This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.77 release. There are 57 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 Sat Jul 15 15:39:40 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-4.4.77-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-4.4.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.4.77-rc1 Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> saa7134: fix warm Medion 7134 EEPROM read Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/mm/pat: Don't report PAT on CPUs that don't support it Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: check return value of kstrtoull correctly in reserved_clusters_store Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> staging: comedi: fix clean-up of comedi_class in comedi_init() Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> staging: vt6556: vnt_start Fix missing call to vnt_key_init_table. Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: fix tcp_mark_head_lost to check skb len before fragmenting Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx> md: fix super_offset endianness in super_1_rdev_size_change Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx> md: fix incorrect use of lexx_to_cpu in does_sb_need_changing Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf tools: Use readdir() instead of deprecated readdir_r() again Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf tests: Remove wrong semicolon in while loop in CQM test Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf trace: Do not process PERF_RECORD_LOST twice Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf dwarf: Guard !x86_64 definitions under #ifdef else clause Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf pmu: Fix misleadingly indented assignment (whitespace) Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf annotate browser: Fix behaviour of Shift-Tab with nothing focussed Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@xxxxxxxxxx> perf tools: Remove duplicate const qualifier Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf script: Use readdir() instead of deprecated readdir_r() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf thread_map: Use readdir() instead of deprecated readdir_r() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf tools: Use readdir() instead of deprecated readdir_r() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf bench numa: Avoid possible truncation when using snprintf() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf tests: Avoid possible truncation with dirent->d_name + snprintf Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx> perf scripting perl: Fix compile error with some perl5 versions Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf thread_map: Correctly size buffer used with dirent->dt_name Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf intel-pt: Use __fallthrough Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> perf top: Use __fallthrough Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> tools strfilter: Use __fallthrough Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> tools string: Use __fallthrough in perf_atoll() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> tools include: Add a __fallthrough statement Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify() Boris Pismenny <borisp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> RDMA/uverbs: Check port number supplied by user verbs cmds Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> KEYS: Fix an error code in request_master_key() Bartosz Markowski <bartosz.markowski@xxxxxxxxx> ath10k: override CE5 config for QCA9377 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/uaccess: Optimize copy_user_enhanced_fast_string() for short strings Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/tools: Fix gcc-7 warning in relocs.c Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> gfs2: Fix glock rhashtable rcu bug 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 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: sh-pfc: Update info pointer after SoC-specific init Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: mxs: atomically switch mux and drive strength config Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx> pinctrl: sunxi: Fix SPDIF function name for A83T Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: meson: meson8b: fix the NAND DQS pins Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a7791: Add missing DVC_MUTE signal Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a7791: Fix SCIF2 pinmux data Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> sysctl: don't print negative flag for proc_douintvec Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mac80211_hwsim: Replace bogus hrtimer clockid Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: Fix typo in the definition of Endpoint[out]Request Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: usbip: set buffer pointers to NULL after free Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Add USB quirk for HVR-950q to avoid intermittent device resets 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 Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/virtio: don't leak bo on drm_gem_object_init failure Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing/kprobes: Allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> mm: fix classzone_idx underflow in shrink_zones() Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> bgmac: reset & enable Ethernet core before using it Adrian Salido <salidoa@xxxxxxxxxx> driver core: platform: fix race condition with driver_override Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> fs: completely ignore unknown open flags Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 +++ arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S | 7 ++- arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 28 ++++----- arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 3 +- drivers/base/platform.c | 11 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c | 8 +++ drivers/md/md.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-i2c.c | 31 ++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c | 5 ++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-mxs.c | 16 +++-- drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson8b.c | 4 +- drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.c | 3 + drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a7791.c | 9 +-- drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun8i-a83t.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 1 + drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 3 + drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 4 ++ drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-st.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 6 +- 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 ++ fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 2 +- fs/fcntl.c | 14 ++--- fs/gfs2/glock.c | 11 +++- fs/gfs2/incore.h | 1 + fs/open.c | 6 ++ include/linux/fcntl.h | 6 ++ include/linux/usb/hcd.h | 4 +- ipc/mqueue.c | 4 +- kernel/sysctl.c | 3 + kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 21 +++---- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 10 ++-- security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 2 +- tools/include/linux/compiler.h | 9 +++ tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.c | 8 +-- tools/perf/bench/numa.c | 6 +- tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 70 +++++++++++----------- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 1 + tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 8 +-- tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 4 +- tools/perf/util/event.c | 12 ++-- .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 5 ++ .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-pkt-decoder.c | 2 + tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 60 +++++++++---------- tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/Build | 2 +- tools/perf/util/strfilter.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/string.c | 2 + tools/perf/util/thread.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/thread_map.c | 10 ++-- 61 files changed, 300 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)