This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.157 release. There are 56 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 19 21:38:11 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-4.4.157-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 4.4.157-rc1

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+

Ian Kent raven@themaw.net autofs: fix autofs_sbi() does not check super block type

Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com mtd: ubi: wl: Fix error return code in ubi_wl_init()

Ondrej Mosnacek omosnace@redhat.com crypto: vmx - Fix sleep-in-atomic bugs

Peter Chen peter.chen@nxp.com ethernet: ti: davinci_emac: add missing of_node_put after calling of_parse_phandle

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix mdio device reference leak

David Rivshin drivshin@allworx.com drivers: net: cpsw: fix parsing of phy-handle DT property in dual_emac config

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com netfilter: x_tables: avoid stack-out-of-bounds read in xt_copy_counters_from_user

Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com vmw_balloon: include asm/io.h

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: Fix use-after-free in xhci_free_virt_device

Parav Pandit parav@mellanox.com RDMA/cma: Do not ignore net namespace for unbound cm_id

Paul Burton paul.burton@imgtec.com MIPS: WARN_ON invalid DMA cache maintenance, not BUG_ON

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix to do sanity check with {sit,nat}_ver_bitmap_bytesize

Zumeng Chen zumeng.chen@gmail.com mfd: ti_am335x_tscadc: Fix struct clk memory leak

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Fix allocation in atomic context

Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mfo@canonical.com partitions/aix: fix usage of uninitialized lv_info and lvname structures

Mauricio Faria de Oliveira mfo@canonical.com partitions/aix: append null character to print data from disk

Nick Dyer nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk Input: atmel_mxt_ts - only use first T9 instance

Petr Machata petrm@mellanox.com net: dcb: For wild-card lookups, use priority -1, not 0

Nicholas Mc Guire hofrat@osadl.org MIPS: Octeon: add missing of_node_put()

Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com net: mvneta: fix mtu change on port without link

Anton Vasilyev vasilyev@ispras.ru gpio: ml-ioh: Fix buffer underwrite on probe error path

Joerg Roedel jroedel@suse.de x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault()

Marcel Holtmann marcel@holtmann.org Bluetooth: hidp: Fix handling of strncpy for hid->name information

Surabhi Vishnoi svishnoi@codeaurora.org ath10k: disable bundle mgmt tx completion event support

Anton Vasilyev vasilyev@ispras.ru scsi: 3ware: fix return 0 on the error path of probe

Srinivas Pandruvada srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com ata: libahci: Correct setting of DEVSLP register

Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Fix ISA virt/bus conversion for non-zero PHYS_OFFSET

Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com ath10k: prevent active scans on potential unusable channels

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au macintosh/via-pmu: Add missing mmio accessors

Olga Kornievskaia kolga@netapp.com NFSv4.0 fix client reference leak in callback

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr perf tools: Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time

Yunlong Song yunlong.song@huawei.com f2fs: do not set free of current section

Anton Vasilyev vasilyev@ispras.ru tty: rocket: Fix possible buffer overwrite on register_PCI

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com uio: potential double frees if __uio_register_device() fails

Anton Vasilyev vasilyev@ispras.ru misc: ti-st: Fix memory leak in the error path of probe()

BingJing Chang bingjingc@synology.com md/raid5: fix data corruption of replacements after originals dropped

Mike Christie mchristi@redhat.com scsi: target: fix __transport_register_session locking

Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com gpio: tegra: Move driver registration to subsys_init level

Johan Hedberg johan.hedberg@intel.com Bluetooth: h5: Fix missing dependency on BT_HCIUART_SERDEV

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com ethtool: Remove trailing semicolon for static inline

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com misc: mic: SCIF Fix scif_get_new_port() error handling

Alexey Brodkin abrodkin@synopsys.com ARC: [plat-axs*]: Enable SWAP

Prateek Sood prsood@codeaurora.org locking/osq_lock: Fix osq_lock queue corruption

Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches

Prateek Sood prsood@codeaurora.org locking/rwsem-xadd: Fix missed wakeup due to reordering of load

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org block,blkcg: use __GFP_NOWARN for best-effort allocations in blkcg

Daniel Micay danielmicay@gmail.com staging/rts5208: Fix read overflow in memcpy

Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@163.com staging: rt5208: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in xd_copy_page

Vegard Nossum vegard.nossum@oracle.com kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC

Vegard Nossum vegard.nossum@oracle.com kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails

Ritesh Harjani riteshh@codeaurora.org cfq: Give a chance for arming slice idle timer in case of group_idle

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Fix cancel_work_sync() stall from jackpoll work

Felipe Balbi felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com i2c: i801: fix DNV's SMBCTRL register offset

Shubhrajyoti Datta shubhrajyoti.datta@xilinx.com i2c: xiic: Make the start and the byte count write atomic

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arc/configs/axs101_defconfig | 1 - arch/arc/configs/axs103_defconfig | 1 - arch/arc/configs/axs103_smp_defconfig | 1 - arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-platform.c | 2 ++ arch/mips/include/asm/io.h | 8 +++--- arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 1 - arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 6 ++-- arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 2 -- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 4 ++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 -- block/blk-cgroup.c | 9 +++--- block/cfq-iosched.c | 6 ++-- block/partitions/aix.c | 13 ++++++--- drivers/ata/libahci.c | 2 ++ drivers/bluetooth/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_cbc.c | 30 +++++++++----------- drivers/gpio/gpio-ml-ioh.c | 3 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-tegra.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c | 7 ++++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xiic.c | 4 +++ drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 13 +++++++-- drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c | 7 +++-- drivers/iommu/ipmmu-vmsa.c | 9 +++--- drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c | 9 +++--- drivers/md/raid5.c | 6 ++++ drivers/mfd/ti_am335x_tscadc.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_api.c | 20 ++++++------- drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c | 4 +-- drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 1 + drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c | 8 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 14 ++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 7 +++++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c | 5 ++++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.h | 5 ++++ drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.c | 6 +++- drivers/scsi/3w-sas.c | 3 ++ drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c | 2 ++ drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rts5208/xd.c | 2 +- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 5 ++-- drivers/tty/rocket.c | 2 +- drivers/uio/uio.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 3 ++ fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h | 4 ++- fs/autofs4/inode.c | 1 - fs/f2fs/segment.h | 3 ++ fs/f2fs/super.c | 21 ++++++++++++-- fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c | 11 ++++++-- include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 - include/linux/vmacache.h | 5 ---- include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 4 +-- kernel/fork.c | 17 +++++++---- kernel/locking/osq_lock.c | 13 +++++++++ kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++ mm/debug.c | 4 +-- mm/vmacache.c | 38 ------------------------- net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c | 2 +- net/dcb/dcbnl.c | 11 +++++--- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 4 +-- security/selinux/avc.c | 14 ++++----- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 3 +- tools/perf/perf.h | 2 ++ 70 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-)