This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.10.83 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 Fri Jul 3 18:39:28 UTC 2015. 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/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.10.83-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.10.83-rc1 Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxx> bus: mvebu: pass the coherency availability information at init time Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: nSVM: Check for NRIPS support before updating control field Sebastien Szymanski <sebastien.szymanski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: clk-imx6q: refine sata's parent Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> d_walk() might skip too much Michal Kubeček <mkubecek@xxxxxxx> ipv6: update ip6_rt_last_gc every time GC is run Michal Kubeček <mkubecek@xxxxxxx> ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader Jann Horn <jann@xxxxxxxxx> fs: take i_mutex during prepare_binprm for set[ug]id executables Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> hpsa: add missing pci_set_master in kdump path Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> hpsa: refine the pci enable/disable handling Jim Snow <jim.m.snow@xxxxxxxxx> sb_edac: Fix erroneous bytes->gigabytes conversion Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> ACPICA: Utilities: Cleanup to remove useless ACPI_PRINTF/FORMAT_xxx helpers. Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> ACPICA: Utilities: Cleanup to convert physical address printing formats. Mark Grondona <mgrondona@xxxxxxxx> __ptrace_may_access() should not deny sub-threads Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> include/linux/sched.h: don't use task->pid/tgid in same_thread_group/has_group_leader_pid Ian Wilson <iwilson@xxxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: Zero the tuple in nfnl_cthelper_parse_tuple() Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Remove 'const' and '&' to avoid warnings Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> config: Enable NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE by default when SWIOTLB is selected Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> get rid of s_files and files_lock Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-dove/common.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-mv78xx0/common.c | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-mvebu/armada-370-xp.c | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 15 +++ arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.h | 1 + arch/arm/mach-orion5x/common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_early.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 8 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/acmacros.h | 10 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/dsopcode.c | 4 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/evregion.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/exdump.c | 4 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c | 10 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/exregion.c | 8 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/hwvalid.c | 16 ++-- drivers/acpi/acpica/nsdump.c | 12 +-- drivers/acpi/acpica/tbutils.c | 20 ++-- drivers/acpi/acpica/utaddress.c | 24 +++-- drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c | 5 +- drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 38 ++++---- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 42 ++++++--- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 5 + fs/btrfs/dir-item.c | 10 +- fs/btrfs/xattr.c | 159 ++++++++++++++++++++------------ fs/dcache.c | 16 ++-- fs/exec.c | 76 +++++++++------ fs/file_table.c | 148 ++--------------------------- fs/internal.h | 3 - fs/open.c | 2 - fs/super.c | 23 +---- include/linux/fs.h | 15 +-- include/linux/mbus.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 8 +- include/net/ip6_fib.h | 2 +- kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 25 ++--- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 7 +- 46 files changed, 345 insertions(+), 418 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html