This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.104 release. There are 27 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 Dec 6 15:59:33 UTC 2017. 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-4.4.104-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 4.4.104-rc1
Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com nfsd: Fix another OPEN stateid race
Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com nfsd: Fix stateid races between OPEN and CLOSE
Oleg Drokin green@linuxhacker.ru nfsd: Make init_open_stateid() a bit more whole
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915: Prevent zero length "index" write
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915: Don't try indexed reads to alternate slave addresses
NeilBrown neilb@suse.com NFS: revalidate "." etc correctly on "open".
Brent Taylor motobud@gmail.com mtd: nand: Fix writing mtdoops to nand flash.
Jonathan Liu net147@gmail.com drm/panel: simple: Add missing panel_simple_unprepare() calls
Roman Kapl rka@sysgo.com drm/radeon: fix atombios on big endian
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com Revert "drm/radeon: dont switch vt on suspend"
Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com bcache: Fix building error on MIPS
Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com eeprom: at24: check at24_read/write arguments
Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com mmc: core: Do not leave the block driver in a suspended state
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: inject exceptions produced by x86_decode_insn
Liran Alon liran.alon@oracle.com KVM: x86: Exit to user-mode on #UD intercept when emulator requires
Liran Alon liran.alon@oracle.com KVM: x86: pvclock: Handle first-time write to pvclock-page contains random junk
Josef Bacik jbacik@fb.com btrfs: clear space cache inode generation always
chenjie chenjie6@huawei.com mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()
Matt Fleming matt@codeblueprint.co.uk x86/efi-bgrt: Replace early_memremap() with memremap()
Sai Praneeth sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com x86/efi-bgrt: Fix kernel panic when mapping BGRT data
Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com ARM: dts: omap3: logicpd-torpedo-37xx-devkit: Fix MMC1 cd-gpio
Matt Fleming matt@codeblueprint.co.uk x86/efi: Build our own page table structures
Matt Fleming matt@codeblueprint.co.uk x86/efi: Hoist page table switching code into efi_call_virt()
Matt Fleming matt@codeblueprint.co.uk x86/mm/pat: Ensure cpa->pfn only contains page frame numbers
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash
Tom Herbert tom@herbertland.com netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/logicpd-torpedo-37xx-devkit.dts | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 26 ++++ arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 + arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 17 +-- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c | 39 +++--- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 39 +++--- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_32.c | 5 + arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 137 ++++++++++++++++------ arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S | 43 ------- drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 32 ----- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c | 38 +++--- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_dp.c | 38 +++--- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fb.c | 1 - drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c | 2 +- drivers/md/bcache/extents.c | 2 +- drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 6 + drivers/mmc/core/bus.c | 3 + drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 9 +- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 14 +-- fs/nfs/dir.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 114 ++++++++++++------ include/linux/netlink.h | 2 + include/net/genetlink.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/bcache.h | 2 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 14 +-- mm/madvise.c | 4 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 + net/netlink/genetlink.c | 16 +++ net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 25 ++-- 35 files changed, 373 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)