[4.2.y-ckt stable] Linux 4.2.8-ckt8 stable review

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 12 20:51:45 UTC 2016


This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 4.2.8-ckt8 stable
kernel.

This version contains 70 new patches, summarized below.  The new patches
are posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-review

git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git  linux-4.2.y-review

The review period for version 4.2.8-ckt8 will be open for the next three
days.  To report a problem, please reply to the relevant follow-up patch
message.

For more information about the Linux 4.2.y-ckt extended stable kernel
series, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable .

 -Kamal

--
 .../bindings/pinctrl/img,pistachio-pinctrl.txt     |  12 +-
 Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt             |   7 +
 arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h                  |   1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c                   |   1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c                  |  10 +-
 arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c                         |   3 +
 arch/parisc/lib/fixup.S                            |   6 +
 arch/parisc/mm/fault.c                             |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c                      |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h                   |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c             |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c          |  11 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                                 |  29 ++---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_trust.c               |   2 +
 drivers/block/rbd.c                                |   6 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c                     |  35 ++---
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c                        | 144 +++++++++++++++------
 drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c                        |   3 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_helper.c                    |  27 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/si_dpm.c                    |   6 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c                       |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_gem.c                      |   2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/max1111.c                            |   6 +
 drivers/iio/magnetometer/st_magn.h                 |   1 +
 drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-core.c             |   2 +-
 drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-input.c            |   4 +-
 drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-video.c            |  63 +++++----
 drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828.h                  |   9 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c     |  16 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.h     |   6 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c                |   2 +-
 drivers/net/phy/at803x.c                           |   4 +
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c           |   1 +
 drivers/nvdimm/bus.c                               |   2 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-nomadik.c          |   2 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-pistachio.c                |  24 ++--
 drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.c                      |   4 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun8i-a33.c          |   1 +
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.c              |  17 ++-
 drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sunxi.h              |  21 +--
 drivers/scsi/ipr.c                                 |  10 +-
 drivers/scsi/sd.c                                  |  23 ++--
 drivers/scsi/sd.h                                  |   7 +-
 drivers/spi/spi-rockchip.c                         |  12 +-
 drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c                   |   4 +-
 drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_gadget.c             |   6 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c                        |   1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c                    |  11 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c               |  19 +++
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c                      |   4 +
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h                  |   8 ++
 drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c                      |   9 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        |   2 +
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c                 |  11 +-
 drivers/xen/events/events_base.c                   |  28 +++-
 fs/btrfs/file.c                                    |   2 +-
 fs/btrfs/tree-log.c                                | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/dcache.c                                        |   5 +-
 fs/efivarfs/file.c                                 |  70 ++++++++++
 fs/efivarfs/inode.c                                |  30 +++--
 fs/efivarfs/internal.h                             |   3 +-
 fs/efivarfs/super.c                                |  16 ++-
 fs/ext4/ext4.h                                     |  23 ++++
 fs/ext4/move_extent.c                              |  11 +-
 fs/ext4/super.c                                    |  47 +++++--
 fs/nfs/dir.c                                       |   6 +-
 fs/nfs/inode.c                                     |   2 +-
 fs/nfs/nfs4file.c                                  |   4 +-
 fs/overlayfs/super.c                               |  33 +++++
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h                       |   2 +-
 include/linux/dcache.h                             |  11 ++
 include/linux/efi.h                                |   5 +-
 include/linux/fs.h                                 |  10 ++
 include/linux/ucs2_string.h                        |   4 +
 lib/ucs2_string.c                                  |  62 +++++++++
 mm/page_isolation.c                                |   8 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c                              |   2 +-
 net/ipv6/udp.c                                     |   4 +-
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c                            |  13 +-
 sound/core/timer.c                                 |   4 +-
 sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c                         |   1 +
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c                      |  19 ++-
 sound/usb/quirks.c                                 |  26 ++--
 sound/usb/stream.c                                 |   6 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/efivarfs.sh       |  19 ++-
 tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/open-unlink.c     |  72 ++++++++++-
 86 files changed, 1010 insertions(+), 303 deletions(-)

Aaron Plattner (1):
      ALSA: hda - Add new GPU codec ID 0x10de0082 to snd-hda

Alex Deucher (3):
      drm/radeon: add a dpm quirk for sapphire Dual-X R7 370 2G D5
      drm/radeon: add another R7 370 quirk
      drm/radeon: add a dpm quirk for all R7 370 parts

Amitkumar Karwar (1):
      mwifiex: fix corner case association failure

Andi Kleen (1):
      perf/x86/intel: Fix PEBS data source interpretation on Nehalem/Westmere

Arnd Bergmann (1):
      iio: st_magn: always define ST_MAGN_TRIGGER_SET_STATE

Bjørn Mork (1):
      USB: option: add "D-Link DWM-221 B1" device id

Bobi Mihalca (3):
      ALSA: hda - Asus N750JV external subwoofer fixup
      ALSA: hda - Fix white noise on Asus N750JV headphone
      ALSA: hda - Apply fix for white noise on Asus N550JV, too

Boris Ostrovsky (1):
      xen/events: Mask a moving irq

Cyrille Pitchen (1):
      net: macb: replace macb_writel() call by queue_writel() to update queue ISR

Dan Williams (1):
      libnvdimm: fix smart data retrieval

Daniel Vetter (1):
      drm/udl: Use unlocked gem unreferencing

David Disseldorp (1):
      rbd: use GFP_NOIO consistently for request allocations

Eric Dumazet (1):
      ipv6: udp: fix UDP_MIB_IGNOREDMULTI updates

Filipe Manana (2):
      btrfs: fix crash/invalid memory access on fsync when using overlayfs
      Btrfs: fix file/data loss caused by fsync after rename and new inode

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi (1):
      ipr: Fix regression when loading firmware

Govindraj Raja (1):
      pinctrl: pistachio: fix mfio84-89 function description and pinmux.

Guenter Roeck (1):
      hwmon: (max1111) Return -ENODEV from max1111_read_channel if not instantiated

Hans de Goede (1):
      pinctrl: sunxi: Fix A33 external interrupts not working

Helge Deller (3):
      parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines
      parisc: Fix kernel crash with reversed copy_from_user()
      parisc: Unbreak handling exceptions from kernel modules

Hui Wang (1):
      ALSA: hda - fix front mic problem for a HP desktop

Insu Yun (1):
      ipr: Fix out-of-bounds null overwrite

Jason Andryuk (1):
      lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion

Johannes Berg (1):
      mac80211: properly deal with station hashtable insert errors

Josh Boyer (1):
      USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Add support for ICP DAS I-756xU devices

Kamal Mostafa (1):
      [stable-only] Revert "spi: rockchip: modify DMA max burst to 1"

Linus Walleij (1):
      pinctrl: nomadik: fix pull debug print inversion

Marcelo Tosatti (1):
      KVM: x86: move steal time initialization to vcpu entry time

Martin K. Petersen (1):
      sd: Fix excessive capacity printing on devices with blocks bigger than 512 bytes

Martyn Welch (1):
      USB: serial: cp210x: Adding GE Healthcare Device ID

Matt Fleming (1):
      efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
      [media] au0828: Fix dev_state handling

Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
      virtio: virtio 1.0 cs04 spec compliance for reset

Miklos Szeredi (2):
      fs: add file_dentry()
      nfs: use file_dentry()

Nicolai Stange (1):
      PKCS#7: pkcs7_validate_trust(): initialize the _trusted output argument

Oliver Neukum (3):
      USB: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe
      USB: cypress_m8: add endpoint sanity check
      USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports

Paolo Bonzini (1):
      compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functions

Peter Jones (5):
      lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions
      efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version
      efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8
      efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid
      efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default

Petri Gynther (2):
      net: bcmgenet: fix dev->stats.tx_bytes accounting
      net: bcmgenet: fix skb_len in bcmgenet_xmit_single()

Rob Clark (1):
      drm/dp: move hw_mutex up the call stack

Sebastian Frias (1):
      net: phy: at803x: Request 'reset' GPIO only for AT8030 PHY

Sebastian Siewior (1):
      powerpc/mm: Fixup preempt underflow with huge pages

Shuah Khan (1):
      [media] au0828: fix au0828_v4l2_close() dev_state race condition

Takashi Iwai (2):
      ALSA: usb-audio: Minor code cleanup in create_fixed_stream_quirk()
      ALSA: timer: Use mod_timer() for rearming the system timer

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1):
      ip6_tunnel: set rtnl_link_ops before calling register_netdevice

Theodore Ts'o (2):
      ext4: add lockdep annotations for i_data_sem
      ext4: ignore quota mount options if the quota feature is enabled

Vladis Dronov (1):
      ALSA: usb-audio: Fix double-free in error paths after snd_usb_add_audio_stream() call

Wolfram Sang (1):
      pinctrl: sh-pfc: only use dummy states for non-DT platforms

Xishi Qiu (1):
      mm: fix invalid node in alloc_migrate_target()

Yong Li (1):
      gpio: pca953x: Use correct u16 value for register word write

Yoshihiro Shimoda (3):
      usb: renesas_usbhs: avoid NULL pointer derefernce in usbhsf_pkt_handler()
      usb: renesas_usbhs: disable TX IRQ before starting TX DMAC transfer
      usb: renesas_usbhs: fix to avoid using a disabled ep in usbhsg_queue_done()

Yuki Shibuya (1):
      KVM: x86: Inject pending interrupt even if pending nmi exist




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