This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.17.7 release. There are 67 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 Jul 18 07:34:11 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-4.17.7-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 4.17.7-rc1

Baruch Siach baruch@tkos.co.il ARM: dts: armada-38x: use the new thermal binding

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: sanity check for total valid node blocks

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: sanity check on sit entry

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: avoid bug_on on corrupted inode

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: give message and set need_fsck given broken node id

Marc Orr marcorr@google.com kvm: vmx: Nested VM-entry prereqs for event inj.

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp loop: remember whether sysfs_create_group() was done

Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org RDMA/ucm: Mark UCM interface as BROKEN

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp PM / hibernate: Fix oops at snapshot_write()

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: fix inobt magic number check

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu loop: add recursion validation to LOOP_CHANGE_FD

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: initialise match/target check parameter struct

Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com crypto: don't optimize keccakf()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com netfilter: nf_queue: augment nfqa_cfg_policy

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com uprobes/x86: Remove incorrect WARN_ON() in uprobe_init_insn()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: x86/salsa20 - remove x86 salsa20 implementations

Tony Battersby tonyb@cybernetics.com bsg: fix bogus EINVAL on non-data commands

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen: setup pv irq ops vector earlier

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen: remove global bit from __default_kernel_pte_mask for pv guests

Steve Wise swise@opengridcomputing.com iw_cxgb4: correctly enforce the max reg_mr depth

Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com i2c: recovery: if possible send STOP with recovery pulses

Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com i2c: tegra: Fix NACK error handling

Michael J. Ruhl michael.j.ruhl@intel.com IB/hfi1: Fix incorrect mixing of ERR_PTR and NULL return values

Paul Menzel pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de tools build: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make

Yandong Zhao yandong77520@gmail.com arm64: neon: Fix function may_use_simd() return error status

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com acpi, nfit: Fix scrub idle detection

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org kbuild: delete INSTALL_FW_PATH from kbuild documentation

Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org tracing: Reorder display of TGID to be after PID

Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com mm: do not bug_on on incorrect length in __mm_populate()

Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de fs, elf: make sure to page align bss in load_elf_library

Philipp Rudo prudo@linux.ibm.com x86/purgatory: add missing FORCE to Makefile target

Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix Locked field in /proc/pid/smaps*

Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@de.ibm.com mm: do not drop unused pages when userfaultd is running

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk ALSA: hda - Handle pm failure during hotplug

Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda/realtek - two more lenovo models need fixup of MIC_LOCATION

Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@oracle.com mm: zero unavailable pages before memmap init

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com xhci: xhci-mem: off by one in xhci_stream_id_to_ring()

Nico Sneck snecknico@gmail.com usb: quirks: add delay quirks for Corsair Strafe

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: mos7840: fix status-register error handling

Jann Horn jannh@google.com USB: yurex: fix out-of-bounds uaccess in read handler

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: keyspan_pda: fix modem-status error handling

Olli Salonen olli.salonen@iki.fi USB: serial: cp210x: add another USB ID for Qivicon ZigBee stick

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: serial: ch341: fix type promotion bug in ch341_control_in()

Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com thunderbolt: Notify userspace when boot_acl is changed

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ahci: Disable LPM on Lenovo 50 series laptops with a too old BIOS

Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com ahci: Add Intel Ice Lake LP PCI ID

Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com vmw_balloon: fix inflation with batching

Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org tracing/kprobe: Release kprobe print_fmt properly

Vignesh R vigneshr@ti.com mtd: spi-nor: cadence-quadspi: Fix direct mode write timeouts

Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: discard messages from not connected client during power down.

Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal@wdc.com ata: Fix ZBC_OUT all bit handling

Damien Le Moal damien.lemoal@wdc.com ata: Fix ZBC_OUT command block check

Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com staging: r8822be: Fix RTL8822be can't find any wireless AP

Murray McAllister murray.mcallister@insomniasec.com staging: rtl8723bs: Prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data().

Jann Horn jannh@google.com ibmasm: don't write out of bounds in read handler

Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com mmc: renesas_sdhi_internal_dmac: Cannot clear the RX_IN_USE in abort

x00270170 xiaqing17@hisilicon.com mmc: dw_mmc: fix card threshold control configuration

Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: allow 1.8V modes without 100/200MHz pinctrl states

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPICA: Clear status of all events when entering S5

Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de drm/etnaviv: bring back progress check in job timeout handler

Fabio Estevam fabio.estevam@nxp.com drm/etnaviv: Fix driver unregistering

Fabio Estevam fabio.estevam@nxp.com drm/etnaviv: Check for platform_device_register_simple() failure

Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Fix ioremap() RAM check

Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Use async IPIs for arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()

Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Call dump_stack() from show_regs()

Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: reject passing modified ctx to helper functions

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Diffstat:

Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 9 - Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/simd.h | 19 +- arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 43 +- arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 1 + arch/mips/mm/ioremap.c | 37 +- arch/x86/crypto/Makefile | 4 - arch/x86/crypto/salsa20-i586-asm_32.S | 938 -------------------------- arch/x86/crypto/salsa20-x86_64-asm_64.S | 805 ---------------------- arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c | 91 --- arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h | 3 + arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 67 ++ arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 9 + arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile | 2 +- arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c | 25 +- arch/x86/xen/irq.c | 4 +- block/bsg.c | 2 - crypto/Kconfig | 28 - crypto/sha3_generic.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/hwsleep.c | 15 +- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 44 +- drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h | 1 + drivers/ata/ahci.c | 60 ++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 3 + drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 18 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 79 ++- drivers/block/loop.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_drv.c | 24 +- drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gpu.h | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_sched.c | 24 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 17 +- drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 11 +- drivers/infiniband/Kconfig | 11 + drivers/infiniband/core/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/rc.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/uc.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/ud.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/verbs_txreq.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/verbs_txreq.h | 4 +- drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c | 27 +- drivers/misc/mei/interrupt.c | 5 +- drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 4 +- drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 7 +- drivers/mmc/host/renesas_sdhi_internal_dmac.c | 3 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-esdhc-imx.c | 21 +- drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c | 6 +- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/hw.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 1 + drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c | 4 + drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 4 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 23 +- drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 3 + fs/binfmt_elf.c | 5 +- fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 13 +- fs/f2fs/inode.c | 33 +- fs/f2fs/node.c | 21 +- fs/f2fs/segment.c | 25 + fs/inode.c | 6 + fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_ialloc_btree.c | 2 +- include/linux/libata.h | 1 + kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 48 +- kernel/power/user.c | 5 + kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 +- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 6 +- kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 5 +- mm/gup.c | 2 - mm/mmap.c | 29 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +- mm/rmap.c | 8 +- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 + net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 1 + net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 1 + net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 3 + sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 19 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 6 +- tools/build/Build.include | 4 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier.c | 58 +- 86 files changed, 702 insertions(+), 2169 deletions(-)