This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.12.1 release.
There are 27 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 Wed Jul 12 17:00:45 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.12.1-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-4.12.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 4.12.1-rc1
Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
crypto: drbg - Fixes panic in wait_for_completion call
Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
xen: avoid deadlock in xenbus driver
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sched/numa: Hide numa_wake_affine() from UP build
Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched/fair: Remove effective_load()
Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()
Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched/fair: Simplify wake_affine() for the single socket case
Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched/numa: Override part of migrate_degrades_locality() when idle balancing
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
sched/numa: Use down_read_trylock() for the mmap_sem
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sched/core: Implement new approach to scale select_idle_cpu()
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sched/fair, cpumask: Export for_each_cpu_wrap()
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/uaccess: Optimize copy_user_enhanced_fast_string() for short strings
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/powernv: Fix CPU_HOTPLUG=n idle.c compile error
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
tpm: fix a kernel memory leak in tpm-sysfs.c
Josh Zimmerman <joshz@xxxxxxxxxx>
tpm: Issue a TPM2_Shutdown for TPM2 devices.
Josh Zimmerman <joshz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Add "shutdown" to "struct class".
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
gfs2: Fix glock rhashtable rcu bug
Jiahau Chang <jiahau@xxxxxxxxx>
xhci: Limit USB2 port wake support for AMD Promontory hosts
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
USB: serial: qcserial: new Sierra Wireless EM7305 device ID
Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
USB: serial: option: add two Longcheer device ids
Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
USB: core: fix device node leak
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
usb: Fix typo in the definition of Endpoint[out]Request
Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Add USB quirk for HVR-950q to avoid intermittent device resets
Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
usb: usbip: set buffer pointers to NULL after free
Jeremie Rapin <rapinj@xxxxxxxxx>
USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for CEL EM3588 USB ZigBee stick
Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
usb: dwc3: replace %p with %pK
Boris Pismenny <borisp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
RDMA/uverbs: Check port number supplied by user verbs cmds
Adrian Salido <salidoa@xxxxxxxxxx>
driver core: platform: fix race condition with driver_override
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/idle.c | 2 +
arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S | 7 +-
crypto/drbg.c | 1 +
drivers/base/core.c | 6 +-
drivers/base/platform.c | 11 +-
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 34 ++++
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c | 6 +-
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c | 8 +
drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 4 +
drivers/usb/core/usb.c | 2 +
drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c | 2 +-
drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 9 +-
drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c | 3 +
drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 12 ++
drivers/usb/host/xhci.h | 1 +
drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 4 +
drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c | 4 +
drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c | 4 +
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c | 21 +--
fs/gfs2/glock.c | 11 +-
fs/gfs2/incore.h | 1 +
include/linux/cpumask.h | 17 ++
include/linux/device.h | 2 +
include/linux/usb/hcd.h | 4 +-
kernel/sched/fair.c | 332 +++++++++++-----------------------
kernel/sched/features.h | 1 +
lib/cpumask.c | 32 ++++
30 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-)