iterate over lower adjacency list

Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
    rtnetlink: Add rtnexthop offload flag to compare mask

Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
    switchdev: Execute bridge ndos only for bridge ports

Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
    bridge: multicast: restore perm router ports on multicast enable

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    net: pktgen: remove rcu locking in pktgen_change_name()

Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>
    net/mlx4_en: fixup xdp tx irq to match rx

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
    IB/ipoib: move back IB LL address into the hard header

Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
    ipv6: correctly add local routes when lo goes up

Vadim Fedorenko <junk@yandex-team.ru>
    ip6_tunnel: fix ip6_tnl_lookup

Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
    net: phy: Trigger state machine on state change and not polling.

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    ipv6: tcp: restore IP6CB for pktoptions skbs

WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
    net_sched: reorder pernet ops and act ops registrations

Vlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@tsyrklevich.net>
    drivers/ptp: Fix kernel memory disclosure

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()

Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com>
    packet: call fanout_release, while UNREGISTERING a netdev

Andrew Collins <acollins@cradlepoint.com>
    net: Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic

Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
    net/sched: act_vlan: Push skb->data to mac_header prior calling skb_vlan_*() functions

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
    net: pktgen: fix pkt_size

Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
    net: fec: set mac address unconditionally


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                       |  4 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h            | 12 ++--
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h           | 20 +++++--
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c        | 15 ++---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c        | 12 ++--
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c      | 54 ++++++++++-------
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c |  6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c      | 18 +++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c     | 10 +++-
 drivers/net/geneve.c                           |  2 +-
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c                | 19 +++---
 drivers/net/macsec.c                           | 26 ++++++---
 drivers/net/phy/phy.c                          | 22 ++++++-
 drivers/net/vxlan.c                            |  2 +-
 drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c                      |  1 +
 drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c                      |  7 ++-
 include/linux/netdevice.h                      | 41 ++++++++++++-
 include/net/ip.h                               |  4 +-
 include/net/ip6_route.h                        |  1 +
 include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h                 |  2 +-
 net/8021q/vlan.c                               |  2 +-
 net/bridge/br_multicast.c                      | 23 +++++---
 net/core/dev.c                                 | 80 +++++++++++++++-----------
 net/core/pktgen.c                              | 38 ++++++------
 net/ethernet/eth.c                             |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c                             |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/fou.c                                 |  4 +-
 net/ipv4/gre_offload.c                         |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c                         | 11 ++--
 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c                     |  8 +--
 net/ipv4/udp.c                                 |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/udp_offload.c                         |  2 +-
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c                            |  2 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c                         |  2 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c                          |  3 +
 net/ipv6/route.c                               |  6 +-
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c                            | 20 ++++---
 net/ipv6/udp.c                                 |  3 +-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c                       |  7 ++-
 net/packet/af_packet.c                         | 10 ++--
 net/sched/act_api.c                            | 19 +++---
 net/sched/act_vlan.c                           |  9 +++
 net/sched/cls_api.c                            |  3 +-
 net/sctp/output.c                              |  8 ++-
 net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c                        | 12 ++--
 net/sctp/socket.c                              |  5 +-
 net/switchdev/switchdev.c                      |  9 +++
 47 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 209 deletions(-)