This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.273 release. There are 34 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, 16 Jun 2021 10:26:30 +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-4.4.273-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 4.4.273-rc1
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()
Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com scsi: core: Only put parent device if host state differs from SHOST_CREATED
Dai Ngo dai.ngo@oracle.com NFSv4: nfs4_proc_set_acl needs to restore NFS_CAP_UIDGID_NOMAP on error.
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com kvm: fix previous commit for 32-bit builds
Leo Yan leo.yan@linaro.org perf session: Correct buffer copying when peeking events
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com NFS: Fix a potential NULL dereference in nfs_get_client()
Marco Elver elver@google.com perf: Fix data race between pin_count increment/decrement
Linyu Yuan linyyuan@codeaurora.com usb: gadget: eem: fix wrong eem header operation
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: quatech2: fix control-request directions
Alexandre GRIVEAUX agriveaux@deutnet.info USB: serial: omninet: add device id for Zyxel Omni 56K Plus
George McCollister george.mccollister@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add NovaTech OrionMX product ID
Marian-Cristian Rotariu marian.c.rotariu@gmail.com usb: dwc3: ep0: fix NULL pointer exception
Maciej Żenczykowski maze@google.com USB: f_ncm: ncm_bitrate (speed) is unsigned
Alexander Kuznetsov wwfq@yandex-team.ru cgroup1: don't allow '\n' in renaming
Ritesh Harjani riteshh@linux.ibm.com btrfs: return value from btrfs_mark_extent_written() in case of error
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com kvm: avoid speculation-based attacks from out-of-range memslot accesses
Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz i2c: mpc: implement erratum A-004447 workaround
Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz i2c: mpc: Make use of i2c_recover_bus()
Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz powerpc/fsl: set fsl,i2c-erratum-a004447 flag for P1010 i2c controllers
Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz powerpc/fsl: set fsl,i2c-erratum-a004447 flag for P2041 i2c controllers
Jiapeng Chong jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com bnx2x: Fix missing error code in bnx2x_iov_init_one()
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn MIPS: Fix kernel hang under FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER and PREEMPT_TRACER
Saubhik Mukherjee saubhik.mukherjee@gmail.com net: appletalk: cops: Fix data race in cops_probe1
Zong Li zong.li@sifive.com net: macb: ensure the device is available before accessing GEMGXL control registers
Dmitry Bogdanov d.bogdanov@yadro.com scsi: target: qla2xxx: Wait for stop_phase1 at WWN removal
Matt Wang wwentao@vmware.com scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Set correct residual data length
Zheyu Ma zheyuma97@gmail.com net/qla3xxx: fix schedule while atomic in ql_sem_spinlock
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com net: mdiobus: get rid of a BUG_ON()
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com netlink: disable IRQs for netlink_lock_table()
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com bonding: init notify_work earlier to avoid uninitialized use
Zheyu Ma zheyuma97@gmail.com isdn: mISDN: netjet: Fix crash in nj_probe:
Zou Wei zou_wei@huawei.com ASoC: sti-sas: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
Jeimon jjjinmeng.zhou@gmail.com net/nfc/rawsock.c: fix a permission check bug
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c | 12 +-- arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1010si-post.dtsi | 8 ++ arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p2041si-post.dtsi | 16 ++++ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/netjet.c | 1 - drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c | 4 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c | 2 + drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/ep0.c | 3 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_eem.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/quatech2.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/client.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 8 ++ fs/proc/base.c | 9 ++- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 11 ++- kernel/cgroup.c | 4 + kernel/events/core.c | 2 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 8 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 6 +- net/nfc/rawsock.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/sti-sas.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/session.c | 1 + 34 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)