Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/22] 4.4.111-stable review

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 09:25:37 EST


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