This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.286 release. There are 41 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 Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:32:44 +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-4.4.286-rc2... 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 4.4.286-rc2
NeilBrown neilb@suse.com cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL.
Anirudh Rayabharam mail@anirudhrb.com HID: usbhid: free raw_report buffers in usbhid_stop
Jozsef Kadlecsik kadlec@netfilter.org netfilter: ipset: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls
F.A.Sulaiman asha.16@itfac.mrt.ac.lk HID: betop: fix slab-out-of-bounds Write in betop_probe
Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com arm64: Extend workaround for erratum 1024718 to all versions of Cortex-A55
Sai Krishna Potthuri lakshmi.sai.krishna.potthuri@xilinx.com EDAC/synopsys: Fix wrong value type assignment for edac_mode
yangerkun yangerkun@huawei.com ext4: fix potential infinite loop in ext4_dx_readdir()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix module reference leak
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix tty-registration error handling
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix tty registration race
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ipack: ipoctal: fix stack information leak
Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com e100: fix buffer overrun in e100_get_regs
Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com e100: fix length calculation in e100_get_regs_len
Andrea Claudi aclaudi@redhat.com ipvs: check that ip_vs_conn_tab_bits is between 8 and 20
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: fix use-after-free in CCMP/GCMP RX
Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente igormtorrente@gmail.com tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org qnx4: work around gcc false positive warning bug
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org spi: Fix tegra20 build with CONFIG_PM=n
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net net: 6pack: Fix tx timeout and slot time
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net alpha: Declare virt_to_phys and virt_to_bus parameter as pointer to volatile
Dan Li ashimida@linux.alibaba.com arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Use absolute_pointer() to define PAGE0
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org qnx4: avoid stringop-overread errors
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy from fixed memory location
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net m68k: Double cast io functions to unsigned long
Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com blktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs
Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.com scsi: iscsi: Adjust iface sysfs attr detection
Aya Levin ayal@nvidia.com net/mlx4_en: Don't allow aRFS for encapsulated packets
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org net: hso: fix muxed tty registration
Slark Xiao slark_xiao@163.com USB: serial: option: add device id for Foxconn T99W265
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com USB: serial: option: remove duplicate USB device ID
Carlo Lobrano c.lobrano@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit LN920 compositions
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com USB: serial: mos7840: remove duplicated 0xac24 device ID
Uwe Brandt uwe.brandt@gmail.com USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for GW Instek GDM-834x Digital Multimeter
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen/x86: fix PV trap handling on secondary processors
Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com cifs: fix incorrect check for null pointer in header_assemble
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com usb: musb: tusb6010: uninitialized data in tusb_fifo_write_unaligned()
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com usb: gadget: r8a66597: fix a loop in set_feature()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 6 +-- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 4 +- arch/m68k/include/asm/raw_io.h | 20 ++++---- arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 3 +- arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 15 +++--- drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-betopff.c | 13 +++-- drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 13 ++++- drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++------ drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c | 22 +++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 3 ++ drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c | 4 +- drivers/net/usb/hso.c | 12 ++--- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 8 +-- drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 21 +++++++- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/musb/tusb6010.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 2 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 11 +++- fs/cifs/connect.c | 5 +- fs/ext4/dir.c | 6 +-- fs/qnx4/dir.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++------- include/linux/compiler.h | 2 + include/linux/cred.h | 14 ++++-- kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 8 +++ net/mac80211/wpa.c | 6 +++ net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h | 4 +- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 ++ 35 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)