This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.148 release. There are 43 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 Aug 16 17:14:59 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-4.4.148-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 4.4.148-rc1
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix up CPU feature flags
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/mm/kmmio: Make the tracer robust against L1TF
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/mm/pat: Make set_memory_np() L1TF safe
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Make pmd/pud_mknotpresent() invert
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Invert all not present mappings
Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.cz x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix up pte->pfn conversion for PAE
Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect PAE swap entries against L1TF
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com x86/cpufeatures: Add detection of L1D cache flush support.
Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz x86/speculation/l1tf: Extend 64bit swap file size limit
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com x86/bugs: Move the l1tf function and define pr_fmt properly
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Disallow non privileged high MMIO PROT_NONE mappings
Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com mm: fix cache mode tracking in vm_insert_mixed()
Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org mm: Add vm_insert_pfn_prot()
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Add sysfs reporting for l1tf
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Make sure the first page is always reserved
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect PROT_NONE PTEs against speculation
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect swap entries against L1TF
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org x86/speculation/l1tf: Change order of offset/type in swap entry
Naoya Horiguchi n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com mm: x86: move _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY from bit 7 to bit 1
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/mm: Fix swap entry comment and macro
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/mm: Move swap offset/type up in PTE to work around erratum
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase 32bit PAE __PHYSICAL_PAGE_SHIFT
Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com x86/irqflags: Provide a declaration for native_save_fl
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Fix %p uses in error messages
Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz x86/speculation: Protect against userspace-userspace spectreRSB
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for paravirt guests
Oleksij Rempel o.rempel@pengutronix.de ARM: dts: imx6sx: fix irq for pcie bridge
Michael Mera dev@michaelmera.com IB/ocrdma: fix out of bounds access to local buffer
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il IB/mlx4: Mark user MR as writable if actual virtual memory is writable
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il IB/core: Make testing MR flags for writability a static inline function
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk fix __legitimize_mnt()/mntput() race
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk fix mntput/mntput race
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk root dentries need RCU-delayed freeing
Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com scsi: sr: Avoid that opening a CD-ROM hangs with runtime power management enabled
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI / LPSS: Add missing prv_offset setting for byt/cht PWM devices
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netfront: don't cache skb_shinfo()
John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net parisc: Define mb() and add memory barriers to assembler unlock sequences
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Enable CONFIG_MLONGCALLS by default
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org fork: unconditionally clear stack on fork
Thomas Egerer hakke_007@gmx.de ipv4+ipv6: Make INET*_ESP select CRYPTO_ECHAINIV
Tadeusz Struk tadeusz.struk@intel.com tpm: fix race condition in tpm_common_write()
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sx.dtsi | 2 +- arch/parisc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/parisc/include/asm/barrier.h | 32 +++++++++++ arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S | 2 + arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S | 4 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 10 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h | 9 +++- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h | 17 ++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 37 ++++++++++++- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-invert.h | 32 +++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 54 +++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 10 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 5 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++----------- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 20 +++++++ arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 14 +++-- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 6 +++ arch/x86/mm/init.c | 23 ++++++++ arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c | 25 +++++---- arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | 21 ++++++++ arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 8 +-- drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c | 2 + drivers/base/cpu.c | 8 +++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev.c | 43 +++++++-------- drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 11 +--- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mr.c | 50 ++++++++++++++--- drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_stats.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 8 +-- drivers/scsi/sr.c | 29 +++++++--- fs/dcache.c | 6 ++- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 5 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 8 +-- fs/namespace.c | 28 +++++++++- include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 12 +++++ include/linux/cpu.h | 2 + include/linux/mm.h | 2 + include/linux/swapfile.h | 2 + include/linux/thread_info.h | 6 +-- include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 14 +++++ mm/memory.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++---- mm/mprotect.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++ mm/swapfile.c | 46 ++++++++++------ net/ipv4/Kconfig | 1 + net/ipv6/Kconfig | 1 + 49 files changed, 714 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-)