This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.15 release. There are 33 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 Thu Dec 15 17:15:24 UTC 2016. 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-4.8.15-rc1.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.8.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.8.15-rc1 David Michael <david.michael@xxxxxxxxxx> crypto: rsa - Add Makefile dependencies to fix parallel builds Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: Check for alloc errors when preparing TT local data Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> m68k: Fix ndelay() macro Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> ceph: don't set req->r_locked_dir in ceph_d_revalidate Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx> ARM: dts: imx7d: fix LCDIF clock assignment Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@xxxxxxxxx> ARM: dts: orion5x: fix number of sata port for linkstation ls-gl Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Revert "ACPI: Execute _PTS before system reboot" 추지호 <jiho.chu@xxxxxxxxxxx> can: peak: fix bad memory access and free sequence Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: raw: raw_setsockopt: limit number of can_filter that can be set Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: marvell - Don't corrupt state of an STD req for re-stepped ahash tim <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: mcryptd - Check mcryptd algorithm compatibility Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> crypto: caam - fix pointer size for AArch64 boot loader, AArch32 kernel Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: marvell - Don't copy hash operation twice into the SRAM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> acpi, nfit: fix bus vs dimm confusion in xlat_status Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> acpi, nfit: validate ars_status output buffer size Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> acpi, nfit, libnvdimm: fix / harden ars_status output length handling Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> acpi, nfit: fix extended status translations for ACPI DSMs Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86: Fix full width counter, counter overflow Peng Tao <bergwolf@xxxxxxxxx> vhost-vsock: fix orphan connection reset Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> sched/autogroup: Fix 64-bit kernel nice level adjustment Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: lpfc: fix oops/BUG in lpfc_sli_ringtxcmpl_put() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> device-dax: fix private mapping restriction, permit read-only Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> locking/rtmutex: Use READ_ONCE() in rt_mutex_owner() Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> locking/rtmutex: Prevent dequeue vs. unlock race Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> zram: restrict add/remove attributes to root only Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc: Fix TLB related boot crash on SMP machines John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> parisc: Remove unnecessary TLB purges from flush_dcache_page_asm and flush_icache_page_asm John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> parisc: Purge TLB before setting PTE Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fix clearing suid, sgid for chown() Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/boot: Fix build failure in 32-bit boot wrapper Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/mm: Fix lazy icache flush on pre-POWER5 Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/eeh: Fix deadlock when PE frozen state can't be cleared ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx7s.dtsi | 5 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x-linkstation-lsgl.dts | 4 ++ arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h | 2 +- arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 +-- arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 11 +++++ arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S | 22 +-------- arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 3 +- arch/powerpc/boot/opal.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/mm/hash64_4k.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/mm/hash64_64k.c | 4 +- arch/x86/events/core.c | 2 +- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 2 +- crypto/Makefile | 1 + crypto/mcryptd.c | 19 ++++--- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 49 ++++++++++++++----- drivers/acpi/sleep.c | 29 +++-------- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 ++- drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 5 +- drivers/crypto/marvell/hash.c | 11 ++--- drivers/dax/dax.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 6 ++- drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 25 ++++++++-- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 14 +++--- drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +- fs/ceph/dir.c | 24 +++++---- fs/fuse/dir.c | 7 +-- include/linux/cpu.h | 15 ++---- include/linux/libnvdimm.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/can.h | 1 + kernel/cpu.c | 2 +- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 5 +- kernel/sched/auto_group.c | 4 +- net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 4 +- net/can/raw.c | 3 ++ 37 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 140 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