[PATCH 4.9 0/9] 4.9.27-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-05-06T20:42:57Z

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(-)