This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 4.2.8-ckt8 stable kernel. This version contains 70 new patches, summarized below. The new patches are posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-review git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git linux-4.2.y-review The review period for version 4.2.8-ckt8 will be open for the next three days. To report a problem, please reply to the relevant follow-up patch message. For more information about the Linux 4.2.y-ckt extended stable kernel series, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable . -Kamal -- .../bindings/pinctrl/img,pistachio-pinctrl.txt | 12 +- Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 + arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c | 10 +- arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c | 3 + arch/parisc/lib/fixup.S | 6 + arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 11 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 29 ++--- crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_trust.c | 2 + drivers/block/rbd.c | 6 +- drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 35 ++--- drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 144 +++++++++++++++------ drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c | 27 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/si_dpm.c | 6 + drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_gem.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/max1111.c | 6 + drivers/iio/magnetometer/st_magn.h | 1 + drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-core.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-input.c | 4 +- drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-video.c | 63 +++++---- drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828.h | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 16 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.h | 6 + drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/at803x.c | 4 + drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 1 + drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-nomadik.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-pistachio.c | 24 ++-- drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.c | 4 +- drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun8i-a33.c | 1 + drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c | 17 ++- drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.h | 21 +-- drivers/scsi/ipr.c | 10 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 23 ++-- drivers/scsi/sd.h | 7 +- drivers/spi/spi-rockchip.c | 12 +- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_gadget.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c | 11 +- drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c | 19 +++ drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 4 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 8 ++ drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 9 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 2 + drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 11 +- drivers/xen/events/events_base.c | 28 +++- fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++ fs/dcache.c | 5 +- fs/efivarfs/file.c | 70 ++++++++++ fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 30 +++-- fs/efivarfs/internal.h | 3 +- fs/efivarfs/super.c | 16 ++- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 23 ++++ fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 11 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 47 +++++-- fs/nfs/dir.c | 6 +- fs/nfs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 4 +- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 33 +++++ include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 +- include/linux/dcache.h | 11 ++ include/linux/efi.h | 5 +- include/linux/fs.h | 10 ++ include/linux/ucs2_string.h | 4 + lib/ucs2_string.c | 62 +++++++++ mm/page_isolation.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/udp.c | 4 +- net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 13 +- sound/core/timer.c | 4 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 19 ++- sound/usb/quirks.c | 26 ++-- sound/usb/stream.c | 6 +- tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/efivarfs.sh | 19 ++- tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/open-unlink.c | 72 ++++++++++- 86 files changed, 1010 insertions(+), 303 deletions(-) Aaron Plattner (1): ALSA: hda - Add new GPU codec ID 0x10de0082 to snd-hda Alex Deucher (3): drm/radeon: add a dpm quirk for sapphire Dual-X R7 370 2G D5 drm/radeon: add another R7 370 quirk drm/radeon: add a dpm quirk for all R7 370 parts Amitkumar Karwar (1): mwifiex: fix corner case association failure Andi Kleen (1): perf/x86/intel: Fix PEBS data source interpretation on Nehalem/Westmere Arnd Bergmann (1): iio: st_magn: always define ST_MAGN_TRIGGER_SET_STATE Bjørn Mork (1): USB: option: add "D-Link DWM-221 B1" device id Bobi Mihalca (3): ALSA: hda - Asus N750JV external subwoofer fixup ALSA: hda - Fix white noise on Asus N750JV headphone ALSA: hda - Apply fix for white noise on Asus N550JV, too Boris Ostrovsky (1): xen/events: Mask a moving irq Cyrille Pitchen (1): net: macb: replace macb_writel() call by queue_writel() to update queue ISR Dan Williams (1): libnvdimm: fix smart data retrieval Daniel Vetter (1): drm/udl: Use unlocked gem unreferencing David Disseldorp (1): rbd: use GFP_NOIO consistently for request allocations Eric Dumazet (1): ipv6: udp: fix UDP_MIB_IGNOREDMULTI updates Filipe Manana (2): btrfs: fix crash/invalid memory access on fsync when using overlayfs Btrfs: fix file/data loss caused by fsync after rename and new inode Gabriel Krisman Bertazi (1): ipr: Fix regression when loading firmware Govindraj Raja (1): pinctrl: pistachio: fix mfio84-89 function description and pinmux. Guenter Roeck (1): hwmon: (max1111) Return -ENODEV from max1111_read_channel if not instantiated Hans de Goede (1): pinctrl: sunxi: Fix A33 external interrupts not working Helge Deller (3): parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines parisc: Fix kernel crash with reversed copy_from_user() parisc: Unbreak handling exceptions from kernel modules Hui Wang (1): ALSA: hda - fix front mic problem for a HP desktop Insu Yun (1): ipr: Fix out-of-bounds null overwrite Jason Andryuk (1): lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion Johannes Berg (1): mac80211: properly deal with station hashtable insert errors Josh Boyer (1): USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Add support for ICP DAS I-756xU devices Kamal Mostafa (1): [stable-only] Revert "spi: rockchip: modify DMA max burst to 1" Linus Walleij (1): pinctrl: nomadik: fix pull debug print inversion Marcelo Tosatti (1): KVM: x86: move steal time initialization to vcpu entry time Martin K. Petersen (1): sd: Fix excessive capacity printing on devices with blocks bigger than 512 bytes Martyn Welch (1): USB: serial: cp210x: Adding GE Healthcare Device ID Matt Fleming (1): efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1): [media] au0828: Fix dev_state handling Michael S. Tsirkin (1): virtio: virtio 1.0 cs04 spec compliance for reset Miklos Szeredi (2): fs: add file_dentry() nfs: use file_dentry() Nicolai Stange (1): PKCS#7: pkcs7_validate_trust(): initialize the _trusted output argument Oliver Neukum (3): USB: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe USB: cypress_m8: add endpoint sanity check USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports Paolo Bonzini (1): compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functions Peter Jones (5): lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8 efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default Petri Gynther (2): net: bcmgenet: fix dev->stats.tx_bytes accounting net: bcmgenet: fix skb_len in bcmgenet_xmit_single() Rob Clark (1): drm/dp: move hw_mutex up the call stack Sebastian Frias (1): net: phy: at803x: Request 'reset' GPIO only for AT8030 PHY Sebastian Siewior (1): powerpc/mm: Fixup preempt underflow with huge pages Shuah Khan (1): [media] au0828: fix au0828_v4l2_close() dev_state race condition Takashi Iwai (2): ALSA: usb-audio: Minor code cleanup in create_fixed_stream_quirk() ALSA: timer: Use mod_timer() for rearming the system timer Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1): ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice Theodore Ts'o (2): ext4: add lockdep annotations for i_data_sem ext4: ignore quota mount options if the quota feature is enabled Vladis Dronov (1): ALSA: usb-audio: Fix double-free in error paths after snd_usb_add_audio_stream() call Wolfram Sang (1): pinctrl: sh-pfc: only use dummy states for non-DT platforms Xishi Qiu (1): mm: fix invalid node in alloc_migrate_target() Yong Li (1): gpio: pca953x: Use correct u16 value for register word write Yoshihiro Shimoda (3): usb: renesas_usbhs: avoid NULL pointer derefernce in usbhsf_pkt_handler() usb: renesas_usbhs: disable TX IRQ before starting TX DMAC transfer usb: renesas_usbhs: fix to avoid using a disabled ep in usbhsg_queue_done() Yuki Shibuya (1): KVM: x86: Inject pending interrupt even if pending nmi exist -- 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