This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.77 release. There are 25 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made by Fri Nov 15 00:00:00 UTC 2019. Anything received after that time might be too late. All the patches have also been committed to the linux-3.16.y-rc branch of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux-stable-rc.git . A shortlog and diffstat can be found below. Ben. ------------- Ben Hutchings (1): KVM: Introduce kvm_get_arch_capabilities() [5b76a3cff011df2dcb6186c965a2e4d809a05ad4] Hui Peng (1): ath6kl: fix a NULL-ptr-deref bug in ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe() [39d170b3cb62ba98567f5c4f40c27b5864b304e5] Imre Deak (1): drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA [7e34f4e4aad3fd34c02b294a3cf2321adf5b4438] Jakub Kicinski (1): net: netem: fix error path for corrupted GSO frames [a7fa12d15855904aff1716e1fc723c03ba38c5cc] Josh Poimboeuf (1): x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUs [012206a822a8b6ac09125bfaa210a95b9eb8f1c1] Laura Abbott (1): rtlwifi: Fix potential overflow on P2P code [8c55dedb795be8ec0cf488f98c03a1c2176f7fb1] Michal Hocko (1): x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto [db616173d787395787ecc93eef075fa975227b10] Ori Nimron (5): appletalk: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets [6cc03e8aa36c51f3b26a0d21a3c4ce2809c842ac] ax25: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets [0614e2b73768b502fc32a75349823356d98aae2c] ieee802154: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets [e69dbd4619e7674c1679cba49afd9dd9ac347eef] mISDN: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets [b91ee4aa2a2199ba4d4650706c272985a5a32d80] nfc: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets [3a359798b176183ef09efb7a3dc59abad1cc7104] Paolo Bonzini (1): KVM: x86: use Intel speculation bugs and features as derived in generic x86 code [0c54914d0c52a15db9954a76ce80fee32cf318f4] Pawan Gupta (8): kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled [e1d38b63acd843cfdd4222bf19a26700fd5c699e] x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default [95c5824f75f3ba4c9e8e5a4b1a623c95390ac266] x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() [286836a70433fb64131d2590f4bf512097c255e1] x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR [c2955f270a84762343000f103e0640d29c7a96f3] x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort [a7a248c593e4fd7a67c50b5f5318fe42a0db335e] x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort [1b42f017415b46c317e71d41c34ec088417a1883] x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort [6608b45ac5ecb56f9e171252229c39580cc85f0f] x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter [7531a3596e3272d1f6841e0d601a614555dc6b65] Sean Young (1): media: technisat-usb2: break out of loop at end of buffer [0c4df39e504bf925ab666132ac3c98d6cbbe380b] Vandana BN (1): media: usb:zr364xx:Fix KASAN:null-ptr-deref Read in zr364xx_vidioc_querycap [5d2e73a5f80a5b5aff3caf1ec6d39b5b3f54b26e] Vineela Tummalapalli (1): x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure [db4d30fbb71b47e4ecb11c4efa5d8aad4b03dfae] Will Deacon (1): cfg80211: wext: avoid copying malformed SSIDs [4ac2813cc867ae563a1ba5a9414bfb554e5796fa] Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 2 + Documentation/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst | 268 +++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 62 +++++ Documentation/x86/tsx_async_abort.rst | 117 +++++++++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 45 ++++ arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 7 + arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h | 16 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 143 ++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 93 ++++--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h | 18 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 5 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c | 140 +++++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 7 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 40 ++- drivers/base/cpu.c | 17 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c | 4 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 5 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_reg.h | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 9 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_drv.h | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 146 ++++++++++- drivers/isdn/mISDN/socket.c | 2 + drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c | 21 +- drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c | 8 + drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/ps.c | 6 + include/linux/cpu.h | 5 + net/appletalk/ddp.c | 5 + net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 2 + net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.c | 3 + net/nfc/llcp_sock.c | 7 +- net/sched/sch_netem.c | 9 +- net/wireless/wext-sme.c | 8 +- 38 files changed, 1172 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-) -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your signature.