This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.51 release.
There are 47 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 Apr 30 08:30:25 UTC 2017.
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/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.51-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-3.18.y
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 3.18.51-rc1
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
ping: implement proper locking
EunTaik Lee <eun.taik.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
staging/android/ion : fix a race condition in the ion driver
Vlad Tsyrklevich <vlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
vfio/pci: Fix integer overflows, bitmask check
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
xc2028: avoid use after free
Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
ARM: 8383/1: nommu: avoid deprecated source register on mov
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
kconfig: tinyconfig: provide whole choice blocks to avoid warnings
John Crispin <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
MIPS: ralink: Cosmetic change to prom_init().
Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
aic94xx: Skip reading user settings if flash is not found
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
ARM: 8296/1: cache-l2x0: clean up aurora cache handling
Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
btrfs: fix state->private cast on 32 bit machines
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
gfs2: avoid uninitialized variable warning
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
mmc: sunxi: avoid invalid pointer calculation
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
net: tulip: turn compile-time warning into dev_warn()
Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@xxxxxxxxx>
MIPS: MSP71xx: remove odd locking in PCI config space access code
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
hostap: avoid uninitialized variable use in hfa384x_get_rid
Richard Leitner <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
misc: ioc4: simplify wave period measurement in clock_calibrate
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
net: vxge: avoid unused function warnings
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
tty: nozomi: avoid a harmless gcc warning
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
brcmfmac: avoid gcc-5.1 warning
Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
Fix signed/unsigned pointer warning
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
nfsd: work around a gcc-5.1 warning
Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@xxxxxxxxxx>
MIPS: asm: compiler: Add new macros to set ISA and arch asm annotations
Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: ti: cpmac: Fix compiler warning due to type confusion
Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@xxxxxxxxx>
mm/init: fix zone boundary creation
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
iommu/vt-d: Remove unused variable
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
fs/nfs: fix new compiler warning about boolean in switch
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
perf: Avoid horrible stack usage
Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx>
MIPS: Fix the build on jz4740 after removing the custom gpio.h
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
dm bufio: hide bogus warning
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
gadgetfs: fix uninitialized variable in error handling
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
clk: at91: usb: fix determine_rate prototype again
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
arm64: avoid returning from bad_mode
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
kvm: arm/arm64: Fix locking for kvm_free_stage2_pgd
Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 when accessed with legacy MSRs
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/kprobe: Fix oops when kprobed on 'stdu' instruction
Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ubi/upd: Always flush after prepared for an update
Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@xxxxxxx>
mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: increase the pad I/O drive strength for DDR50 card
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
ACPI / power: Avoid maybe-uninitialized warning
Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Input: elantech - add Fujitsu Lifebook E547 to force crc_enabled
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others
Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@xxxxxxxxxx>
CIFS: remove bad_network_name flag
Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
cifs: Do not send echoes before Negotiate is complete
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when empty
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
tracing: Allocate the snapshot buffer before enabling probe
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
KEYS: Change the name of the dead type to ".dead" to prevent user access
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
KEYS: Disallow keyrings beginning with '.' to be joined as session keyrings
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S | 20 ++--
arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 12 +++
arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c | 111 +++++++--------------
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 28 +++++-
arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h | 13 +++
arch/mips/jz4740/board-qi_lb60.c | 1 +
arch/mips/jz4740/gpio.c | 1 +
arch/mips/pci/ops-pmcmsp.c | 12 ---
arch/mips/ralink/prom.c | 9 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 6 +-
arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +
arch/x86/configs/tiny.config | 2 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 2 +-
drivers/acpi/power.c | 1 +
drivers/clk/at91/clk-usb.c | 4 +-
drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 8 ++
drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.c | 1 -
drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 1 +
drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c | 3 +-
drivers/misc/ioc4.c | 31 +++---
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-esdhc-imx.c | 1 +
drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c | 5 +-
drivers/mtd/ubi/upd.c | 8 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/tulip_core.c | 9 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/winbond-840.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c | 31 +++---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c | 15 ++-
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c | 5 +-
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 55 +++++++---
drivers/tty/nozomi.c | 2 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 1 +
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 33 +++---
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 2 +-
fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 1 -
fs/cifs/netmisc.c | 12 ++-
fs/cifs/smb1ops.c | 10 ++
fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 5 -
fs/gfs2/dir.c | 4 +-
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 11 +-
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 3 +-
include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 2 +-
include/linux/perf_event.h | 28 ++++--
include/trace/ftrace.h | 7 +-
kernel/configs/tiny.config | 8 ++
kernel/events/core.c | 23 +++--
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 ++-
kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 +-
kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 4 +-
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 4 +-
kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 +-
kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +-
mm/page_alloc.c | 17 ++--
net/ipv4/ping.c | 5 +-
security/keys/gc.c | 2 +-
security/keys/keyctl.c | 20 ++--
security/keys/process_keys.c | 44 ++++----
62 files changed, 409 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)
