[PATCH 4.9 0/9] 4.9.27-stable review

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

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.27 release.
There are 9 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 Mon May  8 20:38:28 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-4.9.27-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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 4.9.27-rc1

Adrian Salido <salidoa@google.com>
    dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    cpu/hotplug: Serialize callback invocations proper

Yan, Zheng <zyan@redhat.com>
    ceph: try getting buffer capability for readahead/fadvise

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    8250_pci: Fix potential use-after-free in error path

Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    hwmon: (it87) Avoid registering the same chip on both SIO addresses

Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
    scsi: storvsc: Workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version

Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
    tpm_tis: use default timeout value if chip reports it as zero

Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
    Handle mismatched open calls

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                           |  4 +--
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c   | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/hwmon/it87.c               | 24 ++++++++++++----
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c              |  2 +-
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c         | 27 +++++++++++-------
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 12 ++++----
 fs/ceph/addr.c                     | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 fs/ceph/caps.c                     | 21 ++++++++++++++
 fs/ceph/file.c                     |  3 +-
 fs/ceph/super.h                    |  2 ++
 fs/cifs/cifsglob.h                 | 11 ++++++++
 fs/cifs/cifssmb.c                  |  4 +++
 fs/cifs/connect.c                  | 13 +++++++--
 fs/cifs/smb2misc.c                 | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/cifs/smb2ops.c                  |  4 +++
 fs/cifs/smb2proto.h                |  7 +++++
 fs/cifs/smb2transport.c            | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 fs/cifs/transport.c                |  2 ++
 fs/timerfd.c                       | 17 +++++++++--
 kernel/cpu.c                       | 17 +++++------
 20 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)