[PATCH 4.8 00/33] 4.8.15-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 13 2016 - 12:16:33 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.15 release.
There are 33 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 Thu Dec 15 17:15:24 UTC 2016.
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-4.8.15-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-4.8.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 4.8.15-rc1

David Michael <david.michael@xxxxxxxxxx>
crypto: rsa - Add Makefile dependencies to fix parallel builds

Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric

Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
batman-adv: Check for alloc errors when preparing TT local data

Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
m68k: Fix ndelay() macro

Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
ceph: don't set req->r_locked_dir in ceph_d_revalidate

Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
ARM: dts: imx7d: fix LCDIF clock assignment

Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@xxxxxxxxx>
ARM: dts: orion5x: fix number of sata port for linkstation ls-gl

Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Revert "ACPI: Execute _PTS before system reboot"

ììí <jiho.chu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
can: peak: fix bad memory access and free sequence

Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
can: raw: raw_setsockopt: limit number of can_filter that can be set

Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
crypto: marvell - Don't corrupt state of an STD req for re-stepped ahash

tim <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
crypto: mcryptd - Check mcryptd algorithm compatibility

Horia GeantÄ <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>
crypto: caam - fix pointer size for AArch64 boot loader, AArch32 kernel

Romain Perier <romain.perier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
crypto: marvell - Don't copy hash operation twice into the SRAM

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
acpi, nfit: fix bus vs dimm confusion in xlat_status

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
acpi, nfit: validate ars_status output buffer size

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
acpi, nfit, libnvdimm: fix / harden ars_status output length handling

Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
acpi, nfit: fix extended status translations for ACPI DSMs

Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
perf/x86: Fix full width counter, counter overflow

Peng Tao <bergwolf@xxxxxxxxx>
vhost-vsock: fix orphan connection reset

Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
sched/autogroup: Fix 64-bit kernel nice level adjustment

Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
scsi: lpfc: fix oops/BUG in lpfc_sli_ringtxcmpl_put()

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
device-dax: fix private mapping restriction, permit read-only

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
locking/rtmutex: Use READ_ONCE() in rt_mutex_owner()

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
locking/rtmutex: Prevent dequeue vs. unlock race

Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
zram: restrict add/remove attributes to root only

Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
parisc: Fix TLB related boot crash on SMP machines

John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>
parisc: Remove unnecessary TLB purges from flush_dcache_page_asm and flush_icache_page_asm

John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>
parisc: Purge TLB before setting PTE

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
fuse: fix clearing suid, sgid for chown()

Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/boot: Fix build failure in 32-bit boot wrapper

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/mm: Fix lazy icache flush on pre-POWER5

Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/eeh: Fix deadlock when PE frozen state can't be cleared


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/imx7s.dtsi | 5 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/orion5x-linkstation-lsgl.dts | 4 ++
arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h | 2 +-
arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 +--
arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 11 +++++
arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S | 22 +--------
arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/boot/opal.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/mm/hash64_4k.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/mm/hash64_64k.c | 4 +-
arch/x86/events/core.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 2 +-
crypto/Makefile | 1 +
crypto/mcryptd.c | 19 ++++---
drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 49 ++++++++++++++-----
drivers/acpi/sleep.c | 29 +++--------
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 ++-
drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 5 +-
drivers/crypto/marvell/hash.c | 11 ++---
drivers/dax/dax.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 6 ++-
drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 25 ++++++++--
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 14 +++---
drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 2 +-
fs/ceph/dir.c | 24 +++++----
fs/fuse/dir.c | 7 +--
include/linux/cpu.h | 15 ++----
include/linux/libnvdimm.h | 2 +-
include/uapi/linux/can.h | 1 +
kernel/cpu.c | 2 +-
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 5 +-
kernel/sched/auto_group.c | 4 +-
net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 4 +-
net/can/raw.c | 3 ++
37 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)