This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.178 release. There are 131 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 Wed Apr 3 16:59:39 UTC 2019. 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-4.4.178-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 4.4.178-rc1
Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org stm class: Hide STM-specific options if STM is disabled
Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier@linaro.org coresight: removing bind/unbind options from sysfs
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com arm64: support keyctl() system call in 32-bit mode
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "USB: core: only clean up what we allocated"
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: Fix port resume done detection for SS ports with LPM enabled
Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/smp: Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU when SMP=y
Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix TSC slip
Axel Lin axel.lin@ingics.com gpio: adnp: Fix testing wrong value in adnp_gpio_direction_input
YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix NULL pointer dereference in put_links
Wentao Wang witallwang@gmail.com Disable kgdboc failed by echo space to /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc
Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no USB: serial: option: add Olicard 600
Mans Rullgard mans@mansr.com USB: serial: option: set driver_info for SIM5218 and compatibles
Lin Yi teroincn@163.com USB: serial: mos7720: fix mos_parport refcount imbalance on error path
George McCollister george.mccollister@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add additional NovaTech products
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org USB: serial: cp210x: add new device id
Hoan Nguyen An na-hoan@jinso.co.jp serial: sh-sci: Fix setting SCSCR_TIE while transferring data
Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu serial: max310x: Fix to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com staging: vt6655: Fix interrupt race condition on device start up.
Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com staging: vt6655: Remove vif check from vnt_interrupt
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu tty: atmel_serial: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
Steffen Maier maier@linux.ibm.com scsi: zfcp: fix scsi_eh host reset with port_forced ERP for non-NPIV FCP devices
Steffen Maier maier@linux.ibm.com scsi: zfcp: fix rport unblock if deleted SCSI devices on Scsi_Host
Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org scsi: sd: Fix a race between closing an sd device and sd I/O
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Don't suspend stream in unrecoverable PCM state
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Fix possible OOB access in PCM oss plugins
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com ALSA: seq: oss: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com ALSA: rawmidi: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability
Ravindra Lokhande rlokhande@nvidia.com ALSA: compress: add support for 32bit calls in a 64bit kernel
Kohji Okuno okuno.kohji@jp.panasonic.com ARM: imx6q: cpuidle: fix bug that CPU might not wake up at expected time
Andrea Righi andrea.righi@canonical.com btrfs: raid56: properly unmap parity page in finish_parity_scrub()
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: remove WARN_ON in log_dir_items
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au mac8390: Fix mmio access size probe
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: get sctphdr by offset in sctp_compute_cksum
Zhiqiang Liu liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com vxlan: Don't call gro_cells_destroy() before device is unregistered
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: do not use ipv6 header for ipv4 flow
Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com packets: Always register packet sk in the same order
David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Add hlist_add_tail_rcu() (Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net)
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: rose: fix a possible stack overflow
Christoph Paasch cpaasch@apple.com net/packet: Set __GFP_NOWARN upon allocation in alloc_pg_vec
Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas@google.com mISDN: hfcpci: Test both vendor & device ID for Digium HFC4S
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com dccp: do not use ipv6 header for ipv4 flow
Bhadram Varka vbhadram@nvidia.com stmmac: copy unicast mac address to MAC registers
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com cfg80211: size various nl80211 messages correctly
Chaotian Jing chaotian.jing@mediatek.com mmc: mmc: fix switch timeout issue caused by jiffies precision
Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar arm64: kconfig: drop CONFIG_RTC_LIB dependency
Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall@linaro.org video: fbdev: Set pixclock = 0 in goldfishfb
Lianwei Wang lianwei.wang@gmail.com cpu/hotplug: Handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable
Xerox Lin xerox_lin@htc.com usb: gadget: rndis: free response queue during REMOTE_NDIS_RESET_MSG
Winter Wang wente.wang@nxp.com usb: gadget: configfs: add mutex lock before unregister gadget
Hannes Frederic Sowa hannes@stressinduktion.org ipv6: fix endianness error in icmpv6_err
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Fix stm device initialization order
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Do not leak the chrdev in error path
James Morse james.morse@arm.com PM / Hibernate: Call flush_icache_range() on pages restored in-place
James Morse james.morse@arm.com arm64: kernel: Include _AC definition in page.h
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com perf/ring_buffer: Refuse to begin AUX transaction after rb->aux_mmap_count drops
Jeff Mahoney jeffm@suse.com mac80211: fix "warning: ‘target_metric’ may be used uninitialized"
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org arm64/kernel: fix incorrect EL0 check in inv_entry macro
Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com ARM: 8510/1: rework ARM_CPU_SUSPEND dependencies
Greg Hackmann ghackmann@google.com staging: goldfish: audio: fix compiliation on arm
Rajmal Menariya rajmal.menariya@spreadtrum.com staging: ion: Set minimum carveout heap allocation order to PAGE_SHIFT
Rom Lemarchand romlem@android.com staging: ashmem: Add missing include
Laura Abbott lauraa@codeaurora.org staging: ashmem: Avoid deadlock with mmap/shrink
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com asm-generic: Fix local variable shadow in __set_fixmap_offset
Eric Long eric.long@linaro.org coresight: etm4x: Check every parameter used by dma_xx_coherent.
Eric Long eric.long@linaro.org coresight: "DEVICE_ATTR_RO" should defined as static.
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Fix a race in unlinking
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Fix unbalanced module/device refcounting
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Guard output assignment against concurrency
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Fix unlocking braino in the error path
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Support devices with multiple instances
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Prevent user-controllable allocations
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Fix link list locking
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com stm class: Fix locking in unbinding policy path
Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier@linaro.org coresight: remove csdev's link from topology
Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier@linaro.org coresight: release reference taken by 'bus_find_device()'
Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier@linaro.org coresight: coresight_unregister() function cleanup
Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier@linaro.org coresight: fixing lockdep error
Tahsin Erdogan tahsin@google.com writeback: initialize inode members that track writeback history
Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson@linaro.org Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built as module"
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: diag: support v4mapped sockets in inet_diag_find_one_icsk()
Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com perf: Synchronously free aux pages in case of allocation failure
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org arm64: hide __efistub_ aliases from kallsyms
Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre@linaro.org hid-sensor-hub.c: fix wrong do_div() usage
Christoph Lameter cl@linux.com vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle
Dmitry Torokhov dtor@chromium.org android: unconditionally remove callbacks in sync_fence_free()
Jungseung Lee js07.lee@samsung.com ARM: 8494/1: mm: Enable PXN when running non-LPAE kernel on LPAE processor
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: 8458/1: bL_switcher: add GIC dependency
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org efi: stub: define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING for all architectures
Yury Norov ynorov@caviumnetworks.com arm64: fix COMPAT_SHMLBA definition for large pages
Colin Cross ccross@android.com mmc: block: Allow more than 8 partitions per card
Yuyang Du yuyang.du@intel.com sched/fair: Fix new task's load avg removed from source CPU in wake_up_new_task()
Marcel Holtmann marcel@holtmann.org Bluetooth: Verify that l2cap_get_conf_opt provides large enough buffer
Marcel Holtmann marcel@holtmann.org Bluetooth: Check L2CAP option sizes returned from l2cap_get_conf_opt
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ath10k: avoid possible string overflow
Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linaro.org rtc: Fix overflow when converting time64_t to rtc_time
Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl@google.com USB: core: only clean up what we allocated
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org lib/int_sqrt: optimize small argument
Lanqing Liu lanqing.liu@spreadtrum.com serial: sprd: clear timeout interrupt only rather than all interrupts
Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com usb: renesas_usbhs: gadget: fix unused-but-set-variable warning
Qiao Zhou qiaozhou@asrmicro.com arm64: traps: disable irq in die()
Al Viro viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Hang/soft lockup in d_invalidate with simultaneous calls
Wei Qiao wei.qiao@spreadtrum.com serial: sprd: adjust TIMEOUT to a big value
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp/dccp: drop SYN packets if accept queue is full
Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linaro.org usb: gadget: Add the gserial port checking in gs_start_tx()
Peter Chen peter.chen@nxp.com usb: gadget: composite: fix dereference after null check coverify warning
Wolfram Sang wsa@the-dreams.de kbuild: setlocalversion: print error to STDERR
Roger Quadros rogerq@ti.com extcon: usb-gpio: Don't miss event during suspend/resume
Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru mm/rmap: replace BUG_ON(anon_vma->degree) with VM_WARN_ON
Dong Aisheng aisheng.dong@nxp.com mmc: core: fix using wrong io voltage if mmc_select_hs200 fails
James Morse james.morse@arm.com arm64: mm: Add trace_irqflags annotations to do_debug_exception()
Roger Quadros rogerq@ti.com usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix suspend/resume during device mode
Russell King rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk mmc: core: shut up "voltage-ranges unspecified" pr_info()
Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com mmc: sanitize 'bus width' in debug output
Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com mmc: make MAN_BKOPS_EN message a debug
Chuanxiao Dong chuanxiao.dong@intel.com mmc: debugfs: Add a restriction to mmc debugfs clock setting
Martin Fuzzey mfuzzey@parkeon.com mmc: pwrseq_simple: Make reset-gpios optional to match doc
Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda - Enforces runtime_resume after S3 and S4 for each codec
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Record the current power state before suspend/resume calls
Waiman Long longman@redhat.com locking/lockdep: Add debug_locks check in __lock_downgrade()
Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl media: v4l2-ctrls.c/uvc: zero v4l2_event
Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com mmc: tmio_mmc_core: don't claim spurious interrupts
zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: brelse all indirect buffer in ext4_ind_remove_space()
Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com ext4: fix data corruption caused by unaligned direct AIO
Jiufei Xue jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference while journal is aborted
Chen Jie chenjie6@huawei.com futex: Ensure that futex address is aligned in handle_futex_death()
Archer Yan ayan@wavecomp.com MIPS: Fix kernel crash for R6 in jump label branch function
Yifeng Li tomli@tomli.me mips: loongson64: lemote-2f: Add IRQF_NO_SUSPEND to "cascade" irqaction.
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz udf: Fix crash on IO error during truncate
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de drm/vmwgfx: Don't double-free the mode stored in par->set_mode
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de mmc: pxamci: fix enum type confusion
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Diffstat:
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 16 ++- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/Kconfig | 6 +- arch/arm/mach-imx/cpuidle-imx6q.c | 27 ++-- arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 5 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h | 2 + arch/arm64/include/asm/shmparam.h | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/image.h | 40 +++--- arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 8 +- arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 33 +++-- arch/mips/include/asm/jump_label.h | 8 +- arch/mips/loongson64/lemote-2f/irq.c | 2 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 8 +- drivers/extcon/extcon-usb-gpio.c | 3 + drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-adnp.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c | 3 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c | 11 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm3x.c | 13 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c | 15 +-- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c | 10 +- .../coresight/coresight-replicator-qcom.c | 11 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c | 16 +-- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.c | 19 +-- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpiu.c | 10 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 55 +++++++- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c | 2 +- drivers/hwtracing/stm/Kconfig | 4 + drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 148 ++++++++++++++++----- drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c | 25 +++- drivers/hwtracing/stm/stm.h | 2 + drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcmulti.c | 3 +- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c | 2 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 10 +- drivers/mmc/core/core.c | 10 +- drivers/mmc/core/debugfs.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c | 16 ++- drivers/mmc/core/mmc_ops.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/core/pwrseq_simple.c | 22 +-- drivers/mmc/host/pxamci.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/host/tmio_mmc_pio.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c | 19 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 16 ++- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c | 2 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c | 6 +- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c | 17 +++ drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_ext.h | 2 + drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_scsi.c | 4 + drivers/scsi/sd.c | 19 ++- drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_carveout_heap.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/android/sync.c | 6 +- drivers/staging/android/uapi/ashmem.h | 1 + drivers/staging/goldfish/goldfish_audio.c | 1 + drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c | 11 +- drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 4 + drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c | 2 + drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 12 +- drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 6 + drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 2 + drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 2 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c | 6 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 9 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci.h | 1 + drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_gadget.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 13 +- drivers/video/fbdev/goldfishfb.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/raid56.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 11 +- fs/dcache.c | 10 +- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h | 2 +- fs/ext4/file.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/indirect.c | 12 +- fs/inode.c | 6 + fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 3 +- fs/udf/truncate.c | 3 + include/asm-generic/fixmap.h | 12 +- include/linux/rculist.h | 36 +++++ include/linux/vmstat.h | 2 + include/net/inet_connection_sock.h | 5 - include/net/sctp/checksum.h | 2 +- include/net/sock.h | 6 + kernel/cpu.c | 11 +- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 47 ++++--- kernel/futex.c | 4 + kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 3 + kernel/power/swap.c | 18 +++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 38 ++++-- kernel/sched/idle.c | 1 + lib/int_sqrt.c | 3 + mm/rmap.c | 2 +- mm/vmstat.c | 69 ++++++---- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 83 +++++++----- net/dccp/ipv4.c | 8 +- net/dccp/ipv6.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/inet_diag.c | 21 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/icmp.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 8 +- net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +- net/rose/rose_subr.c | 21 +-- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 16 +-- scripts/setlocalversion | 2 +- sound/core/compress_offload.c | 13 ++ sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 43 +++--- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 9 +- sound/core/rawmidi.c | 2 + sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 7 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 57 +++++++- .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 20 ++- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 + 124 files changed, 935 insertions(+), 530 deletions(-)