4.17.14-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.17.14 release. There are 18 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 Thu Aug 9 17:23:05 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.17.14-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-4.17.y
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 4.17.14-rc1

Shankara Pailoor <[email protected]>

    jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size

Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
xfs: validate cached inodes are free when allocated

Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
xfs: don't call xfs_da_shrink_inode with NULL bp

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Partially revert "block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions"

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
Btrfs: fix file data corruption after cloning a range and fsync

Esben Haabendal <[email protected]>
i2c: imx: Fix reinit_completion() use

Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer

Dmitry Safonov <[email protected]>
netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups

Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirq

Anna-Maria Gleixner <[email protected]>
nohz: Fix local_timer_softirq_pending()

Kan Liang <[email protected]>
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix hardcoded index of Broadwell extra PCI devices

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
genirq: Make force irq threading setup more robust

Kees Cook <[email protected]>
jfs: Fix usercopy whitelist for inline inode data

Anil Gurumurthy <[email protected]>
scsi: qla2xxx: Return error when TMF returns

Quinn Tran <[email protected]>
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix ISP recovery on unload

Quinn Tran <[email protected]>
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix driver unload by shutting down chip

Quinn Tran <[email protected]>
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NPIV deletion by calling wait_for_sess_deletion

Quinn Tran <[email protected]>
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix unintialized List head crash

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                             |  4 +-
 arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.h       |  2 +-
 arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c | 10 +++--
 block/blk-core.c                     |  5 ++-
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c         |  3 +-
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c      |  1 +
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h       |  1 +
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c        |  4 ++
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c      |  7 ++--
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_inline.h    |  2 +
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c       |  3 ++
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mbx.c       |  6 +++
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mid.c       | 11 +++++-
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c        | 51 +++++++++++--------------
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_sup.c       |  3 ++
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c                 |  3 ++
 fs/jfs/jfs_dinode.h                  |  7 ++++
 fs/jfs/jfs_incore.h                  |  1 +
 fs/jfs/super.c                       |  3 +-
 fs/jfs/xattr.c                       | 10 +++--
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c        |  5 +--
 fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c                  | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 include/linux/ring_buffer.h          |  1 +
 kernel/irq/manage.c                  |  9 ++++-
 kernel/softirq.c                     |  2 +-
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c             |  2 +-
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c           | 16 ++++++++
 kernel/trace/trace.c                 |  6 +++
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c             |  4 +-
 29 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)