This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.40 release. There are 60 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 Fri Jan 6 20:06:51 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-4.4.40-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-4.4.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 4.4.40-rc1 Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> driver core: fix race between creating/querying glue dir and its cleanup Eric Sandeen <sand...@sandeen.net> xfs: set AGI buffer type in xlog_recover_clear_agi_bucket Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> arm/xen: Use alloc_percpu rather than __alloc_percpu Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> xen/gntdev: Use VM_MIXEDMAP instead of VM_IO to avoid NUMA balancing Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> tpm xen: Remove bogus tpm_chip_unregister Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org> kernel/debug/debug_core.c: more properly delay for secondary CPUs Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru> kernel/watchdog: use nmi registers snapshot in hardlockup handler Pavel Shilovsky <pshi...@microsoft.com> CIFS: Fix a possible memory corruption in push locks Pavel Shilovsky <pshi...@microsoft.com> CIFS: Fix missing nls unload in smb2_reconnect() Pavel Shilovsky <pshi...@microsoft.com> CIFS: Fix a possible memory corruption during reconnect Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> ASoC: intel: Fix crash at suspend/resume without card registration Benjamin Marzinski <bmarz...@redhat.com> dm space map metadata: fix 'struct sm_metadata' leak on failed create Ondrej Kozina <okoz...@redhat.com> dm crypt: mark key as invalid until properly loaded Wei Yongjun <weiyj...@gmail.com> dm flakey: return -EINVAL on interval bounds error in flakey_ctr() Bart Van Assche <bart.vanass...@sandisk.com> blk-mq: Do not invoke .queue_rq() for a stopped queue Felipe Balbi <felipe.ba...@linux.intel.com> usb: gadget: composite: always set ep->mult to a sensible value Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files Aleksa Sarai <asa...@suse.de> fs: exec: apply CLOEXEC before changing dumpable task flags Shaohua Li <s...@fb.com> mm/vmscan.c: set correct defer count for shrinker Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com> loop: return proper error from loop_queue_rq() Nicolai Stange <nicsta...@gmail.com> f2fs: set ->owner for debugfs status file's file_operations Sergey Karamov <skara...@google.com> ext4: do not perform data journaling when data is encrypted Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> ext4: return -ENOMEM instead of success Darrick J. Wong <darrick.w...@oracle.com> ext4: reject inodes with negative size Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> ext4: add sanity checking to count_overhead() Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> ext4: fix in-superblock mount options processing Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> ext4: use more strict checks for inodes_per_block on mount Chandan Rajendra <chan...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> ext4: fix stack memory corruption with 64k block size Chandan Rajendra <chan...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> ext4: fix mballoc breakage with 64k block size Alex Porosanu <alexandru.poros...@nxp.com> crypto: caam - fix AEAD givenc descriptors Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks NeilBrown <ne...@suse.com> block_dev: don't test bdev->bd_contains when it is not stable Wang Xiaoguang <wangxg.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> btrfs: make file clone aware of fatal signals Josef Bacik <jba...@fb.com> Btrfs: don't BUG() during drop snapshot Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com> Btrfs: fix memory leak in do_walk_down Josef Bacik <jba...@fb.com> Btrfs: don't leak reloc root nodes on error Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com> Btrfs: return gracefully from balance if fs tree is corrupted Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com> Btrfs: bail out if block group has different mixed flag Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com> Btrfs: fix memory leak in reading btree blocks Richard Watts <r...@kynesim.co.uk> clk: ti: omap36xx: Work around sprz319 advisory 2.1 Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.f...@canonical.com> ALSA: hda: when comparing pin configurations, ignore assoc in addition to seq Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> ALSA: hda - Gate the mic jack on HP Z1 Gen3 AiO Hui Wang <hui.w...@canonical.com> ALSA: hda - fix headset-mic problem on a Dell laptop Hui Wang <hui.w...@canonical.com> ALSA: hda - ignore the assoc and seq when comparing pin configurations Sven Hahne <ha...@zeitkunst.eu> ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Add quirk for Alienware 15 R2 2016 Jussi Laako <ju...@sonarnerd.net> ALSA: hiface: Fix M2Tech hiFace driver sampling rate change Con Kolivas <c...@kolivas.org> ALSA: usb-audio: Add QuickCam Communicate Deluxe/S7500 to volume_control_quirks Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> USB: UHCI: report non-PME wakeup signalling for Intel hardware Felipe Balbi <felipe.ba...@linux.intel.com> usb: gadget: composite: correctly initialize ep->maxpacket Peter Chen <peter.c...@nxp.com> usb: gadget: f_uac2: fix error handling at afunc_bind Mathias Nyman <mathias.ny...@linux.intel.com> usb: hub: Fix auto-remount of safely removed or ejected USB-3 devices Nathaniel Quillin <n...@google.com> USB: cdc-acm: add device id for GW Instek AFG-125 Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org> USB: serial: kl5kusb105: fix open error path Giuseppe Lippolis <giu.lippo...@gmail.com> USB: serial: option: add dlink dwm-158 Daniele Palmas <dnl...@gmail.com> USB: serial: option: add support for Telit LE922A PIDs 0x1040, 0x1041 Filipe Manana <fdman...@suse.com> Btrfs: fix qgroup rescan worker initialization David Sterba <dste...@suse.com> btrfs: store and load values of stripes_min/stripes_max in balance status item Robbie Ko <robbi...@synology.com> Btrfs: fix tree search logic when replaying directory entry deletes Maxim Patlasov <mpatla...@virtuozzo.com> btrfs: limit async_work allocation and worker func duration ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 3 +- block/blk-mq.c | 6 +- drivers/base/core.c | 39 ++++++-- drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +- drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c | 1 - drivers/clk/ti/clk-3xxx.c | 20 ++-- drivers/clk/ti/clock.h | 9 ++ drivers/clk/ti/dpll.c | 19 +++- drivers/clk/ti/dpll3xxx.c | 67 ++++++++++++++ drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 7 +- drivers/md/dm-flakey.c | 2 + drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.c | 14 ++- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 101 ++++++++------------- drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 11 ++- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac2.c | 14 +-- drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_video.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/uhci-pci.c | 4 + drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c | 33 +++++-- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 7 ++ drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 2 +- fs/block_dev.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/async-thread.c | 14 +++ fs/btrfs/async-thread.h | 1 + fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 4 + fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 51 +++++++++-- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 9 ++ fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 5 + fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 5 +- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 27 ++++-- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 3 +- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 3 + fs/cifs/cifsproto.h | 3 + fs/cifs/connect.c | 34 +++++-- fs/cifs/smb2file.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 77 +++++++++++----- fs/cifs/smb2proto.h | 1 + fs/exec.c | 32 ++++++- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h | 14 +-- fs/ext4/inline.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 ++ fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 69 ++++++++------ fs/f2fs/debug.c | 1 + fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c | 1 + include/linux/capability.h | 2 + include/linux/mm_types.h | 1 + include/linux/ptrace.h | 1 - include/linux/sched.h | 1 + kernel/capability.c | 36 +++++++- kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 4 +- kernel/fork.c | 9 +- kernel/ptrace.c | 28 +++--- kernel/watchdog.c | 1 - mm/init-mm.c | 2 + mm/vmscan.c | 14 ++- sound/pci/hda/hda_auto_parser.c | 4 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 17 ++++ sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 3 + sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c | 6 ++ sound/usb/hiface/pcm.c | 2 + sound/usb/mixer.c | 3 +- 66 files changed, 630 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-)