This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.12.2 release.
There are 10 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 15:40:02 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-4.12.2-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 4.12.2-rc1
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
Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - use constant time memory comparison for MACs
Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>
crypto: caam - fix gfp allocation flags (part I)
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.
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
locking/rwsem-spinlock: Fix EINTR branch in __down_write_common()
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference
Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
imx-serial: RX DMA startup latency
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++--
arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++++++
arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 28 ++++++++++-------------
crypto/rsa-pkcs1pad.c | 2 +-
drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c | 3 +--
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 1 +
drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 3 +++
drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 26 +++++-----------------
fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 2 +-
fs/proc/internal.h | 2 +-
fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
include/linux/sysctl.h | 2 +-
ipc/mqueue.c | 4 +++-
kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 4 ++--
15 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)