This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.79 release. There are 114 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 12 Oct 2019 08:29:51 AM UTC. 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-4.19.79-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.19.79-rc1
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com nl80211: validate beacon head
Jouni Malinen j@w1.fi cfg80211: Use const more consistently in for_each_element macros
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com cfg80211: add and use strongly typed element iteration macros
Gao Xiang gaoxiang25@huawei.com staging: erofs: detect potential multiref due to corrupted images
Gao Xiang gaoxiang25@huawei.com staging: erofs: add two missing erofs_workgroup_put for corrupted images
Gao Xiang gaoxiang25@huawei.com staging: erofs: some compressed cluster should be submitted for corrupted images
Gao Xiang gaoxiang25@huawei.com staging: erofs: fix an error handling in erofs_readdir()
Andrew Murray andrew.murray@arm.com coresight: etm4x: Use explicit barriers on enable/disable
Eric Sandeen sandeen@redhat.com vfs: Fix EOVERFLOW testing in put_compat_statfs64
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com arm64/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Use firmware to detect CPUs that are not affected by Spectre-v2
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Force SSBS on context switch
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: ssbs: Don't treat CPUs with SSBS as unaffected by SSB
Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton@arm.com arm64: add sysfs vulnerability show for speculative store bypass
Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton@arm.com arm64: add sysfs vulnerability show for spectre-v2
Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton@arm.com arm64: Always enable spectre-v2 vulnerability detection
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: Advertise mitigation of Spectre-v2, or lack thereof
Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton@arm.com arm64: Provide a command line to disable spectre_v2 mitigation
Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton@arm.com arm64: Always enable ssb vulnerability detection
Mian Yousaf Kaukab ykaukab@suse.de arm64: enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support
Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton@arm.com arm64: add sysfs vulnerability show for meltdown
Mian Yousaf Kaukab ykaukab@suse.de arm64: Add sysfs vulnerability show for spectre-v1
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: fix SSBS sanitization
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: docs: Document SSBS HWCAP
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com KVM: arm64: Set SCTLR_EL2.DSSBS if SSBD is forcefully disabled and !vhe
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: ssbd: Add support for PSTATE.SSBS rather than trapping to EL3
Vincent Chen vincent.chen@sifive.com riscv: Avoid interrupts being erroneously enabled in handle_exception()
Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk drm/i915/userptr: Acquire the page lock around set_page_dirty()
Srikar Dronamraju srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com perf stat: Reset previous counts on repeat with interval
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf tools: Fix segfault in cpu_cache_level__read()
Balasubramani Vivekanandan balasubramani_vivekanandan@mentor.com tick: broadcast-hrtimer: Fix a race in bc_set_next
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tools lib traceevent: Do not free tep->cmdlines in add_new_comm() on failure
Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com powerpc/book3s64/radix: Rename CPU_FTR_P9_TLBIE_BUG feature flag
Gautham R. Shenoy ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu_hotplug_lock acquisition in resize_hpt()
Xiubo Li xiubli@redhat.com nbd: fix crash when the blksize is zero
Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com KVM: nVMX: Fix consistency check on injected exception error code
Cédric Le Goater clg@kaod.org KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Free escalation interrupts before disabling the VP
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com drm/radeon: Bail earlier when radeon.cik_/si_support=0 is passed
Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com nfp: flower: fix memory leak in nfp_flower_spawn_vnic_reprs
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf unwind: Fix libunwind build failure on i386 systems
Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu kernel/elfcore.c: include proper prototypes
Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.ibm.com perf build: Add detection of java-11-openjdk-devel package
KeMeng Shi shikemeng@huawei.com sched/core: Fix migration to invalid CPU in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com sched/membarrier: Fix private expedited registration check
Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com sched/membarrier: Call sync_core only before usermode for same mm
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com libnvdimm/nfit_test: Fix acpi_handle redefinition
zhengbin zhengbin13@huawei.com fuse: fix memleak in cuse_channel_open
Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com libnvdimm/region: Initialize bad block for volatile namespaces
Stefan Mavrodiev stefan@olimex.com thermal_hwmon: Sanitize thermal_zone type
Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com thermal: Fix use-after-free when unregistering thermal zone device
Sanjay R Mehta sanju.mehta@amd.com ntb: point to right memory window index
Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu x86/purgatory: Disable the stackleak GCC plugin for the purgatory
Fabrice Gasnier fabrice.gasnier@st.com pwm: stm32-lp: Add check in case requested period cannot be achieved
Trond Myklebust trondmy@gmail.com pNFS: Ensure we do clear the return-on-close layout stateid on fatal errors
Trek trek00@inbox.ru drm/amdgpu: Check for valid number of registers to read
Felix Kuehling Felix.Kuehling@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Fix KFD-related kernel oops on Hawaii
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: nf_tables: allow lookups in dynamic sets
Ryan Chen ryan_chen@aspeedtech.com watchdog: aspeed: Add support for AST2600
Erqi Chen chenerqi@gmail.com ceph: reconnect connection if session hang in opening state
Luis Henriques lhenriques@suse.com ceph: fix directories inode i_blkbits initialization
Igor Druzhinin igor.druzhinin@citrix.com xen/pci: reserve MCFG areas earlier
Chengguang Xu cgxu519@zoho.com.cn 9p: avoid attaching writeback_fid on mmap with type PRIVATE
Lu Shuaibing shuaibinglu@126.com 9p: Transport error uninitialized
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com fs: nfs: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in encode_attrs()
Sascha Hauer s.hauer@pengutronix.de ima: fix freeing ongoing ahash_request
Sascha Hauer s.hauer@pengutronix.de ima: always return negative code for error
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: cpufeature: Detect SSBS and advertise to userspace
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com cfg80211: initialize on-stack chandefs
Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com s390/cio: avoid calling strlen on null pointer
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ieee802154: atusb: fix use-after-free at disconnect
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/xenbus: fix self-deadlock after killing user process
Wanpeng Li wanpengli@tencent.com Revert "locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted"
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: set DMA snooping based on DMA coherence
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk mmc: sdhci: improve ADMA error reporting
Xiaolin Zhang xiaolin.zhang@intel.com drm/i915/gvt: update vgpu workload head pointer correctly
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: Don't create MSTMs for eDP connectors
Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org drm/msm/dsi: Fix return value check for clk_get_parent
Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com drm/omap: fix max fclk divider for omap36xx
Srikar Dronamraju srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com perf stat: Fix a segmentation fault when using repeat forever
Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk watchdog: imx2_wdt: fix min() calculation in imx2_wdt_set_timeout
Sumit Saxena sumit.saxena@broadcom.com PCI: Restore Resizable BAR size bits correctly for 1MB BARs
Jon Derrick jonathan.derrick@intel.com PCI: vmd: Fix shadow offsets to reflect spec changes
Li RongQing lirongqing@baidu.com timer: Read jiffies once when forwarding base clk
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org usercopy: Avoid HIGHMEM pfn warning
Tom Zanussi zanussi@kernel.org tracing: Make sure variable reference alias has correct var_ref_idx
Michael Nosthoff committed@heine.so power: supply: sbs-battery: only return health when battery present
Michael Nosthoff committed@heine.so power: supply: sbs-battery: use correct flags field
Jiaxun Yang jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com MIPS: Treat Loongson Extensions as ASEs
Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad@benyossef.com crypto: ccree - use the full crypt length value
Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad@benyossef.com crypto: ccree - account for TEE not ready to report
Horia Geantă horia.geanta@nxp.com crypto: caam - fix concurrency issue in givencrypt descriptor
Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com crypto: cavium/zip - Add missing single_release()
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: skcipher - Unmap pages after an external error
Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com crypto: qat - Silence smp_processor_id() warning
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tools lib traceevent: Fix "robust" test of do_generate_dynamic_list_file
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: mcp251x: mcp251x_hw_reset(): allow more time after a reset
Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com powerpc/book3s64/mm: Don't do tlbie fixup for some hardware revisions
Alexey Kardashevskiy aik@ozlabs.ru powerpc/powernv/ioda: Fix race in TCE level allocation
Andrew Donnellan ajd@linux.ibm.com powerpc/powernv: Restrict OPAL symbol map to only be readable by root
Santosh Sivaraj santosh@fossix.org powerpc/mce: Schedule work from irq_work
Balbir Singh bsingharora@gmail.com powerpc/mce: Fix MCE handling for huge pages
Oleksandr Suvorov oleksandr.suvorov@toradex.com ASoC: sgtl5000: Improve VAG power and mute control
Oleksandr Suvorov oleksandr.suvorov@toradex.com ASoC: Define a set of DAPM pre/post-up events
Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com PM / devfreq: tegra: Fix kHz to Hz conversion
Mike Christie mchristi@redhat.com nbd: fix max number of supported devs
Jack Wang jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com KVM: nVMX: handle page fault in vmread fix
Wanpeng Li wanpengli@tencent.com KVM: X86: Fix userspace set invalid CR4
Paul Mackerras paulus@ozlabs.org KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't lose pending doorbell request on migration on P9
Paul Mackerras paulus@ozlabs.org KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Check for MMU ready on piggybacked virtual cores
Paul Mackerras paulus@ozlabs.org KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in re-enabling XIVE escalation interrupts
Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com s390/cio: exclude subchannels with no parent from pseudo check
Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com s390/topology: avoid firing events before kobjs are created
Thomas Huth thuth@redhat.com KVM: s390: Test for bad access register and size at the start of S390_MEM_OP
Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com s390/process: avoid potential reading of freed stack
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Diffstat:
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 +- Documentation/arm64/elf_hwcaps.txt | 4 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 4 - arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 11 + arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 17 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 19 +- arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h | 1 + arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 271 +++++++++++++++++------ arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 130 +++++++++-- arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 31 +++ arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 15 +- arch/arm64/kernel/ssbd.c | 21 ++ arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c | 11 + arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-features.h | 16 ++ arch/mips/include/asm/cpu.h | 4 + arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c | 6 + arch/mips/kernel/proc.c | 4 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/dt_cpu_ftrs.c | 30 ++- arch/powerpc/kernel/mce.c | 11 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c | 19 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 24 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 36 +-- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive.c | 18 +- arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 9 +- arch/powerpc/mm/tlb-radix.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c | 11 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda-tce.c | 18 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c | 8 +- arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 6 +- arch/s390/kernel/process.c | 22 +- arch/s390/kernel/topology.c | 3 +- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 38 ++-- arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile | 1 + crypto/skcipher.c | 42 ++-- drivers/block/nbd.c | 62 ++++-- drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg_desc.c | 9 + drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg_desc.h | 2 +- drivers/crypto/cavium/zip/zip_main.c | 3 + drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_aead.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_fips.c | 8 +- drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h | 2 +- drivers/devfreq/tegra-devfreq.c | 12 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ib.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/scheduler.c | 28 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c | 10 +- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi_host.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/dss/dss.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c | 31 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_kms.c | 25 --- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c | 14 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c | 7 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 15 +- drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c | 19 +- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c | 3 +- drivers/ntb/test/ntb_perf.c | 2 +- drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/nvdimm/region.c | 4 +- drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 4 +- drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c | 9 +- drivers/pci/pci.c | 2 +- drivers/power/supply/sbs-battery.c | 27 ++- drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32-lp.c | 6 + drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/cio/css.c | 2 + drivers/staging/erofs/dir.c | 11 +- drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c | 37 +++- drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 2 +- drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c | 8 +- drivers/watchdog/aspeed_wdt.c | 4 +- drivers/watchdog/imx2_wdt.c | 4 +- drivers/xen/pci.c | 21 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 20 +- fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 3 + fs/ceph/inode.c | 7 +- fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 4 +- fs/fuse/cuse.c | 1 + fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 9 +- fs/statfs.c | 17 +- include/linux/ieee80211.h | 53 +++++ include/linux/sched/mm.h | 2 + include/sound/soc-dapm.h | 2 + kernel/elfcore.c | 1 + kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 2 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 4 +- kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 2 +- kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | 57 ++--- kernel/time/timer.c | 8 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 + mm/usercopy.c | 8 +- net/9p/client.c | 1 + net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 7 +- net/netfilter/nft_lookup.c | 3 - net/wireless/nl80211.c | 42 +++- net/wireless/reg.c | 2 +- net/wireless/scan.c | 14 +- net/wireless/wext-compat.c | 2 +- security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c | 10 +- sound/soc/codecs/sgtl5000.c | 224 ++++++++++++++++--- tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile | 4 +- tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 3 +- tools/perf/Makefile.config | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/unwind-libunwind.c | 2 +- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 5 +- tools/perf/util/header.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/stat.c | 17 ++ tools/perf/util/stat.h | 1 + tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit_test.h | 4 +- 122 files changed, 1415 insertions(+), 459 deletions(-)