This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.155 release. There are 47 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 Sep 9 21:08:44 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-4.4.155-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
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.155-rc1
Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com drm/drivers: add support for using the arch wc mapping API.
Dave Airlie airlied@redhat.com x86/io: add interface to reserve io memtype for a resource range. (v1.1)
Jeremy Cline jcline@redhat.com fs/quota: Fix spectre gadget in do_quotactl
Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf auxtrace: Fix queue resize
Shan Hai shan.hai@oracle.com bcache: release dc->writeback_lock properly in bch_writeback_thread()
Christian Brauner christian@brauner.io getxattr: use correct xattr length
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com udlfb: set optimal write delay
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com fb: fix lost console when the user unplugs a USB adapter
Vignesh R vigneshr@ti.com pwm: tiehrpwm: Fix disabling of output of PWMs
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubifs: Fix synced_i_size calculation for xattr inodes
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubifs: Check data node size before truncate
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at Revert "UBIFS: Fix potential integer overflow in allocation"
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubifs: Fix memory leak in lprobs self-check
Jann Horn jannh@google.com userns: move user access out of the mutex
Jann Horn jannh@google.com sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk osf_getdomainname(): use copy_to_user()
Jacob Pan jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com iommu/vt-d: Fix dev iotlb pfsid use
Jacob Pan jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com iommu/vt-d: Add definitions for PFSID
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org mm/tlb: Remove tlb_remove_table() non-concurrent condition
Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com ARM: tegra: Fix Tegra30 Cardhu PCA954x reset
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com pnfs/blocklayout: off by one in bl_map_stripe()
zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com PM / sleep: wakeup: Fix build error caused by missing SRCU support
Tomas Bortoli tomasbortoli@gmail.com 9p: fix multiple NULL-pointer-dereferences
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
Snild Dolkow snild@sony.com kthread, tracing: Don't expose half-written comm when creating kthreads
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing/blktrace: Fix to allow setting same value
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change
Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com vmw_balloon: fix VMCI use when balloon built into kernel
Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com vmw_balloon: VMCI_DOORBELL_SET does not check status
Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com vmw_balloon: do not use 2MB without batching
Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com vmw_balloon: fix inflation of 64-bit GFNs
Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de iio: ad9523: Fix return value for ad952x_store()
Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de iio: ad9523: Fix displayed phase
Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com dm cache metadata: save in-core policy_hint_size to on-disk superblock
Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz x86/mm/pat: Fix L1TF stable backport for CPA, 2nd call
Tomas Bortoli tomasbortoli@gmail.com net/9p/trans_fd.c: fix race-condition by flushing workqueue before the kfree()
Tomas Bortoli tomasbortoli@gmail.com net/9p/client.c: version pointer uninitialized
jiangyiwen jiangyiwen@huawei.com 9p/virtio: fix off-by-one error in sg list bounds check
piaojun piaojun@huawei.com fs/9p/xattr.c: catch the error of p9_client_clunk when setting xattr failed
Mahesh Salgaonkar mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/pseries: Fix endianness while restoring of r3 in MCE handler.
Hari Bathini hbathini@linux.ibm.com powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow
Matthew Auld matthew.auld@intel.com drm/i915/userptr: reject zero user_size
Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com spi: davinci: fix a NULL pointer dereference
Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk net: lan78xx: Fix misplaced tasklet_schedule() call
Chirantan Ekbote chirantan@chromium.org 9p/net: Fix zero-copy path in the 9p virtio transport
Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: mac802154: tx: expand tailroom if necessary
Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: 6lowpan: fix reserved space for single frames
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 64 +++++++++----------- arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-cardhu.dtsi | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h | 3 - arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++----- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_32.c | 22 ++++--- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 20 ++++--- arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 6 ++ arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 14 +++++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c | 5 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_ttm.c | 6 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/cirrus_ttm.c | 7 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_ttm.c | 7 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c | 8 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c | 5 ++ drivers/iio/frequency/ad9523.c | 4 +- drivers/iommu/dmar.c | 6 +- drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 18 +++++- drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 67 +++++++++++++-------- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 4 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-tiehrpwm.c | 2 + drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c | 2 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 38 ++++++++++-- fs/9p/xattr.c | 6 +- fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c | 2 +- fs/quota/quota.c | 2 + fs/ubifs/journal.c | 18 +++++- fs/ubifs/lprops.c | 8 +-- fs/xattr.c | 2 +- include/linux/intel-iommu.h | 8 ++- include/linux/io.h | 22 +++++++ include/video/udlfb.h | 2 +- kernel/kthread.c | 8 ++- kernel/power/Kconfig | 1 + kernel/sys.c | 95 ++++++++++++++---------------- kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 ++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +- kernel/user_namespace.c | 22 ++++--- kernel/utsname_sysctl.c | 41 ++++++++----- mm/memory.c | 9 --- net/9p/client.c | 2 +- net/9p/trans_fd.c | 7 ++- net/9p/trans_rdma.c | 3 + net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 13 +++- net/ieee802154/6lowpan/tx.c | 21 ++++++- net/mac802154/tx.c | 15 ++++- tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 3 + 53 files changed, 510 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)