This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.127 release. There are 72 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 Apr 8 08:42:48 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-4.4.127-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 4.4.127-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ip6_vti: adjust vti mtu according to mtu of lower device"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org net: cavium: liquidio: fix up "Avoid dma_unmap_single on uninitialized ndata"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org spi: davinci: fix up dma_mapping_error() incorrect patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ARM: dts: omap3-n900: Fix the audio CODEC's reset pin"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ARM: dts: am335x-pepper: Fix the audio CODEC's reset pin"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "PCI/MSI: Stop disabling MSI/MSI-X in pci_device_shutdown()"

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com nospec: Kill array_index_nospec_mask_check()

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com nospec: Move array_index_nospec() parameter checking into separate macro

Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg@gmail.com net: hns: Fix ethtool private flags

Guoqing Jiang gqjiang@suse.com md/raid10: reset the 'first' at the end of loop

Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com ARM: dts: am57xx-beagle-x15-common: Add overide powerhold property

Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com ARM: dts: dra7: Add power hold and power controller properties to palmas

Keerthy j-keerthy@ti.com Documentation: pinctrl: palmas: Add ti,palmas-powerhold-override property definition

Mike Frysinger vapier@chromium.org vt: change SGR 21 to follow the standards

Ondrej Zary linux@rainbow-software.org Input: i8042 - enable MUX on Sony VAIO VGN-CS series to fix touchpad

Dennis Wassenberg dennis.wassenberg@secunet.com Input: i8042 - add Lenovo ThinkPad L460 to i8042 reset list

Frank Mori Hess fmh6jj@gmail.com staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: ack ai fifo error interrupts.

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: x86/cast5-avx - fix ECB encryption when long sg follows short one

Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: ahash - Fix early termination in hash walk

Alexander Gerasiov gq@redlab-i.ru parport_pc: Add support for WCH CH382L PCI-E single parallel port card.

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com media: usbtv: prevent double free in error case

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com mei: remove dev_err message on an unsupported ioctl

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: cp210x: add ELDAT Easywave RX09 id

Clemens Werther clemens.werther@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add support for Harman FirmwareHubEmulator

Major Hayden major@mhtx.net USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add RT Systems VX-8 cable

John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org usb: dwc2: Improve gadget state disconnection handling

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com scsi: virtio_scsi: always read VPD pages for multiqueue too

Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com llist: clang: introduce member_address_is_nonnull()

Szymon Janc szymon.janc@codecoup.pl Bluetooth: Fix missing encryption refresh on Security Request

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: add and use xt_check_proc_name

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: bridge: ebt_among: add more missing match size checks

Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com xfrm: Refuse to insert 32 bit userspace socket policies on 64 bit systems

Greg Hackmann ghackmann@google.com net: xfrm: use preempt-safe this_cpu_read() in ipcomp_alloc_tfms()

Roland Dreier roland@purestorage.com RDMA/ucma: Introduce safer rdma_addr_size() variants

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Don't allow join attempts for unsupported AF family

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check that device exists prior to accessing it

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check that device is connected prior to access it

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Ensure that CM_ID exists prior to access it

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Fix use-after-free access in ucma_close

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucma: Check AF family prior resolving address

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de xfrm_user: uncoditionally validate esn replay attribute struct

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com arm64: avoid overflow in VA_START and PAGE_OFFSET

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org selinux: Remove redundant check for unknown labeling behavior

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org netfilter: ctnetlink: Make some parameters integer to avoid enum mismatch

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de tty: provide tty_name() even without CONFIG_TTY

Richard Guy Briggs rgb@redhat.com audit: add tty field to LOGIN event

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org jiffies.h: declare jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp

Mark Charlebois charlebm@gmail.com fs: compat: Remove warning from COMPATIBLE_IOCTL

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org selinux: Remove unnecessary check of array base in selinux_set_mapping()

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org cpumask: Add helper cpumask_available()

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org genirq: Use cpumask_available() for check of cpumask variable

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com netfilter: nf_nat_h323: fix logical-not-parentheses warning

Nick Desaulniers nick.desaulniers@gmail.com Input: mousedev - fix implicit conversion warning

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org dm ioctl: remove double parentheses

Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org PCI: Make PCI_ROM_ADDRESS_MASK a 32-bit constant

Kaixu Xia xiakaixu@huawei.com writeback: fix the wrong congested state variable definition

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com ACPI, PCI, irq: remove redundant check for null string pointer

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Fix to set RWX bits correctly before releasing trampoline

Krzysztof Opasiak kopasiak90@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_hid: fix: Prevent accessing released memory

Felipe F. Tonello eu@felipetonello.com usb: gadget: align buffer size when allocating for OUT endpoint

Felipe F. Tonello eu@felipetonello.com usb: gadget: fix usb_ep_align_maybe endianness and new usb_ep_align

Felipe F. Tonello eu@felipetonello.com usb: gadget: change len to size_t on alloc_ep_req()

Felipe F. Tonello eu@felipetonello.com usb: gadget: define free_ep_req as universal function

Richard Narron comet.berkeley@gmail.com partitions/msdos: Unable to mount UFS 44bsd partitions

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ALSA: pcm: potential uninitialized return values

Stefan Roese sr@denx.de ALSA: pcm: Use dma_bytes as size parameter in dma_mmap_coherent()

Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org mtd: jedec_probe: Fix crash in jedec_read_mfr()

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Diffstat:

.../devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-palmas.txt | 9 +++ Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 26 --------- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-pepper.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am57xx-beagle-x15.dts | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7-evm.dts | 2 + arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 6 +- arch/frv/include/asm/timex.h | 6 ++ arch/x86/crypto/cast5_avx_glue.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 9 +++ block/partitions/msdos.c | 4 +- crypto/ahash.c | 7 ++- drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c | 3 - drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 36 ++++-------- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 -- drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 16 ++++++ drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 67 +++++++++++++++------- drivers/input/mousedev.c | 62 +++++++++++--------- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 24 ++++++++ drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 4 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 1 + drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c | 2 + drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 1 - drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_gmac.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_ppe.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ethtool.c | 4 +- drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 4 ++ drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 2 + drivers/pci/probe.c | 2 +- drivers/pci/setup-res.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 1 + drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 2 + drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c | 7 ++- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c | 24 ++++++-- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi.c | 6 -- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_sourcesink.c | 6 -- drivers/usb/gadget/function/g_zero.h | 1 - drivers/usb/gadget/u_f.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/gadget/u_f.h | 26 ++++++++- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 9 +++ fs/compat_ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 29 ++++------ fs/proc/task_nommu.c | 28 ++++----- include/linux/audit.h | 24 ++++++++ include/linux/cpumask.h | 10 ++++ include/linux/jiffies.h | 13 ++--- include/linux/llist.h | 21 ++++++- include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h | 2 + include/linux/nospec.h | 14 ----- include/linux/tty.h | 4 +- include/linux/usb/gadget.h | 17 +++++- include/rdma/ib_addr.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 2 +- kernel/audit.c | 18 ++---- kernel/auditsc.c | 8 ++- kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 30 +++------- kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +- kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +- mm/backing-dev.c | 4 +- net/bluetooth/smp.c | 8 ++- net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_among.c | 34 +++++++++++ net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_h323.c | 57 +++++++++--------- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 20 ------- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 7 +-- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 30 ++++++++++ net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c | 5 +- net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 6 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 5 ++ net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 21 +++---- security/selinux/hooks.c | 16 ------ security/selinux/ss/services.c | 2 +- sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 4 +- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 2 +- 82 files changed, 522 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-)