This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.1.12 release. There are 46 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 Oct 25 17:46:11 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.1.12-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.1.12-rc1 Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> nfs4: have do_vfs_lock take an inode pointer Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> locks: inline posix_lock_file_wait and flock_lock_file_wait Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> locks: new helpers - flock_lock_inode_wait and posix_lock_inode_wait Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> locks: have flock_lock_file take an inode pointer instead of a filp Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> svcrdma: handle rdma read with a non-zero initial page offset Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx> arm64: Fix THP protection change logic Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: imx25: ensure that a pin with id i is at position i in the info array Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sched/preempt: Fix cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched_softirq() Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> sched/preempt: Rename PREEMPT_CHECK_OFFSET to PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> rbd: fix double free on rbd_dev->header_name Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> dm thin: fix missing pool reference count decrement in pool_ctr error path Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon: add pm sysfs files late Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/radeon: attach tile property to mst connector Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> drm/dp/mst: make mst i2c transfer code more robust. Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau/fbcon: take runpm reference when userspace has an open fd Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: designware-platdrv: enable RuntimePM before registering to the core Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: designware: Do not use parameters from ACPI on Dell Inspiron 7348 Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: s3c2410: enable RuntimePM before registering to the core Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: rcar: enable RuntimePM before registering to the core Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mfd: max77843: Fix max77843_chg_init() return on error Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> nfsd/blocklayout: accept any minlength Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> arm64: errata: use KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE for erratum #843419 Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx> btrfs: fix use after free iterating extrefs David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> btrfs: check unsupported filters in balance arguments Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> memcg: convert threshold to bytes Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: ahash - ensure statesize is non-zero Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> crypto: sparc - initialize blkcipher.ivsize Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> drm: Fix locking for sysfs dpms file Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> net/unix: fix logic about sk_peek_offset Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx> af_unix: return data from multiple SKBs on recv() with MSG_PEEK flag Aaron Conole <aconole@xxxxxxxxxx> af_unix: Convert the unix_sk macro to an inline function for type safety Arad, Ronen <ronen.arad@xxxxxxxxx> netlink: Trim skb to alloc size to avoid MSG_TRUNC Jon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tipc: move fragment importance field to new header position Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> act_mirred: clear sender cpu before sending to tx Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ovs: do not allocate memory from offline numa node Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: fix panic in SO_GET_FILTER with native ebpf programs Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> inet: fix race in reqsk_queue_unlink() Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ppp: don't override sk->sk_state in pppoe_flush_dev() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: add pfmemalloc check in sk_add_backlog() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> inet: fix races in reqsk_queue_hash_req() Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> skbuff: Fix skb checksum partial check. Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> skbuff: Fix skb checksum flag on skb pull Alexander Couzens <lynxis@xxxxxxx> l2tp: protect tunnel->del_work by ref_count Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@xxxxxxxxxx> net/ibm/emac: bump version numbers for correct work with ethtool ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 +- arch/sparc/crypto/aes_glue.c | 2 + arch/sparc/crypto/camellia_glue.c | 1 + arch/sparc/crypto/des_glue.c | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h | 4 +- crypto/ahash.c | 3 +- drivers/block/rbd.c | 1 - drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sysfs.c | 12 ++---- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c | 24 +++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c | 14 +------ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_dp_mst.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_pm.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++------------ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-platdrv.c | 33 ++++++++++++--- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 7 ++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-s3c2410.c | 8 ++-- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 2 +- drivers/mfd/max77843.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.h | 6 +-- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 1 - drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx25.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/backref.c | 8 ++-- fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 5 +++ fs/btrfs/volumes.h | 8 ++++ fs/locks.c | 38 +++++++++-------- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 16 ++++---- fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c | 8 ---- include/asm-generic/preempt.h | 5 ++- include/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h | 3 +- include/linux/fs.h | 30 +++++++++----- include/linux/preempt.h | 5 ++- include/linux/preempt_mask.h | 16 ++++++-- include/linux/sched.h | 6 --- include/linux/skbuff.h | 3 ++ include/net/af_unix.h | 6 ++- include/net/sock.h | 8 ++++ kernel/sched/core.c | 6 +-- kernel/workqueue.c | 8 ++-- mm/memcontrol.c | 1 + net/core/ethtool.c | 2 +- net/core/filter.c | 6 ++- net/core/skbuff.c | 9 +++-- net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 27 +++++++------ net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 11 ++++- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 34 ++++++++++------ net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 3 +- net/sched/act_mirred.c | 1 + net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c | 6 ++- net/tipc/msg.h | 4 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 16 +++++++- 52 files changed, 314 insertions(+), 188 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