This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.12.72 release. There are 60 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 Mar 16 14:14:28 CET 2017. 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-3.12.72-rc1.xz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, js =============== Alexander Popov (1): tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1): perf trace: Use the syscall raw_syscalls:sys_enter timestamp Arnd Bergmann (1): staging: rtl: fix possible NULL pointer dereference Chao Peng (1): KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base Christian Lamparter (1): ath9k: use correct OTP register offsets for the AR9340 and AR9550 Davidlohr Bueso (1): ipc/shm: Fix shmat mmap nil-page protection Dmitry Tunin (1): Bluetooth: Add another AR3012 04ca:3018 device Felix Fietkau (1): ath5k: drop bogus warning on drv_set_key with unsupported cipher Feras Daoud (1): IB/ipoib: Fix deadlock between rmmod and set_mode Guennadi Liakhovetski (1): uvcvideo: Fix a wrong macro Hannes Reinecke (1): sd: get disk reference in sd_check_events() Ian Abbott (1): serial: 8250_pci: Add MKS Tenta SCOM-0800 and SCOM-0801 cards J. Bruce Fields (1): NFSv4: fix getacl head length estimation James Cowgill (1): MIPS: OCTEON: Fix copy_from_user fault handling for large buffers James Smart (1): scsi: lpfc: Correct WQ creation for pagesize Jan Kara (1): ext4: trim allocation requests to group size Jaroslav Kysela (1): ALSA: hda - fix Lewisburg audio issue Jason Gunthorpe (1): RDMA/core: Fix incorrect structure packing for booleans Jiri Slaby (1): TTY: n_hdlc, fix lockdep false positive Julian Wiedmann (1): s390/qdio: clear DSCI prior to scanning multiple input queues K. Y. Srinivasan (1): drivers: hv: Turn off write permission on the hypercall page Long Li (3): scsi: storvsc: use tagged SRB requests if supported by the device scsi: storvsc: properly handle SRB_ERROR when sense message is present scsi: storvsc: properly set residual data length on errors Marc Kleine-Budde (1): can: usb_8dev: Fix memory leak of priv->cmd_msg_buffer Marcelo Ricardo Leitner (1): sctp: deny peeloff operation on asocs with threads sleeping on it Martin Schwidefsky (1): s390: TASK_SIZE for kernel threads Mathias Svensson (1): samples/seccomp: fix 64-bit comparison macros Matt Chen (1): mac80211: flush delayed work when entering suspend Max Filippov (1): xtensa: move parse_tag_fdt out of #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD Michel Dänzer (1): drm/ttm: Make sure BOs being swapped out are cacheable Miklos Szeredi (1): fuse: add missing FR_FORCE OGAWA Hirofumi (1): fat: fix using uninitialized fields of fat_inode/fsinfo_inode Paul Burton (6): MIPS: Clear ISA bit correctly in get_frame_info() MIPS: Prevent unaligned accesses during stack unwinding MIPS: Fix get_frame_info() handling of microMIPS function size MIPS: Fix is_jump_ins() handling of 16b microMIPS instructions MIPS: Calculate microMIPS ra properly when unwinding the stack MIPS: Handle microMIPS jumps in the same way as MIPS32/MIPS64 jumps Rafał Miłecki (1): bcma: use (get|put)_device when probing/removing device driver Raghava Aditya Renukunta (1): scsi: aacraid: Reorder Adapter status check Ralf Baechle (3): MIPS: Fix special case in 64 bit IP checksumming. MIPS: IP22: Reformat inline assembler code to modern standards. MIPS: IP22: Fix build error due to binutils 2.25 uselessnes. Ravi Bangoria (1): powerpc/xmon: Fix data-breakpoint Shmulik Ladkani (1): net/sched: em_meta: Fix 'meta vlan' to correctly recognize zero VID frames Steve Wise (1): rdma_cm: fail iwarp accepts w/o connection params Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1): ktest: Fix child exit code processing Takashi Iwai (2): ALSA: timer: Reject user params with too small ticks ALSA: seq: Fix link corruption by event error handling Theodore Ts'o (3): jbd2: don't leak modified metadata buffers on an aborted journal ext4: preserve the needs_recovery flag when the journal is aborted ext4: return EROFS if device is r/o and journal replay is needed Trond Myklebust (2): NFSv4: Fix memory and state leak in _nfs4_open_and_get_state nlm: Ensure callback code also checks that the files match Vinayak Menon (1): mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow Vitaly Kuznetsov (1): hv: allocate synic pages for all present CPUs Weston Andros Adamson (1): NFSv4: fix getacl ERANGE for some ACL buffer sizes Y.C. Chen (1): drm/ast: Fix test for VGA enabled colyli@xxxxxxx (1): md linear: fix a race between linear_add() and linear_congested() arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-memcpy.S | 20 ++-- arch/mips/include/asm/checksum.h | 2 + arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 153 ++++++++++++++++--------- arch/mips/mm/sc-ip22.c | 54 +++++---- arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 4 +- arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c | 4 +- drivers/bcma/main.c | 4 + drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.c | 2 + drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_post.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c | 4 +- drivers/hv/hv.c | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 3 + drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c | 12 +- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 6 +- drivers/md/linear.c | 29 ++++- drivers/md/linear.h | 1 + drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/usb_8dev.c | 9 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/mac80211-ops.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.h | 4 +- drivers/s390/cio/qdio_thinint.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/aacraid/src.c | 21 +++- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hw4.h | 2 + drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 9 +- drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 32 +++++- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c | 3 + drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_recv.c | 7 +- drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c | 143 +++++++++++------------ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 13 +++ fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 7 ++ fs/ext4/super.c | 9 +- fs/fat/inode.c | 13 ++- fs/fuse/file.c | 1 + fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 10 +- fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +- include/linux/lockd/lockd.h | 3 +- include/rdma/ib_sa.h | 6 +- ipc/shm.c | 13 ++- mm/vmpressure.c | 10 +- net/mac80211/pm.c | 1 + net/sched/em_meta.c | 9 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 8 +- samples/seccomp/bpf-helper.h | 125 +++++++++++--------- sound/core/seq/seq_fifo.c | 3 + sound/core/timer.c | 18 ++- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 4 +- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 4 +- tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 2 +- 53 files changed, 535 insertions(+), 300 deletions(-) -- 2.12.0