This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.12 release. There are 14 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 Jan 6 12:08:52 UTC 2018. 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-4.14.12-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-4.14.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.14.12-rc1 Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: m41t80: remove unneeded checks from m41t80_sqw_set_rate Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: m41t80: avoid i2c read in m41t80_sqw_is_prepared Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: m41t80: avoid i2c read in m41t80_sqw_recalc_rate Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: m41t80: fix m41t80_sqw_round_rate return value Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: m41t80: m41t80_sqw_set_rate should return 0 on success Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "xfrm: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in xfrm_state_find." Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/process: Define cpu_tss_rw in same section as declaration Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/pti: Switch to kernel CR3 at early in entry_SYSCALL_compat() Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/dumpstack: Print registers for first stack frame Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/dumpstack: Fix partial register dumps Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/pti: Make sure the user/kernel PTEs match Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> capabilities: fix buffer overread on very short xattr Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> exec: Weaken dumpability for secureexec ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 13 +++---- arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h | 17 ++++++-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 31 ++++++++++----- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 3 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- fs/exec.c | 9 ++++- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 29 ++++++++------ security/commoncap.c | 21 +++++----- 12 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)