This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.153 release. There are 5 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 Tue Aug 28 06:40:50 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-4.4.153-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.153-rc1
Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported
Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com ovl: Do d_type check only if work dir creation was successful
Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com ovl: Ensure upper filesystem supports d_type
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com x86/mm: Fix use-after-free of ldt_struct
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/mm/pat: Fix L1TF stable backport for CPA
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 3 +-- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 1 + fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/overlayfs/super.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)