This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.141 release. There are 43 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 Jul 18 07:34:50 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-4.4.141-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 4.4.141-rc1

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp loop: remember whether sysfs_create_group() was done

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucm: Mark UCM interface as BROKEN

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp PM / hibernate: Fix oops at snapshot_write()

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu loop: add recursion validation to LOOP_CHANGE_FD

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: initialise match/target check parameter struct

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com netfilter: nf_queue: augment nfqa_cfg_policy

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com uprobes/x86: Remove incorrect WARN_ON() in uprobe_init_insn()

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/cpufeature: Add helper macro for mask check macros

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/cpufeature: Make sure DISABLED/REQUIRED macros are updated

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/cpufeature: Update cpufeaure macros

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/cpufeature, x86/mm/pkeys: Fix broken compile-time disabling of pkeys

Yazen Ghannam Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com x86/cpu: Add detection of AMD RAS Capabilities

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/cpufeature, x86/mm/pkeys: Add protection keys related CPUID definitions

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/cpufeature: Speed up cpu_feature_enabled()

Alexander Kuleshov kuleshovmail@gmail.com x86/boot: Simplify kernel load address alignment check

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/vdso: Use static_cpu_has()

Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com x86/alternatives: Discard dynamic check after init

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/alternatives: Add an auxilary section

Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de x86/cpufeature: Get rid of the non-asm goto variant

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/cpufeature: Replace the old static_cpu_has() with safe variant

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_*

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/headers: Don't include asm/processor.h in asm/atomic.h

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/fpu: Get rid of xstate_fault()

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/fpu: Add an XSTATE_OP() macro

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/cpu: Provide a config option to disable static_cpu_has

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/cpufeature: Cleanup get_cpu_cap()

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/cpufeature: Move some of the scattered feature bits to x86_capability

Steve Wise swise@opengridcomputing.com iw_cxgb4: correctly enforce the max reg_mr depth

Paul Menzel pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de tools build: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories

Tomasz Kramkowski tk@the-tk.com HID: usbhid: add quirk for innomedia INNEX GENESIS/ATARI adapter

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com xhci: xhci-mem: off by one in xhci_stream_id_to_ring()

Nico Sneck snecknico@gmail.com usb: quirks: add delay quirks for Corsair Strafe

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: mos7840: fix status-register error handling

Jann Horn jannh@google.com USB: yurex: fix out-of-bounds uaccess in read handler

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: keyspan_pda: fix modem-status error handling

Olli Salonen olli.salonen@iki.fi USB: serial: cp210x: add another USB ID for Qivicon ZigBee stick

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: serial: ch341: fix type promotion bug in ch341_control_in()

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ahci: Disable LPM on Lenovo 50 series laptops with a too old BIOS

Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com vmw_balloon: fix inflation with batching

Jann Horn jannh@google.com ibmasm: don't write out of bounds in read handler

Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Fix ioremap() RAM check

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Diffstat:

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/mm/ioremap.c | 37 ++- arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 + arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 10 - arch/x86/boot/cpuflags.h | 2 +- arch/x86/boot/mkcpustr.c | 2 +- arch/x86/crypto/crc32-pclmul_glue.c | 2 +- arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel_glue.c | 2 +- arch/x86/crypto/crct10dif-pclmul_glue.c | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/common.c | 1 + arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c | 1 - arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/system_call.S | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 6 - arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 1 - arch/x86/include/asm/arch_hweight.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h | 1 - arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_32.h | 1 - arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 546 ++++++------------------------- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 306 +++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h | 17 + arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 182 +++++------ arch/x86/include/asm/irq_work.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h | 9 + arch/x86/include/asm/smap.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 1 - arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 71 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/match.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.sh | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 20 -- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 + arch/x86/lib/clear_page_64.S | 2 +- arch/x86/lib/copy_page_64.S | 2 +- arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S | 2 +- arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S | 2 +- arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S | 2 +- arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S | 2 +- arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c | 1 + arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c | 1 - arch/x86/um/asm/barrier.h | 2 +- drivers/ata/ahci.c | 59 ++++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 3 + drivers/block/loop.c | 79 +++-- drivers/block/loop.h | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 3 + drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c | 1 + drivers/infiniband/Kconfig | 12 + drivers/infiniband/core/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c | 27 +- drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 4 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 23 +- drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 3 + fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +- fs/inode.c | 6 + include/linux/libata.h | 1 + kernel/power/user.c | 5 + lib/atomic64_test.c | 4 + net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 + net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 1 + net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 1 + net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 3 + tools/build/Build.include | 4 +- 94 files changed, 831 insertions(+), 771 deletions(-)