This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.172 release. There are 104 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 Sat Jan 26 19:01:09 UTC 2019. 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-4.4.172-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 4.4.172-rc1

Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com ipmi:ssif: Fix handling of multi-part return messages

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: speed up skb_rbtree_purge()

Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps

Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com mm/page-writeback.c: don't break integrity writeback on ->writepage() error

Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: fix panic due to unrecovered local alloc

Qian Cai cai@lca.pw scsi: megaraid: fix out-of-bound array accesses

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch sysfs: Disable lockdep for driver bind/unbind files

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: bebob: fix model-id of unit for Apogee Ensemble

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm snapshot: Fix excessive memory usage and workqueue stalls

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm kcopyd: Fix bug causing workqueue stalls

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf parse-events: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf svghelper: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix error with config term "pt=0"

Jonas Danielsson jonas@orbital-systems.com mmc: atmel-mci: do not assume idle after atmci_request_end

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kconfig: fix file name and line number of warn_ignored_character()

Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de clk: imx6q: reset exclusive gates on init

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de scsi: target: use consistent left-aligned ASCII INQUIRY data

yupeng yupeng0921@gmail.com net: call sk_dst_reset when set SO_DONTROUTE

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com media: firewire: Fix app_info parameter type in avc_ca{,_app}_info

Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Fix preempt warning

Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid

Daniel Santos daniel.santos@pobox.com jffs2: Fix use of uninitialized delayed_work, lockdep breakage

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org arm64: perf: set suppress_bind_attrs flag to true

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org MIPS: SiByte: Enable swiotlb for SWARM, LittleSur and BigSur

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com e1000e: allow non-monotonic SYSTIM readings

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-wmi: Tell the EC the OS will handle the display off hotkey

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: don't fail when converting shortform attr to long form during ATTR_REPLACE

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Take rcu_read_lock in __inet6_bind for mapped addresses

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to a v4 mapped address

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com r8169: Add support for new Realtek Ethernet

Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+samsung@kernel.org media: vb2: be sure to unlock mutex on errors

Ivan Mironov mironov.ivan@gmail.com drm/fb-helper: Ignore the value of fb_var_screeninfo.pixclock

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp loop: Fix double mutex_unlock(&loop_ctl_mutex) in loop_control_ioctl()

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz loop: Get rid of loop_index_mutex

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz loop: Fold __loop_release into loop_release

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp block/loop: Use global lock for ioctl() operation.

Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com tipc: fix uninit-value in tipc_nl_compat_doit

Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com tipc: fix uninit-value in tipc_nl_compat_name_table_dump

Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com tipc: fix uninit-value in tipc_nl_compat_link_set

Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com tipc: fix uninit-value in tipc_nl_compat_bearer_enable

Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com tipc: fix uninit-value in tipc_nl_compat_link_reset_stats

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: allocate sctp_sockaddr_entry with kzalloc

Stephen Smalley sds@tycho.nsa.gov selinux: fix GPF on invalid policy

J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com sunrpc: handle ENOMEM in rpcb_getport_async

Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl media: vb2: vb2_mmap: move lock up

James Morris james.morris@microsoft.com LSM: Check for NULL cred-security on free

Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: vivid: set min width/height to a value > 0

Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: vivid: fix error handling of kthread_run

Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net omap2fb: Fix stack memory disclosure

YunQiang Su ysu@wavecomp.com Disable MSI also when pcie-octeon.pcie_disable on

Jonathan Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com mfd: tps6586x: Handle interrupts on suspend

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de mips: fix n32 compat_ipc_parse_version

Ivan Mironov mironov.ivan@gmail.com scsi: sd: Fix cache_type_store()

Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Yama: Check for pid death before checking ancestry

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: wait on ordered extents on abort cleanup

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: authenc - fix parsing key with misaligned rta_len

Harsh Jain harsh@chelsio.com crypto: authencesn - Avoid twice completion call in decrypt path

Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com ip: on queued skb use skb_header_pointer instead of pskb_may_pull

Jason Gunthorpe jgg@mellanox.com packet: Do not leak dev refcounts on error exit

JianJhen Chen kchen@synology.com net: bridge: fix a bug on using a neighbour cache entry without checking its state

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: fix kernel-infoleak in ipv6_local_error()

Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: Don't trap host pointer auth use to EL2

Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64/kvm: consistently handle host HCR_EL2 flags

Gwendal Grignou gwendal@chromium.org proc: Remove empty line in /proc/self/status

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk media: em28xx: Fix misplaced reset of dev->v4l::field_count

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com f2fs: fix validation of the block count in sanity_check_raw_super

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: fix missing up_read

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix invalid memory access

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with cp_pack_start_sum

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with block address in main area v2

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with block address in main area

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with reserved blkaddr of inline inode

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with node footer and iblocks

Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk f2fs: Add sanity_check_inode() function

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with user_block_count

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with secs_per_zone

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: introduce and spread verify_blkaddr

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: clean up with is_valid_blkaddr()

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: enhance sanity_check_raw_super() to avoid potential overflow

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

Yunlei He heyunlei@huawei.com f2fs: check blkaddr more accuratly before issue a bio

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: return error during fill_super

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix race condition in between free nid allocator/initializer

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: free meta pages if sanity check for ckpt is failed

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: detect wrong layout

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: fix to determine start_cp_addr by sbi->cur_cp_pack

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: put directory inodes before checkpoint in roll-forward recovery

Tiezhu Yang kernelpatch@126.com f2fs: introduce get_checkpoint_version for cleanup

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: use crc and cp version to determine roll-forward recovery

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: avoid unneeded loop in build_sit_entries

Yunlei He heyunlei@huawei.com f2fs: not allow to write illegal blkaddr

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to avoid reading out encrypted data in page cache

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix inode cache leak

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: factor out fsync inode entry operations

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: remove an obsolete variable

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: give -EINVAL for norecovery and rw mount

Chao Yu chao2.yu@samsung.com f2fs: fix to convert inline directory correctly

Shawn Lin shawn.lin@rock-chips.com f2fs: move sanity checking of cp into get_valid_checkpoint

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: cover more area with nat_tree_lock

Chao Yu chao2.yu@samsung.com f2fs: clean up argument of recover_data

Oliver Hartkopp socketcan@hartkopp.net can: gw: ensure DLC boundaries after CAN frame modification

Dmitry Safonov dima@arista.com tty/ldsem: Wake up readers after timed out down_write()

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Diffstat:

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h | 3 + arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 3 +- arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 + arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S | 2 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 4 + arch/mips/pci/msi-octeon.c | 4 +- arch/mips/sibyte/common/Makefile | 1 + arch/mips/sibyte/common/dma.c | 14 ++ crypto/authenc.c | 14 +- crypto/authencesn.c | 2 +- drivers/base/bus.c | 7 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 79 +++++------ drivers/block/loop.h | 1 - drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 25 ++-- drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx6q.c | 6 +- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 7 +- drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 19 ++- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 22 +++ drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c | 6 +- drivers/media/firewire/firedtv.h | 6 +- drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c | 5 +- drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-out.c | 5 +- drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-vid-common.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c | 4 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 14 +- drivers/mfd/tps6586x.c | 24 ++++ drivers/mmc/host/atmel-mci.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c | 13 +- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 2 + drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fp.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 6 + drivers/target/target_core_spc.c | 17 ++- drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c | 10 ++ drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-ioctl.c | 2 + fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 8 ++ fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 168 ++++++++++++----------- fs/f2fs/data.c | 118 ++++++++++------ fs/f2fs/dir.c | 87 ++++++------ fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 77 ++++++++--- fs/f2fs/file.c | 21 ++- fs/f2fs/inline.c | 115 +++++++++++++++- fs/f2fs/inode.c | 68 ++++++++- fs/f2fs/node.c | 103 ++++++++------ fs/f2fs/node.h | 77 +++++++---- fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 165 +++++++++++----------- fs/f2fs/segment.c | 93 +++++++------ fs/f2fs/segment.h | 48 +++++-- fs/f2fs/super.c | 134 +++++++++++++++--- fs/jffs2/super.c | 3 +- fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c | 9 +- fs/proc/array.c | 2 +- fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 5 + fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 9 +- include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 8 ++ include/linux/f2fs_fs.h | 3 + mm/page-writeback.c | 35 +++-- net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 2 +- net/can/gw.c | 30 +++- net/core/skbuff.c | 11 +- net/core/sock.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 12 +- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 14 +- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 11 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 5 +- net/sctp/protocol.c | 4 +- net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c | 8 ++ net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 50 ++++++- scripts/kconfig/zconf.l | 4 +- security/security.c | 7 + security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 3 +- security/yama/yama_lsm.c | 4 +- sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 11 ++ tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/svghelper.c | 2 +- 81 files changed, 1335 insertions(+), 564 deletions(-)