This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.5 release. There are 26 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 Fri Apr 27 10:33:04 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-4.16.5-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.16.5-rc1
Sean Christopherson sean.j.christopherson@intel.com Revert "KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown"
Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix NULL dereference while accessing XRC_TGT QPs
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf: Return proper values for user stack errors
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf: Fix sample_max_stack maximum check
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: limit allocation requests for blob rule heads
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: compat: reject huge allocation requests
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: compat: prepare xt_compat_init_offsets to return errors
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: add counters allocation wrapper
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: cap allocations at 512 mbyte
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp mm,vmscan: Allow preallocating memory for register_shrinker().
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de alarmtimer: Init nanosleep alarm timer on stack
Imre Deak imre.deak@intel.com drm/i915: Fix LSPCON TMDS output buffer enabling from low-power state
Xidong Wang wangxidong_97@163.com drm/i915: Do no use kfree() to free a kmem_cache_alloc() return value
Gaurav K Singh gaurav.k.singh@intel.com drm/i915/audio: Fix audio detection issue on GLK
Jani Nikula jani.nikula@intel.com drm/i915/bios: filter out invalid DDC pins from VBT child devices
Tina Zhang tina.zhang@intel.com drm/i915/gvt: Add drm_format_mod update
Gerd Hoffmann kraxel@redhat.com drm/i915/gvt: throw error on unhandled vfio ioctls
Daniel J Blueman daniel@quora.org drm/vc4: Fix memory leak during BO teardown
Xiaoming Gao gxm.linux.kernel@gmail.com x86/tsc: Prevent 32bit truncation in calc_hpet_ref()
Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com posix-cpu-timers: Ensure set_process_cpu_timer is always evaluated
Anson Huang Anson.Huang@nxp.com clocksource/imx-tpm: Correct -ETIME return condition check
Dou Liyang douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com x86/acpi: Prevent X2APIC id 0xffffffff from being accounted
Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com btrfs: Fix race condition between delayed refs and blockgroup removal
David Sterba dsterba@suse.com btrfs: fix unaligned access in readdir
Steve French smfrench@gmail.com cifs: do not allow creating sockets except with SMB1 posix exensions
Long Li longli@microsoft.com cifs: smbd: Check for iov length on sending the last iov
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 4 +++ arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-tpm.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_dual_mode_helper.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/dmabuf.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_audio.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_bios.c | 13 +++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_bo.c | 2 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c | 1 + drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.c | 19 ++++++++--- fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h | 1 + fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 16 +++++++--- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 20 +++++++----- fs/cifs/dir.c | 9 +++--- fs/cifs/smbdirect.c | 2 ++ fs/super.c | 9 +++--- include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h | 3 +- include/linux/shrinker.h | 7 ++-- kernel/events/callchain.c | 21 ++++++------ kernel/events/core.c | 4 +-- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 34 +++++++++++++++----- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 4 ++- mm/vmscan.c | 21 +++++++++++- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 10 ++++-- net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 12 ++++--- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 10 ++++-- net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 12 ++++--- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 33 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)