This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.14 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 Thu Mar 29 16:27:29 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-4.15.14-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 4.15.14-rc1
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf, x64: increase number of passes
Chenbo Feng fengc@google.com bpf: skip unnecessary capability check
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants
Liam Mark lmark@codeaurora.org staging: android: ion: Zero CMA allocated memory
Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: introduce conf_lock mutex
Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix endianness in st_lsm6dsx_read_oneshot()
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org iio: ABI: Fix name of timestamp sysfs file
Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix multi-domain PCI CHA enumeration bug on Skylake servers
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com perf/x86/intel: Don't accidentally clear high bits in bdw_limit_period()
Yonghong Song yhs@fb.com trace/bpf: remove helper bpf_perf_prog_read_value from tracepoint type programs
Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com perf/core: Fix ctx_event_type in ctx_resched()
Ilya Pronin ipronin@twitter.com perf stat: Fix CVS output format for non-supported counters
Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix Skylake UPI event format
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (k10temp) Add temperature offset for Ryzen 1900X
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (k10temp) Only apply temperature offset if result is positive
H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment
H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org kvm/x86: fix icebp instruction handling
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de posix-timers: Protect posix clock array access against speculation
Waiman Long longman@redhat.com x86/efi: Free efi_pgd with free_pages()
Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com x86/vsyscall/64: Use proper accessor to update P4D entry
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall: Fix for yet more glibc interference
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/entry/64: Don't use IST entry for #BP stack
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org tty: vt: fix up tabstops properly
Andri Yngvason andri.yngvason@marel.com can: cc770: Fix use after free in cc770_tx_interrupt()
Andri Yngvason andri.yngvason@marel.com can: cc770: Fix queue stall & dropped RTR reply
Andri Yngvason andri.yngvason@marel.com can: cc770: Fix stalls on rt-linux, remove redundant IRQ ack
Marek Vasut marex@denx.de can: ifi: Check core revision upon probe
Marek Vasut marex@denx.de can: ifi: Repair the error handling
Stephane Grosjean s.grosjean@peak-system.com can: peak/pcie_fd: remove useless code when interface starts
Stephane Grosjean s.grosjean@peak-system.com can: peak/pcie_fd: fix echo_skb is occupied! bug
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com staging: ncpfs: memory corruption in ncp_read_kernel()
Jagdish Gediya jagdish.gediya@nxp.com mtd: nand: fsl_ifc: Read ECCSTAT0 and ECCSTAT1 registers for IFC 2.0
Jagdish Gediya jagdish.gediya@nxp.com mtd: nand: fsl_ifc: Fix eccstat array overflow for IFC ver >= 2.0.0
Jagdish Gediya jagdish.gediya@nxp.com mtd: nand: fsl_ifc: Fix nand waitfunc return value
OuYang ZhiZhong ouyzz@yealink.com mtdchar: fix usage of mtd_ooblayout_ecc()
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org tracing: probeevent: Fix to support minus offset from symbol
Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Fix loss of signal
Arend Van Spriel arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com brcmfmac: fix P2P_DEVICE ethernet address generation
Vishal Verma vishal.l.verma@intel.com libnvdimm, {btt, blk}: do integrity setup before add_disk()
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ACPI / watchdog: Fix off-by-one error at resource assignment
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com acpi, numa: fix pxm to online numa node associations
Leon Yu chianglungyu@gmail.com module: propagate error in modules_open()
Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com mm/vmscan: wake up flushers for legacy cgroups too
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org drm: udl: Properly check framebuffer mmap offsets
Daniel Stone daniels@collabora.com drm: Reject getfb for multi-plane framebuffers
Harry Wentland harry.wentland@amd.com drm/amd/display: Add one to EDID's audio channel count when passing to DC
Harry Wentland harry.wentland@amd.com drm/amd/display: We shouldn't set format_default on plane as atomic driver
Michel Dänzer michel.daenzer@amd.com drm/radeon: Don't turn off DP sink when disconnected
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix a destoy-while-held mutex problem.
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix black screen and device errors when running without fbdev
Daniel Vacek neelx@redhat.com Revert "mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible"
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com mm/shmem: do not wait for lock_page() in shmem_unused_huge_shrink()
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan()
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com mm/khugepaged.c: convert VM_BUG_ON() to collapse fail
Toshi Kani toshi.kani@hpe.com x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces
Toshi Kani toshi.kani@hpe.com mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de h8300: remove extraneous __BIG_ENDIAN definition
Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlbfs: check for pgoff value overflow
Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl media: tegra-cec: reset rx_buf_cnt when start bit detected
Jeff Layton jlayton@redhat.com nfsd: remove blocked locks on client teardown
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org cgroup: fix rule checking for threaded mode switching
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched, cgroup: Don't reject lower cpu.max on ancestors
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com libata: Modify quirks for MX100 to limit NCQ_TRIM quirk to MU01 version
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com libata: Make Crucial BX100 500GB LPM quirk apply to all firmware versions
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com libata: Apply NOLPM quirk to Crucial M500 480 and 960GB SSDs
Ju Hyung Park qkrwngud825@gmail.com libata: Enable queued TRIM for Samsung SSD 860
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com libata: disable LPM for Crucial BX100 SSD 500GB drive
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com libata: Apply NOLPM quirk to Crucial MX100 512GB SSDs
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com libata: don't try to pass through NCQ commands to non-NCQ devices
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com libata: remove WARN() for DMA or PIO command without data
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com libata: fix length validation of ATAPI-relayed SCSI commands
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Bluetooth: btusb: Fix quirk for Atheros 1525/QCA6174
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com Bluetooth: btusb: Add Dell OptiPlex 3060 to btusb_needs_reset_resume_table
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Bluetooth: btusb: Remove Yoga 920 from the btusb_needs_reset_resume_table
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org pinctrl: samsung: Validate alias coming from DT
Michael Kelley mhkelley@outlook.com Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix ring buffer signaling
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix crash while accessing garbage pointer and freed memory
Chen-Yu Tsai wens@csie.org clk: sunxi-ng: a31: Fix CLK_OUT_* clock ops
Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@bootlin.com clk: bcm2835: Protect sections updating shared registers
Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@bootlin.com clk: bcm2835: Fix ana->maskX definitions
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp lockdep: fix fs_reclaim warning
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ahci: Add PCI-id for the Highpoint Rocketraid 644L card
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com PCI: Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Highpoint RocketRAID 644L
Evgeniy Didin Evgeniy.Didin@synopsys.com mmc: dw_mmc: fix falling from idmac to PIO mode when dw_mci_reset occurs
Jaehoon Chung jh80.chung@samsung.com mmc: dw_mmc: exynos: fix the suspend/resume issue for exynos5433
Evgeniy Didin Evgeniy.Didin@synopsys.com mmc: dw_mmc: Fix the DTO/CTO timeout overflow calculation for 32-bit systems
Bastian Stender bst@pengutronix.de mmc: block: fix updating ext_csd caches on ioctl call
Dirk Behme dirk.behme@de.bosch.com mmc: core: Disable HPI for certain Micron (Numonyx) eMMC cards
Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com mmc: core: Fix tracepoint print of blk_addr and blksz
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/realtek - Always immediately update mute LED with pin VREF
Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix Dell headset Mic can't record
Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix speaker no sound after system resume
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Force polling mode on CFL for fixing codec communication
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Fix access to not-yet-ready substream via cable
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Sync stale timer before release
Kirill Marinushkin k.marinushkin@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix parsing descriptor of UAC2 processing unit
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com iio: adc: meson-saradc: unlock on error in meson_sar_adc_lock()
Michael Nosthoff committed@heine.so iio: st_pressure: st_accel: pass correct platform data to init
Richard Lai richard@richardman.com iio: chemical: ccs811: Corrected firmware boot/application mode transition
Mathias Kresin dev@kresin.me MIPS: lantiq: ase: Enable MFD_SYSCON
Mathias Kresin dev@kresin.me MIPS: lantiq: Enable AHB Bus for USB
Mathias Kresin dev@kresin.me MIPS: lantiq: Fix Danube USB clock
NeilBrown neil@brown.name MIPS: ralink: Fix booting on MT7621
NeilBrown neil@brown.name MIPS: ralink: Remove ralink_halt()
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Diffstat:
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 2 +- Makefile | 13 ++- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 10 +++ arch/h8300/include/asm/byteorder.h | 1 - arch/mips/lantiq/Kconfig | 2 + arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c | 6 +- arch/mips/ralink/mt7621.c | 42 ++++----- arch/mips/ralink/reset.c | 7 -- arch/x86/Makefile | 9 ++ arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 4 + arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 2 +- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 2 +- arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c | 33 +++---- arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/idt.c | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 15 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 9 +- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 48 ++++++++++ arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 3 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/acpi_watchdog.c | 4 +- drivers/acpi/numa.c | 10 ++- drivers/ata/ahci.c | 4 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 26 +++++- drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 10 ++- drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 8 +- drivers/clk/bcm/clk-bcm2835.c | 12 ++- drivers/clk/sunxi-ng/ccu-sun6i-a31.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 2 - .../drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_helpers.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_framebuffer.c | 7 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_connectors.c | 31 +++---- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 13 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 39 ++++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.h | 13 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_scrn.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_stdu.c | 5 +- drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c | 52 +++++++---- drivers/hwmon/k10temp.c | 6 +- drivers/iio/accel/st_accel_core.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/adc/meson_saradc.c | 4 +- drivers/iio/chemical/ccs811.c | 3 + drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx.h | 2 + drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_buffer.c | 21 +++-- drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c | 8 +- drivers/iio/pressure/st_pressure_core.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 12 ++- drivers/media/platform/tegra-cec/tegra_cec.c | 17 ++-- drivers/mmc/core/block.c | 19 ++++ drivers/mmc/core/card.h | 1 + drivers/mmc/core/quirks.h | 6 ++ drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc-exynos.c | 8 +- drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 15 ++-- drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 4 +- drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c | 32 +++---- drivers/net/can/cc770/cc770.c | 100 +++++++++++++-------- drivers/net/can/cc770/cc770.h | 2 + drivers/net/can/ifi_canfd/ifi_canfd.c | 75 ++++++++++------ drivers/net/can/peak_canfd/peak_canfd.c | 25 ++---- drivers/net/can/peak_canfd/peak_pciefd_main.c | 8 +- .../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.c | 24 +++-- .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c | 3 +- drivers/nvdimm/blk.c | 3 +- drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 3 +- drivers/pci/quirks.c | 2 + drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-exynos-arm.c | 56 ++++++++++-- drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-exynos-arm64.c | 14 ++- drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-s3c24xx.c | 28 +++++- drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-s3c64xx.c | 7 +- drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c | 61 ++++++++----- drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.h | 40 +++++---- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c | 17 ++++ drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 8 +- drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c | 2 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 17 +++- fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c | 4 + fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 62 +++++++++---- include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 10 +++ include/linux/fsl_ifc.h | 6 +- include/linux/memblock.h | 1 - include/trace/events/mmc.h | 4 +- include/uapi/linux/usb/audio.h | 4 +- kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 2 +- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 10 +++ kernel/events/core.c | 4 +- kernel/module.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 15 ++-- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 11 ++- kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 68 ++++++++------ kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 8 +- kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 2 +- lib/ioremap.c | 6 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 4 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 7 ++ mm/khugepaged.c | 7 +- mm/memblock.c | 28 ------ mm/page_alloc.c | 13 +-- mm/shmem.c | 31 ++++--- mm/vmscan.c | 31 +++---- sound/drivers/aloop.c | 17 +++- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 5 ++ sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 20 ++++- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall.c | 8 +- 108 files changed, 1014 insertions(+), 513 deletions(-)