This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.213 release. There are 53 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, 05 Feb 2020 16:17:59 +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-4.4.213-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 4.4.213-rc1
Praveen Chaudhary praveen5582@gmail.com net: Fix skb->csum update in inet_proto_csum_replace16().
Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com l2t_seq_next should increase position index
Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com seq_tab_next() should increase position index
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au net/sonic: Quiesce SONIC before re-initializing descriptor memory
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au net/sonic: Fix receive buffer handling
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au net/sonic: Use MMIO accessors
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au net/sonic: Add mutual exclusion for accessing shared state
Madalin Bucur madalin.bucur@oss.nxp.com net/fsl: treat fsl,erratum-a011043
Manish Chopra manishc@marvell.com qlcnic: Fix CPU soft lockup while collecting firmware dump
Hayes Wang hayeswang@realtek.com r8152: get default setting of WOL before initializing
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au airo: Add missing CAP_NET_ADMIN check in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au airo: Fix possible info leak in AIROOLDIOCTL/SIOCDEVPRIVATE
Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin@arm.com ARM: 8955/1: virt: Relax arch timer version check during early boot
Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de scsi: fnic: do not queue commands during fwreset
Nicolas Dichtel nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com vti[6]: fix packet tx through bpf_redirect()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Input: aiptek - use descriptors of current altsetting
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de wireless: wext: avoid gcc -O3 warning
Cambda Zhu cambda@linux.alibaba.com ixgbe: Fix calculation of queue with VFs and flow director on interface flap
Radoslaw Tyl radoslawx.tyl@intel.com ixgbevf: Remove limit of 10 entries for unicast filter list
Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk clk: mmp2: Fix the order of timer mux parents
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org media: si470x-i2c: Move free() past last use of 'radio'
Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com usb: dwc3: turn off VBUS when leaving host mode
Zhenzhong Duan zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com ttyprintk: fix a potential deadlock in interrupt context issue
Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c: initialize actlen to 0
Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: gspca: zero usb_buf
Sean Young sean@mess.org media: digitv: don't continue if remote control state can't be read
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz reiserfs: Fix memory leak of journal device string
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com mm/mempolicy.c: fix out of bounds write in mpol_parse_str()
Dirk Behme dirk.behme@de.bosch.com arm64: kbuild: remove compressed images on 'make ARCH=arm64 (dist)clean'
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: pcrypt - Fix user-after-free on module unload
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk vfs: fix do_last() regression
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: af_alg - Use bh_lock_sock in sk_destruct
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: ematch: reject invalid TCF_EM_SIMPLE
Laura Abbott labbott@fedoraproject.org usb-storage: Disable UAS on JMicron SATA enclosure
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de atm: eni: fix uninitialized variable warning
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org net: wan: sdla: Fix cast from pointer to integer of different size
Fenghua Yu fenghua.yu@intel.com drivers/net/b44: Change to non-atomic bit operations on pwol_mask
Andreas Kemnade andreas@kemnade.info watchdog: rn5t618_wdt: fix module aliases
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org zd1211rw: fix storage endpoint lookup
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org rtl8xxxu: fix interface sanity check
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org brcmfmac: fix interface sanity check
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ath9k: fix storage endpoint lookup
Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com staging: vt6656: Fix false Tx excessive retries reporting.
Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com staging: vt6656: use NULLFUCTION stack on mac80211
Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com staging: vt6656: correct packet types for CTS protect, mode.
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com staging: wlan-ng: ensure error return is actually returned
Andrey Shvetsov andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de staging: most: net: fix buffer overflow
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: ir-usb: fix IrLAP framing
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: ir-usb: fix link-speed handling
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: ir-usb: add missing endpoint sanity check
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org rsi_91x_usb: fix interface sanity check
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org orinoco_usb: fix interface sanity check
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Add missing copy ops check before clearing buffer
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 7 +- arch/arm64/boot/Makefile | 2 +- crypto/af_alg.c | 6 +- crypto/pcrypt.c | 3 +- drivers/atm/eni.c | 4 +- drivers/char/ttyprintk.c | 15 ++- drivers/clk/mmp/clk-of-mmp2.c | 2 +- drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c | 2 +- drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-i2c.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/digitv.c | 10 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-urb.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_debugfs.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/xgmac_mdio.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 37 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 5 - drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/sonic.c | 109 ++++++++++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/sonic.h | 25 ++-- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c | 1 + .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.c | 2 + drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 9 +- drivers/net/wan/sdla.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/airo.c | 20 ++- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_usb.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_scsi.c | 3 + drivers/staging/most/aim-network/networking.c | 10 ++ drivers/staging/vt6656/device.h | 2 + drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c | 6 +- drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 1 + drivers/staging/vt6656/rxtx.c | 26 ++-- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c | 3 + drivers/usb/serial/ir-usb.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++----- drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h | 7 +- drivers/watchdog/rn5t618_wdt.c | 1 + fs/namei.c | 4 +- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 2 + include/linux/usb/irda.h | 13 +- mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +- net/core/utils.c | 20 ++- net/ipv4/ip_vti.c | 13 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 13 +- net/sched/ematch.c | 3 + net/wireless/wext-core.c | 3 +- sound/core/pcm_native.c | 2 +- 53 files changed, 418 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)