This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.12.11 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 Thu Sep 7 07:09:10 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-4.12.11-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 ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.12.11-rc1 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> epoll: fix race between ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) and ep_free()/ep_remove() Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau/i2c/gf119-: add support for address-only transactions Changpeng Liu <changpeng.liu@xxxxxxxxx> nvme: fix the definition of the doorbell buffer config support bit Xiangliang.Yu <Xiangliang.Yu@xxxxxxx> drm/ttm: Fix accounting error when fail to get pages for pool Vladis Dronov <vdronov@xxxxxxxxxx> xfrm: policy: check policy direction value Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> lib/mpi: kunmap after finishing accessing buffer Zhoujie Wu <zjwu@xxxxxxxxxxx> mmc: sdhci-xenon: add set_power callback Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init() Sinclair Yeh <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/vmwgfx: Fix F26 Wayland screen update issue Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> dm mpath: do not lock up a CPU with requeuing activity Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> CIFS: remove endian related sparse warning Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Fix maximum SMB2 header size Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> cpuset: Fix incorrect memory_pressure control file mapping Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> cpumask: fix spurious cpumask_of_node() on non-NUMA multi-node configs Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> ceph: fix readpage from fscache Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm, madvise: ensure poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: ismt: Return EMSGSIZE for block reads with bogus length Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: ismt: Don't duplicate the receive length for block reads Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> crypto: chacha20 - fix handling of chunked input Cameron Gutman <aicommander@xxxxxxxxx> Input: xpad - fix PowerA init quirk for some gamepad models Anthony Martin <ality@xxxxxxxxxx> Input: synaptics - fix device info appearing different on reconnect James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> irqchip: mips-gic: SYNC after enabling GIC region Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> x86/io: Add "memory" clobber to insb/insw/insl/outsb/outsw/outsl Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h | 2 +- arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h | 12 ++++++- arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 5 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 4 +-- crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 9 +++-- crypto/chacha20_generic.c | 9 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c | 2 -- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c | 13 +++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/Kbuild | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/aux.c | 4 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/aux.h | 6 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxg94.c | 30 ++++++++++------ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxgf119.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxgm200.c | 5 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/padgf119.c | 4 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 26 +++++++++++++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c | 6 ++-- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 24 ++++++++++--- drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 35 ++++++++++-------- drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c | 5 ++- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 1 - drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-xenon.c | 19 ++++++++++ drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/main.c | 1 + fs/ceph/addr.c | 24 ++++++++----- fs/ceph/cache.c | 12 ++----- fs/cifs/dir.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h | 4 +-- fs/eventpoll.c | 42 +++++++++++++--------- include/asm-generic/topology.h | 6 +++- include/linux/nvme.h | 2 +- kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 1 + kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 -- kernel/fork.c | 8 +++++ lib/mpi/mpicoder.c | 4 ++- mm/madvise.c | 6 ++++ net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 6 ++++ 38 files changed, 285 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)