This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.168 release. There are 88 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 Sun Dec 16 11:56:41 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-4.4.168-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 4.4.168-rc1

Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com selftests: Move networking/timestamping from Documentation

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de rocker: fix rocker_tlv_put_* functions for KASAN

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net staging: speakup: Replace strncpy with memcpy

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com matroxfb: fix size of memcpy

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de media: dvb-frontends: fix i2c access helpers for KASAN

Willy Tarreau w@1wt.eu proc: do not access cmdline nor environ from file-backed areas

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org proc: don't use FOLL_FORCE for reading cmdline and environment

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flags

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()

Lorenzo Stoakes lstoakes@gmail.com mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_locked()

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk sr: pass down correctly sized SCSI sense buffer

Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org swiotlb: clean up reporting

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlbfs: fix bug in pgoff overflow checking

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlbfs: check for pgoff value overflow

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlbfs: fix offset overflow in hugetlbfs mmap

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com mm/hugetlb.c: don't call region_abort if region_chg fails

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de posix-timers: Sanitize overrun handling

Lior David qca_liord@qca.qualcomm.com wil6210: missing length check in wmi_set_ie

Alexei Starovoitov ast@kernel.org bpf: Prevent memory disambiguation attack

Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk bpf/verifier: Pass instruction index to check_mem_access() and check_xadd()

Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk bpf/verifier: Add spi variable to check_stack_write()

Alexei Starovoitov ast@fb.com bpf: support 8-byte metafield access

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com KVM: SVM: Implement VIRT_SPEC_CTRL support for SSBD

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/speculation: Use synthetic bits for IBRS/IBPB/STIBP

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/bugs, KVM: Extend speculation control for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de KVM: SVM: Move spec control call after restore of GS

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com x86/KVM/VMX: Expose SPEC_CTRL Bit(2) to the guest

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com x86/bugs, KVM: Support the combination of guest and host IBRS

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com x86/uaccess: Use __uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com x86/usercopy: Replace open coded stac/clac with __uaccess_{begin, end}

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com x86: Introduce __uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org x86: fix SMAP in 32-bit environments

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org x86: reorganize SMAP handling in user space accesses

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

KarimAllah Ahmed karahmed@amazon.de KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL

KarimAllah Ahmed karahmed@amazon.de KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL

KarimAllah Ahmed karahmed@amazon.de KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES

Ashok Raj ashok.raj@intel.com KVM/x86: Add IBPB support

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs

Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool

David Matlack dmatlack@google.com KVM: nVMX: mark vmcs12 pages dirty on L2 exit

Radim Krčmář rkrcmar@redhat.com KVM: nVMX: fix msr bitmaps to prevent L2 from accessing L0 x2APIC

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: pcm: remove SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL1_INFO internal command

Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org pstore: Convert console write to use ->write_buf

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com ocfs2: fix potential use after free

Qian Cai cai@gmx.us debugobjects: avoid recursive calls with kmemleak

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com hfsplus: do not free node before using

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com hfs: do not free node before using

Larry Chen lchen@suse.com ocfs2: fix deadlock caused by ocfs2_defrag_extent()

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com fscache, cachefiles: remove redundant variable 'cache'

NeilBrown neilb@suse.com fscache: fix race between enablement and dropping of object

Srikanth Boddepalli boddepalli.srikanth@gmail.com xen: xlate_mmu: add missing header to fix 'W=1' warning

Y.C. Chen yc_chen@aspeedtech.com drm/ast: fixed reading monitor EDID not stable issue

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com net: hisilicon: remove unexpected free_netdev

Josh Elsasser jelsasser@appneta.com ixgbe: recognize 1000BaseLX SFP modules as 1Gbps

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com net: thunderx: fix NULL pointer dereference in nic_remove

Yi Wang wang.yi59@zte.com.cn KVM: x86: fix empty-body warnings

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi USB: omap_udc: fix USB gadget functionality on Palm Tungsten E

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi USB: omap_udc: fix omap_udc_start() on 15xx machines

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi USB: omap_udc: fix crashes on probe error and module removal

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi USB: omap_udc: use devm_request_irq()

Martynas Pumputis m@lambda.lt bpf: fix check of allowed specifiers in bpf_trace_printk

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com exportfs: do not read dentry after free

Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com ASoC: omap-dmic: Add pm_qos handling to avoid overruns with CPU_IDLE

Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com ASoC: omap-mcpdm: Add pm_qos handling to avoid under/overruns with CPU_IDLE

Robbie Ko robbieko@synology.com Btrfs: send, fix infinite loop due to directory rename dependencies

Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com hwmon: (w83795) temp4_type has writable permission

Tzung-Bi Shih tzungbi@google.com ASoC: dapm: Recalculate audio map forcely when card instantiated

Nicolin Chen nicoleotsuka@gmail.com hwmon: (ina2xx) Fix current value calculation

Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.ibm.com s390/cpum_cf: Reject request for sampling in event initialization

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com sysv: return 'err' instead of 0 in __sysv_write_inode

Janusz Krzysztofik jmkrzyszt@gmail.com ARM: OMAP1: ams-delta: Fix possible use of uninitialized field

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com ARM: OMAP2+: prm44xx: Fix section annotation on omap44xx_prm_enable_io_wakeup

Jiri Wiesner jwiesner@suse.com ipv4: ipv6: netfilter: Adjust the frag mem limit when truesize changes

Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com neighbour: Avoid writing before skb->head in neigh_hh_output()

Nicolas Dichtel nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com tun: forbid iface creation with rtnl ops

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: fix NULL ref in tail loss probe

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com rtnetlink: ndo_dflt_fdb_dump() only work for ARPHRD_ETHER devices

Christoph Paasch cpaasch@apple.com net: Prevent invalid access to skb->prev in __qdisc_drop_all

Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com net: phy: don't allow __set_phy_supported to add unsupported modes

Su Yanjun suyj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com net: 8139cp: fix a BUG triggered by changing mtu with network traffic

Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com ipv6: Check available headroom in ip6_xmit() even without options

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Diffstat:

Documentation/Makefile | 3 +- Documentation/networking/Makefile | 1 - Documentation/networking/timestamping/Makefile | 14 - Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-omap1/board-ams-delta.c | 3 + arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm44xx.c | 2 +- arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c | 4 +- arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c | 2 +- arch/mips/mm/gup.c | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_cf.c | 2 + arch/s390/mm/gup.c | 2 +- arch/sh/mm/gup.c | 3 +- arch/sparc/mm/gup.c | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 64 +- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h | 26 + arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 94 ++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 31 +- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 40 ++ arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 143 +++- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 741 ++++++++++++--------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 14 +- arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c | 20 +- arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/mpx.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c | 36 +- drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_g2d.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ttm.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_dmablit.c | 4 +- drivers/hwmon/ina2xx.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/w83795.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c | 7 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c | 3 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c | 5 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ascot2e.c | 4 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cxd2841er.c | 4 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/horus3a.c | 4 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/itd1000.c | 5 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mt312.c | 5 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stb0899_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stb6100.c | 6 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv0367.c | 4 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv090x.c | 4 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv6110x.c | 4 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10039.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-udma.c | 3 +- drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-yuv.c | 8 +- drivers/media/platform/omap/omap_vout.c | 2 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-dma-sg.c | 7 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-memops.c | 6 +- drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic_main.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/8139cp.c | 5 + drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c | 24 +- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 19 +- drivers/net/tun.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/sr_ioctl.c | 21 +- drivers/scsi/st.c | 5 +- drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/user_pages.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_user_pages.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/omap_udc.c | 87 +-- drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_Ti3026.c | 2 +- drivers/video/fbdev/pvr2fb.c | 2 +- drivers/virt/fsl_hypervisor.c | 4 +- drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/send.c | 11 +- fs/cachefiles/rdwr.c | 3 - fs/exec.c | 9 +- fs/exportfs/expfs.c | 2 +- fs/fscache/object.c | 3 + fs/hfs/btree.c | 3 +- fs/hfsplus/btree.c | 3 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 30 +- fs/ocfs2/export.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c | 47 +- fs/proc/base.c | 19 +- fs/pstore/platform.c | 4 +- fs/sysv/inode.c | 2 +- include/linux/mm.h | 15 +- include/linux/posix-timers.h | 4 +- include/net/neighbour.h | 28 +- include/sound/pcm.h | 2 +- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 98 ++- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 4 +- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 +- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 29 +- kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 8 +- lib/debugobjects.c | 3 +- lib/swiotlb.c | 20 +- mm/frame_vector.c | 9 +- mm/gup.c | 42 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 12 +- mm/memory.c | 18 +- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- mm/nommu.c | 38 +- mm/process_vm_access.c | 6 +- mm/util.c | 2 +- net/ceph/pagevec.c | 2 +- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 + net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 7 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 12 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 42 +- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 8 +- net/sched/sch_netem.c | 3 + security/tomoyo/domain.c | 3 +- sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 2 - sound/core/pcm_native.c | 6 +- sound/soc/omap/omap-dmic.c | 9 + sound/soc/omap/omap-mcpdm.c | 43 +- sound/soc/soc-core.c | 1 + .../selftests}/networking/timestamping/.gitignore | 0 .../selftests/networking/timestamping/Makefile | 8 + .../networking/timestamping/hwtstamp_config.c | 0 .../networking/timestamping/timestamping.c | 0 .../networking/timestamping/txtimestamp.c | 0 virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 2 +- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 11 +- 129 files changed, 1455 insertions(+), 792 deletions(-)