This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.297 release. There are 17 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, 29 Dec 2021 15:13:09 +0000. 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-4.4.297-rc1... 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@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.297-rc1
Rémi Denis-Courmont remi@remlab.net phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe
Lin Ma linma@zju.edu.cn hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD
Lin Ma linma@zju.edu.cn hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev
Lin Ma linma@zju.edu.cn ax25: NPD bug when detaching AX25 device
Samuel Čavoj samuel@cavoj.net Input: i8042 - enable deferred probe quirk for ASUS UM325UA
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/blkfront: fix bug in backported patch
Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org ARM: 9169/1: entry: fix Thumb2 bug in iWMMXt exception handling
Colin Ian King colin.i.king@gmail.com ALSA: drivers: opl3: Fix incorrect use of vp->state
Xiaoke Wang xkernel.wang@foxmail.com ALSA: jack: Check the return value of kstrdup()
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (lm90) Fix usage of CONFIG2 register in detect function
Jiasheng Jiang jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn drivers: net: smc911x: Check for error irq
Fernando Fernandez Mancera ffmancera@riseup.net bonding: fix ad_actor_system option setting to default
Jiasheng Jiang jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn qlcnic: potential dereference null pointer of rx_queue->page_ring
José Expósito jose.exposito89@gmail.com IB/qib: Fix memory leak in qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts()
Benjamin Tissoires benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com HID: holtek: fix mouse probing
Jimmy Assarsson extja@kvaser.com can: kvaser_usb: get CAN clock frequency from device
Greg Jesionowski jesionowskigreg@gmail.com net: usb: lan78xx: add Allied Telesis AT29M2-AF
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Diffstat:
Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 11 +++--- Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 8 ++--- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 4 --- drivers/hid/hid-holtek-mouse.c | 15 ++++++++ drivers/hwmon/lm90.c | 5 ++- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_sdma.c | 2 +- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 7 ++++ drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov.h | 2 +- .../ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_common.c | 12 +++++-- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_pf.c | 4 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc911x.c | 5 +++ drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c | 5 +-- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 6 ++++ net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 4 ++- net/phonet/pep.c | 2 ++ sound/core/jack.c | 4 +++ sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_midi.c | 2 +- 20 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)