This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.17.6 release. There are 56 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 18:24:40 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-4.17.6-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.17.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.17.6-rc1
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG
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
Ross Zwisler ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com dm: prevent DAX mounts if not supported
Ross Zwisler ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com dax: check for QUEUE_FLAG_DAX in bdev_dax_supported()
Dave Jiang dave.jiang@intel.com dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns
Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com fs: allow per-device dax status checking for filesystems
Peter Rosin peda@axentia.se i2c: smbus: kill memory leak on emulated and failed DMA SMBus xfers
Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu i2c: core: smbus: fix a potential missing-check bug
Benjamin Tissoires benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com HID: core: allow concurrent registration of drivers
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: avoid running out of journal credits when appending to an inline file
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: never move the system.data xattr out of the inode body
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 ext4: always verify the magic number in xattr blocks
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: add corruption check in ext4_xattr_set_entry()
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu jbd2: don't mark block as modified if the handle is out of credits
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/amdgpu: Dynamically probe for ATIF handle (v2)
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/amdgpu: Add amdgpu_atpx_get_dhandle()
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com drm/udl: fix display corruption of the last line
Michel Dänzer michel.daenzer@amd.com drm: Use kvzalloc for allocating blob property memory
Paulo Alcantara paulo@paulo.ac cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option
Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com cifs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in send_set_info() on SMB2 ACE setting
Paulo Alcantara paulo@paulo.ac cifs: Fix memory leak in smb2_set_ea()
Lars Persson lars.persson@axis.com cifs: Fix use after free of a mid_q_entry
Roger Quadros rogerq@ti.com ARM: dts: dra7: Disable metastability workaround for USB2
Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com ARM: dts: omap3: Fix am3517 mdio and emac clock references
Nick Dyer nick@shmanahar.org ARM: dts: imx51-zii-rdu1: fix touchscreen pinctrl
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca vfio: Use get_user_pages_longterm correctly
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
David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de scsi: target: Fix truncated PR-in ReadKeys response
Raghava Aditya Renukunta RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@microsemi.com scsi: aacraid: Fix PD performance regression over incorrect qd being set
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
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de tracing: Avoid string overflow
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/amdgpu: Make struct amdgpu_atif private to amdgpu_acpi.c
Jouke Witteveen j.witteveen@gmail.com ACPI / battery: Safe unregistering of hooks
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPICA: Drop leading newlines from error messages
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com PCI / ACPI / PM: Resume bridges w/o drivers on suspend-to-RAM
Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@oracle.com mm: teach dump_page() to correctly output poisoned struct pages
Cannon Matthews cannonmatthews@google.com mm: hugetlb: yield when prepping struct pages
Janosch Frank frankja@linux.ibm.com userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: fix userfaultfd_huge_must_wait() pte access
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am3517.dtsi | 4 + arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx51-zii-rdu1.dts | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | 4 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/uterror.c | 6 +- drivers/acpi/battery.c | 9 +- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c | 2 +- drivers/dax/super.c | 48 +++++---- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.h | 46 ++------ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c | 131 +++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atpx_handler.c | 6 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_transfer.c | 11 +- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 5 +- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 8 +- drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c | 11 ++ drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c | 12 ++- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 7 +- drivers/md/dm.c | 3 +- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 30 ++++-- drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 12 +++ drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c | 15 ++- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 42 +++++++- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/quatech_daqp_cs.c | 2 +- drivers/target/target_core_pr.c | 15 ++- drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 16 ++- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 1 + fs/cifs/cifsproto.h | 1 + fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 10 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 8 +- fs/cifs/smb1ops.c | 1 + fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 3 + fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 25 +++-- fs/cifs/smb2transport.c | 1 + fs/cifs/transport.c | 18 +++- fs/ext2/super.c | 3 +- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 21 ++-- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 8 -- fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h | 1 + fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 ++ fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 14 ++- fs/ext4/inline.c | 39 +------ fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 89 ++++++++++++--- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 40 ++++--- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 9 +- fs/userfaultfd.c | 12 ++- fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 3 +- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 30 +++++- fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 10 +- include/linux/dax.h | 11 +- include/linux/hid.h | 3 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 5 +- mm/debug.c | 18 +++- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + mm/vmstat.c | 2 - net/netfilter/nf_log.c | 9 +- 62 files changed, 596 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)