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
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Linux 4.4.63-rc1
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
MIPS: fix Select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK patch.
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <[email protected]>
sctp: deny peeloff operation on asocs with threads sleeping on it
Mantas M <[email protected]>
net: ipv6: check route protocol when deleting routes
Richard Genoud <[email protected]>
tty/serial: atmel: RS485 half duplex w/DMA: enable RX after TX is done
NeilBrown <[email protected]>
SUNRPC: fix refcounting problems with auth_gss messages.
Thomas Falcon <[email protected]>
ibmveth: calculate gso_segs for large packets
Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
catc: Use heap buffer for memory size test
Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
catc: Combine failure cleanup code in catc_probe()
Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
rtl8150: Use heap buffers for all register access
Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access
Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack
Stefan Brüns <[email protected]>
dvb-usb-firmware: don't do DMA on stack
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
dvb-usb: don't use stack for firmware load
Kees Cook <[email protected]>
mm: Tighten x86 /dev/mem with zeroing reads
Thierry Reding <[email protected]>
rtc: tegra: Implement clock handling
Lee, Chun-Yi <[email protected]>
platform/x86: acer-wmi: setup accelerometer when machine has appropriate
notify event
Daeho Jeong <[email protected]>
ext4: fix inode checksum calculation problem if i_extra_size is small
Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
dvb-usb-v2: avoid use-after-free
Miaoqing Pan <[email protected]>
ath9k: fix NULL pointer dereference
Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
crypto: ahash - Fix EINPROGRESS notification callback
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
powerpc: Disable HFSCR[TM] if TM is not supported
Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
zram: do not use copy_page with non-page aligned address
Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "MIPS: Lantiq: Fix cascaded IRQ setup"
Max Bires <[email protected]>
char: lack of bool string made CONFIG_DEVPORT always on
Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
char: Drop bogus dependency of DEVPORT on !M68K
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
ftrace: Fix removing of second function probe
Tyler Baker <[email protected]>
irqchip/irq-imx-gpcv2: Fix spinlock initialization
Dan Williams <[email protected]>
libnvdimm: fix reconfig_mutex, mmap_sem, and jbd2_handle lockdep splat
Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen, fbfront: fix connecting to backend
Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
scsi: sd: Fix capacity calculation with 32-bit sector_t
Fam Zheng <[email protected]>
scsi: sd: Consider max_xfer_blocks if opt_xfer_blocks is unusable
Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
scsi: sr: Sanity check returned mode data
Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>
iscsi-target: Drop work-around for legacy GlobalSAN initiator
Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>
iscsi-target: Fix TMR reference leak during session shutdown
Dan Williams <[email protected]>
acpi, nfit, libnvdimm: fix interleave set cookie calculation (64-bit
comparison)
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
x86/vdso: Plug race between mapping and ELF header setup
Mathias Krause <[email protected]>
x86/vdso: Ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only
Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
perf/x86: Avoid exposing wrong/stale data in intel_pmu_lbr_read_32()
Cameron Gutman <[email protected]>
Input: xpad - add support for Razer Wildcat gamepad
Germano Percossi <[email protected]>
CIFS: store results of cifs_reopen_file to avoid infinite wait
Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]>
drm/nouveau/mmu/nv4a: use nv04 mmu rather than the nv44 one
Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]>
drm/nouveau/mpeg: mthd returns true on success now
Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs clear soft dirty race
Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to
non-root cgroups
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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(-)
