This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.8 release. There are 52 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 May 10 07:38:51 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-4.16.8-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 4.16.8-rc1

Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com tracing: Fix bad use of igrab in trace_uprobe.c

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org clocksource: Consistent de-rate when marking unstable

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org clocksource: Initialize cs->wd_list

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org clocksource: Allow clocksource_mark_unstable() on unregistered clocksources

Agustin Vega-Frias agustinv@codeaurora.org irqchip/qcom: Fix check for spurious interrupts

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/tsc: Fix mark_tsc_unstable()

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/tsc: Always unregister clocksource_tsc_early

Anthoine Bourgeois anthoine.bourgeois@blade-group.com KVM: x86: remove APIC Timer periodic/oneshot spikes

Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com platform/x86: Kconfig: Fix dell-laptop dependency chain.

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-wireless: Fix NULL pointer dereference

Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com usb: musb: trace: fix NULL pointer dereference in musb_g_tx()

Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com usb: musb: host: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

SZ Lin (林上智) sz.lin@moxa.com USB: serial: option: adding support for ublox R410M

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: option: reimplement interface masking

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu USB: Accept bulk endpoints with 1024-byte maxpacket

Mayank Rana mrana@codeaurora.org usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix list_del corruption in dwc3_ep_dequeue

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org USB: serial: visor: handle potential invalid device configuration

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: Fix use-after-free in xhci_free_virt_device

Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk test_firmware: fix setting old custom fw path back on exit, second try

Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org drm/bridge: vga-dac: Fix edid memory leak

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix a buffer object leak

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@bootlin.com drm/vc4: Make sure vc4_bo_{inc,dec}_usecnt() calls are balanced

ethanwu ethanwu@synology.com btrfs: Take trans lock before access running trans in check_delayed_ref

Bharat Potnuri bharat@chelsio.com iw_cxgb4: Atomically flush per QP HW CQEs

Sebastian Sanchez sebastian.sanchez@intel.com IB/hfi1: Fix NULL pointer dereference when invalid num_vls is used

Mike Marciniszyn mike.marciniszyn@intel.com IB/hfi1: Fix loss of BECN with AHG

Mike Marciniszyn mike.marciniszyn@intel.com IB/hfi1: Fix handling of FECN marked multicast packet

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org infiniband: mlx5: fix build errors when INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS=m

Danit Goldberg danitg@mellanox.com IB/mlx5: Use unlimited rate when static rate is not supported

SZ Lin (林上智) sz.lin@moxa.com NET: usb: qmi_wwan: add support for ublox R410M PID 0x90b2

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/mlx5: Protect from shift operand overflow

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/mlx4: Add missed RSS hash inner header flag

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix multiple NULL-ptr deref errors in rereg_mr flow

Roland Dreier roland@purestorage.com RDMA/ucma: Allow resolving address w/o specifying source address

Raju Rangoju rajur@chelsio.com RDMA/cxgb4: release hw resources on device removal

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz tools: power/acpi, revert to LD = gcc

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: prevent creating negative-sized file via INSERT_RANGE

Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com rtlwifi: cleanup 8723be ant_sel definition

Michel Dänzer michel.daenzer@amd.com swiotlb: fix inversed DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN test

Vittorio Gambaletta (VittGam) linuxbugs@vittgam.net Input: atmel_mxt_ts - add touchpad button mapping for Samsung Chromebook Pro

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: leds - fix out of bound access

Bryant G Ly bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com scsi: target: Fix fortify_panic kernel exception

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com tracepoint: Do not warn on ENOMEM

Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org errseq: Always report a writeback error once

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Add missing cable lock to ctl API callbacks

Robert Rosengren robert.rosengren@axis.com ALSA: aloop: Mark paused device as inactive

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: dice: fix kernel NULL pointer dereference due to invalid calculation for array index

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix races at MIDI encoding in snd_virmidi_output_trigger()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Check PCM state at xfern compat ioctl

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Fix incorrect usage of IS_REACHABLE()

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org ACPI / button: make module loadable when booted in non-ACPI mode

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Diffstat:

Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 14 + arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 40 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 2 + arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 5 + arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 22 +- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 37 +- drivers/acpi/button.c | 24 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/dumb-vga-dac.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_crtc.c | 46 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 1 + drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cq.c | 11 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c | 9 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.h | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/resource.c | 26 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/driver.c | 19 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/hfi.h | 8 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c | 2 + drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/pcie.c | 3 - drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/ruc.c | 50 ++- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/ud.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c | 3 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 32 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c | 22 +- drivers/input/input-leds.c | 8 +- drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c | 9 + drivers/irqchip/qcom-irq-combiner.c | 4 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + .../realtek/rtlwifi/btcoexist/halbtcoutsrc.c | 15 - .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c | 11 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 5 + drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-wireless.c | 4 +- drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/core/config.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 1 + drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/musb/musb_host.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 451 +++++++-------------- drivers/usb/serial/visor.c | 69 ++-- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 7 + fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 14 +- kernel/time/clocksource.c | 57 ++- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 24 +- kernel/tracepoint.c | 4 +- lib/errseq.c | 23 +- lib/swiotlb.c | 2 +- sound/core/pcm_compat.c | 2 + sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c | 4 +- sound/drivers/aloop.c | 29 +- sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c | 5 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 +- tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_filesystem.sh | 6 +- 59 files changed, 674 insertions(+), 509 deletions(-)