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From: Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 16:40:51 -0700
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Subject: Re: Linux 4.9-rc8
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I'm not seeing a tag at
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/
. Was it pushed?

Thanks
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Robert LeBlanc
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On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> So if anybody has been following the git tree, it should come as no
> surprise that I ended up doing an rc8 after all: things haven't been
> bad, but it also hasn't been the complete quiet that would have made
> me go "no point in doing another week".
>
> Extra kudos to Arnd, who actually root-caused the incredibly annoying
> "modversions do not work with new versions of binutils", bisecting it
> to a particular change to symbol handling in binutils, and then adding
> a small one-liner patch to the kernel to work around the issue. We
> already had other workarounds in place, but it's always good to know
> exactly what in the tool chain changed to cause things like this.
>
> But that one-liner was just one of 163 small fixes (not counting
> merges) in rc8. That's pretty small (for the kernel), but certainly
> not completely quiet. Full details appended, but it's mostly
> networking (error path leaks stand out, but it's a random collection)
> and random drivers, with a couple of small fixes to core stuff
> (vm/fs/kernel).
>
>              Linus
>
> ---
>
> Aaron Lu (1):
>       mremap: move_ptes: check pte dirty after its removal
>
> Alex Deucher (1):
>       drm/radeon: fix check for port PM availability
>
> Alexander Duyck (2):
>       igb/igbvf: Don't use lco_csum to compute IPv4 checksum
>       ixgbe/ixgbevf: Don't use lco_csum to compute IPv4 checksum
>
> Amir Vadai (1):
>       net/sched: pedit: make sure that offset is valid
>
> Anders K. Pedersen (1):
>       netfilter: nf_tables: fix inconsistent element expiration calculation
>
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
>       GSO: Reload iph after pskb_may_pull
>
> Arnd Bergmann (2):
>       irda: fix overly long udelay()
>       default exported asm symbols to zero
>
> Artem Savkov (1):
>       ip6_offload: check segs for NULL in ipv6_gso_segment.
>
> Axel Lin (1):
>       pwm: meson: Add missing spin_lock_init()
>
> Borislav Petkov (1):
>       amd-xgbe: Fix unused suspend handlers build warning
>
> Brian Norris (1):
>       mwifiex: printk() overflow with 32-byte SSIDs
>
> Chen-Yu Tsai (1):
>       clk: sunxi-ng: sun6i-a31: Enable PLL-MIPI LDOs when ungating it
>
> Chris Brandt (1):
>       sh_eth: remove unchecked interrupts for RZ/A1
>
> Chris Wilson (2):
>       drm/i915: Don't touch NULL sg on i915_gem_object_get_pages_gtt() error
>       lib/debugobjects: export for use in modules
>
> Christoph Hellwig (1):
>       ahci: always fall back to single-MSI mode
>
> Cyrille Pitchen (1):
>       net: macb: fix the RX queue reset in macb_rx()
>
> Dan Carpenter (3):
>       scsi: be2iscsi: allocate enough memory in beiscsi_boot_get_sinfo()
>       KVM: use after free in kvm_ioctl_create_device()
>       net: renesas: ravb: unintialized return value
>
> Daniel Borkmann (1):
>       net, sched: respect rcu grace period on cls destruction
>
> Daniele Di Proietto (1):
>       openvswitch: Fix skb leak in IPv6 reassembly.
>
> Daniele Palmas (1):
>       NET: usb: qmi_wwan: add support for Telit LE922A PID 0x1040
>
> David Ahern (3):
>       netfilter: Update ip_route_me_harder to consider L3 domain
>       netfilter: Update nf_send_reset6 to consider L3 domain
>       net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6_send
>
> Dmitry Torokhov (1):
>       Input: psmouse - disable automatic probing of BYD touchpads
>
> Dmitry Vyukov (2):
>       kasan: update kasan_global for gcc 7
>       kasan: support use-after-scope detection
>
> Eli Cooper (3):
>       ipv4: Set skb->protocol properly for local output
>       ipv6: Set skb->protocol properly for local output
>       Revert: "ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()"
>
> Eric Dumazet (2):
>       net/dccp: fix use-after-free in dccp_invalid_packet
>       net: avoid signed overflows for SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE
>
> Eryu Guan (1):
>       CIFS: iterate over posix acl xattr entry correctly in ACL_to_cifs_posix()
>
> Fabio Estevam (2):
>       MAINTAINERS: Update Richard Zhu's email address
>       MAINTAINERS: Add devicetree binding to PCI i.MX6 entry
>
> Florian Fainelli (2):
>       clk: bcm: Fix unmet Kconfig dependencies for CLK_BCM_63XX
>       net: bcmgenet: Utilize correct struct device for all DMA operations
>
> Florian Westphal (6):
>       xfrm: unbreak xfrm_sk_policy_lookup
>       netfilter: fix nf_conntrack_helper documentation
>       netfilter: nat: fix cmp return value
>       netfilter: nat: switch to new rhlist interface
>       netfilter: nat: fix crash when conntrack entry is re-used
>       netfilter: ipv6: nf_defrag: drop mangled skb on ream error
>
> Gao Feng (2):
>       driver: ipvlan: Fix one possible memleak in ipvlan_link_new
>       driver: macvtap: Unregister netdev rx_handler if macvtap_newlink fails
>
> Grygorii Strashko (1):
>       net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix ASSERT_RTNL() warning during resume
>
> Guillaume Nault (5):
>       l2tp: lock socket before checking flags in connect()
>       l2tp: hold socket before dropping lock in l2tp_ip{, 6}_recv()
>       l2tp: fix racy socket lookup in l2tp_ip and l2tp_ip6 bind()
>       l2tp: fix lookup for sockets not bound to a device in l2tp_ip
>       l2tp: fix address test in __l2tp_ip6_bind_lookup()
>
> Haishuang Yan (1):
>       vxlan: fix a potential issue when create a new vxlan fdb entry.
>
> Hannes Reinecke (2):
>       libata-scsi: Fixup ata_gen_passthru_sense()
>       scsi: hpsa: use bus '3' for legacy HBA devices
>
> Hariprasad Shenai (1):
>       cxgb4: Add PCI device ID for new adapter
>
> Herbert Xu (1):
>       netlink: Call cb->done from a worker thread
>
> Hongxu Jia (1):
>       netfilter: arp_tables: fix invoking 32bit "iptable -P INPUT
> ACCEPT" failed in 64bit kernel
>
> Icenowy Zheng (1):
>       clk: sunxi-ng: enable so-said LDOs for A33 SoC's pll-mipi clock
>
> Jack Morgenstein (1):
>       net/mlx4: Fix uninitialized fields in rule when adding
> promiscuous mode to device managed flow steering
>
> Jan Glauber (1):
>       Revert "i2c: octeon: thunderx: Limit register access retries"
>
> Jason Wang (2):
>       tun: handle ubuf refcount correctly when meet errors
>       macvtap: handle ubuf refcount correctly when meet errors
>
> Jeremy Linton (1):
>       arm64: dts: juno: Correct PCI IO window
>
> Jiri Pirko (1):
>       sched: cls_flower: remove from hashtable only in case skip sw
> flag is not set
>
> Joao Pinto (2):
>       PCI: designware: Change maintainer to Joao Pinto
>       PCI: designware-plat: Update author email
>
> Johan Hovold (29):
>       net: dsa: fix fixed-link-phy device leaks
>       net: bcmgenet: fix phydev reference leak
>       net: fsl/fman: fix phydev reference leak
>       net: fsl/fman: fix fixed-link-phydev reference leak
>       net: qcom/emac: fix of_node and phydev leaks
>       pwm: Fix device reference leak
>       net: dsa: slave: fix of-node leak and phy priority
>       of_mdio: add helper to deregister fixed-link PHYs
>       net: ethernet: altera: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: aurora: nb8800: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: bcmsysport: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: bcmgenet: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: fec: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: fs_enet: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: gianfar: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: ucc_geth: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: marvell: mvneta: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: mediatek: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: renesas: ravb: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: dwc_eth_qos: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: ti: davinci_emac: fix fixed-link phydev and of-node leaks
>       net: dsa: slave: fix fixed-link phydev leaks
>       net: ethernet: stmmac: dwmac-socfpga: fix use-after-free on probe errors
>       net: ethernet: stmmac: dwmac-sti: fix probe error path
>       net: ethernet: stmmac: dwmac-rk: fix probe error path
>       net: ethernet: stmmac: dwmac-generic: fix probe error path
>       net: ethernet: stmmac: dwmac-meson8b: fix probe error path
>       net: ethernet: stmmac: platform: fix outdated function header
>       net: ethernet: stmmac: fix of-node and fixed-link-phydev leaks
>
> Johannes Thumshirn (3):
>       scsi: libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset miscalculation
>       PCI: Export pcie_find_root_port
>       PCI: Set Read Completion Boundary to 128 iff Root Port supports it (_HPX)
>
> Jon Paul Maloy (1):
>       tipc: fix link statistics counter errors
>
> Josef Bacik (1):
>       bpf: fix states equal logic for varlen access
>
> Julian Wollrath (1):
>       tcp: Set DEFAULT_TCP_CONG to bbr if DEFAULT_BBR is set
>
> Jérémy Lefaure (1):
>       mm, thp: propagation of conditional compilation in khugepaged.c
>
> Kirill A. Shutemov (2):
>       thp: fix corner case of munlock() of PTE-mapped THPs
>       mm: fix false-positive WARN_ON() in truncate/invalidate for hugetlb
>
> Kristian Evensen (1):
>       cdc_ether: Fix handling connection notification
>
> Laura Garcia Liebana (1):
>       netfilter: nft_hash: validate maximum value of u32 netlink hash attribute
>
> Lino Sanfilippo (2):
>       net: ethernet: altera: TSE: Remove unneeded dma sync for tx buffers
>       net: ethernet: altera: TSE: do not use tx queue lock in tx
> completion handler
>
> Linus Torvalds (3):
>       Re-enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in a slightly weaker form
>       Fix up a couple of field names in the CREDITS file
>       Linux 4.9-rc8
>
> Liping Zhang (1):
>       netfilter: nft_range: add the missing NULL pointer check
>
> Loic Pallardy (1):
>       ARM: dts: STiH407-family: fix i2c nodes
>
> Marc Zyngier (1):
>       KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't notify EOI for non-SPIs
>
> Martin Blumenstingl (2):
>       Documentation: devicetree: clarify usage of the RGMII phy-modes
>       net: phy: realtek: fix enabling of the TX-delay for RTL8211F
>
> Matthew Auld (1):
>       drm/i915: drop the struct_mutex when wedged or trying to reset
>
> Maxime Ripard (1):
>       ARM: gr8: Rename the DTSI and relevant DTS
>
> Michael Holzheu (1):
>       bpf/samples: Fix PT_REGS_IP on s390x and use it
>
> Michal Hocko (2):
>       mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr in count_shadow_nodes
>       mm, vmscan: add cond_resched() into shrink_node_memcg()
>
> Michal Kubeček (1):
>       tipc: check minimum bearer MTU
>
> Michel Dänzer (1):
>       drm: Don't call drm_for_each_crtc with a non-KMS driver
>
> Mike Rapoport (1):
>       isofs: add KERN_CONT to printing of ER records
>
> Miklos Szeredi (1):
>       ovl: fix d_real() for stacked fs
>
> Miroslav Urbanek (1):
>       flowcache: Increase threshold for refusing new allocations
>
> Nicolas Dichtel (1):
>       vti6: flush x-netns xfrm cache when vti interface is removed
>
> Nicolas Pitre (2):
>       kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early
>       kbuild: fix building bzImage with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS enabled
>
> Nikita Yushchenko (2):
>       net: dsa: fix unbalanced dsa_switch_tree reference counting
>       net: fec: cache statistics while device is down
>
> Peter Wu (1):
>       drm/amdgpu: fix check for port PM availability
>
> Philip Pettersson (1):
>       packet: fix race condition in packet_set_ring
>
> Ping Cheng (1):
>       Input: change KEY_DATA from 0x275 to 0x277
>
> Rex Zhu (1):
>       drm/amd/powerplay: initialize the soft_regs offset in struct smu7_hwmgr
>
> Robin Murphy (1):
>       drm: hdlcd: Fix cleanup order
>
> Roi Dayan (1):
>       net/sched: Export tc_tunnel_key so its UAPI accessible
>
> Sabrina Dubroca (1):
>       geneve: avoid use-after-free of skb->data
>
> Sachin Prabhu (2):
>       CIFS: Fix BUG() in calc_seckey()
>       Call echo service immediately after socket reconnect
>
> Sowmini Varadhan (1):
>       RDS: TCP: unregister_netdevice_notifier() in error path of
> rds_tcp_init_net
>
> Stephane Grosjean (2):
>       can: peak: Fix bittiming fields size in bits
>       can: peak: Add support for PCAN-USB X6 USB interface
>
> Sudeep Holla (1):
>       arm64: dts: juno: fix cluster sleep state entry latency on all
> SoC versions
>
> Suganath Prabu S (1):
>       scsi: mpt3sas: Unblock device after controller reset
>
> Takashi Iwai (1):
>       zram: fix unbalanced idr management at hot removal
>
> Tariq Toukan (1):
>       Revert "net/mlx4_en: Avoid unregister_netdev at shutdown flow"
>
> Tobias Brunner (2):
>       esp4: Fix integrity verification when ESN are used
>       esp6: Fix integrity verification when ESN are used
>
> Tobias Klauser (1):
>       net/rtnetlink: fix attribute name in nlmsg_size() comments
>
> Tushar Dave (2):
>       qlogicpti: Fix compiler warnings
>       dbri: Fix compiler warning
>
> Vineet Gupta (2):
>       ARC: Don't use "+l" inline asm constraint
>       ARC: mm: IOC: Don't enable IOC by default
>
> Wei Yongjun (1):
>       mvsas: fix error return code in mvs_task_prep()
>
> Yi Zhao (1):
>       xfrm_user: fix return value from xfrm_user_rcv_msg
>
> Yuriy Kolerov (1):
>       ARC: mm: PAE40: Fix crash at munmap
>
> Zumeng Chen (1):
>       net: macb: ensure ordering write to re-enable RX smoothly
>
> allan (1):
>       net: asix: Fix AX88772_suspend() USB vendor commands failure issues