This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.9 release. There are 11 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 Mon Mar 12 00:18:21 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.15.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.15.9-rc1
Radim Krčmář rkrcmar@redhat.com KVM: x86: fix backward migration with async_PF
Sreekanth Reddy sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com scsi: mpt3sas: wait for and flush running commands on shutdown/unload
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com scsi: mpt3sas: fix oops in error handlers after shutdown/unload
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf, ppc64: fix out of bounds access in tail call
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: allow xadd only on aligned memory
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bpf: add schedule points in percpu arrays management
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf, arm64: fix out of bounds access in tail call
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf, x64: implement retpoline for tail call
Yonghong Song yhs@fb.com bpf: fix rcu lockdep warning for lpm_trie map_free callback
Yonghong Song yhs@fb.com bpf: fix memory leak in lpm_trie map_free callback function
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: fix mlock precharge on arraymaps
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Diffstat:
Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 4 ++ Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 3 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 5 +- arch/powerpc/net/bpf_jit_comp64.c | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 37 +++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 8 +-- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 3 +- arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 9 ++-- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 8 +-- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h | 3 ++ drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 21 ++++++-- kernel/bpf/arraymap.c | 33 +++++++----- kernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c | 14 ++--- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 42 +++++++++------ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 17 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)