This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.8 release. There are 41 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 Dec 8 14:29:30 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-4.19.8-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 4.19.8-rc1
Guoqing Jiang gqjiang@suse.com tipc: use destination length for copy string
Alexey Brodkin abrodkin@synopsys.com arc: [devboards] Add support of NFSv3 ACL
Kevin Hilman khilman@baylibre.com ARC: change defconfig defaults to ARCv2
Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: tree-checker: Don't check max block group size as current max chunk size limit is unreliable
Adam Wong adam@adamwong.me Input: elan_i2c - add support for ELAN0621 touchpad
Noah Westervelt nwestervelt@outlook.com Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15ARR
Patrick Gaskin patrick@pgaskin.net Input: elan_i2c - add ELAN0620 to the ACPI table
Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org Input: cros_ec_keyb - fix button/switch capability reports
Christian Hoff christian_hoff@gmx.net Input: matrix_keypad - check for errors from of_get_named_gpio()
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com Input: synaptics - add PNP ID for ThinkPad P50 to SMBus
Cameron Gutman aicommander@gmail.com Input: xpad - quirk all PDP Xbox One gamepads
Martin Wilck mwilck@suse.com scsi: lpfc: fix block guard enablement on SLI3 adapters
Lihong Yang lihong.yang@intel.com i40e: Fix deletion of MAC filters
Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com selinux: add support for RTM_NEWCHAIN, RTM_DELCHAIN, and RTM_GETCHAIN
Wei Wang wawei@amazon.de svm: Add mutex_lock to protect apic_access_page_done on AMD systems
Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com kgdboc: Fix warning with module build
Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com kgdboc: Fix restrict error
Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com userfaultfd: shmem: UFFDIO_COPY: set the page dirty if VM_WRITE is not set
Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com userfaultfd: shmem: add i_size checks
Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com userfaultfd: shmem: allocate anonymous memory for MAP_PRIVATE shmem
Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com userfaultfd: use ENOENT instead of EFAULT if the atomic copy user fails
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/meson: Fix OOB memory accesses in meson_viu_set_osd_lut()
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/meson: Enable fast_io in meson_dw_hdmi_regmap_config
Neil Armstrong narmstrong@baylibre.com drm/meson: Fixes for drm_crtc_vblank_on/off support
Sergio Correia sergio@correia.cc drm: set is_master to 0 upon drm_new_set_master() failure
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/amd/dm: Understand why attaching path/tile properties are needed
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/amd/dm: Don't forget to attach MST encoders
Sam Bobroff sbobroff@linux.ibm.com drm/ast: Fix incorrect free on ioregs
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing/fgraph: Fix set_graph_function from showing interrupts
Michael Guralnik michaelgur@mellanox.com IB/mlx5: Avoid load failure due to unknown link width
Dmitry V. Levin ldv@altlinux.org mips: fix mips_get_syscall_arg o32 check
Mathias Kresin dev@kresin.me MIPS: ralink: Fix mt7620 nd_sd pinmux
Zenghui Yu yuzenghui@huawei.com tracepoint: Use __idx instead of idx in DO_TRACE macro to make it unique
Pavankumar Kondeti pkondeti@codeaurora.org sched, trace: Fix prev_state output in sched_switch tracepoint
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org arm64: ftrace: Fix to enable syscall events on arm64
Frieder Schrempf frieder.schrempf@kontron.de mtd: nand: Fix memory allocation in nanddev_bbt_init()
Andrea Parri andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs. unregister() + register() race once more
Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me iser: set sector for ambiguous mr status errors
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org unifdef: use memcpy instead of strncpy
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org test_hexdump: use memcpy instead of strncpy
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk blk-mq: fix corruption with direct issue
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arc/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arc/configs/axs101_defconfig | 2 + arch/arc/configs/axs103_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/axs103_smp_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/hsdk_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/nps_defconfig | 2 + arch/arc/configs/nsim_700_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/nsimosci_defconfig | 2 + arch/arc/configs/nsimosci_hs_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/nsimosci_hs_smp_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/tb10x_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/vdk_hs38_defconfig | 1 + arch/arc/configs/vdk_hs38_smp_defconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h | 13 +++++ arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h | 2 +- arch/mips/ralink/mt7620.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 19 +++++--- block/blk-mq.c | 26 +++++++++- .../amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_mst_types.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_crtc.c | 27 +++++++++- drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_dw_hdmi.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_venc.c | 3 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_viu.c | 12 ++--- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 29 +++++------ drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c | 7 ++- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 16 +++--- drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c | 3 +- drivers/input/keyboard/matrix_keypad.c | 23 +++++---- drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 3 ++ drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 1 + drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 6 ++- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 1 - drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c | 43 ++++++++-------- fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 8 ++- include/linux/tracepoint.h | 6 +-- include/trace/events/sched.h | 12 ++++- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 12 ++++- kernel/trace/trace.h | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++-- kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 4 ++ kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c | 2 + kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c | 2 + lib/test_hexdump.c | 2 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- mm/shmem.c | 31 ++++++++++-- mm/userfaultfd.c | 47 +++++++++++++++--- net/tipc/topsrv.c | 2 +- scripts/unifdef.c | 4 +- security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c | 13 ++++- 54 files changed, 354 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-)