On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:59:27PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.111 release. > There are 22 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 Jan 10 12:59:14 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-4.4.111-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 4.4.111-rc1 > > Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> > Map the vsyscall page with _PAGE_USER > > Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> > proc: much faster /proc/vmstat > > Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@xxxxxxxx> > module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel > > Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> > module: keep percpu symbols in module's symtab > > Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> > genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files > > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > x86/tlb: Drop the _GPL from the cpu_tlbstate export > > Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation > > Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> > parisc: Fix alignment of pa_tlb_lock in assembly on 32-bit SMP kernel > > Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> > x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading > > Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Input: elantech - add new icbody type 15 > > Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > ARC: uaccess: dont use "l" gcc inline asm constraint modifier > > Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> > kernel/signal.c: remove the no longer needed SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete_signal() > > Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> > kernel/signal.c: protect the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from !sig_kernel_only() signals > > Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> > kernel/signal.c: protect the traced SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from SIGKILL > > Thiago Rafael Becker <thiago.becker@xxxxxxxxx> > kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators > > David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> > fscache: Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page() > > Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > sunxi-rsb: Include OF based modalias in device uevent > > Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > crypto: pcrypt - fix freeing pcrypt instances > > Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > crypto: chacha20poly1305 - validate the digest size > > Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> > crypto: n2 - cure use after free > > Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> > kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space() > > Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > x86/kasan: Write protect kasan zero shadow > > > ------------- > > Diffstat: > > Makefile | 4 ++-- > arch/arc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 5 +++-- > arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h | 2 ++ > arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S | 13 +++++++++++-- > arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S | 9 +++++++-- > arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c | 1 + > arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 5 +++++ > arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 2 ++ > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 4 ++++ > arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +- > arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c | 10 ++++++++-- > crypto/chacha20poly1305.c | 6 +++++- > crypto/pcrypt.c | 19 ++++++++++--------- > drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c | 1 + > drivers/crypto/n2_core.c | 3 +++ > drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 2 +- > drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c | 1 + > fs/nfsd/auth.c | 3 +++ > include/linux/cred.h | 1 + > include/linux/fscache.h | 2 +- > kernel/acct.c | 2 +- > kernel/groups.c | 5 +++-- > kernel/module.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- > kernel/signal.c | 18 ++++++++++-------- > kernel/uid16.c | 1 + > mm/vmstat.c | 4 +++- > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c | 1 + > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c | 1 + > net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c | 2 ++ > scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 6 ++++-- > 31 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) > > Merged, compiled, and flashed onto my Pixel 2 XL and OnePlus 5. No issues noticed in general usage or dmesg. Thanks! Nathan