This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.154 release. There are 80 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 Sep 5 16:49:18 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-4.4.154-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 4.4.154-rc1

Scott Bauer scott.bauer@intel.com cdrom: Fix info leak/OOB read in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status

Mike Christie mchristi@redhat.com iscsi target: fix session creation failure handling

Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com scsi: core: Avoid that SCSI device removal through sysfs triggers a deadlock

Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com scsi: sysfs: Introduce sysfs_{un,}break_active_protection()

Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: lib: Provide MIPS64r6 __multi3() for GCC < 7

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Correct the 64-bit DSP accumulator register size

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes: Make list and blacklist root user read only

Sebastian Ott sebott@linux.ibm.com s390/pci: fix out of bounds access during irq setup

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qdio: reset old sbal_state flags

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: fix br_r1_trampoline for machines without exrl

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/spectre: Add missing family 6 check to microcode check

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com x86/irqflags: Mark native_restore_fl extern inline

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com pinctrl: freescale: off by one in imx1_pinconf_group_dbg_show()

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com ASoC: sirf: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Jerome Brunet jbrunet@baylibre.com ASoC: dpcm: don't merge format from invalid codec dai

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com udl-kms: fix crash due to uninitialized memory

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com udl-kms: handle allocation failure

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com udl-kms: change down_interruptible to down

Kirill Tkhai ktkhai@virtuozzo.com fuse: Add missed unlock_page() to fuse_readpages_fill()

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: Fix oops at process_init_reply()

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: umount should wait for all requests

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: fix unlocked access to processing queue

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: fix double request_end()

Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com fuse: Don't access pipe->buffers without pipe_lock()

Rian Hunter rian@alum.mit.edu x86/process: Re-export start_thread()

Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM

Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix off-by-one error when warning that system has too much RAM

Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix overflow in l1tf_pfn_limit() on 32bit

Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal@arm.com KVM: arm/arm64: Skip updating PMD entry if no change

Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal@arm.com KVM: arm/arm64: Skip updating PTE entry if no change

Greg Hackmann ghackmann@android.com arm64: mm: check for upper PAGE_SHIFT bits in pfn_valid()

Eric Sandeen sandeen@redhat.com ext4: reset error code in ext4_find_entry in fallback

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ext4: sysfs: print ext4_super_block fields as little-endian

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: check for NUL characters in extended attribute's name

Claudio Imbrenda imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/kvm: fix deadlock when killed by oom

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: don't leak ret from do_chunk_alloc

Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com smb3: don't request leases in symlink creation and query

Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com smb3: Do not send SMB3 SET_INFO if nothing changed

Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat@osadl.org cifs: check kmalloc before use

Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com cifs: add missing debug entries for kconfig options

jie@chenjie6@huwei.com <jie@chenjie6@huwei.com> mm/memory.c: check return value of ioremap_prot

Jim Gill jgill@vmware.com scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Return DID_RESET for status SAM_STAT_COMMAND_TERMINATED

Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de scsi: fcoe: drop frames in ELS LOGO error path

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com drivers: net: lmc: fix case value for target abort error

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org arc: fix type warnings in arc/mm/cache.c

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org arc: fix build errors in arc/include/asm/delay.h

Govindarajulu Varadarajan gvaradar@cisco.com enic: handle mtu change for vf properly

Rafał Miłecki rafal@milecki.pl Revert "MIPS: BCM47XX: Enable 74K Core ExternalSync for PCIe erratum"

Calvin Walton calvin.walton@kepstin.ca tools/power turbostat: Read extended processor family from CPUID

Li Wang liwang@redhat.com zswap: re-check zswap_is_full() after do zswap_shrink()

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org selftests/ftrace: Add snapshot and tracing_on test case

Kiran Kumar Modukuri kiran.modukuri@gmail.com cachefiles: Wait rather than BUG'ing on "Unexpected object collision"

Kiran Kumar Modukuri kiran.modukuri@gmail.com cachefiles: Fix refcounting bug in backing-file read monitoring

Kiran Kumar Modukuri kiran.modukuri@gmail.com fscache: Allow cancelled operations to be enqueued

Shubhrajyoti Datta shubhrajyoti.datta@xilinx.com net: axienet: Fix double deregister of mdio

Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com bnx2x: Fix invalid memory access in rss hash config path.

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net media: staging: omap4iss: Include asm/cacheflush.h after generic includes

Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com i2c: davinci: Avoid zero value of CLKH

Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat@osadl.org can: mpc5xxx_can: check of_iomap return before use

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org net: prevent ISA drivers from building on PPC32

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de atl1c: reserve min skb headroom

Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru sudarsana.kalluru@cavium.com qed: Fix possible race for the link state value.

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com net: caif: Add a missing rcu_read_unlock() in caif_flow_cb

Len Brown len.brown@intel.com tools/power turbostat: fix -S on UP systems

Eugeniu Rosca roscaeugeniu@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_uac2: fix endianness of 'struct cntrl_*_lay3'

Peter Senna Tschudin peter.senna@gmail.com tools: usb: ffs-test: Fix build on big endian systems

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org usb/phy: fix PPC64 build errors in phy-fsl-usb.c

Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com usb: gadget: r8a66597: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in r8a66597_queue()

Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com usb: gadget: r8a66597: Fix two possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in init_controller()

Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de drm/imx: imx-ldb: check if channel is enabled before printing warning

Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de drm/imx: imx-ldb: disable LDB on driver bind

Varun Prakash varun@chelsio.com scsi: libiscsi: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in case of TMF

Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org drm/bridge: adv7511: Reset registers on hotplug

Bernd Edlinger bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de nl80211: Add a missing break in parse_station_flags

mpubbise@codeaurora.org mpubbise@codeaurora.org mac80211: add stations tied to AP_VLANs during hw reconfig

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de xfrm: free skb if nlsk pointer is NULL

Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com xfrm: fix missing dst_release() after policy blocking lbcast and multicast

Eyal Birger eyal.birger@gmail.com vti6: fix PMTU caching and reporting on xmit

yujuan.qi yujuan.qi@mediatek.com Cipso: cipso_v4_optptr enter infinite loop

Ethan Zhao ethan.zhao@oracle.com sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/include/asm/delay.h | 3 + arch/arc/mm/cache.c | 7 +- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 42 +++++++++--- arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 6 +- arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c | 6 -- arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h | 3 - arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c | 2 +- arch/mips/lib/multi3.c | 6 +- arch/s390/include/asm/qdio.h | 1 - arch/s390/mm/fault.c | 2 + arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 2 - arch/s390/pci/pci.c | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 4 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 3 + arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/init.c | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | 2 +- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/adv7511.c | 12 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-ldb.c | 9 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_main.c | 35 +++++----- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c | 8 ++- drivers/net/can/mscan/mpc5xxx_can.c | 5 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/3com/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/Kconfig | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c | 1 + .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c | 13 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 78 ++++++++-------------- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_mdio.c | 1 + drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_main.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx1-core.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/cio/qdio_main.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 12 ++-- drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 20 +++++- drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 11 ++- drivers/staging/media/omap4iss/iss_video.c | 3 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c | 35 ++++++---- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac2.c | 20 +++--- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/phy/phy-fsl-usb.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 +- fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 1 - fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c | 17 +++-- fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c | 30 +++++++-- fs/cifs/inode.c | 2 + fs/cifs/link.c | 4 +- fs/cifs/sess.c | 6 ++ fs/cifs/smb2inode.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/namei.c | 1 + fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 13 +++- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 + fs/fscache/operation.c | 6 +- fs/fuse/dev.c | 39 +++++++++-- fs/fuse/file.c | 1 + fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 1 + fs/fuse/inode.c | 23 +++---- fs/sysfs/file.c | 44 ++++++++++++ include/linux/sysfs.h | 14 ++++ kernel/kprobes.c | 4 +- kernel/sysctl.c | 3 +- mm/memory.c | 3 + mm/zswap.c | 9 +++ net/caif/caif_dev.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 12 +++- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 11 +-- net/mac80211/util.c | 3 +- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 1 + net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 3 + net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 10 +-- sound/soc/sirf/sirf-usp.c | 7 +- sound/soc/soc-pcm.c | 8 +++ tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 8 +-- .../selftests/ftrace/test.d/00basic/snapshot.tc | 28 ++++++++ tools/usb/ffs-test.c | 19 +++++- 83 files changed, 514 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-)