This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.1 release. There are 55 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 Sun Feb 4 14:07:50 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-4.15.1-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-4.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.15.1-rc1
Matthew Garrett mjg59@google.com x86/efi: Clarify that reset attack mitigation needs appropriate userspace
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: synaptics-rmi4 - do not delete interrupt memory too early
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: synaptics-rmi4 - unmask F03 interrupts when port is opened
Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store()
Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile narcisaanamaria12@gmail.com iio: chemical: ccs811: Fix output of IIO_CONCENTRATION channels
Fabrice Gasnier fabrice.gasnier@st.com iio: adc: stm32: fix scan of multiple channels with DMA
Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch spi: imx: do not access registers while clocks disabled
Fabio Estevam fabio.estevam@nxp.com serial: imx: Only wakeup via RTSDEN bit if the system has RTS/CTS
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com serial: 8250_dw: Revert "Improve clock rate setting"
Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com serial: 8250_uniphier: fix error return code in uniphier_uart_probe()
Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com serial: 8250_of: fix return code when probe function fails to get reset
Tomas Winkler tomas.winkler@intel.com mei: me: allow runtime pm for platform with D0i3
Ganesh Mahendran opensource.ganesh@gmail.com android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area
Martijn Coenen maco@android.com ANDROID: binder: remove waitqueue when thread exits.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org usb/gadget: Fix "high bandwidth" check in usb_gadget_ep_match_desc()
Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com usb: uas: unconditionally bring back host after reset
Hemant Kumar hemantk@codeaurora.org usb: f_fs: Prevent gadget unbind if it is already unbound
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: simple: add Motorola Tetra driver
Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: list: don't list devices attached to vhci_hcd
Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org usbip: prevent bind loops on devices attached to vhci_hcd
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com USB: serial: io_edgeport: fix possible sleep-in-atomic
Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com CDC-ACM: apply quirk for card reader
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com USB: cdc-acm: Do not log urb submission errors on disconnect
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org USB: serial: pl2303: new device id for Chilitag
OKAMOTO Yoshiaki yokamoto@allied-telesis.co.jp usb: option: Add support for FS040U modem
Gaurav Kohli gkohli@codeaurora.org tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf
Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad@benyossef.com staging: ccree: fix fips event irq handling build
Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad@benyossef.com staging: ccree: NULLify backup_info when unused
Dmitry Eremin dmitry.eremin@intel.com staging: lustre: separate a connection destroy from free struct kib_conn
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com scsi: storvsc: missing error code in storvsc_probe()
Raghava Aditya Renukunta RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@microsemi.com scsi: aacraid: Fix hang in kdump
Raghava Aditya Renukunta RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@microsemi.com scsi: aacraid: Fix udev inquiry race condition
Mike Rapoport rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com ima/policy: fix parsing of fsuuid
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com igb: Free IRQs when device is hotplugged
Jesse Chan jc@linux.com mtd: nand: denali_pci: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
Jesse Chan jc@linux.com gpio: ath79: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/LICENSE
Jesse Chan jc@linux.com gpio: iop: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
Jesse Chan jc@linux.com power: reset: zx-reboot: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
Jason Gerecke killertofu@gmail.com HID: wacom: Fix reporting of touch toggle (WACOM_HID_WD_MUTE_DEVICE) events
Aaron Armstrong Skomra skomra@gmail.com HID: wacom: EKR: ensure devres groups at higher indexes are released
Stephan Mueller smueller@chronox.de crypto: af_alg - whitelist mask and type
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org crypto: sha3-generic - fixes for alignment and big endian operation
Antoine Tenart antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com crypto: inside-secure - avoid unmapping DMA memory that was not mapped
Antoine Tenart antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com crypto: inside-secure - fix hash when length is a multiple of a block
Junaid Shahid junaids@google.com crypto: aesni - Fix out-of-bounds access of the AAD buffer in generic-gcm-aesni
Junaid Shahid junaids@google.com crypto: aesni - Fix out-of-bounds access of the data buffer in generic-gcm-aesni
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net crypto: aesni - add wrapper for generic gcm(aes)
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net crypto: aesni - fix typo in generic_gcmaes_decrypt
Stephan Mueller smueller@chronox.de crypto: aesni - handle zero length dst buffer
Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de crypto: ecdh - fix typo in KPP dependency of CRYPTO_ECDH
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Reduce the suspend time consumption for ALC256
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org gpio: Fix kernel stack leak to userspace
Patrice Chotard patrice.chotard@st.com gpio: stmpe: i2c transfer are forbiden in atomic context
Joel Stanley joel@jms.id.au tools/gpio: Fix build error with musl libc
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de Bluetooth: hci_serdev: Init hci_uart proto_lock to avoid oops
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S | 199 ++++++--------------- arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c | 70 ++++++-- crypto/Kconfig | 2 +- crypto/af_alg.c | 10 +- crypto/sha3_generic.c | 5 +- drivers/android/binder.c | 12 ++ drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 2 +- drivers/bluetooth/hci_serdev.c | 1 + drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel_hash.c | 56 ++++-- drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 5 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c | 3 + drivers/gpio/gpio-iop.c | 4 + drivers/gpio/gpio-stmpe.c | 20 +-- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 3 + drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c | 24 +-- drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c | 16 +- drivers/iio/adc/stm32-adc.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/chemical/ccs811.c | 13 +- drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c | 14 +- drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f03.c | 64 +++++-- drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 5 +- drivers/mtd/nand/denali_pci.c | 4 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +- drivers/power/reset/zx-reboot.c | 4 + drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c | 15 +- drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 15 +- drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_cipher.c | 1 + drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_driver.c | 2 +- .../staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c | 7 +- .../staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.h | 2 +- .../staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd_cb.c | 6 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 30 ++-- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 14 +- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 8 +- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c | 1 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 5 + drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.h | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial-simple.c | 7 + drivers/usb/storage/uas.c | 7 +- include/linux/tty.h | 2 + lib/test_firmware.c | 1 + security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 6 +- tools/gpio/gpio-event-mon.c | 1 + tools/usb/usbip/src/usbip_bind.c | 9 + tools/usb/usbip/src/usbip_list.c | 9 + 57 files changed, 425 insertions(+), 310 deletions(-)