This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.208 release. There are 137 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 Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:02:41 +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-4.4.208-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 4.4.208-rc1
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: do not send empty skb from tcp_write_xmit()
Faiz Abbas faiz_abbas@ti.com mmc: sdhci: Update the tuning failed messages to pr_debug level
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com hrtimer: Annotate lockless access to timer->state
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: icmp: fix data-race in cmp_global_allow()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com netfilter: bridge: make sure to pull arp header in br_nf_forward_arp()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com 6pack,mkiss: fix possible deadlock
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: ebtables: compat: reject all padding in matches/watchers
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de net: davinci_cpdma: use dma_addr_t for DMA address
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org filldir[64]: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() for bad directory entries
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Make filldir[64]() verify the directory entry filename is valid
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda - Downgrade error message for single-cmd fallback
Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org kernel: sysctl: make drop_caches write-only
Ding Xiang dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com ocfs2: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.ibm.com s390/cpum_sf: Check for SDBT and SDB consistency
Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com libfdt: define INT32_MAX and UINT32_MAX in libfdt_env.h
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf regs: Make perf_reg_name() return "unknown" instead of NULL
Diego Elio Pettenò flameeyes@flameeyes.com cdrom: respect device capabilities during opening action
Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com scripts/kallsyms: fix definitely-lost memory leak
Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com gpio: mpc8xxx: Don't overwrite default irq_set_type callback
Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org scsi: target: iscsi: Wait for all commands to finish before freeing a session
peter chang dpf@google.com scsi: pm80xx: Fix for SATA device discovery
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely
Blaž Hrastnik blaz@mxxn.io HID: Improve Windows Precision Touchpad detection.
Coly Li colyli@suse.de bcache: at least try to shrink 1 node in bch_mca_scan()
Robert Jarzmik robert.jarzmik@free.fr clk: pxa: fix one of the pxa RTC clocks
Gustavo L. F. Walbon gwalbon@linux.ibm.com powerpc/security: Fix wrong message when RFI Flush is disable
David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com powerpc/pseries/cmm: Implement release() function for sysfs device
Bean Huo beanhuo@micron.com scsi: ufs: fix potential bug which ends in system hang
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: fix: Coverity: lpfc_cmpl_els_rsp(): Null pointer dereferences
Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru fs/quota: handle overflows of sysctl fs.quota.* and report as unsigned long
Lee Jones lee.jones@linaro.org mfd: mfd-core: Honour Device Tree's request to disable a child-device
Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net irqchip: ingenic: Error out if IRQ domain creation failed
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: Enable parent IRQ if necessary
Jeffrey Hugo jeffrey.l.hugo@gmail.com clk: qcom: Allow constant ratio freq tables for rcg
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix duplicate unreg_rpi error in port offline flow
Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org scsi: tracing: Fix handling of TRANSFER LENGTH == 0 for READ(6) and WRITE(6)
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz jbd2: Fix statistics for the number of logged blocks
Anthony Steinhauser asteinhauser@google.com powerpc/security/book3s64: Report L1TF status in sysfs
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com clocksource/drivers/asm9260: Add a check for of_clk_get
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com dma-debug: add a schedule point in debug_dma_dump_mappings()
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc/pseries: Mark accumulate_stolen_time() as notrace
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com scsi: csiostor: Don't enable IRQs too early
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix SLI3 hba in loop mode not discovering devices
David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de scsi: target: compare full CHAP_A Algorithm strings
Thierry Reding treding@nvidia.com iommu/tegra-smmu: Fix page tables in > 4 GiB memory
Evan Green evgreen@chromium.org Input: atmel_mxt_ts - disable IRQ across suspend
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix locking on mailbox command completion
Sreekanth Reddy sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com scsi: mpt3sas: Fix clear pending bit in ioctl status
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to show function entry line as probe-able
Yangbo Lu yangbo.lu@nxp.com mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: fix P2020 errata handling
Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc/irq: fix stack overflow verification
Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: check for directory entries too close to block end
Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk staging: comedi: gsc_hpdi: check dma_alloc_coherent() return value
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: hp-wmi: Make buffer for HPWMI_FEATURE2_QUERY 128 bytes
Erkka Talvitie erkka.talvitie@vincit.fi USB: EHCI: Do not return -EPIPE when hub is disconnected
Suwan Kim suwan.kim027@gmail.com usbip: Fix error path of vhci_recv_ret_submit()
Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org net: dst: Force 4-byte alignment of dst_metrics
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: fully initialize v4 addr in some functions
Cristian Birsan cristian.birsan@microchip.com net: usb: lan78xx: Fix suspend/resume PHY register access error
Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk net: qlogic: Fix error paths in ql_alloc_large_buffers()
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com net: nfc: nci: fix a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in nci_uart_tty_receive()
Jiangfeng Xiao xiaojiangfeng@huawei.com net: hisilicon: Fix a BUG trigered by wrong bytes_compl
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk mod_devicetable: fix PHY module format
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com fjes: fix missed check in fjes_acpi_add
Mao Wenan maowenan@huawei.com af_packet: set defaule value for tmo
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Avoid possible info leaks from PCM stream buffers
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: fix removal logic of the tree mod log that leads to use-after-free issues
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: abort transaction after failed inode updates in create_subvol
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com btrfs: return error pointer from alloc_test_extent_buffer
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: do not call synchronize_srcu() in inode_tree_del
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net usb: xhci: Fix build warning seen with CONFIG_PM=n
Faiz Abbas faiz_abbas@ti.com Revert "mmc: sdhci: Fix incorrect switch to HS mode"
Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk net: phy: initialise phydev speed and duplex sanely
Hewenliang hewenliang4@huawei.com libtraceevent: Fix memory leakage in copy_filter_type
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au crypto: vmx - Avoid weird build failures
Corentin Labbe clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com crypto: sun4i-ss - Fix 64-bit size_t warnings on sun4i-ss-hash.c
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com fbtft: Make sure string is NULL terminated
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com iwlwifi: check kasprintf() return value
Omar Sandoval osandov@fb.com btrfs: don't prematurely free work in end_workqueue_fn()
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com spi: tegra20-slink: add missed clk_unprepare
Lianbo Jiang lijiang@redhat.com x86/crash: Add a forward declaration of struct kimage
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org cpufreq: Register drivers only after CPU devices have been registered
Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com parport: load lowlevel driver if ports not found
Ben Zhang benzh@chromium.org ASoC: rt5677: Mark reg RT5677_PWR_ANLG2 as volatile
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com spi: pxa2xx: Add missed security checks
Robert Richter rrichter@marvell.com EDAC/ghes: Fix grain calculation
Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com media: si470x-i2c: add missed operations in remove
Mike Isely isely@pobox.com media: pvrusb2: Fix oops on tear-down when radio support is not present
Miaoqing Pan miaoqing@codeaurora.org ath10k: fix get invalid tx rate for Mesh metric
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Filter out instances except for inlined subroutine and subprogram
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Skip end-of-sequence and non statement lines
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to show calling lines of inlined functions
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Return a better scope DIE if there is no best scope
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Skip overlapped location on searching variables
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to show inlined function callsite without entry_pc
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to show ranges of variables in functions without entry_pc
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to probe an inline function which has no entry pc
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Walk function lines in lexical blocks
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to list probe event with correct line number
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to find range-only function instance
Ping-Ke Shih pkshih@realtek.com rtlwifi: fix memory leak in rtl92c_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt()
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com spi: img-spfi: fix potential double release
Manish Chopra manishc@marvell.com bnx2x: Fix PF-VF communication over multi-cos queues.
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be pinctrl: sh-pfc: sh7734: Fix duplicate TCLK1_B
John Garry john.garry@huawei.com libata: Ensure ata_port probe has completed before detach
Yunfeng Ye yeyunfeng@huawei.com arm64: psci: Reduce the waiting time for cpu_psci_cpu_kill()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/ioapic: Prevent inconsistent state when moving an interrupt
Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu drm/gma500: fix memory disclosures due to uninitialized bytes
Mattijs Korpershoek mkorpershoek@baylibre.com Bluetooth: hci_core: fix init for HCI_USER_CHANNEL
Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal@bootlin.com iio: adc: max1027: Reset the device at probe time
Jin Yao yao.jin@linux.intel.com perf report: Add warning when libunwind not compiled in
Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen@google.com x86/mm: Use the correct function type for native_set_fixmap()
Stephan Gerhold stephan@gerhold.net extcon: sm5502: Reset registers during initialization
Benoit Parrot bparrot@ti.com media: ti-vpe: vpe: Make sure YUYV is set as default format
Benoit Parrot bparrot@ti.com media: ti-vpe: vpe: fix a v4l2-compliance failure about frame sequence number
Benoit Parrot bparrot@ti.com media: ti-vpe: vpe: fix a v4l2-compliance warning about invalid pixel format
Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com mwifiex: pcie: Fix memory leak in mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring
Daniel T. Lee danieltimlee@gmail.com samples: pktgen: fix proc_cmd command result check logic
Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com media: flexcop-usb: fix NULL-ptr deref in flexcop_usb_transfer_init()
Yizhuo yzhai003@ucr.edu regulator: max8907: Fix the usage of uninitialized variable in max8907_regulator_probe()
Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com hwrng: omap3-rom - Call clk_disable_unprepare() on exit only if not idled
Veeraiyan Chidambaram veeraiyan.chidambaram@in.bosch.com usb: renesas_usbhs: add suspend event support in gadget mode
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com tools/power/cpupower: Fix initializer override in hsw_ext_cstates
Janusz Krzysztofik jmkrzyszt@gmail.com media: ov6650: Fix stored frame format not in sync with hardware
Benoit Parrot bparrot@ti.com media: i2c: ov2659: Fix missing 720p register config
Benoit Parrot bparrot@ti.com media: i2c: ov2659: fix s_stream return value
Benoit Parrot bparrot@ti.com media: am437x-vpfe: Setting STD to current value is not an error
Max Gurtovoy maxg@mellanox.com IB/iser: bound protection_sg size by data_sg size
Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com rtlwifi: prevent memory leak in rtl_usb_probe
Connor Kuehl connor.kuehl@canonical.com staging: rtl8188eu: fix possible null dereference
Lukasz Majewski lukma@denx.de spi: Add call to spi_slave_abort() function when spidev driver is released
Krzysztof Wilczynski kw@linux.com iio: light: bh1750: Resolve compiler warning and make code more readable
Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org drm: mst: Fix query_payload ack reply struct
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Avoid endless loop
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Keep power on during processing DSP response
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: handle ENOENT in btrfs_uuid_tree_iterate
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: do not leak reloc root if we fail to read the fs root
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/libfdt_env.h | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c | 15 ++-- arch/powerpc/boot/libfdt_env.h | 2 + arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c | 21 +++--- arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c | 5 ++ arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c | 17 ++++- arch/sh/include/cpu-sh4/cpu/sh7734.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/crash.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 9 ++- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 4 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 3 + drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 12 +++- drivers/char/hw_random/omap3-rom-rng.c | 3 +- drivers/clk/pxa/clk-pxa27x.c | 1 + drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rcg2.c | 2 + drivers/clk/qcom/common.c | 3 + drivers/clocksource/asm9260_timer.c | 4 ++ drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 7 ++ drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-hash.c | 12 ++-- drivers/crypto/vmx/Makefile | 6 +- drivers/edac/ghes_edac.c | 10 ++- drivers/extcon/extcon-sm5502.c | 4 ++ drivers/extcon/extcon-sm5502.h | 2 + drivers/gpio/gpio-mpc8xxx.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 4 ++ drivers/iio/adc/max1027.c | 8 +++ drivers/iio/light/bh1750.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iscsi_iser.c | 1 + drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c | 4 ++ drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c | 11 +-- drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c | 4 ++ drivers/irqchip/irq-ingenic.c | 15 ++-- drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 2 + drivers/media/i2c/ov2659.c | 18 +++-- drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/ov6650.c | 9 ++- drivers/media/platform/am437x/am437x-vpfe.c | 4 ++ drivers/media/platform/ti-vpe/vpe.c | 16 +++-- drivers/media/radio/si470x/radio-si470x-i2c.c | 2 + drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c | 8 ++- drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c | 9 ++- drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c | 5 ++ drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-esdhc.c | 4 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.c | 16 +++-- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c | 8 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_cpdma.c | 12 ++-- drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c | 3 + drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c | 4 +- drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 4 +- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/led.c | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/led.c | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c | 5 +- .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 5 +- drivers/parport/share.c | 21 ++++++ drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-sh7734.c | 4 +- drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c | 2 +- drivers/regulator/max8907-regulator.c | 15 +++- drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_lnode.c | 15 ++-- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_nportdisc.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c | 15 +++- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm80xx_hwi.c | 2 + drivers/scsi/scsi_trace.c | 11 +-- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 2 +- drivers/spi/spi-img-spfi.c | 2 + drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx.c | 6 ++ drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c | 5 +- drivers/spi/spidev.c | 3 + drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/gsc_hpdi.c | 10 +++ drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c | 4 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 10 ++- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c | 13 +++- drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/common.h | 3 +- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_gadget.c | 12 +++- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c | 13 ++-- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 10 ++- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/tests/qgroup-tests.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/uuid-tree.c | 2 + fs/ext4/dir.c | 5 ++ fs/ext4/namei.c | 11 ++- fs/jbd2/commit.c | 4 +- fs/ocfs2/acl.c | 4 +- fs/quota/dquot.c | 29 ++++---- fs/readdir.c | 40 +++++++++++ include/drm/drm_dp_mst_helper.h | 2 +- include/linux/hrtimer.h | 14 ++-- include/linux/libfdt_env.h | 3 + include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 4 +- include/linux/quota.h | 2 +- include/net/dst.h | 2 +- include/scsi/iscsi_proto.h | 1 + kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 11 +-- lib/dma-debug.c | 1 + net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 9 ++- net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 3 + net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 33 +++++---- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 11 +-- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 8 +++ net/nfc/nci/uart.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 3 +- net/sctp/protocol.c | 4 ++ samples/pktgen/functions.sh | 17 +++-- scripts/kallsyms.c | 2 + sound/core/pcm_native.c | 4 ++ sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c | 7 +- sound/soc/codecs/rt5677.c | 1 + tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c | 9 ++- tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 7 ++ tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++---- tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.h | 3 + tools/perf/util/perf_regs.h | 2 +- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 43 ++++++++++-- .../cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/hsw_ext_idle.c | 1 - 134 files changed, 731 insertions(+), 241 deletions(-)