This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.12 release. There are 52 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 Mar 21 18:07:15 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-4.15.12-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.15.12-rc1

Al Cooper al.cooper@broadcom.com phy: phy-brcm-usb-init: Power down USB 3.0 PHY when XHCI disabled

Al Cooper al.cooper@broadcom.com phy: phy-brcm-usb-init: DRD mode can cause crash on startup

Al Cooper al.cooper@broadcom.com phy: phy-brcm-usb-init: Some Low Speed keyboards fail on 7271

Al Cooper alcooperx@gmail.com phy: phy-brcm-usb: Fix two DT properties to match bindings doc

Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com usb: gadget: udc: renesas_usb3: fix oops in renesas_usb3_remove()

Enric Balletbo i Serra enric.balletbo@collabora.com usb: dwc3: of-simple: fix oops by unbalanced clk disable call

Manu Gautam mgautam@codeaurora.org usb: dwc3: core: Power-off core/PHYs on system_suspend in host mode

Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: dwc3: Fix GDBGFIFOSPACE_TYPE values

Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com USB: gadget: udc: Add missing platform_device_put() on error in bdc_pci_probe()

Amelie Delaunay amelie.delaunay@st.com dt-bindings: usb: fix the STM32F7 DWC2 OTG HS core binding

Amelie Delaunay amelie.delaunay@st.com usb: dwc2: fix STM32F7 USB OTG HS compatible

Bill Kuzeja William.Kuzeja@stratus.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crashes in qla2x00_probe_one on probe failure

Himanshu Madhani hmadhani@redhat.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix logo flag for qlt_free_session_done()

Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NULL pointer access for fcport structure

Himanshu Madhani himanshu.madhani@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix smatch warning in qla25xx_delete_{rsp|req}_que

Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com btrfs: Fix memory barriers usage with device stats counters

Zygo Blaxell ce3g8jdj@umail.furryterror.org btrfs: remove spurious WARN_ON(ref->count < 0) in find_parent_nodes

Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com btrfs: Fix use-after-free when cleaning up fs_devs with a single stale device

Hans van Kranenburg hans.van.kranenburg@mendix.com btrfs: alloc_chunk: fix DUP stripe size handling

Edmund Nadolski enadolski@suse.com btrfs: add missing initialization in btrfs_check_shared

Dmitriy Gorokh Dmitriy.Gorokh@wdc.com btrfs: Fix NULL pointer exception in find_bio_stripe

Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com xfs: preserve i_rdev when recycling a reclaimable inode

Israel Rukshin israelr@mellanox.com nvme: fix subsystem multiple controllers support check

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org irqchip/gic-v3-its: Ensure nr_ites >= nr_lpis

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org RDMAVT: Fix synchronization around percpu_ref

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org fs/aio: Use RCU accessors for kioctx_table->table[]

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org fs/aio: Add explicit RCU grace period when freeing kioctx

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't populate multiple LRs with the same vintid

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com kvm: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Tighten synchronization for guests using v2 on v3

Christoffer Dall cdall@kernel.org KVM: arm/arm64: Reset mapped IRQs on VM reset

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org KVM: arm/arm64: Reduce verbosity of KVM init log

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com fs: Teach path_connected to handle nfs filesystems with multiple roots.

Michel Dänzer michel.daenzer@amd.com drm/amdgpu/dce: Don't turn off DP sink when disconnected

Christian König christian.koenig@amd.com drm/radeon: fix prime teardown order

Christian König christian.koenig@amd.com drm/amdgpu: fix prime teardown order

Māris Nartišs maris.nartiss@gmail.com drm/nouveau/mmu: ALIGN_DOWN correct variable

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de drm/nouveau/bl: Fix oops on driver unbind

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Clear client entry before deleting else at closing

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix possible UAF in snd_seq_check_queue()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Revert power_save option default value

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Fix UAF in snd_pcm_oss_get_formats()

John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net parisc: Handle case where flush_cache_range is called with no context

Toshi Kani toshi.kani@hpe.com x86/mm: Fix vmalloc_fault to use pXd_large

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com KVM: x86: Fix device passthrough when SME is active

Alexander Sergeyev sergeev917@gmail.com x86/speculation: Remove Skylake C2 from Speculation Control microcode blacklist

Andy Whitcroft apw@canonical.com x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool on 32-bit kernels

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/vm86/32: Fix POPF emulation

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Add test cases for POPF

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel PCONFIG cpufeature

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel Total Memory Encryption cpufeature

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Diffstat:

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/dwc2.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 41 +++++++++--- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 5 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_connectors.c | 31 ++++----- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c | 2 - drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/vmm.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_gem.c | 2 - drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c | 2 + drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c | 10 +-- drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 9 ++- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 18 +++++- drivers/phy/broadcom/phy-brcm-usb-init.c | 22 +++---- drivers/phy/broadcom/phy-brcm-usb.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 13 ++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mid.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 59 ++++++++++------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c | 1 + drivers/usb/dwc2/params.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c | 36 ++++++----- drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h | 16 ++--- drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-of-simple.c | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/bdc_pci.c | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/udc/renesas_usb3.c | 2 +- fs/aio.c | 44 ++++++++----- fs/btrfs/backref.c | 12 +++- fs/btrfs/raid56.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 30 ++++++--- fs/btrfs/volumes.h | 12 ++++ fs/dcache.c | 11 +++- fs/namei.c | 5 +- fs/nfs/super.c | 2 + fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 2 + include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 1 + include/linux/fs.h | 1 + include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h | 1 + include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h | 1 + sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 10 +-- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 4 +- sound/core/seq/seq_prioq.c | 28 ++++----- sound/core/seq/seq_prioq.h | 6 +- sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c | 28 +++------ sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 9 ++- tools/testing/selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86.c | 32 ++++++++-- virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 6 +- virt/kvm/arm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c | 3 +- virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 6 +- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c | 11 +++- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 9 ++- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++----- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h | 2 + 58 files changed, 461 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)