This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.189 release. There are 21 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 11 Aug 2019 01:42:28 PM UTC. 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-4.4.189-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 4.4.189-rc1
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/speculation/swapgs: Exclude ATOMs from speculation through SWAPGS
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com x86/entry/64: Use JMP instead of JMPQ
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations
Wanpeng Li wanpeng.li@hotmail.com x86/entry/64: Fix context tracking state warning when load_gs_index fails
Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk x86: cpufeatures: Sort feature word 7
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: bcm2835: Fix 3-wire mode if DMA is enabled
xiao jin jin.xiao@intel.com block: blk_init_allocated_queue() set q->fq as NULL in the fail case
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de compat_ioctl: pppoe: fix PPPOEIOCSFWD handling
Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru skalluru@marvell.com bnx2x: Disable multi-cos feature.
Mark Zhang markz@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Use reversed order when unregister devices
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com net: sched: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in dequeue_func()
Taras Kondratiuk takondra@cisco.com tipc: compat: allow tipc commands without arguments
Jiri Pirko jiri@mellanox.com net: fix ifindex collision during namespace removal
Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com net: bridge: delete local fdb on device init failure
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com atm: iphase: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: be more careful in tcp_fragment()
Sebastian Parschauer s.parschauer@gmx.de HID: Add quirk for HP X1200 PIXART OEM mouse
Phil Turnbull phil.turnbull@oracle.com netfilter: nfnetlink_acct: validate NFACCT_QUOTA parameter
Will Deacon will@kernel.org arm64: cpufeature: Fix feature comparison for CTR_EL0.{CWG,ERG}
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: cpufeature: Fix CTR_EL0 field definitions
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Diffstat:
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 7 +- arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 14 +++- arch/x86/entry/calling.h | 19 +++++ arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 25 +++++- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 10 ++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 42 ++++++---- block/blk-core.c | 1 + drivers/atm/iphase.c | 8 +- drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 1 + drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 3 + drivers/net/ppp/pppox.c | 13 +++ drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c | 3 + drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 3 +- fs/compat_ioctl.c | 3 - include/linux/if_pppox.h | 3 + include/net/tcp.h | 17 ++++ net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 5 ++ net/core/dev.c | 2 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 11 ++- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 3 + net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c | 2 + net/sched/sch_codel.c | 3 +- net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 11 ++- 29 files changed, 272 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)