This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.111 release. There are 22 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 Wed Jan 10 12:59:14 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.111-rc1.gz 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 4.4.111-rc1
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Map the vsyscall page with _PAGE_USER
Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan@gmail.com proc: much faster /proc/vmstat
Libor Pechacek lpechacek@suse.com module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel
Miroslav Benes mbenes@suse.cz module: keep percpu symbols in module's symtab
Michal Marek mmarek@suse.com genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export
Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Fix alignment of pa_tlb_lock in assembly on 32-bit SMP kernel
Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading
Aaron Ma aaron.ma@canonical.com Input: elantech - add new icbody type 15
Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com ARC: uaccess: dont use "l" gcc inline asm constraint modifier
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/signal.c: remove the no longer needed SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete_signal()
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/signal.c: protect the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from !sig_kernel_only() signals
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/signal.c: protect the traced SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from SIGKILL
Thiago Rafael Becker thiago.becker@gmail.com kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com fscache: Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page()
Stefan Brüns stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de sunxi-rsb: Include OF based modalias in device uevent
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: pcrypt - fix freeing pcrypt instances
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: chacha20poly1305 - validate the digest size
Jan Engelhardt jengelh@inai.de crypto: n2 - cure use after free
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()
Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com x86/kasan: Write protect kasan zero shadow
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 5 +++-- arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h | 2 ++ arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S | 13 +++++++++++-- arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S | 9 +++++++-- arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c | 1 + arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 5 +++++ arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 4 ++++ arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c | 10 ++++++++-- crypto/chacha20poly1305.c | 6 +++++- crypto/pcrypt.c | 19 ++++++++++--------- drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c | 1 + drivers/crypto/n2_core.c | 3 +++ drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c | 1 + fs/nfsd/auth.c | 3 +++ include/linux/cred.h | 1 + include/linux/fscache.h | 2 +- kernel/acct.c | 2 +- kernel/groups.c | 5 +++-- kernel/module.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- kernel/signal.c | 18 ++++++++++-------- kernel/uid16.c | 1 + mm/vmstat.c | 4 +++- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c | 1 + net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c | 1 + net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c | 2 ++ scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 6 ++++-- 31 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)