This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.12.2 release. There are 10 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 Sat Jul 15 15:40:02 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-4.12.2-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-4.12.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 4.12.2-rc1 Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com> x86/mm/pat: Don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it Chao Yu <yuch...@huawei.com> ext4: check return value of kstrtoull correctly in reserved_clusters_store Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - use constant time memory comparison for MACs Horia Geantă <horia.gea...@nxp.com> crypto: caam - fix gfp allocation flags (part I) Ian Abbott <abbo...@mev.co.uk> staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init() Malcolm Priestley <tvbox...@gmail.com> staging: vt6556: vnt_start Fix missing call to vnt_key_init_table. Kirill Tkhai <ktk...@virtuozzo.com> locking/rwsem-spinlock: Fix EINTR branch in __down_write_common() Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.se...@collabora.com> imx-serial: RX DMA startup latency Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++ arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 28 ++++++++++------------- crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c | 3 +-- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 1 + drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 3 +++ drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 26 +++++----------------- fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 2 +- fs/proc/internal.h | 2 +- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- include/linux/sysctl.h | 2 +- ipc/mqueue.c | 4 +++- kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 4 ++-- 15 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)