This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.8 release. There are 122 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 Fri Mar 9 19:16:43 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-4.15.8-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 4.15.8-rc1

NeilBrown neilb@suse.com md: only allow remove_and_add_spares when no sync_thread running.

Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com powerpc/64s/radix: Boot-time NULL pointer protection using a guard-PID

Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com ARM: dts: LogicPD Torpedo: Fix I2C1 pinmux

Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com ARM: dts: LogicPD SOM-LV: Fix I2C1 pinmux

Kai Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com ACPI / bus: Parse tables as term_list for Dell XPS 9570 and Precision M5530

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KVM/x86: remove WARN_ON() for when vm_munmap() fails

Radim Krčmář rkrcmar@redhat.com KVM: x86: fix vcpu initialization with userspace lapic

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely()

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: move LAPIC initialization after VMCS creation

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL

Wanpeng Li wanpeng.li@hotmail.com KVM: mmu: Fix overlap between public and private memslots

Wanpeng Li wanpengli@tencent.com KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: kvm: fix building with gcc-8

Ulf Magnusson ulfalizer@gmail.com ARM: mvebu: Fix broken PL310_ERRATA_753970 selects

Daniel Schultz d.schultz@phytec.de ARM: dts: rockchip: Remove 1.8 GHz operation point from phycore som

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: orion: fix orion_ge00_switch_board_info initialization

Jan Beulich JBeulich@suse.com x86/mm: Fix {pmd,pud}_{set,clear}_flags()

Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk nospec: Allow index argument to have const-qualified type

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com KVM: s390: consider epoch index on TOD clock syncs

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com KVM: s390: consider epoch index on hotplugged CPUs

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com KVM: s390: provide only a single function for setting the tod (fix SCK)

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com KVM: s390: take care of clock-comparator sign control

Anna Karbownik anna.karbownik@intel.com EDAC, sb_edac: Fix out of bound writes during DIMM configuration on KNL

Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@kernel.org media: m88ds3103: don't call a non-initalized function

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com blk-mq: don't call io sched's .requeue_request when requeueing rq to ->dispatch

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: revert F-RTO extension to detect more spurious timeouts

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: revert F-RTO middle-box workaround

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix IPA command submission race

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix IP address lookup for L3 devices

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Revert "s390/qeth: fix using of ref counter for rxip addresses"

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix double-free on IP add/remove race

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix IP removal on offline cards

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix overestimated count of buffer elements

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix SETIP command handling

Ursula Braun ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: fix underestimated count of buffer elements

James Chapman jchapman@katalix.com l2tp: fix tunnel lookup use-after-free race

James Chapman jchapman@katalix.com l2tp: fix race in pppol2tp_release with session object destroy

James Chapman jchapman@katalix.com l2tp: fix races with tunnel socket close

James Chapman jchapman@katalix.com l2tp: don't use inet_shutdown on ppp session destroy

James Chapman jchapman@katalix.com l2tp: don't use inet_shutdown on tunnel destroy

Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com tcp: tracepoint: only call trace_tcp_send_reset with full socket

Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch net: phy: Restore phy_resume() locking assumption

Vlad Buslov vladbu@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix error handling when adding flow rules

Rahul Lakkireddy rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com cxgb4: fix trailing zero in CIM LA dump

Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com virtio-net: disable NAPI only when enabled during XDP set

Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com tuntap: disable preemption during XDP processing

Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com tuntap: correctly add the missing XDP flush

Soheil Hassas Yeganeh soheil@google.com tcp: purge write queue upon RST

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com netlink: put module reference if dump start fails

Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum_router: Do not unconditionally clear route offload indication

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com cls_u32: fix use after free in u32_destroy_key()

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com amd-xgbe: Restore PCI interrupt enablement setting on resume

Boris Pismenny borisp@mellanox.com tls: Use correct sk->sk_prot for IPV6

Eran Ben Elisha eranbe@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Verify inline header size do not exceed SKB linear size

Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com bridge: Fix VLAN reference count problem

Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst()

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com net: ipv4: Set addr_type in hash_keys for forwarded case

Jiri Pirko jiri@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix error path in mlxsw_sp_vr_create

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: do not pr_err for the duplicated node in transport rhlist

Ivan Vecera ivecera@redhat.com net/sched: cls_u32: fix cls_u32 on filter replace

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: gen_estimator: fix broken estimators based on percpu stats

Inbar Karmy inbark@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Fix loopback self test when GRO is off

Tonghao Zhang xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com doc: Change the min default value of tcp_wmem/tcp_rmem.

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp_bbr: better deal with suboptimal GSO

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix send in rxrpc_send_data_packet()

Ilya Lesokhin ilyal@mellanox.com tcp: Honor the eor bit in tcp_mtu_probe

Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com net: phy: fix phy_start to consider PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT

Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Specify numa node when allocating drop rq

Shalom Toledo shalomt@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Check success of FDB add operation

Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v4_get_dst

Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Fix TCP checksum in LRO buffers

Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com udplite: fix partial checksum initialization

Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk()

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr ppp: prevent unregistered channels from connecting to PPP units

Roman Kapl code@rkapl.cz net: sched: report if filter is too large to dump

Nicolas Dichtel nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net net: ipv4: don't allow setting net.ipv4.route.min_pmtu below 68

Jakub Kicinski jakub.kicinski@netronome.com net: fix race on decreasing number of TX queues

Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix net watchdog timeout

Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com net: amd-xgbe: fix comparison to bitshift when dealing with a mask

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ipv6 sit: work around bogus gcc-8 -Wrestrict warning

Denis Du dudenis2000@yahoo.ca hdlc_ppp: carrier detect ok, don't turn off negotiation

Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com fib_semantics: Don't match route with mismatching tclassid

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com bridge: check brport attr show in brport_show

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/cpu_entry_area: Sync cpu_entry_area to initial_page_table

Sebastian Panceac sebastian@resin.io x86/platform/intel-mid: Handle Intel Edison reboot correctly

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz direct-io: Fix sleep in atomic due to sync AIO

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com dax: fix vma_is_fsdax() helper

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org cpufreq: s3c24xx: Fix broken s3c_cpufreq_init()

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com vfio: disable filesystem-dax page pinning

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com block: pass inclusive 'lend' parameter to truncate_inode_pages_range

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com block: kyber: fix domain token leak during requeue

Jiufei Xue jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com block: fix the count of PGPGOUT for WRITE_SAME

Anand Jain anand.jain@oracle.com btrfs: use proper endianness accessors for super_copy

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout

John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net parisc: Fix ordering of cache and TLB flushes

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Reduce irq overhead when run in qemu

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu

Lingutla Chandrasekhar clingutla@codeaurora.org timers: Forward timer base before migrating timers

Shawn Lin shawn.lin@rock-chips.com mmc: dw_mmc: Fix out-of-bounds access for slot's caps

Shawn Lin shawn.lin@rock-chips.com mmc: dw_mmc: Factor out dw_mci_init_slot_caps

Shawn Lin shawn.lin@rock-chips.com mmc: dw_mmc: Avoid accessing registers in runtime suspended state

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be mmc: dw_mmc-k3: Fix out-of-bounds access through DT alias

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com mmc: sdhci-pci: Fix S0i3 for Intel BYT-based controllers

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Fix pincfg at resume on Lenovo T470 dock

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ALSA: hda: Add a power_save blacklist

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: x86: Fix missing spinlock and mutex initializations

Richard Fitzgerald rf@opensource.cirrus.com ALSA: control: Fix memory corruption risk in snd_ctl_elem_read

Erik Veijola erik.veijola@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add a quirck for B&W PX headphones

Jeremy Boone jeremy.boone@nccgroup.trust tpm_tis: fix potential buffer overruns caused by bit glitches on the bus

Jeremy Boone jeremy.boone@nccgroup.trust tpm_i2c_nuvoton: fix potential buffer overruns caused by bit glitches on the bus

Jeremy Boone jeremy.boone@nccgroup.trust tpm_i2c_infineon: fix potential buffer overruns caused by bit glitches on the bus

Jeremy Boone jeremy.boone@nccgroup.trust tpm: fix potential buffer overruns caused by bit glitches on the bus

Jeremy Boone jeremy.boone@nccgroup.trust tpm: st33zp24: fix potential buffer overruns caused by bit glitches on the bus

Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com ixgbe: fix crash in build_skb Rx code path

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Bluetooth: btusb: Use DMI matching for QCA reset_resume quirking

Sam Bobroff sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com powerpc/pseries: Enable RAS hotplug events later

Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally

Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com ipmi_si: Fix error handling of platform device

Anna-Maria Gleixner anna-maria@linutronix.de hrtimer: Ensure POSIX compliance (relative CLOCK_REALTIME hrtimers)

Adam Borowski kilobyte@angband.pl vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px

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Diffstat:

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/logicpd-som-lv.dtsi | 9 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/logicpd-torpedo-som.dtsi | 8 + arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-phycore-som.dtsi | 20 --- arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 5 + arch/arm/kvm/hyp/banked-sr.c | 4 + arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig | 4 +- arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c | 23 ++- arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 1 + arch/parisc/include/asm/processor.h | 2 + arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 57 ++++--- arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S | 22 +++ arch/parisc/kernel/time.c | 11 +- arch/parisc/mm/init.c | 7 +- arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c | 20 +++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 31 +++- arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 25 ++- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 79 +++++---- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h | 5 +- arch/s390/kvm/priv.c | 9 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 10 ++ arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 17 +- arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c | 17 +- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 11 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 +- arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c | 6 + arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 15 ++ arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/intel-mid.c | 2 +- arch/x86/xen/suspend.c | 16 ++ block/blk-core.c | 2 +- block/blk-mq.c | 4 +- block/ioctl.c | 2 +- block/kyber-iosched.c | 1 + drivers/acpi/bus.c | 38 ++++- drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 25 ++- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 9 +- drivers/char/tpm/st33zp24/st33zp24.c | 4 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 4 + drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 4 + drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c | 5 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_nuvoton.c | 8 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 5 +- drivers/cpufreq/s3c24xx-cpufreq.c | 8 +- drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 2 +- drivers/md/md.c | 4 + drivers/media/dvb-frontends/m88ds3103.c | 7 +- drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc-exynos.c | 1 + drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc-k3.c | 4 + drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc-rockchip.c | 1 + drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc-zx.c | 1 + drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 84 +++++---- drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.h | 2 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci-core.c | 35 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-pci.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cudbg_lib.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_cudbg.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 8 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 10 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 49 ++++-- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_selftest.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 10 +- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 35 ++-- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c | 29 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 16 +- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 18 +- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 9 + drivers/net/tun.c | 7 + drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 8 +- drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c | 5 +- drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 188 +++++++++++---------- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 7 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 43 ++--- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3.h | 34 +++- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 123 ++++++-------- drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 18 +- fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 8 +- fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 20 ++- fs/direct-io.c | 3 +- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- include/linux/nospec.h | 3 +- include/linux/phy.h | 1 + include/net/udplite.h | 1 + kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 7 +- kernel/time/timer.c | 6 + lib/vsprintf.c | 2 +- net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c | 3 + net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 2 + net/core/dev.c | 11 +- net/core/gen_estimator.c | 1 + net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 5 + net/ipv4/route.c | 10 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 24 +-- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 34 +++- net/ipv4/udp.c | 5 + net/ipv6/ip6_checksum.c | 5 + net/ipv6/sit.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 3 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 142 +++++----------- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 23 +-- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 10 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 8 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 60 +++---- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 12 +- net/rxrpc/output.c | 2 +- net/sched/cls_api.c | 7 +- net/sched/cls_u32.c | 24 +-- net/sctp/input.c | 5 +- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 10 +- net/sctp/protocol.c | 10 +- net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 7 +- net/tls/tls_main.c | 52 ++++-- sound/core/control.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 38 ++++- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 3 +- sound/usb/quirks-table.h | 47 ++++++ sound/x86/intel_hdmi_audio.c | 2 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +- 129 files changed, 1271 insertions(+), 737 deletions(-)