This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.16 release. There are 72 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 Sun Apr 8 08:43:10 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-4.15.16-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.15.16-rc1
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ip6_vti: adjust vti mtu according to mtu of lower device"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ARM: dts: omap3-n900: Fix the audio CODEC's reset pin"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ARM: dts: am335x-pepper: Fix the audio CODEC's reset pin"
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com Fix slab name "biovec-(1<<(21-12))"
Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg@gmail.com net: hns: Fix ethtool private flags
Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com ARM: dts: DRA76-EVM: Set powerhold property for tps65917
Mike Frysinger vapier@chromium.org vt: change SGR 21 to follow the standards
Ondrej Zary linux@rainbow-software.org Input: i8042 - enable MUX on Sony VAIO VGN-CS series to fix touchpad
Dennis Wassenberg dennis.wassenberg@secunet.com Input: i8042 - add Lenovo ThinkPad L460 to i8042 reset list
Masaki Ota masaki.ota@jp.alps.com Input: ALPS - fix TrackStick detection on Thinkpad L570 and Latitude 7370
Gaku Inami gaku.inami.xh@renesas.com Revert "base: arch_topology: fix section mismatch build warnings"
Frank Mori Hess fmh6jj@gmail.com staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: ack ai fifo error interrupts.
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix unexpected cow in run_delalloc_nocow
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: x86/cast5-avx - fix ECB encryption when long sg follows short one
Leonard Crestez leonard.crestez@nxp.com crypto: arm,arm64 - Fix random regeneration of S_shipped
Maciej S. Szmigiero mail@maciej.szmigiero.name crypto: ccp - return an actual key size from RSA max_size callback
Rui Miguel Silva rui.silva@linaro.org crypto: caam - Fix null dereference at error path
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: ahash - Fix early termination in hash walk
LEROY Christophe christophe.leroy@c-s.fr crypto: talitos - fix IPsec cipher in length
Conor McLoughlin conor.mcloughlin@intel.com crypto: testmgr - Fix incorrect values in PKCS#1 test vector
Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement@bootlin.com crypto: inside-secure - fix clock management
LEROY Christophe christophe.leroy@c-s.fr crypto: talitos - don't persistently map req_ctx->hw_context and req_ctx->buf
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: lrw - Free rctx->ext with kzfree
Alexander Gerasiov gq@redlab-i.ru parport_pc: Add support for WCH CH382L PCI-E single parallel port card.
Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com media: usbtv: prevent double free in error case
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org /dev/mem: Avoid overwriting "err" in read_mem()
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com mei: remove dev_err message on an unsupported ioctl
Joel Stanley joel@jms.id.au serial: 8250: Add Nuvoton NPCM UART
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: cp210x: add ELDAT Easywave RX09 id
Clemens Werther clemens.werther@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add support for Harman FirmwareHubEmulator
Major Hayden major@mhtx.net USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add RT Systems VX-8 cable
Omar Sandoval osandov@fb.com bitmap: fix memset optimization on big-endian systems
Dhinakaran Pandiyan dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com drm/i915/dp: Write to SET_POWER dpcd to enable MST hub.
Szymon Janc szymon.janc@codecoup.pl Bluetooth: Fix missing encryption refresh on Security Request
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de phy: qcom-ufs: add MODULE_LICENSE tag
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: add and use xt_check_proc_name
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com netfilter: drop template ct when conntrack is skipped.
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com l2tp: fix races with ipv4-mapped ipv6 addresses
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: bridge: ebt_among: add more missing match size checks
Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org netfilter: x_tables: make allocation less aggressive
Dennis Zhou dennisszhou@gmail.com percpu: add __GFP_NORETRY semantics to the percpu balancing path
Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com xfrm: Refuse to insert 32 bit userspace socket policies on 64 bit systems
Greg Hackmann ghackmann@google.com net: xfrm: use preempt-safe this_cpu_read() in ipcomp_alloc_tfms()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: fix possible deadlock in rt6_age_examine_exception()
Roland Dreier roland@purestorage.com RDMA/ucma: Introduce safer rdma_addr_size() variants
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check that device exists prior to accessing it
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check that device is connected prior to access it
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/rdma_cm: Fix use after free race with process_one_req
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Ensure that CM_ID exists prior to access it
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Fix use-after-free access in ucma_close
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check AF family prior resolving address
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de xfrm_user: uncoditionally validate esn replay attribute struct
Richard Narron comet.berkeley@gmail.com partitions/msdos: Unable to mount UFS 44bsd partitions
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s: Fix i-side SLB miss bad address handler saving nonvolatile GPRs
Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s: Fix lost pending interrupt due to race causing lost update to irq_happened
Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org powerpc/mm: Workaround Nest MMU bug with TLB invalidations
Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org powerpc/mm: Add tracking of the number of coprocessors using a context
Pierre-Yves MORDRET pierre-yves.mordret@st.com i2c: i2c-stm32f7: fix no check on returned setup
Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com ipc/shm.c: add split function to shm_vm_ops
Yan, Zheng zyan@redhat.com ceph: only dirty ITER_IOVEC pages for direct read
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation
Andrew Banman abanman@hpe.com x86/platform/uv/BAU: Add APIC idt entry
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ALSA: pcm: potential uninitialized return values
Stefan Roese sr@denx.de ALSA: pcm: Use dma_bytes as size parameter in dma_mmap_coherent()
Nobutaka Okabe nob77413@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add native DSD support for TEAC UD-301
Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@bootlin.com mtd: nand: atmel: Fix get_sectorsize() function
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org mtd: jedec_probe: Fix crash in jedec_read_mfr()
Philipp Rossak embed3d@gmail.com ARM: dts: sun6i: a31s: bpi-m2: add missing regulators
Philipp Rossak embed3d@gmail.com ARM: dts: sun6i: a31s: bpi-m2: improve pmic properties
Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com ARM: 8746/1: vfp: Go back to clearing vfp_current_hw_state[]
Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com ARM: OMAP: Fix SRAM W+X mapping
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Diffstat:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt | 1 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-pepper.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/dra76-evm.dts | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/sun6i-a31s-sinovoip-bpi-m2.dts | 63 +++++++- arch/arm/crypto/Makefile | 2 + arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/sram.h | 11 +- arch/arm/plat-omap/sram.c | 36 ++++- arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/crypto/Makefile | 2 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/mmu.h | 3 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 18 ++- arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 8 + arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/mm/tlb-radix.c | 50 +++++- arch/x86/crypto/cast5_avx_glue.c | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/idt.c | 3 + arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c | 2 - block/bio.c | 4 +- block/partitions/msdos.c | 4 +- crypto/ahash.c | 7 +- crypto/lrw.c | 2 +- crypto/testmgr.h | 6 +- drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 12 +- drivers/char/mem.c | 6 +- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 - drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 3 - drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-crypto-rsa.c | 7 +- drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 168 ++++++++------------- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ddi.c | 12 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-stm32f7.c | 5 + drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 25 +++ drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 61 +++++--- drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 24 ++- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 24 +++ drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c | 2 + drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 1 - drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c | 2 + drivers/mtd/nand/atmel/pmecc.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_gmac.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_ppe.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ethtool.c | 4 +- drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 4 + drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-ufs.c | 5 + drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 2 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 33 ++++ drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 9 ++ fs/btrfs/inode.c | 37 ++++- fs/ceph/file.c | 9 +- include/linux/bitmap.h | 22 ++- include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h | 2 + include/rdma/ib_addr.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h | 3 + ipc/shm.c | 12 ++ kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 30 +--- mm/percpu-km.c | 8 +- mm/percpu-vm.c | 18 ++- mm/percpu.c | 45 +++--- net/bluetooth/smp.c | 8 +- net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_among.c | 34 +++++ net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c | 14 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 20 --- net/ipv6/route.c | 13 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 38 +++-- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 3 - net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 37 ++++- net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c | 16 +- net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 6 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 5 + net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 21 +-- sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 4 +- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 2 +- sound/usb/quirks.c | 1 + 83 files changed, 731 insertions(+), 358 deletions(-)