This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.112 release. There are 87 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 Jan 17 12:33:11 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-4.4.112-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-4.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.112-rc1
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/alternatives: Add missing '\n' at end of ALTERNATIVE inline asm
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/cpu: Implement CPU vulnerabilites sysfs functions
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/Documentation: Add PTI description
Benjamin Poirier bpoirier@suse.com e1000e: Fix e1000_check_for_copper_link_ich8lan return value.
Icenowy Zheng icenowy@aosc.io uas: ignore UAS for Norelsys NS1068(X) chips
Ben Seri ben@armis.com Bluetooth: Prevent stack info leak from the EFS element.
Viktor Slavkovic viktors@google.com staging: android: ashmem: fix a race condition in ASHMEM_SET_SIZE ioctl
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: remove kernel addresses from usb device and urb debug msgs
Pete Zaitcev zaitcev@redhat.com USB: fix usbmon BUG trigger
Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch usb: misc: usb3503: make sure reset is low for at least 100us
Christian Holl cyborgx1@gmail.com USB: serial: cp210x: add new device ID ELV ALC 8xxx
Diego Elio Pettenò flameeyes@flameeyes.eu USB: serial: cp210x: add IDs for LifeScan OneTouch Verio IQ
Nicholas Bellinger nab@linux-iscsi.org target: Avoid early CMD_T_PRE_EXECUTE failures during ABORT_TASK
Nicholas Bellinger nab@linux-iscsi.org iscsi-target: Make TASK_REASSIGN use proper se_cmd->cmd_kref
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf, array: fix overflow in max_entries and undefined behavior in index_mask
Alexei Starovoitov ast@kernel.org bpf: prevent out-of-bounds speculation
Alexei Starovoitov ast@fb.com bpf: adjust insn_aux_data when patching insns
Alexei Starovoitov ast@fb.com bpf: refactor fixup_bpf_calls()
Alexei Starovoitov ast@fb.com bpf: move fixup_bpf_calls() function
Jakub Kicinski jakub.kicinski@netronome.com bpf: don't (ab)use instructions to store state
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: add bpf_patch_insn_single helper
Lepton Wu ytht.net@gmail.com kaiser: Set _PAGE_NX only if supported
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com drm/vmwgfx: Potential off by one in vmw_view_add()
Andrew Honig ahonig@google.com KVM: x86: Add memory barrier on vmcs field lookup
Jia Zhang qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com rbd: set max_segments to USHRT_MAX
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: fix possible mem leaks in ipv6_make_skb()
Jerome Brunet jbrunet@baylibre.com net: stmmac: enable EEE in MII, GMII or RGMII only
Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com sh_eth: fix SH7757 GEther initialization
Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com sh_eth: fix TSU resource handling
Mohamed Ghannam simo.ghannam@gmail.com RDS: null pointer dereference in rds_atomic_free_op
Mohamed Ghannam simo.ghannam@gmail.com RDS: Heap OOB write in rds_message_alloc_sgs()
Andrii Vladyka tulup@mail.ru net: core: fix module type in sock_diag_bind
Eli Cooper elicooper@gmx.com ip6_tunnel: disable dst caching if tunnel is dual-stack
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com 8021q: fix a memory leak for VLAN 0 device
Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@oracle.com x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "userfaultfd: selftest: vm: allow to build in vm/ directory"
Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk xhci: Fix ring leak in failure path of xhci_alloc_virt_device()
Ani Sinha ani@arista.com sysrq: Fix warning in sysrq generated crash.
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz hwrng: core - sleep interruptible in read
Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz x86/mm/pat, /dev/mem: Remove superfluous error message
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com cx82310_eth: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com smsc75xx: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com sr9700: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com lan78xx: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
hayeswang hayeswang@realtek.com r8152: adjust ALDPS function
hayeswang hayeswang@realtek.com r8152: use test_and_clear_bit
hayeswang hayeswang@realtek.com r8152: fix the wake event
Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson@linaro.org usb: musb: ux500: Fix NULL pointer dereference at system PM
Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com usbvision fix overflow of interfaces array
Davidlohr Bueso dave@stgolabs.net locking/mutex: Allow next waiter lockless wakeup
Jianyu Zhan nasa4836@gmail.com futex: Replace barrier() in unqueue_me() with READ_ONCE()
Jeff Layton jeff.layton@primarydata.com locks: don't check for race with close when setting OFD lock
Dan Streetman ddstreet@ieee.org zswap: don't param_set_charp while holding spinlock
Dan Streetman ddstreet@ieee.org mm/zswap: use workqueue to destroy pool
Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com mm/page-writeback: fix dirty_ratelimit calculation
Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com mm/compaction: pass only pageblock aligned range to pageblock_pfn_to_page
Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com mm/compaction: fix invalid free_pfn and compact_cached_free_pfn
Vikas C Sajjan vikas.cha.sajjan@hpe.com x86/acpi: Reduce code duplication in mp_override_legacy_irq()
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Fix racy hw constraints adjustment
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Fix inconsistent format due to incomplete rule
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Release cable upon open error path
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Allow aborting mutex lock at OSS read/write loops
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Abort properly at pending signal in OSS read/write loops
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Add missing error checks in OSS emulation plugin builder
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Remove incorrect snd_BUG_ON() usages
Jean-Philippe Brucker jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Don't free page table ops twice
Vikas C Sajjan vikas.cha.sajjan@hpe.com x86/acpi: Handle SCI interrupts above legacy space gracefully
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/vsdo: Fix build on PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y, KVM_GUEST=n
Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com kvm: vmx: Scrub hardware GPRs at VM-exit
Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com net/mac80211/debugfs.c: prevent build failure with CONFIG_UBSAN=y
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Disallow outsized PTRACE_SETREGSET NT_PRFPREG regset accesses
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Also verify sizeof `elf_fpreg_t' with PTRACE_SETREGSET
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Fix an FCSR access API regression with NT_PRFPREG and MSA
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Consistently handle buffer counter with PTRACE_SETREGSET
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Guard against any partial write attempt with PTRACE_SETREGSET
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Factor out NT_PRFPREG regset access helpers
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Validate PR_SET_FP_MODE prctl(2) requests against the ABI of the task
Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com IB/srpt: Disable RDMA access by the initiator
Wolfgang Grandegger wg@grandegger.com can: gs_usb: fix return value of the "set_bittiming" callback
Wanpeng Li wanpeng.li@hotmail.com KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio
Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com dm bufio: fix shrinker scans when (nr_to_scan < retain_target)
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Diffstat:
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 16 + Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 21 +- Documentation/x86/pti.txt | 186 ++++++++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 6 +- arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 12 + arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c | 147 ++++-- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h | 10 + arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 61 ++- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 7 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 29 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 14 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 19 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 26 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 +- arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 2 + arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 5 +- arch/x86/realmode/init.c | 4 +- arch/x86/realmode/rm/trampoline_64.S | 3 +- crypto/algapi.c | 12 + drivers/base/Kconfig | 3 + drivers/base/cpu.c | 48 ++ drivers/block/rbd.c | 2 +- drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 6 +- drivers/char/mem.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c | 2 + drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 3 +- drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 8 +- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 7 +- drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 7 + drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 29 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 6 + drivers/net/usb/cx82310_eth.c | 7 +- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 9 +- drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 132 +++--- drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c | 8 +- drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c | 9 +- drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 + drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 20 +- drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c | 9 + drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 2 + drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 6 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c | 2 + drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/musb/ux500.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 2 + drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h | 7 + drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c | 17 +- fs/locks.c | 16 +- include/linux/bpf.h | 2 + include/linux/cpu.h | 7 + include/linux/filter.h | 3 + include/linux/phy.h | 11 + include/linux/sh_eth.h | 1 - include/target/target_core_base.h | 1 + include/trace/events/kvm.h | 7 +- kernel/bpf/arraymap.c | 37 +- kernel/bpf/core.c | 71 +++ kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 54 --- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 217 ++++++--- kernel/futex.c | 8 +- kernel/locking/mutex.c | 5 +- mm/compaction.c | 50 ++- mm/page-writeback.c | 11 +- mm/zswap.c | 24 +- net/8021q/vlan.c | 7 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 20 +- net/core/sock_diag.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 9 +- net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 7 +- net/rds/rdma.c | 4 + sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 41 +- sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c | 14 +- sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 4 +- sound/drivers/aloop.c | 98 ++-- tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile | 4 - tools/testing/selftests/x86/test_vsyscall.c | 500 +++++++++++++++++++++ 84 files changed, 1758 insertions(+), 470 deletions(-)