This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 release.
There are 23 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.4.296-rc…
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(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 4.4.296-rc1
Juergen Gross <jgross(a)suse.com>
xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages
Juergen Gross <jgross(a)suse.com>
xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms
Juergen Gross <jgross(a)suse.com>
xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms
Juergen Gross <jgross(a)suse.com>
xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms
Nathan Chancellor <nathan(a)kernel.org>
Input: touchscreen - avoid bitwise vs logical OR warning
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre(a)linaro.org>
ARM: 8805/2: remove unneeded naked function usage
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor(a)gmail.com>
net: lan78xx: Avoid unnecessary self assignment
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli(a)gmail.com>
net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle
Yu Liao <liaoyu15(a)huawei.com>
timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive
Daniele Palmas <dnlplm(a)gmail.com>
USB: serial: option: add Telit FN990 compositions
Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de>
PCI/MSI: Clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL on error
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
USB: gadget: bRequestType is a bitfield, not a enum
Letu Ren <fantasquex(a)gmail.com>
igbvf: fix double free in `igbvf_probe`
Nathan Chancellor <nathan(a)kernel.org>
soc/tegra: fuse: Fix bitwise vs. logical OR warning
J. Bruce Fields <bfields(a)redhat.com>
nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race
Joe Thornber <ejt(a)redhat.com>
dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children()
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan(a)redhat.com>
recordmcount.pl: look for jgnop instruction as well as bcrl on s390
Felix Fietkau <nbd(a)nbd.name>
mac80211: send ADDBA requests using the tid/queue of the aggregation session
Armin Wolf <W_Armin(a)gmx.de>
hwmon: (dell-smm) Fix warning on /proc/i8k creation error
Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli(a)oracle.com>
net: netlink: af_netlink: Prevent empty skb by adding a check on len.
Ondrej Jirman <megous(a)megous.com>
i2c: rk3x: Handle a spurious start completion interrupt flag
Helge Deller <deller(a)gmx.de>
parisc/agp: Annotate parisc agp init functions with __init
Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk(a)linaro.org>
nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done
-------------
Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c | 35 ++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-feroceon.c | 98 ++++++++++-----------
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4mc.c | 19 ++--
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wb.c | 41 +++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wt.c | 37 ++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-xsc3.c | 71 +++++++--------
arch/arm/mm/copypage-xscale.c | 71 ++++++++-------
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 12 ++-
drivers/char/agp/parisc-agp.c | 6 +-
drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 7 +-
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rk3x.c | 4 +-
drivers/input/touchscreen/of_touchscreen.c | 18 ++--
drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 5 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.h | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 1 +
drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 13 ++-
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/pci/msi.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse-tegra.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse.h | 2 +-
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 30 ++++++-
drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/dbgp.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 8 ++
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 9 +-
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 3 +-
net/mac80211/agg-tx.c | 2 +-
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 5 ++
net/nfc/netlink.c | 6 +-
scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +-
34 files changed, 388 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)