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

[Nathan Chancellor]

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