This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.56 release. There are 116 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 Tue Mar 8 10:01:48 CET 2016. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jirislaby/stable-review/patch-3.12.56-rc1.xz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, js =============== Adrian Hunter (1): mmc: sdhci: Fix sdhci_runtime_pm_bus_on/off() Al Viro (2): bcache: fix a leak in bch_cached_dev_run() do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us Alex Deucher (3): drm/radeon: make rv770_set_sw_state failures non-fatal drm/radeon: clean up fujitsu quirks drm/radeon/pm: adjust display configuration after powerstate Amir Vadai (1): net/mlx4_en: Count HW buffer overrun only once Anand Jain (1): Btrfs: add missing brelse when superblock checksum fails Andrey Ryabinin (1): lockd: create NSM handles per net namespace Andrey Skvortsov (1): USB: option: add support for SIM7100E Andy Shevchenko (1): dmaengine: dw: convert to __ffs() Anton Protopopov (1): rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value Antonio Ospite (1): gspca: ov534/topro: prevent a division by 0 Benjamin Coddington (1): NFSv4: Fix a dentry leak on alias use Bin Liu (1): usb: musb: cppi41: correct the macro name EP_MODE_AUTOREG_* Bjørn Mork (2): qmi_wwan: add "4G LTE usb-modem U901" USB: option: add "4G LTE usb-modem U901" Borislav Petkov (2): EDAC: Robustify workqueues destruction EDAC, mc_sysfs: Fix freeing bus' name Christian Borntraeger (1): KVM: async_pf: do not warn on page allocation failures Christoph Hellwig (1): nfs: fix nfs_size_to_loff_t Christophe Leroy (1): splice: sendfile() at once fails for big files Corey Wright (1): proc: Fix ptrace-based permission checks for accessing task maps Dan Carpenter (1): devres: fix a for loop bounds check Dmitry V. Levin (2): unix_diag: fix incorrect sign extension in unix_lookup_by_ino sparc64: fix incorrect sign extension in sys_sparc64_personality Egbert Eich (1): drm/ast: Initialized data needed to map fbdev memory Eric Dumazet (4): tcp: fix NULL deref in tcp_v4_send_ack() af_unix: fix struct pid memory leak ipv6: fix a lockdep splat ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers Eugenia Emantayev (1): net/mlx4_en: Choose time-stamping shift value according to HW frequency Filipe Manana (2): Btrfs: send, don't BUG_ON() when an empty symlink is found Btrfs: fix number of transaction units required to create symlink Gerd Hoffmann (1): drm/qxl: use kmalloc_array to alloc reloc_info in qxl_process_single_command Gerhard Uttenthaler (1): can: ems_usb: Fix possible tx overflow Guillaume Nault (1): pppoe: fix reference counting in PPPoE proxy Hangbin Liu (1): net/ipv6: add sysctl option accept_ra_min_hop_limit Hannes Frederic Sowa (1): pptp: fix illegal memory access caused by multiple bind()s Hannes Reinecke (1): bio: return EINTR if copying to user space got interrupted Hans Westgaard Ry (1): net:Add sysctl_max_skb_frags Hariprasad S (1): iw_cxgb3: Fix incorrectly returning error on success Ilya Dryomov (1): libceph: don't bail early from try_read() when skipping a message James Bottomley (2): ses: Fix problems with simple enclosures ses: fix additional element traversal bug Jan Engelhardt (1): target: fix COMPARE_AND_WRITE non zero SGL offset data corruption Jan Kara (1): vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2) Jani Nikula (1): drm/i915/dp: fall back to 18 bpp when sink capability is unknown Jay Vosburgh (1): bonding: Fix ARP monitor validation Jeff Layton (1): locks: fix unlock when fcntl_setlk races with a close Joe Thornber (3): dm thin metadata: fix bug when taking a metadata snapshot dm space map metadata: fix ref counting bug when bootstrapping a new space map dm btree: fix bufio buffer leaks in dm_btree_del() error path Johannes Berg (3): mac80211: mesh: fix call_rcu() usage rfkill: copy the name into the rfkill struct rfkill: fix rfkill_fop_read wait_event usage Josef Bacik (1): Btrfs: igrab inode in writepage K. Y. Srinivasan (1): storvsc: Don't set the SRB_FLAGS_QUEUE_ACTION_ENABLE flag Kees Cook (1): mac: validate mac_partition is within sector Ken Lin (1): USB: cp210x: add IDs for GE B650V3 and B850V3 boards Kirill A. Shutemov (1): vgaarb: fix signal handling in vga_get() Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1): xen/pcifront: Fix mysterious crashes when NUMA locality information was extracted. Linus Walleij (1): mmc: mmci: fix an ages old detection error Luca Porzio (1): mmc: remove bondage between REQ_META and reliable write Malcolm Priestley (1): media: dvb-core: Don't force CAN_INVERSION_AUTO in oneshot mode Manfred Rudigier (1): net: dp83640: Fix tx timestamp overflow handling. Manish Chopra (1): bnx2x: Don't notify about scratchpad parities Marcelo Ricardo Leitner (1): sctp: allow setting SCTP_SACK_IMMEDIATELY by the application Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1): tda1004x: only update the frontend properties if locked Mike Marciniszyn (1): IB/qib: fix mcast detach when qp not attached Mike Snitzer (1): dm space map metadata: remove unused variable in brb_pop() Mikulas Patocka (2): sata_sil: disable trim dm snapshot: fix hung bios when copy error occurs Neil Horman (1): sctp: Fix port hash table size computation Nicholas Bellinger (1): target: Fix race for SCF_COMPARE_AND_WRITE_POST checking Nicolai Hähnle (1): drm/radeon: hold reference to fences in radeon_sa_bo_new Olga Kornievskaia (1): Failing to send a CLOSE if file is opened WRONLY and server reboots on a 4.x mount Oliver Neukum (1): cdc-acm:exclude Samsung phone 04e8:685d Paolo Abeni (1): ipv6/udp: use sticky pktinfo egress ifindex on connect() Peter Rosin (1): hwmon: (ads1015) Handle negative conversion values correctly Peter Zijlstra (5): sched: Clean up idle task SMP logic sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed() sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task() sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks Rainer Weikusat (1): af_unix: Guard against other == sk in unix_dgram_sendmsg Rasmus Villemoes (1): drm/radeon: use post-decrement in error handling Richard Cochran (1): posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path Rob Clark (1): drm/vmwgfx: respect 'nomodeset' Roman Volkov (2): dts: vt8500: Add SDHC node to DTS file for WM8650 clocksource/drivers/vt8500: Increase the minimum delta Russell King (1): scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks Sasha Levin (1): sched/core: Remove false-positive warning from wake_up_process() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (1): PCI/AER: Flush workqueue on device remove to avoid use-after-free Simon Guinot (1): kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region() Siva Reddy Kallam (1): tg3: Fix for tg3 transmit queue 0 timed out when too many gso_segs Stefan Haberland (2): s390/dasd: prevent incorrect length error under z/VM after PAV changes s390/dasd: fix refcount for PAV reassignment Stefan Hajnoczi (1): sunrpc/cache: fix off-by-one in qword_get() Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (3): tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline ring-buffer: Update read stamp with first real commit on page tracing: Fix showing function event in available_events Suman Anna (1): virtio: fix memory leak of virtio ida cache layers Tejun Heo (1): libata: fix sff host state machine locking while polling Thomas Gleixner (1): genirq: Prevent chip buslock deadlock Ursula Braun (1): af_iucv: Validate socket address length in iucv_sock_bind() Valentin Rothberg (1): wm831x_power: Use IRQF_ONESHOT to request threaded IRQs Veaceslav Falico (1): bonding: fix bond_arp_rcv() race of curr_active_slave Vegard Nossum (2): uml: flush stdout before forking uml: fix hostfs mknod() Xin Long (2): sctp: translate network order to host order when users get a hmacid route: check and remove route cache when we get route Xunlei Pang (1): sched/core: Clear the root_domain cpumasks in init_rootdomain() Zheng Liu (1): bcache: unregister reboot notifier if bcache fails to unregister device sumit.saxena@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (2): megaraid_sas: Do not use PAGE_SIZE for max_sectors megaraid_sas : SMAP restriction--do not access user memory from IOCTL code Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 +++ arch/arm/boot/dts/wm8650.dtsi | 9 +++ arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 2 +- arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c | 2 + block/partitions/mac.c | 10 ++- drivers/ata/libata-sff.c | 32 ++++----- drivers/ata/sata_sil.c | 3 + drivers/clocksource/vt8500_timer.c | 6 +- drivers/dma/dw/core.c | 12 ++-- drivers/edac/edac_device.c | 9 +-- drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 14 +--- drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 18 +++-- drivers/edac/edac_pci.c | 9 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_fb.c | 7 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_mode.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 20 ++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_ioctl.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c | 12 +--- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_pm.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c | 5 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ttm.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/rv770_dpm.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 7 ++ drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c | 6 +- drivers/hwmon/ads1015.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_verbs_mcast.c | 35 +++++----- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 9 ++- drivers/md/dm-exception-store.h | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c | 5 +- drivers/md/dm-snap-transient.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 20 ++---- drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 6 ++ drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 16 ++++- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.c | 29 +++++--- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 6 +- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda1004x.c | 9 +++ drivers/media/usb/gspca/ov534.c | 9 ++- drivers/media/usb/gspca/topro.c | 6 +- drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 11 +--- drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 4 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 46 +++++++++---- drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c | 14 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h | 11 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 20 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 22 +++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c | 25 +++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_port.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c | 17 +++++ drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 2 + drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c | 34 +++++++--- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.c | 4 +- drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv.h | 1 - drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c | 2 - drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c | 10 +-- drivers/power/wm831x_power.c | 6 +- drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 23 +++++-- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h | 2 + drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 15 ++++- drivers/scsi/ses.c | 30 ++++++++- drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c | 17 +++-- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 14 ++-- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 5 ++ drivers/usb/musb/musb_cppi41.c | 12 ++-- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 9 +++ drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 1 + fs/bio.c | 12 ++-- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/inode.c | 21 +++++- fs/btrfs/send.c | 16 ++++- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 4 +- fs/lockd/host.c | 7 +- fs/lockd/mon.c | 36 ++++++---- fs/lockd/netns.h | 1 + fs/lockd/svc.c | 1 + fs/lockd/svc4proc.c | 2 +- fs/lockd/svcproc.c | 2 +- fs/locks.c | 51 ++++++++------ fs/namei.c | 4 ++ fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 2 +- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 +- fs/proc/task_nommu.c | 2 +- fs/splice.c | 13 +++- include/linux/enclosure.h | 4 ++ include/linux/ipv6.h | 1 + include/linux/lockd/lockd.h | 9 ++- include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 4 +- include/linux/skbuff.h | 1 + include/linux/tracepoint.h | 6 ++ include/net/ip_fib.h | 1 + include/target/target_core_base.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/ipv6.h | 2 + kernel/irq/manage.c | 6 +- kernel/resource.c | 5 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 67 ++++++++++++++----- kernel/sched/idle_task.c | 9 +-- kernel/sched/rt.c | 71 +++++++++++--------- kernel/sched/sched.h | 19 +++++- kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 12 ++-- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 +- lib/devres.c | 2 +- net/ceph/messenger.c | 4 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 2 + net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 10 +++ net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 + net/ipv4/ping.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/raw.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/route.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++---- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 13 ++-- net/ipv4/udp.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 12 +++- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 3 + net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 5 +- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 16 ++--- net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 3 + net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 8 +-- net/rfkill/core.c | 22 ++----- net/sctp/protocol.c | 47 ++++++++++--- net/sctp/socket.c | 10 ++- net/sunrpc/cache.c | 2 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 8 ++- net/unix/diag.c | 2 +- scripts/recordmcount.c | 14 ++++ virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 2 +- 134 files changed, 971 insertions(+), 458 deletions(-) -- 2.7.2 -- 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