This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.106 release. There are 105 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 Dec 17 09:22:39 UTC 2017. 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-4.4.106-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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.106-rc1
Vincent Pelletier plr.vincent@gmail.com usb: gadget: ffs: Forbid usb_ep_alloc_request from sleeping
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm: KVM: Fix VTTBR_BADDR_MASK BUG_ON off-by-one
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "x86/mm/pat: Ensure cpa->pfn only contains page frame numbers"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "x86/efi: Hoist page table switching code into efi_call_virt()"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "x86/efi: Build our own page table structures"
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()
Mike Maloney maloney@google.com packet: fix crash in fanout_demux_rollover()
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com sit: update frag_off info
Håkon Bugge Haakon.Bugge@oracle.com rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __rds_rdma_map
Jon Maloy jon.maloy@ericsson.com tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk more bio_map_user_iov() leak fixes
Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390: always save and restore all registers on context switch
Masamitsu Yamazaki m-yamazaki@ah.jp.nec.com ipmi: Stop timers before cleaning up the module
Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1
Keefe Liu liuqifa@huawei.com ipvlan: fix ipv6 outbound device
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com afs: Connect up the CB.ProbeUuid
Majd Dibbiny majd@mellanox.com IB/mlx5: Assign send CQ and recv CQ of UMR QP
Mark Bloch markb@mellanox.com IB/mlx4: Increase maximal message size under UD QP
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au xfrm: Copy policy family in clone_policy
Jason Baron jbaron@akamai.com jump_label: Invoke jump_label_test() via early_initcall()
Arvind Yadav arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com atm: horizon: Fix irq release error
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: use the right sk after waking up from wait_buf sleep
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: do not free asoc when it is already dead in sctp_sendmsg
Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@oracle.com sparc64/mm: set fields in deferred pages
Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com block: wake up all tasks blocked in get_request()
Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com sunrpc: Fix rpc_task_begin trace point
Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_rename()
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org dynamic-debug-howto: fix optional/omitted ending line number to be LARGE instead of 0
Stephen Bates sbates@raithlin.com lib/genalloc.c: make the avail variable an atomic_long_t
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com route: update fnhe_expires for redirect when the fnhe exists
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com route: also update fnhe_genid when updating a route cache
Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()
Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kbuild: pkg: use --transform option to prefix paths in tar
Jérémy Lefaure jeremy.lefaure@lse.epita.fr EDAC, i5000, i5400: Fix definition of NRECMEMB register
Jérémy Lefaure jeremy.lefaure@lse.epita.fr EDAC, i5000, i5400: Fix use of MTR_DRAM_WIDTH macro
Alexey Kardashevskiy aik@ozlabs.ru powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Gracefully fail if too many TCE levels requested
Jim Qu Jim.Qu@amd.com drm/amd/amdgpu: fix console deadlock if late init failed
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz axonram: Fix gendisk handling
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: don't track fragmented packets
Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de zram: set physical queue limits to avoid array out of bounds accesses
Chris Brandt chris.brandt@renesas.com i2c: riic: fix restart condition
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org crypto: s5p-sss - Fix completing crypto request in IRQ handler
WANG Cong xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com ipv6: reorder icmpv6_init() and ip6_mr_init()
Michal Schmidt mschmidt@redhat.com bnx2x: do not rollback VF MAC/VLAN filters we did not configure
Michal Schmidt mschmidt@redhat.com bnx2x: fix possible overrun of VFPF multicast addresses array
Michal Schmidt mschmidt@redhat.com bnx2x: prevent crash when accessing PTP with interface down
Blomme, Maarten Maarten.Blomme@flir.com spi_ks8995: fix "BUG: key accdaa28 not in .data!"
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: KVM: Survive unknown traps from guests
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm: KVM: Survive unknown traps from guests
Wanpeng Li wanpeng.li@hotmail.com KVM: nVMX: reset nested_run_pending if the vCPU is going to be reset
Franck Demathieu fdemathieu@gmail.com irqchip/crossbar: Fix incorrect type of register size
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix crash during Hardware error recovery on SLI3 adapters
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org workqueue: trigger WARN if queue_delayed_work() is called with NULL @wq
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org libata: drop WARN from protocol error in ata_sff_qc_issue()
Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR should not cause the vCPU to shut down
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr USB: gadgetfs: Fix a potential memory leak in 'dev_config()'
John Keeping john@metanate.com usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak
Daniel Drake drake@endlessm.com HID: chicony: Add support for another ASUS Zen AiO keyboard
Phil Reid preid@electromag.com.au gpio: altera: Use handle_level_irq when configured as a level_high
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net ARM: OMAP2+: Release device node after it is no longer needed.
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net ARM: OMAP2+: Fix device node reference counts
David Daney david.daney@cavium.com module: set __jump_table alignment to 8
Sachin Sant sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com selftest/powerpc: Fix false failures for skipped tests
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/hpet: Prevent might sleep splat on resume
Ladislav Michl ladis@linux-mips.org ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-onenand: propagate error on initialization failure
Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com vti6: Don't report path MTU below IPV6_MIN_MTU.
Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Revert "s390/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm"
Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Revert "spi: SPI_FSL_DSPI should depend on HAS_DMA"
Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Revert "drm/armada: Fix compile fail"
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com mm: drop unused pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_notify()
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. numa balancing race
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com thp: reduce indentation level in change_huge_pmd()
Stephen Hemminger stephen@networkplumber.org scsi: storvsc: Workaround for virtual DVD SCSI version
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: avoid faulting on qemu
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: BUG if jumping to usermode address in kernel mode
Dave Martin Dave.Martin@arm.com arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking from dead tasks
Andrew Honig ahonig@google.com KVM: VMX: remove I/O port 0x80 bypass on Intel hosts
Kristina Martsenko kristina.martsenko@arm.com arm64: KVM: fix VTTBR_BADDR_MASK BUG_ON off-by-one
Laurent Caumont lcaumont2@gmail.com media: dvb: i2c transfers over usb cannot be done from stack
Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com drm/exynos: gem: Drop NONCONTIG flag for buffers allocated without IOMMU
Dave Gordon david.s.gordon@intel.com drm: extra printk() wrapper macros
Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org kdb: Fix handling of kallsyms_symbol_next() return value
Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390: fix compat system call table
Robin Murphy robin.murphy@arm.com iommu/vt-d: Fix scatterlist offset handling
Jaejoong Kim climbbb.kim@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add check return value for usb_string()
Jaejoong Kim climbbb.kim@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out-of-bound error
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Remove spurious WARN_ON() at timer check
Robb Glasser rglasser@google.com ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in snd_pcm_info
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com x86/PCI: Make broadcom_postcore_init() check acpi_disabled
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com X.509: reject invalid BIT STRING for subjectPublicKey
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ASN.1: check for error from ASN1_OP_END__ACT actions
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ASN.1: fix out-of-bounds read when parsing indefinite length item
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org efi: Move some sysfs files to be read-only by root
Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com scsi: libsas: align sata_device's rps_resp on a cacheline
William Breathitt Gray vilhelm.gray@gmail.com isa: Prevent NULL dereference in isa_bus driver callbacks
Paul Meyer Paul.Meyer@microsoft.com hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file
weiping zhang zwp10758@gmail.com virtio: release virtio index when fail to device_register
Martin Kelly mkelly@xevo.com can: usb_8dev: cancel urb on -EPIPE and -EPROTO
Martin Kelly mkelly@xevo.com can: esd_usb2: cancel urb on -EPIPE and -EPROTO
Martin Kelly mkelly@xevo.com can: ems_usb: cancel urb on -EPIPE and -EPROTO
Martin Kelly mkelly@xevo.com can: kvaser_usb: cancel urb on -EPIPE and -EPROTO
Jimmy Assarsson jimmyassarsson@gmail.com can: kvaser_usb: ratelimit errors if incomplete messages are received
Jimmy Assarsson jimmyassarsson@gmail.com can: kvaser_usb: Fix comparison bug in kvaser_usb_read_bulk_callback()
Jimmy Assarsson jimmyassarsson@gmail.com can: kvaser_usb: free buf in error paths
Oliver Stäbler oliver.staebler@bytesatwork.ch can: ti_hecc: Fix napi poll return value for repoll
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h | 18 +++ arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_arm.h | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S | 6 + arch/arm/kvm/handle_exit.c | 19 +-- arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc-onenand.c | 10 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod_3xxx_data.c | 25 ++-- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h | 3 +- arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 9 ++ arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 19 +-- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 3 + arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c | 5 +- arch/s390/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 8 -- arch/s390/include/asm/switch_to.h | 19 ++- arch/s390/kernel/syscalls.S | 6 +- arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 9 +- arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 26 ---- arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 31 ++--- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 17 ++- arch/x86/pci/broadcom_bus.c | 2 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 39 +++--- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_32.c | 5 - arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 137 ++++++---------------- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S | 43 +++++++ block/bio.c | 14 ++- block/blk-core.c | 4 +- crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c | 2 + drivers/ata/libata-sff.c | 1 - drivers/atm/horizon.c | 2 +- drivers/base/isa.c | 10 +- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 + drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 44 +++---- drivers/crypto/s5p-sss.c | 5 +- drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c | 8 +- drivers/edac/i5400_edac.c | 9 +- drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 3 +- drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 15 +-- drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-map.c | 10 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-altera.c | 26 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/armada/Makefile | 2 - drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_gem.c | 9 ++ drivers/hid/Kconfig | 4 +- drivers/hid/hid-chicony.c | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 1 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-riic.c | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 2 + drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 8 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c | 8 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dibusb-common.c | 16 ++- drivers/memory/omap-gpmc.c | 4 +- drivers/net/can/ti_hecc.c | 3 + drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c | 2 + drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb2.c | 2 + drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 13 +- drivers/net/can/usb/usb_8dev.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 20 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c | 23 ++-- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/spi_ks8995.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 14 ++- drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 27 +++-- drivers/spi/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 4 +- drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 2 + fs/afs/cmservice.c | 3 + fs/nfs/dir.c | 2 +- include/drm/drmP.h | 26 +++- include/linux/genalloc.h | 3 +- include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 13 -- include/linux/omap-gpmc.h | 5 +- include/linux/sysfs.h | 6 + include/scsi/libsas.h | 2 +- kernel/audit.c | 10 +- kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 2 +- kernel/jump_label.c | 2 +- kernel/workqueue.c | 1 + lib/asn1_decoder.c | 49 ++++---- lib/dynamic_debug.c | 4 + lib/genalloc.c | 10 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 82 +++++++++---- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c | 4 + net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_l3proto_ipv4.c | 5 - net/ipv4/route.c | 14 ++- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 10 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + net/packet/af_packet.c | 37 +++--- net/packet/internal.h | 1 - net/rds/rdma.c | 2 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 38 ++++-- net/sunrpc/sched.c | 3 +- net/tipc/server.c | 1 + net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 1 + scripts/module-common.lds | 2 + scripts/package/Makefile | 5 +- sound/core/pcm.c | 2 + sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c | 2 +- sound/usb/mixer.c | 13 +- tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 70 +++-------- tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/harness.c | 6 +- 109 files changed, 701 insertions(+), 570 deletions(-)