3.15.7-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.15.7 release. There are 109 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 Mon Jul 28 19:02:07 UTC 2014. 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/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.15.7-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 3.15.7-rc1

Anton Kolesov <[email protected]>
ARC: Implement ptrace(PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA)

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Don't trigger congestion wait on dirty-but-not-writeout pages

Emmanuel Grumbach <[email protected]>
iwlwifi: mvm: disable CTS to Self

Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
ARM: dts: imx: Add alias for ethernet controller

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
gpio: dwapb: drop irq_setup_generic_chip()

Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
aio: protect reqs_available updates from changes in interrupt handlers

Or Gerlitz <[email protected]>
IB/mlx5: Enable "block multicast loopback" for kernel consumers

Michael Brown <[email protected]>
x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers

Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
PM / sleep: Fix request_firmware() error at resume

Steve Wise <[email protected]>
RDMA/cxgb4: Initialize the device status page

Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
dm cache metadata: do not allow the data block size to change

Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
dm thin metadata: do not allow the data block size to change

Ted Juan <[email protected]>
mtd: devices: elm: fix elm_context_save() and elm_context_restore() functions

Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
random: check for increase of entropy_count because of signed conversion

Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>

    cpufreq: move policy kobj to policy->cpu at resume

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
x86, tsc: Fix cpufreq lockup

Amit Shah <[email protected]>
hwrng: fetch randomness only after device init

John Stultz <[email protected]>
alarmtimer: Fix bug where relative alarm timers were treated as absolute

Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Revert "drm/i915: reverse dp link param selection, prefer fast over wide again"

Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
drm/radeon: avoid leaking edid data

Jason Wang <[email protected]>
drm/qxl: return IRQ_NONE if it was not our irq

Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
drm/radeon: set default bl level to something reasonable

Tomasz Figa <[email protected]>
irqchip: gic: Fix core ID calculation when topology is read from DT

Suravee Suthikulpanit <[email protected]>
irqchip: gic: Add binding probe for ARM GIC400

Matthias Brugger <[email protected]>
irqchip: gic: Add support for cortex a7 compatible string

Martin Lau <[email protected]>
ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe

Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
mwifiex: fix Tx timeout issue

HATAYAMA Daisuke <[email protected]>
perf/x86/intel: ignore CondChgd bit to avoid false NMI handling

Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
perf: Do not allow optimized switch for non-cloned events

Zoltan Kiss <[email protected]>
xen-netback: Fix pointer incrementation to avoid incorrect logging

Zoltan Kiss <[email protected]>
xen-netback: Fix releasing header slot on error path

Zoltan Kiss <[email protected]>
xen-netback: Fix releasing frag_list skbs in error path

Zoltan Kiss <[email protected]>
xen-netback: Fix handling frag_list on grant op error path

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
ipv4: fix buffer overflow in ip_options_compile()

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
dns_resolver: Null-terminate the right string

Manuel Schölling <[email protected]>
dns_resolver: assure that dns_query() result is null-terminated

Christoph Schulz <[email protected]>
net: ppp: don't call sk_chk_filter twice

Bjørn Mork <[email protected]>
net: huawei_cdc_ncm: add "subclass 3" devices

Christoph Schulz <[email protected]>
net: ppp: fix creating PPP pass and active filters

Sowmini Varadhan <[email protected]>
sunvnet: clean up objects created in vnet_new() on vnet_exit()

Jerry Chu <[email protected]>
net-gre-gro: Fix a bug that breaks the forwarding path

Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
bonding: fix ad_select module param check

Christoph Schulz <[email protected]>
net: pppoe: use correct channel MTU when using Multilink PPP

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
net: sctp: fix information leaks in ulpevent layer

Jon Paul Maloy <[email protected]>
tipc: clear 'next'-pointer of message fragments before reassembly

hayeswang <[email protected]>

    r8152: fix r8152_csum_workaround function

Suresh Reddy <[email protected]>
be2net: set EQ DB clear-intr bit in be_open()

Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump().

Thomas Fitzsimmons <[email protected]>
net: mvneta: Fix big endian issue in mvneta_txq_desc_csum()

Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>
net: mvneta: fix operation in 10 Mbit/s mode

Andrey Utkin <[email protected]>
appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb

Yuchung Cheng <[email protected]>
tcp: fix false undo corner cases

dingtianhong <[email protected]>
igmp: fix the problem when mc leave group

Loic Prylli <[email protected]>
net: Fix NETDEV_CHANGE notifier usage causing spurious arp flush

Bjørn Mork <[email protected]>
net: qmi_wwan: add two Sierra Wireless/Netgear devices

Bernd Wachter <[email protected]>
net: qmi_wwan: Add ID for Telewell TW-LTE 4G v2

Edward Allcutt <[email protected]>
ipv4: icmp: Fix pMTU handling for rare case

Christoph Paasch <[email protected]>
tcp: Fix divide by zero when pushing during tcp-repair

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
bnx2x: fix possible panic under memory stress

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
vlan: free percpu stats in device destructor

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net: fix sparse warning in sk_dst_set()

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
ipv4: irq safe sk_dst_[re]set() and ipv4_sk_update_pmtu() fix

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
ipv4: fix dst race in sk_dst_get()

Wei-Chun Chao <[email protected]>
net: fix UDP tunnel GSO of frag_list GRO packets

Bjørn Mork <[email protected]>
net: huawei_cdc_ncm: increase command buffer size

Mugunthan V N <[email protected]>
drivers: net: cpsw: fix dual EMAC stall when connected to same switch

Li RongQing <[email protected]>
8021q: fix a potential memory leak

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
net: sctp: check proc_dointvec result in proc_sctp_do_auth

Neal Cardwell <[email protected]>
tcp: fix tcp_match_skb_to_sack() for unaligned SACK at end of an skb

Kees Cook <[email protected]>
net: filter: fix upper BPF instruction limit

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
net: sctp: propagate sysctl errors from proc_do* properly

Tyler Hall <[email protected]>
slcan: Port write_wakeup deadlock fix from slip

Tyler Hall <[email protected]>
slip: Fix deadlock in write_wakeup

Dmitry Popov <[email protected]>
ip_tunnel: fix ip_tunnel_lookup

Or Gerlitz <[email protected]>
net/mlx4_en: Don't configure the HW vxlan parser when vxlan offloading isn't set

Or Gerlitz <[email protected]>
net/mlx4_core: Fix the error flow when probing with invalid VF configuration

Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
shmem: fix splicing from a hole while it's punched

Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
shmem: fix faulting into a hole, not taking i_mutex

Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
shmem: fix faulting into a hole while it's punched

Emmanuel Grumbach <[email protected]>
iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self

Oren Givon <[email protected]>
iwlwifi: update the 7265 series HW IDs

Niu Yawei <[email protected]>
quota: missing lock in dqcache_shrink_scan()

Stefan Assmann <[email protected]>
igb: do a reset on SR-IOV re-init if device is down

Todd Fujinaka <[email protected]>
igb: Workaround for i210 Errata 25: Slow System Clock

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
hwmon: (adt7470) Fix writes to temperature limit registers

Axel Lin <[email protected]>
hwmon: (da9052) Don't use dash in the name attribute

Axel Lin <[email protected]>
hwmon: (da9055) Don't use dash in the name attribute

David Vrabel <[email protected]>
xen/manage: fix potential deadlock when resuming the console

David Vrabel <[email protected]>
xen/balloon: set ballooned out pages as invalid in p2m

zhangwei(Jovi) <[email protected]>
tracing: Add TRACE_ITER_PRINTK flag check in __trace_puts/__trace_bputs

zhangwei(Jovi) <[email protected]>
tracing: Add ftrace_trace_stack into __trace_puts/__trace_bputs

Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
tracing: Fix graph tracer with stack tracer on other archs

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

    tracing: instance_rmdir() leaks ftrace_event_file->filter

Srinivas Pandruvada <[email protected]>
iio:core: Handle error when mask type is not separate

Anand Avati <[email protected]>
fuse: ignore entry-timeout on LOOKUP_REVAL

Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
fuse: handle large user and group ID

Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
fuse: avoid scheduling while atomic

Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
fuse: timeout comparison fix

Loic Poulain <[email protected]>
Bluetooth: Ignore H5 non-link packets in non-active state

Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>

    Revert "Bluetooth: Add a new PID/VID 0cf3/e005 for AR3012."

K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Drivers: hv: util: Fix a bug in the KVP code

Dexuan Cui <[email protected]>
Drivers: hv: hv_fcopy: fix a race condition for SMP guest

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Fix broken PM due to incomplete i915 initialization

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Revert stream assignment order for Intel controllers

Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
media: gspca_pac7302: Add new usb-id for Genius i-Look 317

Abbas Raza <[email protected]>
usb: chipidea: udc: Disable auto ZLP generation on ep0

Gavin Guo <[email protected]>
usb: Check if port status is equal to RxDetect

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                        |   4 +-
 arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h              |   1 +
 arch/arc/kernel/ptrace.c                        |   4 +
 arch/arm/Kconfig                                |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx25.dtsi                    |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx27.dtsi                    |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx35.dtsi                    |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx50.dtsi                    |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx51.dtsi                    |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53.dtsi                    |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi                  |   1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sl.dtsi                   |   1 +
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                              |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                            |   1 +
 arch/sparc/Kconfig                              |   1 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig                                |   1 +
 arch/x86/boot/header.S                          |  26 ++++-
 arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c                     |  38 ++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c          |   9 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c                           |   4 +-
 drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.c                       |   2 -
 drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c                       |   1 -
 drivers/bluetooth/hci_h5.c                      |   1 +
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c                   |  41 ++++++--
 drivers/char/random.c                           |  17 +++-
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c                       |   6 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c                       |   3 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c                 |   4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_irq.c                   |   3 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c      |  10 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c         |   5 +
 drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c                           |   2 +-
 drivers/hv/hv_kvp.c                             |  14 ++-
 drivers/hv/hv_util.c                            |   2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c                         |   6 +-
 drivers/hwmon/da9052-hwmon.c                    |   2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/da9055-hwmon.c                    |   2 +-
 drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c                |   3 +
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c            |   1 +
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c                 |   2 +-
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c                       |   7 +-
 drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c                     |  28 +++---
 drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c                  |   9 ++
 drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c                   |   9 ++
 drivers/media/usb/gspca/pac7302.c               |   1 +
 drivers/mtd/devices/elm.c                       |   2 +
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c                 |   2 +-
 drivers/net/can/slcan.c                         |  37 +++++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c |   3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c     |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_82575.c    |   7 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_defines.h  |  18 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_hw.h       |   3 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_i210.c     |  66 +++++++++++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_i210.h     |  12 +++
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_regs.h     |   1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c       |  16 ++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c           |   4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c  |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c       |   3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c              |  20 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c                  |   7 +-
 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c                   |  30 +++---
 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c                         |   2 +-
 drivers/net/slip/slip.c                         |  36 +++++--
 drivers/net/slip/slip.h                         |   1 +
 drivers/net/usb/huawei_cdc_ncm.c                |  10 +-
 drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c                      |   3 +
 drivers/net/usb/r8152.c                         |   2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/rxon.c         |  12 ---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/mac-ctxt.c     |   8 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c         |   3 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c             |   1 +
 drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c               |  86 ++++++++++++-----
 drivers/usb/chipidea/udc.c                      |   4 +-
 drivers/usb/core/hub.c                          |  19 ++++
 drivers/xen/balloon.c                           |  12 +--
 drivers/xen/manage.c                            |   5 +-
 fs/aio.c                                        |   7 ++
 fs/fuse/dev.c                                   |  51 +++++-----
 fs/fuse/dir.c                                   |   7 +-
 fs/fuse/inode.c                                 |  20 +++-
 fs/quota/dquot.c                                |   2 +
 include/net/sock.h                              |  16 ++--
 kernel/Kconfig.locks                            |   5 +-
 kernel/events/core.c                            |   2 +-
 kernel/power/process.c                          |   1 +
 kernel/sched/debug.c                            |   2 +-
 kernel/time/alarmtimer.c                        |  20 +++-
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c                           |   4 +-
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c                      |   4 -
 kernel/trace/trace.c                            |  18 +++-
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c                     |   1 +
 mm/shmem.c                                      | 104 +++++++++++++++++---
 mm/vmscan.c                                     |  11 +--
 net/8021q/vlan_core.c                           |   5 +-
 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c                            |  13 ++-
 net/appletalk/ddp.c                             |   3 -
 net/core/dev.c                                  |  11 ++-
 net/core/dst.c                                  |  16 +++-
 net/core/filter.c                               |   2 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c                               |   3 +-
 net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c                    |   4 +-
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c                              |   3 +
 net/ipv4/gre_offload.c                          |   3 +
 net/ipv4/icmp.c                                 |   2 -
 net/ipv4/igmp.c                                 |  10 +-
 net/ipv4/ip_options.c                           |   4 +
 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c                            |  26 ++---
 net/ipv4/route.c                                |  15 +--
 net/ipv4/tcp.c                                  |   3 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                            |  10 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c                          |   2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c                           |   6 +-
 net/ipv6/tcpv6_offload.c                        |   2 +-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c                        |   4 +-
 net/sctp/sysctl.c                               |  46 ++++-----
 net/sctp/ulpevent.c                             | 122 +++---------------------
 net/tipc/bcast.c                                |   1 +
 sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c                  |   3 +-
 sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c                       |  12 +--
 sound/pci/hda/hda_priv.h                        |   1 +
 122 files changed, 893 insertions(+), 433 deletions(-)