I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.78 kernel. All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Documentation/x86/pti.txt | 2 Makefile | 2 arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dts | 10 + arch/arm/configs/sunxi_defconfig | 2 arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 4 arch/mips/ar7/platform.c | 2 arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 11 + arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 13 + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 16 +- arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h | 1 arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c | 7 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 36 ++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 1 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 23 ++- arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 1 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 5 arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7 drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c | 1 drivers/input/misc/twl4030-vibra.c | 6 drivers/input/misc/twl6040-vibra.c | 3 drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 23 +-- drivers/input/mouse/alps.h | 10 - drivers/input/touchscreen/88pm860x-ts.c | 16 +- drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 6 drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 19 -- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c | 21 +- drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 203 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/nvdimm/btt.h | 45 +++++ drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 1 drivers/scsi/sg.c | 30 +-- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c | 1 fs/pipe.c | 17 +- fs/proc/array.c | 7 include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 - include/scsi/sg.h | 1 kernel/futex.c | 3 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 kernel/time/timer.c | 2 kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 16 +- kernel/workqueue.c | 13 + net/key/af_key.c | 8 + scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | 2 sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 1 sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 3 sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.h | 1 sound/pci/hda/patch_cirrus.c | 1 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 tools/objtool/elf.c | 4 tools/perf/Makefile.config | 38 ++--- tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 2 tools/perf/arch/Build | 2 tools/perf/pmu-events/Build | 4 tools/perf/tests/Build | 2 tools/perf/util/header.c | 2 60 files changed, 525 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-) Alexey Dobriyan (1): proc: fix coredump vs read /proc/*/stat race Andi Kleen (2): module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB Arnd Bergmann (1): phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices David Woodhouse (1): x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs Dennis Yang (1): dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6 Eric Biggers (2): af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len() af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs() Eric W. Biederman (1): x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 4.9.78 Hannes Reinecke (1): scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA Jiada Wang (1): perf tools: Fix build with ARCH=x86_64 Joe Lawrence (1): pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit Joe Thornber (1): dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath() Johan Hovold (3): Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup Jonas Gorski (1): MIPS: AR7: ensure the port type's FCR value is used Josh Poimboeuf (1): objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument Len Brown (1): x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon Li Jinyue (1): futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation Marc Zyngier (1): arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls Masami Hiramatsu (3): retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk Maxime Ripard (1): ARM: sunxi_defconfig: Enable CMA Nir Perry (1): Input: ALPS - fix multi-touch decoding on SS4 plus touchpads Paolo Bonzini (1): x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features Sagi Grimberg (1): iser-target: Fix possible use-after-free in connection establishment error Sergey Senozhatsky (1): workqueue: avoid hard lockups in show_workqueue_state() Shuah Khan (1): usbip: fix warning in vhci_hcd_probe/lockdep_init_map Stephane Grosjean (1): can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1): tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update() Takashi Iwai (4): ALSA: seq: Make ioctls race-free ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON() ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1 Thomas Gleixner (3): timers: Unconditionally check deferrable base x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected Thomas Petazzoni (1): ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7 Tom Lendacky (2): x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors Tomas Henzl (1): scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state Vishal Verma (1): libnvdimm, btt: Fix an incompatibility in the log layout Xi Kangjie (1): scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py: fix get_thread_info Xinyu Lin (1): libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices Xunlei Pang (1): sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks zhenwei.pi (1): x86/pti: Document fix wrong index