This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.113 release. There are 53 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 Jan 24 08:38:52 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.113-rc1.gz 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 4.4.113-rc1

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB

zhenwei.pi zhenwei.pi@youruncloud.com x86/pti: Document fix wrong index

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected

Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls

Dennis Yang dennisyang@qnap.com dm thin metadata: THIN_MAX_CONCURRENT_LOCKS should be 6

Joe Thornber thornber@redhat.com dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath()

Xinyu Lin xinyu0123@gmail.com libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices

Stephane Grosjean s.grosjean@peak-system.com can: peak: fix potential bug in packet fragmentation

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com ARM: dts: kirkwood: fix pin-muxing of MPP7 on OpenBlocks A7

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Input: twl4030-vibra - fix sibling-node lookup

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Input: twl6040-vibra - fix child-node lookup

H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com Input: twl6040-vibra - fix DT node memory management

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Input: 88pm860x-ts - fix child-node lookup

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path

Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence@redhat.com pipe: avoid round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32-bit

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros

Xunlei Pang xlpang@redhat.com sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks

Tomas Henzl thenzl@redhat.com scsi: hpsa: fix volume offline state

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com af_key: fix buffer overread in verify_address_len()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Apply the existing quirk to iMac 14,1

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Remove yet superfluous WARN_ON()

Li Jinyue lijinyue@huawei.com futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation

Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de scsi: sg: disable SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/retpoline: Remove compile time warning

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kconfig.h: use __is_defined() to check if MODULE is defined

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/asm: Make asm/alternative.h safe from assembly

Adam Borowski kilobyte@angband.pl x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com x86/asm: Use register variable to get stack pointer value

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/mm/32: Move setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PCID) earlier

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST

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Diffstat:

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 28 ++++ Documentation/x86/pti.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dts | 10 +- arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 4 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 13 ++ arch/x86/Makefile | 8 ++ arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S | 5 +- arch/x86/crypto/camellia-aesni-avx-asm_64.S | 3 +- arch/x86/crypto/camellia-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S | 3 +- arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S | 3 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 11 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 16 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 4 + arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 41 ++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h | 11 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 198 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 11 -- arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h | 5 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/vector.c | 7 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 28 +++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 12 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 + arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c | 15 +- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 23 +++- arch/x86/kernel/mcount_64.S | 7 +- arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 7 + arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 4 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 + arch/x86/lib/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S | 7 +- arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 49 +++++++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 + drivers/hv/hv.c | 11 +- drivers/input/misc/twl4030-vibra.c | 6 +- drivers/input/misc/twl6040-vibra.c | 2 +- drivers/input/touchscreen/88pm860x-ts.c | 16 ++- drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 6 +- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 19 +-- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c | 21 +-- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 + drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sg.c | 30 ++-- fs/pipe.c | 18 ++- include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h | 7 + include/asm-generic/export.h | 94 +++++++++++++ include/linux/kconfig.h | 11 +- include/linux/vermagic.h | 8 +- include/scsi/sg.h | 1 - kernel/futex.c | 3 + kernel/gcov/Kconfig | 1 + kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 + kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 16 ++- net/key/af_key.c | 8 ++ scripts/Makefile.build | 87 +++++++++++- sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 1 - sound/pci/hda/patch_cirrus.c | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 + 63 files changed, 960 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)