This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.4 release. There are 57 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 Oct 23 09:14:19 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-4.8.4-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 ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 4.8.4-rc1 Glauber Costa <glau...@scylladb.com> cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes Vishal Verma <vishal.l.ve...@intel.com> acpi, nfit: check for the correct event code in notifications Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> drm: virtio: reinstate drm_virtio_set_busid() David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> cachefiles: Fix attempt to read i_blocks after deleting file [ver #2] Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com> vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL) Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com> dlm: free workqueues after the connections Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.ce...@canonical.com> crypto: vmx - Fix memory corruption caused by p8_ghash Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.ce...@canonical.com> crypto: ghash-generic - move common definitions to a new header file Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> ext4: unmap metadata when zeroing blocks gmail <yngs...@gmail.com> ext4: release bh in make_indexed_dir Ross Zwisler <ross.zwis...@linux.intel.com> ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com> ext4: fix memory leak when symlink decryption fails Fabian Frederick <f...@skynet.be> ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_insert_range() wangguang <wang.guan...@zte.com.cn> ext4: bugfix for mmaped pages in mpage_release_unused_pages() Daeho Jeong <daeho.je...@samsung.com> ext4: reinforce check of i_dtime when clearing high fields of uid and gid Eric Whitney <enwli...@gmail.com> ext4: enforce online defrag restriction for encrypted files Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> jbd2: fix lockdep annotation in add_transaction_credits() Wei Fang <fangw...@huawei.com> vfs,mm: fix a dead loop in truncate_inode_pages_range() Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schae...@de.ibm.com> mm/hugetlb: fix memory offline with hugepage size > memory block size Manfred Spraul <manf...@colorfullife.com> ipc/sem.c: fix complex_count vs. simple op race Brian King <brk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> scsi: ibmvfc: Fix I/O hang when port is not mapped Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> autofs: Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()->uid Justin Maggard <jmaggar...@gmail.com> async_pq_val: fix DMA memory leak Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de> reiserfs: Unlock superblock before calling reiserfs_quota_on_mount() Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_li...@m4x.org> ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call John Hsu <kch...@nuvoton.com> ASoC: nau8825: fix bug in FLL parameter Rafał Miłecki <ra...@milecki.pl> brcmfmac: use correct skb freeing helper when deleting flowring Rafał Miłecki <ra...@milecki.pl> brcmfmac: fix memory leak in brcmf_fill_bss_param Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_li...@m4x.org> brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> mm: filemap: don't plant shadow entries without radix tree node Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com> xfs: change mailing list address Guilherme G Piccoli <gpicc...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> i40e: avoid NULL pointer dereference and recursive errors on early PCI error Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> mm: filemap: fix mapping->nrpages double accounting in fuse Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com> fuse: fix killing s[ug]id in setattr Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com> fuse: invalidate dir dentry after chmod Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com> fuse: listxattr: verify xattr list Marcin Wojtas <m...@semihalf.com> clk: mvebu: dynamically allocate resources in Armada CP110 system controller Marcin Wojtas <m...@semihalf.com> clk: mvebu: fix setting unwanted flags in CP110 gate clock Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marcinis...@intel.com> IB/hfi1: Fix defered ack race with qp destroy Peng Fan <van.free...@gmail.com> drivers: base: dma-mapping: page align the size when unmap_kernel_range Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usys...@intel.com> mei: amthif: fix deadlock in initialization during a reset Junjie Mao <junjie....@enight.me> btrfs: assign error values to the correct bio structs Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com> Btrfs: catch invalid free space trees Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com> Btrfs: fix mount -o clear_cache,space_cache=v2 Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com> Btrfs: fix free space tree bitmaps on big-endian systems Christian Lamparter <chunk...@googlemail.com> carl9170: fix debugfs crashes Christian Lamparter <chunk...@googlemail.com> b43legacy: fix debugfs crash Christian Lamparter <chunk...@googlemail.com> b43: fix debugfs crash Christian Lamparter <chunk...@googlemail.com> debugfs: introduce a public file_operations accessor Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com> ARCv2: fix local_save_flags Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kole...@synopsys.com> ARCv2: intc: Use kflag if STATUS32.IE must be reset Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com> serial: 8250_port: fix runtime PM use in __do_stop_tx_rs485() Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.w...@huawei.com> serial: 8250_dw: Check the data->pclk when get apb_pclk Richard Genoud <richard.gen...@gmail.com> BUG: atmel_serial: Interrupts not disabled on close Sascha Hauer <s.ha...@pengutronix.de> serial: imx: Fix DCD reading ------------- Diffstat: MAINTAINERS | 7 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/include/asm/irqflags-arcv2.h | 2 +- arch/arc/kernel/intc-arcv2.c | 2 +- block/cfq-iosched.c | 13 +- crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c | 8 +- crypto/ghash-generic.c | 13 +- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 3 + drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h | 4 + drivers/base/dma-mapping.c | 2 +- drivers/clk/mvebu/cp110-system-controller.c | 31 +++-- drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c | 31 ++--- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drm_bus.c | 10 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.h | 1 + drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/rc.c | 5 +- drivers/misc/mei/amthif.c | 12 +- drivers/misc/mei/bus.c | 2 - drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 6 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/debugfs.c | 6 +- .../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 9 +- .../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 12 +- drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c | 1 - drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 11 +- drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 3 +- fs/attr.c | 15 +++ fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/compression.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 3 +- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 33 +++-- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 64 +++++++--- fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 22 ++++ fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c | 19 +-- fs/cachefiles/interface.c | 8 +- fs/cachefiles/internal.h | 3 +- fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 8 +- fs/debugfs/file.c | 13 +- fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 8 +- fs/ext4/extents.c | 3 + fs/ext4/inode.c | 24 ++-- fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 7 ++ fs/ext4/namei.c | 14 +-- fs/ext4/symlink.c | 3 +- fs/fuse/dir.c | 59 ++++++++- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 6 +- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 12 +- fs/utimes.c | 17 +-- include/crypto/ghash.h | 23 ++++ include/linux/debugfs.h | 17 +++ include/linux/fs.h | 1 + include/linux/radix-tree.h | 6 +- include/linux/sem.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h | 12 +- ipc/sem.c | 138 +++++++++++++-------- lib/radix-tree.c | 14 +-- mm/filemap.c | 51 +++++--- mm/hugetlb.c | 13 +- sound/soc/codecs/nau8825.c | 2 +- sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_pvt.c | 14 +-- 64 files changed, 581 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)