This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.78 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 Fri Jul 21 11:12:31 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-4.4.78-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 4.4.78-rc1 Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zh...@intel.com> kvm: vmx: allow host to access guest MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS Jim Mattson <jmatt...@google.com> kvm: vmx: Check value written to IA32_BNDCFGS Jim Mattson <jmatt...@google.com> kvm: x86: Guest BNDCFGS requires guest MPX support Jim Mattson <jmatt...@google.com> kvm: vmx: Do not disable intercepts for BNDCFGS Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features Pavankumar Kondeti <pkond...@codeaurora.org> tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> PM / QoS: return -EINVAL for bogus strings Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> PM / wakeirq: Convert to SRCU Lauro Ramos Venancio <lvena...@redhat.com> sched/topology: Optimize build_group_mask() Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> sched/topology: Fix overlapping sched_group_mask Horia Geantă <horia.gea...@nxp.com> crypto: caam - fix signals handling Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> crypto: sha1-ssse3 - Disable avx2 Gilad Ben-Yossef <gi...@benyossef.com> crypto: atmel - only treat EBUSY as transient if backlog Martin Hicks <m...@bork.org> crypto: talitos - Extend max key length for SHA384/512-HMAC and AEAD Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards() Josh Zimmerman <jo...@google.com> tpm: Issue a TPM2_Shutdown for TPM2 devices. Josh Zimmerman <jo...@google.com> Add "shutdown" to "struct class". Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> tpm: Provide strong locking for device removal Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> tpm: Get rid of chip->pdev Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> selftests/capabilities: Fix the test_execve test Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> mnt: Make propagate_umount less slow for overlapping mount propagation trees Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> mnt: In propgate_umount handle visiting mounts in any order Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> mnt: In umount propagation reparent in a separate pass Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> vt: fix unchecked __put_user() in tioclinux ioctls Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of _STK_LIM Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> s390: reduce ELF_ET_DYN_BASE Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> powerpc: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4GB / 4MB Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> arm64: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4GB / 4MB Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> arm: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4MB Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> binfmt_elf: use ELF_ET_DYN_BASE only for PIE Cyril Bur <cyril...@gmail.com> checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings Sahitya Tummala <stumm...@codeaurora.org> fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock Sahitya Tummala <stumm...@codeaurora.org> mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakow...@imgtec.com> kernel/extable.c: mark core_kernel_text notrace Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> tools/lib/lockdep: Reduce MAX_LOCK_DEPTH to avoid overflowing lock_chain/: Depth Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> parisc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm() Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbog...@alpha.franken.de> parisc: DMA API: return error instead of BUG_ON for dma ops on non dma devs Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com> parisc: use compat_sys_keyctl() Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> parisc: Report SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS when running out of stack Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poul...@arm.com> irqchip/gic-v3: Fix out-of-bound access in gic_set_affinity Srinivas Dasari <dasa...@qti.qualcomm.com> cfg80211: Check if PMKID attribute is of expected size Srinivas Dasari <dasa...@qti.qualcomm.com> cfg80211: Validate frequencies nested in NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FREQUENCIES Srinivas Dasari <dasa...@qti.qualcomm.com> cfg80211: Define nla_policy for NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspr...@broadcom.com> brcmfmac: fix possible buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx() Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varad...@oracle.com> rds: tcp: use sock_create_lite() to create the accept socket Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> vrf: fix bug_on triggered by rx when destroying a vrf David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> net: ipv6: Compare lwstate in detecting duplicate nexthops Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net> ipv6: dad: don't remove dynamic addresses if link is down Michal Kubeček <mkube...@suse.cz> net: handle NAPI_GRO_FREE_STOLEN_HEAD case also in napi_frags_finish() Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> bpf: prevent leaking pointer via xadd on unpriviledged Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> net: prevent sign extension in dev_get_stats() WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> tcp: reset sk_rx_dst in tcp_disconnect() Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com> net: dp83640: Avoid NULL pointer dereference. WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> ipv6: avoid unregistering inet6_dev for loopback Zach Brown <zach.br...@ni.com> net/phy: micrel: configure intterupts after autoneg workaround Gao Feng <gfree.w...@vip.163.com> net: sched: Fix one possible panic when no destroy callback Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> net_sched: fix error recovery at qdisc creation ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/elf.h | 8 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 12 +- arch/parisc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 11 +- arch/parisc/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 15 +- arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table.S | 2 +- arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h | 13 +- arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h | 15 +- arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 13 +- arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 13 +- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 19 +- drivers/base/core.c | 6 +- drivers/base/power/sysfs.c | 2 + drivers/base/power/wakeup.c | 30 +-- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 121 ++++++++++-- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev.c | 15 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 49 ++--- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c | 18 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 15 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 8 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c | 14 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_atmel.c | 16 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c | 6 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_nuvoton.c | 22 +-- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_infineon.c | 22 +-- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c | 20 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c | 16 +- drivers/crypto/atmel-sha.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/caam/caamhash.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/caam/key_gen.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 7 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 3 + drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/micrel.c | 2 + drivers/net/vrf.c | 18 +- drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 5 + drivers/parisc/ccio-dma.c | 12 ++ drivers/parisc/dino.c | 5 +- drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c | 6 +- drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c | 14 ++ drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 6 +- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 59 +++++- fs/dcache.c | 5 +- fs/exec.c | 11 +- fs/mount.h | 1 + fs/namespace.c | 1 + fs/pnode.c | 212 ++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/device.h | 2 + include/linux/list_lru.h | 1 + include/net/ip6_route.h | 8 + kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 5 + kernel/extable.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 22 ++- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- mm/list_lru.c | 14 +- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- net/core/dev.c | 26 ++- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 + net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 27 +-- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 5 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 8 +- net/rds/tcp_listen.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_api.c | 3 + net/sched/sch_hhf.c | 8 +- net/sched/sch_mq.c | 10 +- net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 19 +- net/sched/sch_sfq.c | 3 +- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 8 +- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +- tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/capabilities/test_execve.c | 7 +- 75 files changed, 747 insertions(+), 344 deletions(-)