[PATCH 4.4 00/45] 4.4.63-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-19T14:56:51Z

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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 4.4.63-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
MIPS: fix Select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK patch.

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
sctp: deny peeloff operation on asocs with threads sleeping on it

Mantas M <grawity@gmail.com>
net: ipv6: check route protocol when deleting routes

Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
tty/serial: atmel: RS485 half duplex w/DMA: enable RX after TX is done

NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
SUNRPC: fix refcounting problems with auth_gss messages.

Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
ibmveth: calculate gso_segs for large packets

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
catc: Use heap buffer for memory size test

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
catc: Combine failure cleanup code in catc_probe()

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
rtl8150: Use heap buffers for all register access

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access

Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack

Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
dvb-usb-firmware: don't do DMA on stack

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
dvb-usb: don't use stack for firmware load

Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
mm: Tighten x86 /dev/mem with zeroing reads

Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
rtc: tegra: Implement clock handling

Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>
platform/x86: acer-wmi: setup accelerometer when machine has appropriate notify event

Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
ext4: fix inode checksum calculation problem if i_extra_size is small

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
dvb-usb-v2: avoid use-after-free

Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@codeaurora.org>
ath9k: fix NULL pointer dereference

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
crypto: ahash - Fix EINPROGRESS notification callback

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc: Disable HFSCR[TM] if TM is not supported

Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
zram: do not use copy_page with non-page aligned address

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Revert "MIPS: Lantiq: Fix cascaded IRQ setup"

Max Bires <jbires@google.com>
char: lack of bool string made CONFIG_DEVPORT always on

Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
char: Drop bogus dependency of DEVPORT on !M68K

Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace: Fix removing of second function probe

Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@linaro.org>
irqchip/irq-imx-gpcv2: Fix spinlock initialization

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
libnvdimm: fix reconfig_mutex, mmap_sem, and jbd2_handle lockdep splat

Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
xen, fbfront: fix connecting to backend

Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
scsi: sd: Fix capacity calculation with 32-bit sector_t

Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
scsi: sd: Consider max_xfer_blocks if opt_xfer_blocks is unusable

Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
scsi: sr: Sanity check returned mode data

Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
iscsi-target: Drop work-around for legacy GlobalSAN initiator

Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
iscsi-target: Fix TMR reference leak during session shutdown

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
acpi, nfit, libnvdimm: fix interleave set cookie calculation (64-bit comparison)

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
x86/vdso: Plug race between mapping and ELF header setup

Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
x86/vdso: Ensure vdso32_enabled gets set to valid values only

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
perf/x86: Avoid exposing wrong/stale data in intel_pmu_lbr_read_32()

Cameron Gutman <aicommander@gmail.com>
Input: xpad - add support for Razer Wildcat gamepad

Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@citrix.com>
CIFS: store results of cifs_reopen_file to avoid infinite wait

Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
drm/nouveau/mmu/nv4a: use nv04 mmu rather than the nv44 one

Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
drm/nouveau/mpeg: mthd returns true on success now

Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs clear soft dirty race

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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(-)