This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.175 release. There are 143 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 Feb 20 13:34:55 UTC 2019. 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-4.4.175-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 4.4.175-rc1
Christian Lamparter chunkeey@gmail.com pinctrl: msm: fix gpio-hog related boot issues
John Youn johnyoun@synopsys.com usb: dwc2: Remove unnecessary kfree
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com kaweth: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ch9200: use skb_cow_head() to deal with cloned skbs
James Hughes james.hughes@raspberrypi.org smsc95xx: Use skb_cow_head to deal with cloned skbs
Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm thin: fix bug where bio that overwrites thin block ignores FUA
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/a.out: Clear the dump structure initially
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Restore the stop PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT
Hedi Berriche hedi.berriche@hpe.com x86/platform/UV: Use efi_runtime_lock to serialise BIOS calls
Andreas Ziegler andreas.ziegler@fau.de tracing/uprobes: Fix output for multiple string arguments
Meelis Roos mroos@linux.ee alpha: Fix Eiger NR_IRQS to 128
Sergei Trofimovich slyfox@gentoo.org alpha: fix page fault handling for r16-r18 targets
Matti Kurkela Matti.Kurkela@iki.fi Input: elantech - enable 3rd button support on Fujitsu CELSIUS H780
Jonathan Bakker xc-racer2@live.ca Input: bma150 - register input device after setting private data
Manuel Reinhardt manuel.rhdt@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix implicit fb endpoint setup by quirk
Jurica Vukadin jurica.vukadin@rt-rk.com ALSA: hda - Add quirk for HP EliteBook 840 G5
Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org perf/core: Fix impossible ring-buffer sizes warning
Mauro Ciancio mauro@acadeu.com Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in Lenovo V330-15ISK
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Revert "Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in ASUS Aspire F5-573G"
Mark Rustad mrustad@gmail.com Documentation/network: reword kernel version reference
Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com cifs: Limit memory used by lock request calls to a page
Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat@osadl.org gpio: pl061: handle failed allocations
Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org ARM: dts: kirkwood: Fix polarity of GPIO fan lines
Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com ARM: dts: da850-evm: Correct the sound card name
Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de uapi/if_ether.h: prevent redefinition of struct ethhdr
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Revert "exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string"
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Force mac header to start of data on xmit
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid WARN on net_device without parent in netns
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de xfrm: refine validation of template and selector families
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: avoid KEEPALIVE_PENDING races in ceph_con_keepalive()
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "cifs: In Kconfig CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX needs depends on legacy (insecure cifs)"
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net NFC: nxp-nci: Include unaligned.h instead of access_ok.h
Vladis Dronov vdronov@redhat.com HID: debug: fix the ring buffer implementation
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Return error code from vmw_execbuf_copy_fence_user
Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix setting of dma masks
Tina Zhang tina.zhang@intel.com drm/modes: Prevent division by zero htotal
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: ensure that mgmt tx skbs have tailroom for encryption
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: iop32x/n2100: fix PCI IRQ mapping
Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: VDSO: Include $(ccflags-vdso) in o32,n32 .lds builds
Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi MIPS: OCTEON: don't set octeon_dma_bar_type if PCI is disabled
Vladimir Kondratiev vladimir.kondratiev@linux.intel.com mips: cm: reprime error cause
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org debugfs: fix debugfs_rename parameter checking
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com misc: vexpress: Off by one in vexpress_syscfg_exec()
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Better detection of synchronous signals
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal: Always notice exiting tasks
Martin Kepplinger martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com mtd: rawnand: gpmi: fix MX28 bus master lockup problem
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com perf tests evsel-tp-sched: Fix bitwise operator
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes
Tony Luck tony.luck@intel.com x86/MCE: Initialize mce.bank in the case of a fatal error in mce_no_way_out()
Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Node ID mask
Peter Shier pshier@google.com KVM: nVMX: unconditionally cancel preemption timer in free_nested (CVE-2019-7221)
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: work around leak of uninitialized stack contents (CVE-2019-7222)
James Bottomley James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com scsi: aic94xx: fix module loading
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com usb: gadget: udc: net2272: Fix bitwise and boolean operations
Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com usb: phy: am335x: fix race condition in _probe
Leonid Iziumtsev leonid.iziumtsev@gmail.com dmaengine: imx-dma: fix wrong callback invoke
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: handle zero sized retrieve correctly
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: decrement NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP on the right page
Jann Horn jannh@google.com fuse: call pipe_buf_release() under pipe lock
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Serialize codec registrations
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com ALSA: compress: Fix stop handling on compressed capture streams
Rundong Ge rdong.ge@gmail.com net: dsa: slave: Don't propagate flag changes on down slave interfaces
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: systemport: Fix WoL with password after deep sleep
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com skge: potential memory corruption in skge_get_regs()
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de net: dp83640: expire old TX-skb
Govindarajulu Varadarajan gvaradar@cisco.com enic: fix checksum validation for IPv6
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com dccp: fool proof ccid_hc_[rt]x_parse_options()
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org string: drop __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup
Guoqing Jiang gqjiang@suse.com tipc: use destination length for copy string
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org test_hexdump: use memcpy instead of strncpy
Eduardo Valentin edubezval@gmail.com thermal: hwmon: inline helpers when CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON is not set
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string
Davidlohr Bueso dave@stgolabs.net fs/epoll: drop ovflist branch prediction
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp kernel/hung_task.c: break RCU locks based on jiffies
Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu HID: lenovo: Add checks to fix of_led_classdev_register
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim3: Fix -EBUSY error when re-opening device after unmount
Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu gdrom: fix a memory leak bug
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com isdn: hisax: hfc_pci: Fix a possible concurrency use-after-free bug in HFCPCI_l1hw()
Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: don't clear bh uptodate for block read
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com scripts/decode_stacktrace: only strip base path when a prefix of the path
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read
Anton Ivanov anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com um: Avoid marking pages with "changed protection"
Ronnie Sahlberg lsahlber@redhat.com cifs: check ntwrk_buf_start for NULL before dereferencing it
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com crypto: ux500 - Use proper enum in hash_set_dma_transfer
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com crypto: ux500 - Use proper enum in cryp_set_dma_transfer
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au seq_buf: Make seq_buf_puts() null-terminate the buffer
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu hwmon: (lm80) fix a missing check of bus read in lm80 probe
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu hwmon: (lm80) fix a missing check of the status of SMBus read
Chris Perl cperl@janestreet.com NFS: nfs_compare_mount_options always compare auth flavors.
Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets@redhat.com KVM: x86: svm: report MSR_IA32_MCG_EXT_CTL as unsupported
Noralf Trønnes noralf@tronnes.org fbdev: fbcon: Fix unregister crash when more than one framebuffer
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com igb: Fix an issue that PME is not enabled during runtime suspend
Peter Rosin peda@axentia.se fbdev: fbmem: behave better with small rotated displays and many CPUs
Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru video: clps711x-fb: release disp device node in probe()
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com drbd: Avoid Clang warning about pointless switch statment
Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg@linbit.com drbd: skip spurious timeout (ping-timeo) when failing promote
Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg@linbit.com drbd: disconnect, if the wrong UUIDs are attached on a connected peer
Roland Kammerer roland.kammerer@linbit.com drbd: narrow rcu_read_lock in drbd_sync_handshake
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com cw1200: Fix concurrency use-after-free bugs in cw1200_hw_scan()
Johan Hedberg johan.hedberg@intel.com Bluetooth: Fix unnecessary error message for HCI request completion
YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com xfrm6_tunnel: Fix spi check in __xfrm6_tunnel_alloc_spi
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: fix radiotap vendor presence bitmap handling
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc/uaccess: fix warning/error with access_ok()
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: KVM: Skip MMIO insn after emulation
Beomho Seo beomho.seo@samsung.com tty: serial: samsung: Properly set flags in autoCTS mode
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com memstick: Prevent memstick host from getting runtime suspended during card detection
Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com ASoC: fsl: Fix SND_SOC_EUKREA_TLV320 build error on i.MX8M
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: pxa: avoid section mismatch warning
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz udf: Fix BUG on corrupted inode
Adamski, Krzysztof (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) krzysztof.adamski@nokia.com i2c-axxia: check for error conditions first
Yangtao Li tiny.windzz@gmail.com cpuidle: big.LITTLE: fix refcount leak
Anson Huang anson.huang@nxp.com clk: imx6sl: ensure MMDC CH0 handshake is bypassed
Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com sata_rcar: fix deferred probing
Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use explicit mb() when moving cons pointer
Jiong Wang jiong.wang@netronome.com mips: bpf: fix encoding bug for mm_srlv32_op
Russell King - ARM Linux linux@armlinux.org.uk ARM: dts: Fix OMAP4430 SDP Ethernet startup
Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org timekeeping: Use proper seqcount initializer
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com usb: hub: delay hub autosuspend if USB3 port is still link training
Zoran Markovic zmarkovic@sierrawireless.com smack: fix access permissions for keyring
Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru media: DaVinci-VPBE: fix error handling in vpbe_initialize()
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de x86/fpu: Add might_fault() to user_insn()
Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk ARM: dts: mmp2: fix TWSI2
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: ftrace: don't adjust the LR value
J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com nfsd4: fix crash on writing v4_end_grace before nfsd startup
Young Xiao YangX92@hotmail.com sunvdc: Do not spin in an infinite loop when vio_ldc_send() returns EAGAIN
Tiezhu Yang kernelpatch@126.com f2fs: fix wrong return value of f2fs_acl_create
Yunlei He heyunlei@huawei.com f2fs: move dir data flush to write checkpoint process
Yangtao Li tiny.windzz@gmail.com soc/tegra: Don't leak device tree node reference
Pu Wen puwen@hygon.cn perf tools: Add Hygon Dhyana support
Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen@google.com modpost: validate symbol names also in find_elf_symbol
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: Fix some section annotations
Renato Lui Geh renatogeh@gmail.com staging: iio: ad7780: update voltage on read
Matheus Tavares matheus.bernardino@usp.br staging:iio:ad2s90: Make probe handle spi_setup failure
Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com ptp: check gettime64 return code in PTP_SYS_OFFSET ioctl
Andy Duan fugang.duan@nxp.com serial: fsl_lpuart: clear parity enable bit when disable parity
Frank Rowand frank.rowand@sony.com powerpc/pseries: add of_node_put() in dlpar_detach_node()
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com x86/PCI: Fix Broadcom CNB20LE unintended sign extension (redux)
Bob Peterson rpeterso@redhat.com dlm: Don't swamp the CPU with callbacks queued during recovery
Yufen Wang wangyufen@huawei.com ARM: 8808/1: kexec:offline panic_smp_self_stop CPU
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Correct LCB RJT handling
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ASoC: Intel: mrfld: fix uninitialized variable access
Slawomir Stepien sst@poczta.fm staging: iio: adc: ad7280a: handle error from __ad7280_read32()
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com drm/bufs: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
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Diffstat:
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/irq.h | 6 +- arch/alpha/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/da850-evm.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-dnskw.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/mmp2.dtsi | 9 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4-sdp.dts | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 15 +++ arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 11 +- arch/arm/mach-integrator/impd1.c | 6 +- arch/arm/mach-iop32x/n2100.c | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c | 6 +- arch/arm/mach-pxa/cm-x300.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-pxa/littleton.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-pxa/zeus.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S | 1 - arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/inst.h | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/mips-cm.c | 2 +- arch/mips/pci/pci-octeon.c | 10 +- arch/mips/vdso/Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 2 + arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h | 9 +- arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c | 6 +- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/uv/bios.h | 8 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 1 + .../x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore_snbep.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 7 ++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 ++ arch/x86/pci/broadcom_bus.c | 4 +- arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 23 +++- drivers/ata/sata_rcar.c | 4 +- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 15 +-- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 13 ++- drivers/block/sunvdc.c | 5 + drivers/block/swim3.c | 6 +- drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c | 1 + drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx6sl.c | 6 + drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-big_little.c | 7 +- drivers/crypto/ux500/cryp/cryp_core.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/ux500/hash/hash_core.c | 2 +- drivers/dma/imx-dma.c | 8 +- drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 7 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 122 ++++++++------------- drivers/hid/hid-lenovo.c | 10 +- drivers/hwmon/lm80.c | 26 +++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-axxia.c | 32 +++--- drivers/input/misc/bma150.c | 9 +- drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 2 +- drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 9 ++ drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 8 +- drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_pci.c | 2 + drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 55 +++++++++- drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpbe.c | 7 +- drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c | 3 + drivers/misc/vexpress-syscfg.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c | 15 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 25 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.h | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/skge.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c | 10 +- drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c | 13 ++- drivers/net/usb/ch9200.c | 9 +- drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c | 18 +-- drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c | 12 +- drivers/net/wireless/cw1200/scan.c | 13 +-- drivers/nfc/nxp-nci/firmware.c | 2 +- drivers/nfc/nxp-nci/i2c.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c | 23 +++- drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 3 + drivers/soc/tegra/common.c | 6 +- drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7280a.c | 17 ++- drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7780.c | 6 +- drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c | 7 +- drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.h | 4 +- drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 4 + drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c | 3 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 10 ++ drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c | 1 - drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2272.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/phy/phy-am335x.c | 5 +- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2 +- drivers/video/fbdev/clps711x-fb.c | 5 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 8 +- fs/cifs/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/cifs/file.c | 8 ++ fs/cifs/readdir.c | 9 +- fs/cifs/smb2file.c | 4 + fs/debugfs/inode.c | 7 ++ fs/dlm/ast.c | 10 ++ fs/eventpoll.c | 2 +- fs/f2fs/acl.c | 14 ++- fs/f2fs/file.c | 3 + fs/fuse/dev.c | 5 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/super.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 2 + fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 2 - fs/udf/inode.c | 6 + include/linux/genl_magic_struct.h | 5 +- include/linux/hid-debug.h | 9 +- include/linux/string.h | 2 +- include/sound/compress_driver.h | 6 +- include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 3 + include/uapi/linux/libc-compat.h | 6 + kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 3 + kernel/hung_task.c | 8 +- kernel/signal.c | 61 ++++++++++- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 9 +- lib/seq_buf.c | 6 +- lib/test-hexdump.c | 2 +- net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 5 +- net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c | 2 + net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 6 + net/ceph/messenger.c | 5 +- net/dccp/ccid.h | 4 +- net/dsa/slave.c | 12 +- net/ipv6/xfrm6_tunnel.c | 3 + net/mac80211/rx.c | 5 +- net/mac80211/tx.c | 12 +- net/tipc/subscr.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 13 ++- scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh | 2 +- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 50 +++++---- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 12 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c | 3 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.h | 1 + sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 2 + sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 1 + sound/soc/fsl/Kconfig | 2 +- sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c | 8 +- sound/usb/pcm.c | 9 +- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.c | 2 +- tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c | 2 +- 146 files changed, 802 insertions(+), 374 deletions(-)