This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.140 release. There are 47 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 Jul 12 18:23:24 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-4.4.140-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.140-rc1
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com staging: comedi: quatech_daqp_cs: fix no-op loop daqp_ao_insn_write()
Jann Horn jannh@google.com netfilter: nf_log: don't hold nf_log_mutex during user access
Tokunori Ikegami ikegami@allied-telesis.co.jp mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to check chip good only
Tokunori Ikegami ikegami@allied-telesis.co.jp mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to retry for error
Tokunori Ikegami ikegami@allied-telesis.co.jp mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change definition naming to retry write operation
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm bufio: don't take the lock in dm_bufio_shrink_count
Martin Kaiser martin@kaiser.cx mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spare area size register explicitly
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm bufio: drop the lock when doing GFP_NOIO allocation
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org dm bufio: avoid sleeping while holding the dm_bufio lock
Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz mm, page_alloc: do not break __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset
Brad Love brad@nextdimension.cc media: cx25840: Use subdev host data for PLL override
Tony Luck tony.luck@intel.com x86/mce: Fix incorrect "Machine check from unknown source" message
Yazen Ghannam Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com x86/mce: Detect local MCEs properly
Daniel Rosenberg drosen@google.com HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user()
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com HID: hiddev: fix potential Spectre v1
Jason Andryuk jandryuk@gmail.com HID: i2c-hid: Fix "incomplete report" noise
Jon Derrick jonathan.derrick@intel.com ext4: check superblock mapped prior to committing
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: add more inode number paranoia checks
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: include the illegal physical block in the bad map ext4_error msg
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: always check block group bounds in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg descriptors
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu jbd2: don't mark block as modified if the handle is out of credits
Paulo Alcantara paulo@paulo.ac cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option
Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg@linbit.com drbd: fix access after free
Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@de.ibm.com s390: Correct register corruption in critical section cleanup
Jann Horn jannh@google.com scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse
Changbin Du changbin.du@intel.com tracing: Fix missing return symbol in function_graph output
Cannon Matthews cannonmatthews@google.com mm: hugetlb: yield when prepping struct pages
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA
Sean Nyekjaer sean.nyekjaer@prevas.dk ARM: dts: imx6q: Use correct SDMA script for SPI5 core
Taehee Yoo ap420073@gmail.com netfilter: nf_tables: use WARN_ON_ONCE instead of BUG_ON in nft_do_chain()
Keith Busch keith.busch@intel.com nvme-pci: initialize queue memory before interrupts
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Do not modify singlestep buffer while resuming
Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk ipv4: Fix error return value in fib_convert_metrics()
Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com i2c: rcar: fix resume by always initializing registers before transfer
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan vthiagar@qti.qualcomm.com ath10k: fix rfc1042 header retrieval in QCA4019 with eth decap mode
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp n_tty: Access echo_* variables carefully.
Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com staging: android: ion: Return an ERR_PTR in ion_map_kernel
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp n_tty: Fix stall at n_tty_receive_char_special().
Karoly Pados pados@pados.hu USB: serial: cp210x: add Silicon Labs IDs for Windows Update
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: cp210x: add CESINEL device ids
Houston Yaroschoff hstn@4ever3.net usb: cdc_acm: Add quirk for Uniden UBC125 scanner
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 51 ++++++++----- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 42 ++++++----- arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c | 34 ++++++--- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 8 ++- drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c | 11 +++ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 3 +- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 31 ++++---- drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c | 28 ++++++-- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 30 +++++--- drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c | 5 +- drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c | 5 +- drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 42 ++++++++++- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/quatech_daqp_cs.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 55 ++++++++------ drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 3 + drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 14 ++++ fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 10 ++- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 18 +++-- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 21 +++--- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 5 -- fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h | 1 + fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 ++ fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 14 +++- fs/ext4/inline.c | 1 + fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++---- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 9 ++- kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 5 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + mm/page_alloc.c | 2 - net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_log.c | 9 ++- net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c | 3 +- 42 files changed, 513 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)