This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.15.9 release. There are 42 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 Thu Aug 7 18:13:05 UTC 2014. 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/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.15.9-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 3.15.9-rc1 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> x86/espfix/xen: Fix allocation of pages for paravirt page tables Minfei Huang <huangmin...@ucloud.cn> lib/btree.c: fix leak of whole btree nodes Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com> net/l2tp: don't fall back on UDP [get|set]sockopt Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com> xtensa: add fixup for double exception raised in window overflow David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> x86/xen: no need to explicitly register an NMI callback Scot Doyle <lkm...@scotdoyle.com> drm/i915: Ignore VBT backlight presence check on HP Chromebook 14 Malcolm Priestley <tvbox...@gmail.com> staging: vt6655: Fix Warning on boot handle_irq_event_percpu. Roger Quadros <rog...@ti.com> ARM: dts: dra7-evm: Make VDDA_1V8_PHY supply always on Eric Biggers <ebigge...@gmail.com> vfs: fix check for fallocate on active swapfile Nishanth Menon <n...@ti.com> pinctrl: dra: dt-bindings: Fix pull enable/disable Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> x86_64/entry/xen: Do not invoke espfix64 on Xen H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option" Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> timer: Fix lock inversion between hrtimer_bases.lock and scheduler locks Stephen Boyd <sb...@codeaurora.org> sched_clock: Avoid corrupting hrtimer tree during suspend John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org> printk: rename printk_sched to printk_deferred Anssi Hannula <anssi.hann...@iki.fi> dm cache: fix race affecting dirty block count Greg Thelen <gthe...@google.com> dm bufio: fully initialize shrinker Lars-Peter Clausen <l...@metafoo.de> iio: buffer: Fix demux table creation Peter Meerwald <pme...@pmeerw.net> iio:bma180: Missing check for frequency fractional part Peter Meerwald <pme...@pmeerw.net> iio:bma180: Fix scale factors to report correct acceleration units Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> ACPI / PNP: Fix acpi_pnp_match() Malcolm Priestley <tvbox...@gmail.com> staging: vt6655: Fix disassociated messages every 10 seconds Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> memcg: oom_notify use-after-free fix David Rientjes <rient...@google.com> mm, thp: do not allow thp faults to avoid cpuset restrictions Maxim Patlasov <mpatla...@parallels.com> mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in bdi_dirty_limits() James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com> scsi: handle flush errors properly Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.boun...@idt.com> rapidio/tsi721_dma: fix failure to obtain transaction descriptor Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com> Revert "mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan" Eliad Peller <el...@wizery.com> cfg80211: fix mic_failure tracing Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> ath9k: fix aggregation session lockup Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebni...@samsung.com> ARM: 8115/1: LPAE: reduce damage caused by idmap to virtual memory layout Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk> ARM: fix alignment of keystone page table fixup Christoph Fritz <chf.fr...@googlemail.com> ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: fix gpmc_hwecc_bch_capable() Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhu...@linaro.org> ARM: dts: fix L2 address in Hi3620 Milan Broz <gmazyl...@gmail.com> crypto: af_alg - properly label AF_ALG socket Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com> crypto: arm-aes - fix encryption of unaligned data Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> powerpc/perf: Fix MMCR2 handling for EBB ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 2 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7-evm.dts | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/hi3620.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-glue.c | 10 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc-nand.c | 18 +-- arch/arm/mm/idmap.c | 7 ++ arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 6 +- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 6 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 25 +++- arch/x86/include/asm/espfix.h | 16 +++ arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 12 ++ arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 77 +++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c | 208 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 10 +- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_64.c | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 7 ++ arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 44 +++++-- arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c | 8 -- arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 9 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/vectors.S | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++---- arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 +- crypto/af_alg.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 3 + drivers/iio/accel/bma180.c | 8 +- drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 13 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 9 ++ drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c | 3 +- drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 8 ++ drivers/staging/vt6655/bssdb.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c | 7 +- fs/open.c | 5 +- include/dt-bindings/pinctrl/dra.h | 7 +- include/linux/printk.h | 6 +- init/main.c | 4 + kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/rt.c | 2 +- kernel/time/clockevents.c | 10 +- kernel/time/sched_clock.c | 4 +- lib/btree.c | 1 + mm/memcontrol.c | 4 + mm/page-writeback.c | 6 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 16 +-- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 4 +- net/mac80211/tx.c | 20 +-- net/wireless/trace.h | 3 +- 55 files changed, 653 insertions(+), 155 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/