This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.200 release. There are 75 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 10 Nov 2019 05:42:11 PM UTC. 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-4.4.200-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 4.4.200-rc1

zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com fs/dcache: move security_d_instantiate() behind attaching dentry to inode

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz alarmtimer: Change remaining ENOTSUPP to EOPNOTSUPP

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: fix the cockup in the previous patch

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: ensure that processor vtables is not lost after boot

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v2: per-CPU vtables to work around big.Little systems

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: add PROC_VTABLE and PROC_TABLE macros

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: clean up per-processor check_bugs method call

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: split out processor lookup

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: make lookup_processor_type() non-__init

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8810/1: vfp: Fix wrong assignement to ufp_exc

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8796/1: spectre-v1,v1.1: provide helpers for address sanitization

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8795/1: spectre-v1.1: use put_user() for __put_user()

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8794/1: uaccess: Prevent speculative use of the current addr_limit

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8793/1: signal: replace __put_user_error with __put_user

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8792/1: oabi-compat: copy oabi events using __copy_to_user()

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8791/1: vfp: use __copy_to_user() when saving VFP state

Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com ARM: 8789/1: signal: copy registers using __copy_to_user()

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v1: mitigate user accesses

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v1: use get_user() for __get_user()

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: use __inttype() in get_user()

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: oabi-compat: copy semops using __copy_from_user()

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: vfp: use __copy_from_user() when restoring VFP state

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: signal: copy registers using __copy_from_user()

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v1: fix syscall entry

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v1: add array_index_mask_nospec() implementation

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v1: add speculation barrier (csdb) macros

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v2: warn about incorrect context switching functions

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v2: add firmware based hardening

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v2: harden user aborts in kernel space

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v2: add Cortex A8 and A15 validation of the IBE bit

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre-v2: harden branch predictor on context switches

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: spectre: add Kconfig symbol for CPUs vulnerable to Spectre

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: bugs: add support for per-processor bug checking

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: bugs: hook processor bug checking into SMP and suspend paths

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: bugs: prepare processor bug infrastructure

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: add more CPU part numbers for Cortex and Brahma B15 CPUs

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm/arm64: smccc-1.1: Handle function result as parameters

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm/arm64: smccc-1.1: Make return values unsigned long

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm/arm64: smccc: Add SMCCC-specific return codes

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm/arm64: smccc: Implement SMCCC v1.1 inline primitive

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm/arm64: smccc: Make function identifiers an unsigned quantity

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com firmware/psci: Expose SMCCC version through psci_ops

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com firmware/psci: Expose PSCI conduit

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm64: KVM: Report SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 BP hardening support

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm/arm64: KVM: Advertise SMCCC v1.1

Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin@arm.com ARM: Move system register accessors to asm/cp15.h

Russell King rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk ARM: uaccess: remove put_user() code duplication

Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander@linaro.org ARM: 8481/2: drivers: psci: replace psci firmware calls

Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander@linaro.org ARM: 8480/2: arm64: add implementation for arm-smccc

Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander@linaro.org ARM: 8479/2: add implementation for arm-smccc

Jens Wiklander jens.wiklander@linaro.org ARM: 8478/2: arm/arm64: add arm-smccc

Andrey Ryabinin ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com ARM: 8051/1: put_user: fix possible data corruption in put_user

Jeffrey Hugo jeffrey.l.hugo@gmail.com dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix resource leak

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/flow_dissector: switch to siphash

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com inet: stop leaking jiffies on the wire

Eran Ben Elisha eranbe@mellanox.com net/mlx4_core: Dynamically set guaranteed amount of counters per VF

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com vxlan: check tun_info options_len properly

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: add READ_ONCE() annotation in __skb_wait_for_more_packets()

zhanglin zhang.lin16@zte.com.cn net: Zeroing the structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get_wol()

Jiangfeng Xiao xiaojiangfeng@huawei.com net: hisilicon: Fix ping latency when deal with high throughput

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org net: fix sk_page_frag() recursion from memory reclaim

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com dccp: do not leak jiffies on the wire

Dave Wysochanski dwysocha@redhat.com cifs: Fix cifsInodeInfo lock_sem deadlock when reconnect occurs

Jonas Gorski jonas.gorski@gmail.com MIPS: bmips: mark exception vectors as char arrays

Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com of: unittest: fix memory leak in unittest_data_add

Bodo Stroesser bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com scsi: target: core: Do not overwrite CDB byte 1

Yunfeng Ye yeyunfeng@huawei.com perf kmem: Fix memory leak in compact_gfp_flags()

Thomas Bogendoerfer tbogendoerfer@suse.de scsi: fix kconfig dependency warning related to 53C700_LE_ON_BE

Thomas Bogendoerfer tbogendoerfer@suse.de scsi: sni_53c710: fix compilation error

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: mm: fix alignment handler faults under memory pressure

Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-som: Remove twl_keypad

Robin Murphy robin.murphy@arm.com ASoc: rockchip: i2s: Fix RPM imbalance

Yizhuo yzhai003@ucr.edu regulator: pfuze100-regulator: Variable "val" in pfuze100_regulator_probe() could be uninitialized

Axel Lin axel.lin@ingics.com regulator: ti-abb: Fix timeout in ti_abb_wait_txdone/ti_abb_clear_all_txdone

Seth Forshee seth.forshee@canonical.com kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 10 +- arch/arm/Kconfig | 3 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/logicpd-torpedo-som.dtsi | 4 + arch/arm/include/asm/arch_gicv3.h | 27 +- arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h | 23 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h | 34 +++ arch/arm/include/asm/bugs.h | 6 +- arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h | 18 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h | 9 + arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h | 65 ++++- arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h | 15 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h | 8 +- arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h | 177 ++++++++----- arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c | 6 + arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c | 18 ++ arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 18 +- arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S | 25 ++ arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S | 6 +- arch/arm/kernel/psci-call.S | 31 --- arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 40 +-- arch/arm/kernel/signal.c | 125 ++++----- arch/arm/kernel/smccc-call.S | 62 +++++ arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 36 +++ arch/arm/kernel/suspend.c | 2 + arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c | 16 +- arch/arm/lib/copy_from_user.S | 5 + arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 23 ++ arch/arm/mm/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/alignment.c | 44 +++- arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 3 + arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S | 13 +- arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S | 6 - arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c | 161 ++++++++++++ arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S | 154 ++++++++--- arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 37 ++- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/arm64ksyms.c | 5 + arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 3 + arch/arm64/kernel/psci-call.S | 28 -- arch/arm64/kernel/smccc-call.S | 43 ++++ arch/mips/bcm63xx/prom.c | 2 +- arch/mips/include/asm/bmips.h | 10 +- arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c | 8 +- drivers/dma/qcom_bam_dma.c | 14 + drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 3 + drivers/firmware/psci.c | 78 +++++- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c | 15 +- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 42 +-- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 5 +- drivers/of/unittest.c | 1 + drivers/regulator/pfuze100-regulator.c | 8 +- drivers/regulator/ti-abb-regulator.c | 26 +- drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c | 4 +- drivers/target/target_core_device.c | 21 -- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 5 + fs/cifs/cifsproto.h | 1 + fs/cifs/file.c | 23 +- fs/cifs/smb2file.c | 2 +- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 283 +++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/gfp.h | 23 ++ include/linux/psci.h | 13 + include/linux/skbuff.h | 3 +- include/net/flow_dissector.h | 3 +- include/net/sock.h | 11 +- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 +- net/core/datagram.c | 2 +- net/core/ethtool.c | 4 +- net/core/flow_dissector.c | 48 ++-- net/dccp/ipv4.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/datagram.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 4 +- net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c | 6 +- net/sched/sch_hhf.c | 8 +- net/sched/sch_sfb.c | 13 +- net/sched/sch_sfq.c | 14 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 2 +- sound/soc/rockchip/rockchip_i2s.c | 2 +- tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 1 + 82 files changed, 1556 insertions(+), 486 deletions(-)