This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.257 release. There are 38 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, 10 Feb 2021 14:57:55 +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-4.4.257-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 4.4.257-rc1
Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars) sylee@canonical.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix typo of pincfg for Dell quirk
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: thermal: Do not call acpi_thermal_check() directly
Benjamin Valentin benpicco@googlemail.com Input: xpad - sync supported devices with fork on GitHub
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/apic: Add extra serialization for non-serializing MSRs
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel
Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com mm: hugetlb: remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE from page_huge_active
Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com mm: hugetlb: fix a race between isolating and freeing page
Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com mm: hugetlbfs: fix cannot migrate the fallocated HugeTLB page
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: footbridge: fix dc21285 PCI configuration accessors
Fengnan Chang fengnanchang@gmail.com mmc: core: Limit retries when analyse of SDIO tuples fails
Aurelien Aptel aaptel@suse.com cifs: report error instead of invalid when revalidating a dentry fails
Wang ShaoBo bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com kretprobe: Avoid re-registration of the same kretprobe earlier
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: fix station rate table updates on assoc
Heiko Stuebner heiko.stuebner@theobroma-systems.com usb: dwc2: Fix endpoint direction check in ep_from_windex
Jeremy Figgins kernel@jeremyfiggins.com USB: usblp: don't call usb_set_interface if there's a single alt
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: gadget: legacy: fix an error code in eth_bind()
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de elfcore: fix building with clang
Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org ELF/MIPS build fix
Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com net: lapb: Copy the skb before sending a packet
Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan@gmail.com Input: i8042 - unbreak Pegatron C15B
Christoph Schemmel christoph.schemmel@gmail.com USB: serial: option: Adding support for Cinterion MV31
Chenxin Jin bg4akv@hotmail.com USB: serial: cp210x: add new VID/PID for supporting Teraoka AD2000
Pho Tran Pho.Tran@silabs.com USB: serial: cp210x: add pid/vid for WSDA-200-USB
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org stable: clamp SUBLEVEL in 4.4 and 4.9
Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com scsi: ibmvfc: Set default timeout to avoid crash during migration
Javed Hasan jhasan@marvell.com scsi: libfc: Avoid invoking response handler twice if ep is already completed
Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: udc: core: Use lock when write to soft_connect
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Handle faults correctly for PI futexes
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Simplify fixup_pi_state_owner()
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Use pi_state_update_owner() in put_pi_state()
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org rtmutex: Remove unused argument from rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Provide and use pi_state_update_owner()
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Replace pointless printk in fixup_owner()
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Avoid violating the 10th rule of futex
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Rework inconsistent rt_mutex/futex_q state
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex: Remove rt_mutex_deadlock_account_*()
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org futex,rt_mutex: Provide futex specific rt_mutex API
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: reject silly cell_log in qdisc_get_rtab()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 12 +- arch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285.c | 12 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/Makefile | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 10 -- arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 18 +++ arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 4 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c | 3 +- drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 54 +++++-- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 17 ++- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 2 + drivers/mmc/core/sdio_cis.c | 6 + drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_exch.c | 16 +- drivers/usb/class/usblp.c | 19 ++- drivers/usb/dwc2/gadget.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/ether.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/udc-core.c | 13 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 + fs/Kconfig.binfmt | 8 + fs/cifs/dir.c | 22 ++- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 3 +- include/linux/elfcore.h | 22 +++ include/linux/hugetlb.h | 3 + kernel/Makefile | 3 - kernel/elfcore.c | 25 --- kernel/futex.c | 278 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- kernel/kprobes.c | 4 + kernel/locking/rtmutex-debug.c | 9 -- kernel/locking/rtmutex-debug.h | 3 - kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 127 ++++++++++------ kernel/locking/rtmutex.h | 2 - kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 12 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 9 +- net/lapb/lapb_out.c | 3 +- net/mac80211/driver-ops.c | 5 +- net/mac80211/rate.c | 3 +- net/sched/sch_api.c | 3 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 +- 41 files changed, 469 insertions(+), 294 deletions(-)