This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.14.51 release. There are 44 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 Aug 16 17:43:53 UTC 2015. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.14.51-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.14.51-rc1 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> mm, vmscan: Do not wait for page writeback for GFP_NOFS allocations NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> md/bitmap: return an error when bitmap superblock is corrupt. Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> path_openat(): fix double fput() Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> kvm: x86: fix kvm_apic_has_events to check for NULL pointer Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> dcache: don't need rcu in shrink_dentry_list() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> more graceful recovery in umount_collect() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> don't remove from shrink list in select_collect() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dentry_kill(): don't try to remove from shrink list Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> expand the call of dentry_lru_del() in dentry_kill() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> new helper: dentry_free() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> fold try_prune_one_dentry() Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> fold d_kill() and d_free() Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@xxxxxxxxx> signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32 Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@xxxxxxxxx> signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_to_user Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@xxxxxxxxx> signalfd: fix information leak in signalfd_copyinfo Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sg_start_req(): make sure that there's not too many elements in iovec NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> md/raid1: extend spinlock to protect raid1_end_read_request against inconsistencies Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> PCI: Restore PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: fix BUG in ocfs2_downconvert_thread_do_work() Marcus Gelderie <redmnic@xxxxxxxxx> ipc: modify message queue accounting to not take kernel data structures into account Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - fix cs4210_spdif_automute() Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> iscsi-target: Fix iscsit_start_kthreads failure OOPs Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> ARM: OMAP2+: hwmod: Fix _wait_target_ready() for hwmods without sysc Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> rbd: fix copyup completion race Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: ixp4xx - Remove bogus BUG_ON on scattered dst buffer Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> xen/gntdevt: Fix race condition in gntdev_release() Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/xen: Probe target addresses in set_aliased_prot() before the hypercall Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: pcm1681: Fix setting de-emphasis sampling rate selection David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sparc64: Fix userspace FPU register corruptions. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ARM: sunxi: fix build for THUMB2_KERNEL Benjamin Randazzo <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxx> md: use kzalloc() when bitmap is disabled Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ima: extend "mask" policy matching support Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ima: add support for new "euid" policy condition Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: sierra: add 1199:68AB device ID Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> xhci: fix off by one error in TRB DMA address boundary check Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipr: Fix invalid array indexing for HRRQ Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipr: Fix incorrect trace indexing Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipr: Fix locking for unit attention handling Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon/combios: add some validation of lvds values Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Make set_pte() SMP safe. Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Fix sched_getaffinity with MT FPAFF enabled James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Malta: Don't reinitialise RTC Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ARM: realview: fix sparsemem build ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy | 6 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h | 1 + arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c | 24 +- arch/arm/mach-realview/include/mach/memory.h | 2 + arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S | 9 - arch/arm/mach-sunxi/platsmp.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c | 5 +- arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 31 +++ arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c | 5 +- arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c | 2 - arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-time.c | 15 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 2 - arch/sparc/include/asm/visasm.h | 16 +- arch/sparc/lib/NG4memcpy.S | 5 +- arch/sparc/lib/VISsave.S | 67 +----- arch/sparc/lib/ksyms.c | 4 - arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 2 +- arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 40 ++++ drivers/block/rbd.c | 22 +- drivers/crypto/ixp4xx_crypto.c | 1 - drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_combios.c | 7 +- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 2 + drivers/md/md.c | 3 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 10 +- drivers/scsi/ipr.c | 28 ++- drivers/scsi/ipr.h | 1 + drivers/scsi/sg.c | 3 + drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 18 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_core.h | 1 + drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c | 43 ++-- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.h | 3 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c | 34 ++- drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c | 1 + drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 2 + fs/dcache.c | 316 +++++++++------------------ fs/namei.c | 3 +- fs/notify/mark.c | 30 ++- fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 10 +- fs/signalfd.c | 5 +- include/linux/dcache.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 1 + ipc/mqueue.c | 5 - kernel/signal.c | 7 +- mm/vmscan.c | 14 +- security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 47 +++- sound/pci/hda/patch_cirrus.c | 4 +- sound/soc/codecs/pcm1681.c | 2 +- 50 files changed, 439 insertions(+), 432 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html