This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.12 release. There are 14 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 Jan 6 12:08:52 UTC 2018. 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-4.14.12-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-4.14.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.14.12-rc1
Troy Kisky troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com rtc: m41t80: remove unneeded checks from m41t80_sqw_set_rate
Troy Kisky troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com rtc: m41t80: avoid i2c read in m41t80_sqw_is_prepared
Troy Kisky troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com rtc: m41t80: avoid i2c read in m41t80_sqw_recalc_rate
Troy Kisky troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com rtc: m41t80: fix m41t80_sqw_round_rate return value
Troy Kisky troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com rtc: m41t80: m41t80_sqw_set_rate should return 0 on success
Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com Revert "xfrm: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in xfrm_state_find."
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com x86/process: Define cpu_tss_rw in same section as declaration
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/pti: Switch to kernel CR3 at early in entry_SYSCALL_compat()
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com x86/dumpstack: Print registers for first stack frame
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com x86/dumpstack: Fix partial register dumps
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/pti: Make sure the user/kernel PTEs match
Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com capabilities: fix buffer overread on very short xattr
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org exec: Weaken dumpability for secureexec
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 13 +++---- arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h | 17 ++++++-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 31 ++++++++++----- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 3 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- fs/exec.c | 9 ++++- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 29 ++++++++------ security/commoncap.c | 21 +++++----- 12 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)