This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.8 release.
There are 35 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 Tue Nov 15 11:24:10 UTC 2016.
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-4.8.8-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-4.8.y
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 4.8.8-rc1
Felipe Balbi <felipe.ba...@linux.intel.com>
usb: dwc3: gadget: properly account queued requests
Ivan Vecera <ivec...@redhat.com>
arch/powerpc: Update parameters for csum_tcpudp_magic & csum_tcpudp_nofold
Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
packet: on direct_xmit, limit tso and csum to supported devices
Eli Cooper <elicoo...@gmx.com>
ip6_tunnel: Update skb->protocol to ETH_P_IPV6 in ip6_tnl_xmit()
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com>
sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it
Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com>
net sched filters: fix notification of filter delete with proper handle
David Ahern <d...@cumulusnetworks.com>
net: ipv6: Do not consider link state for nexthop validation
Tobias Brunner <tob...@strongswan.org>
macsec: Fix header length if SCI is added if explicitly disabled
Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>
netvsc: fix incorrect receive checksum offloading
Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
udp: fix IP_CHECKSUM handling
Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com>
sctp: fix the panic caused by route update
Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
net: sctp, forbid negative length
Fabio Estevam <fabio.este...@nxp.com>
net: fec: Call swap_buffer() prior to IP header alignment
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
ipv4: use the right lock for ping_group_range
Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
ipv4: disable BH in set_ping_group_range()
Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net>
net: add recursion limit to GRO
Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
net: core: Correctly iterate over lower adjacency list
Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
rtnetlink: Add rtnexthop offload flag to compare mask
Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
switchdev: Execute bridge ndos only for bridge ports
Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
bridge: multicast: restore perm router ports on multicast enable
Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
net: pktgen: remove rcu locking in pktgen_change_name()
Brenden Blanco <bbla...@plumgrid.com>
net/mlx4_en: fixup xdp tx irq to match rx
Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>
IB/ipoib: move back IB LL address into the hard header
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com>
ipv6: correctly add local routes when lo goes up
Vadim Fedorenko <j...@yandex-team.ru>
ip6_tunnel: fix ip6_tnl_lookup
Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
net: phy: Trigger state machine on state change and not polling.
Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
ipv6: tcp: restore IP6CB for pktoptions skbs
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
net_sched: reorder pernet ops and act ops registrations
Vlad Tsyrklevich <v...@tsyrklevich.net>
drivers/ptp: Fix kernel memory disclosure
Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()
Anoob Soman <anoob.so...@citrix.com>
packet: call fanout_release, while UNREGISTERING a netdev
Andrew Collins <acoll...@cradlepoint.com>
net: Add netdev all_adj_list refcnt propagation to fix panic
Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladk...@gmail.com>
net/sched: act_vlan: Push skb->data to mac_header prior calling
skb_vlan_*() functions
Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>
net: pktgen: fix pkt_size
Gavin Schenk <g.sch...@eckelmann.de>
net: fec: set mac address unconditionally
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/checksum.h | 12 ++--
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h | 20 +++++--
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c | 15 ++---
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c | 12 ++--
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 54 ++++++++++-------
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 18 +++---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_cq.c | 10 +++-
drivers/net/geneve.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 19 +++---
drivers/net/macsec.c | 26 ++++++---
drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 22 ++++++-
drivers/net/vxlan.c | 2 +-
drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 7 ++-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 41 ++++++++++++-
include/net/ip.h | 4 +-
include/net/ip6_route.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h | 2 +-
net/8021q/vlan.c | 2 +-
net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 23 +++++---
net/core/dev.c | 80 +++++++++++++++-----------
net/core/pktgen.c | 38 ++++++------
net/ethernet/eth.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/fou.c | 4 +-
net/ipv4/gre_offload.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 11 ++--
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 8 +--
net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 3 +
net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +-
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 20 ++++---
net/ipv6/udp.c | 3 +-
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 7 ++-
net/packet/af_packet.c | 10 ++--
net/sched/act_api.c | 19 +++---
net/sched/act_vlan.c | 9 +++
net/sched/cls_api.c | 3 +-
net/sctp/output.c | 8 ++-
net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 12 ++--
net/sctp/socket.c | 5 +-
net/switchdev/switchdev.c | 9 +++
47 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 209 deletions(-)
