[PATCH 4.9 00/27] 4.9.70-stable review

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

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.70 release.
There are 27 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 Sun Dec 17 09:22:42 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-4.9.70-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 4.9.70-rc1

Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
    RDMA/cxgb4: Annotate r2 and stag as __be32

Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
    md: free unused memory after bitmap resize

Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
    audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1

Keefe Liu <liuqifa@huawei.com>
    ipvlan: fix ipv6 outbound device

Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    kbuild: do not call cc-option before KBUILD_CFLAGS initialization

Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
    powerpc/64: Fix checksum folding in csum_tcpudp_nofold and ip_fast_csum_nofold

Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
    KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Preserve the revious read from the pending table

Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
    fix kcm_clone()

Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>
    usb: gadget: ffs: Forbid usb_ep_alloc_request from sleeping

Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    s390: always save and restore all registers on context switch

Masamitsu Yamazaki <m-yamazaki@ah.jp.nec.com>
    ipmi: Stop timers before cleaning up the module

Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
    Fix handling of verdicts after NF_QUEUE

Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
    tipc: call tipc_rcv() only if bearer is up in tipc_udp_recv()

Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    s390/qeth: fix thinko in IPv4 multicast address tracking

Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    s390/qeth: fix GSO throughput regression

Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    s390/qeth: build max size GSO skbs on L2 devices

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    tcp/dccp: block bh before arming time_wait timer

Lars Persson <lars.persson@axis.com>
    stmmac: reset last TSO segment size after device open

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    net: remove hlist_nulls_add_tail_rcu()

Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
    usbnet: fix alignment for frames with no ethernet header

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()

Mike Maloney <maloney@google.com>
    packet: fix crash in fanout_demux_rollover()

Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
    sit: update frag_off info

Håkon Bugge <Haakon.Bugge@oracle.com>
    rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __rds_rdma_map

Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
    tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()

Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    s390/qeth: fix early exit from error path

Sebastian Sjoholm <ssjoholm@mac.com>
    net: qmi_wwan: add Quectel BG96 2c7c:0296


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                          | 25 ++++----
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h               | 17 ++++--
 arch/s390/include/asm/switch_to.h                 | 19 +++---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c                  | 44 +++++++-------
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4fw_ri_api.h         |  4 +-
 drivers/md/bitmap.c                               |  9 +++
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c |  1 +
 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c                  |  2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c                        |  3 +
 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c                          |  5 +-
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h                      |  3 +
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c                 | 31 ++++++++++
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c                   |  4 +-
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c                   | 13 +++--
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c                |  2 +-
 include/linux/rculist_nulls.h                     | 38 ------------
 include/linux/usb/usbnet.h                        |  1 +
 include/net/sock.h                                |  6 +-
 kernel/audit.c                                    | 10 ++--
 net/dccp/minisocks.c                              |  6 ++
 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c                          |  6 ++
 net/ipv6/sit.c                                    |  1 +
 net/kcm/kcmsock.c                                 | 71 ++++++++---------------
 net/netfilter/core.c                              |  5 ++
 net/packet/af_packet.c                            | 37 +++++-------
 net/packet/internal.h                             |  1 -
 net/rds/rdma.c                                    |  2 +-
 net/tipc/server.c                                 |  1 +
 net/tipc/udp_media.c                              |  4 --
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c                      |  2 +-
 30 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)