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

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue Apr 12 2016 - 16:53:11 EST


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

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.../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

BjÃrn 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