This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.63 release. There are 45 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 Apr 21 14:16:23 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-4.4.63-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 4.4.63-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> MIPS: fix Select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK patch. Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com> sctp: deny peeloff operation on asocs with threads sleeping on it Mantas M <graw...@gmail.com> net: ipv6: check route protocol when deleting routes Richard Genoud <richard.gen...@gmail.com> tty/serial: atmel: RS485 half duplex w/DMA: enable RX after TX is done NeilBrown <ne...@suse.com> SUNRPC: fix refcounting problems with auth_gss messages. Thomas Falcon <tlfal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> ibmveth: calculate gso_segs for large packets Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> catc: Use heap buffer for memory size test Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> catc: Combine failure cleanup code in catc_probe() Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> rtl8150: Use heap buffers for all register access Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com> virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack Stefan BrĂ¼ns <stefan.bru...@rwth-aachen.de> dvb-usb-firmware: don't do DMA on stack Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@s-opensource.com> dvb-usb: don't use stack for firmware load Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> mm: Tighten x86 /dev/mem with zeroing reads Thierry Reding <tred...@nvidia.com> rtc: tegra: Implement clock handling Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.ker...@gmail.com> platform/x86: acer-wmi: setup accelerometer when machine has appropriate notify event Daeho Jeong <daeho.je...@samsung.com> ext4: fix inode checksum calculation problem if i_extra_size is small Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> dvb-usb-v2: avoid use-after-free Miaoqing Pan <miaoq...@codeaurora.org> ath9k: fix NULL pointer dereference Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> crypto: ahash - Fix EINPROGRESS notification callback Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> powerpc: Disable HFSCR[TM] if TM is not supported Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> zram: do not use copy_page with non-page aligned address Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Revert "MIPS: Lantiq: Fix cascaded IRQ setup" Max Bires <jbi...@google.com> char: lack of bool string made CONFIG_DEVPORT always on Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> char: Drop bogus dependency of DEVPORT on !M68K Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org> ftrace: Fix removing of second function probe Tyler Baker <tyler.ba...@linaro.org> irqchip/irq-imx-gpcv2: Fix spinlock initialization Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> libnvdimm: fix reconfig_mutex, mmap_sem, and jbd2_handle lockdep splat Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> xen, fbfront: fix connecting to backend Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com> scsi: sd: Fix capacity calculation with 32-bit sector_t Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> scsi: sd: Consider max_xfer_blocks if opt_xfer_blocks is unusable Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com> scsi: sr: Sanity check returned mode data Nicholas Bellinger <n...@linux-iscsi.org> iscsi-target: Drop work-around for legacy GlobalSAN initiator Nicholas Bellinger <n...@linux-iscsi.org> iscsi-target: Fix TMR reference leak during session shutdown Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> acpi, nfit, libnvdimm: fix interleave set cookie calculation (64-bit comparison) Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> x86/vdso: Plug race between mapping and ELF header setup Mathias Krause <mini...@googlemail.com> x86/vdso: Ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> perf/x86: Avoid exposing wrong/stale data in intel_pmu_lbr_read_32() Cameron Gutman <aicomman...@gmail.com> Input: xpad - add support for Razer Wildcat gamepad Germano Percossi <germano.perco...@citrix.com> CIFS: store results of cifs_reopen_file to avoid infinite wait Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> drm/nouveau/mmu/nv4a: use nv04 mmu rather than the nv44 one Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu> drm/nouveau/mpeg: mthd returns true on success now Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs clear soft dirty race Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 4 +- arch/mips/lantiq/irq.c | 38 ++++++----- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 9 +++ arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c | 11 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c | 3 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 10 ++- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 41 +++++++++--- crypto/ahash.c | 79 ++++++++++++++-------- drivers/acpi/nfit.c | 6 +- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 6 +- drivers/char/Kconfig | 6 +- drivers/char/mem.c | 82 ++++++++++++++--------- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 12 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/device/base.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/mpeg/nv31.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/mpeg/nv44.c | 2 +- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 2 + drivers/irqchip/irq-imx-gpcv2.c | 2 + drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c | 9 +-- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-firmware.c | 33 +++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 12 +++- drivers/net/usb/catc.c | 56 ++++++++++------ drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 29 ++++++-- drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c | 34 ++++++++-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/common-spectral.c | 8 ++- drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 6 ++ drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 22 ++++-- drivers/rtc/rtc-tegra.c | 28 +++++++- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 23 ++++++- drivers/scsi/sr.c | 6 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c | 16 ----- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 12 ++-- drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 11 ++- drivers/video/fbdev/xen-fbfront.c | 4 +- fs/cifs/file.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 +- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 9 ++- include/crypto/internal/hash.h | 10 +++ include/linux/cgroup.h | 21 ++++++ include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++ kernel/cgroup.c | 9 +-- kernel/kthread.c | 3 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 20 ++++-- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 + net/sctp/socket.c | 8 ++- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 7 +- 48 files changed, 519 insertions(+), 217 deletions(-)