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
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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
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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(-)
