This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.17.14 release. There are 18 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 9 17:23:05 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-4.17.14-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.17.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.17.14-rc1
Shankara Pailoor shankarapailoor@gmail.com jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size
Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com xfs: validate cached inodes are free when allocated
Eric Sandeen sandeen@sandeen.net xfs: don't call xfs_da_shrink_inode with NULL bp
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Partially revert "block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions"
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: fix file data corruption after cloning a range and fsync
Esben Haabendal eha@deif.com i2c: imx: Fix reinit_completion() use
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer
Dmitry Safonov dima@arista.com netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups
Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirq
Anna-Maria Gleixner anna-maria@linutronix.de nohz: Fix local_timer_softirq_pending()
Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix hardcoded index of Broadwell extra PCI devices
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de genirq: Make force irq threading setup more robust
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org jfs: Fix usercopy whitelist for inline inode data
Anil Gurumurthy anil.gurumurthy@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Return error when TMF returns
Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix ISP recovery on unload
Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix driver unload by shutting down chip
Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NPIV deletion by calling wait_for_sess_deletion
Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix unintialized List head crash
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.h | 2 +- arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c | 10 +++-- block/blk-core.c | 5 ++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h | 1 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 4 ++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 7 ++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_inline.h | 2 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 3 ++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mbx.c | 6 +++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mid.c | 11 +++++- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 51 +++++++++++-------------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_sup.c | 3 ++ fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 3 ++ fs/jfs/jfs_dinode.h | 7 ++++ fs/jfs/jfs_incore.h | 1 + fs/jfs/super.c | 3 +- fs/jfs/xattr.c | 10 +++-- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 5 +-- fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 1 + kernel/irq/manage.c | 9 ++++- kernel/softirq.c | 2 +- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 ++++++++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 +++ net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +- 29 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)