Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/18] 4.9.48-stable review

Sumit Semwal
2017-09-05T09:30:02Z

Hi Greg,

On 5 September 2017 at 12:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.48 release.
> There are 18 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 Sep 7 07:09:06 UTC 2017.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

For ARM64, built and boot-tested with defconfig on Hikey - no regressions noted.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.48-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
>
> -------------
> Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Linux 4.9.48-rc1
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> epoll: fix race between ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) and ep_free()/ep_remove()
>
> Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> kvm: arm/arm64: Force reading uncached stage2 PGD
>
> Xiangliang.Yu <Xiangliang.Yu@amd.com>
> drm/ttm: Fix accounting error when fail to get pages for pool
>
> Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
> xfrm: policy: check policy direction value
>
> Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
> lib/mpi: kunmap after finishing accessing buffer
>
> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init()
>
> Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> CIFS: remove endian related sparse warning
>
> Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
> CIFS: Fix maximum SMB2 header size
>
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
>
> Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> cpuset: Fix incorrect memory_pressure control file mapping
>
> Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> cpumask: fix spurious cpumask_of_node() on non-NUMA multi-node configs
>
> Yan, Zheng <zyan@redhat.com>
> ceph: fix readpage from fscache
>
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> mm, madvise: ensure poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists
>
> Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area
>
> Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
> crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages
>
> Stephen Douthit <stephend@adiengineering.com>
> i2c: ismt: Return EMSGSIZE for block reads with bogus length
>
> Stephen Douthit <stephend@adiengineering.com>
> i2c: ismt: Don't duplicate the receive length for block reads
>
> James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> irqchip: mips-gic: SYNC after enabling GIC region
>
>
> -------------
>
> Diffstat:
>
> Makefile | 4 ++--
> arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h | 2 +-
> arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h | 12 +++++++++-
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
> crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 9 ++++++--
> drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c | 6 +++--
> drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c | 5 ++++-
> drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/main.c | 1 +
> fs/ceph/addr.c | 24 ++++++++++++--------
> fs/ceph/cache.c | 12 +++-------
> fs/cifs/dir.c | 2 +-
> fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h | 4 ++--
> fs/eventpoll.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> include/asm-generic/topology.h | 6 ++++-
> kernel/cpuset.c | 1 +
> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 --
> kernel/fork.c | 8 +++++++
> lib/mpi/mpicoder.c | 4 +++-
> mm/madvise.c | 7 ++++++
> net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 6 +++++
> 21 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>
>

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Thanks and regards,

Sumit Semwal
Linaro Mobile Group - Kernel Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs