This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.270 release. There are 31 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, 26 May 2021 15:23:11 +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-4.4.270-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 4.4.270-rc1
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp tty: vt: always invoke vc->vc_sw->con_resize callback
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk vt: Fix character height handling with VT_RESIZEX
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk vgacon: Record video mode changes with VT_RESIZEX
Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente igormtorrente@gmail.com video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Tom Seewald tseewald@gmail.com qlcnic: Add null check after calling netdev_alloc_skb
Phillip Potter phil@philpotter.co.uk leds: lp5523: check return value of lp5xx_read and jump to cleanup code
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org net: rtlwifi: properly check for alloc_workqueue() failure
Anirudh Rayabharam mail@anirudhrb.com net: stmicro: handle clk_prepare() failure during init
Du Cheng ducheng2@gmail.com ethernet: sun: niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read()
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "niu: fix missing checks of niu_pci_eeprom_read"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "qlcnic: Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org cdrom: gdrom: initialize global variable at init time
Atul Gopinathan atulgopinathan@gmail.com cdrom: gdrom: deallocate struct gdrom_unit fields in remove_gdrom
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "gdrom: fix a memory leak bug"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ecryptfs: replace BUG_ON with error handling code"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "hwmon: (lm80) fix a missing check of bus read in lm80 probe"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "leds: lp5523: fix a missing check of return value of lp55xx_read"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "net: stmicro: fix a missing check of clk_prepare"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference"
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm snapshot: fix crash with transient storage and zero chunk size
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm snapshot: fix a crash when an origin has no snapshots
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen-pciback: reconfigure also from backend watch handler
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region"
Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: bebob/oxfw: fix Kconfig entry for Mackie d.2 Pro
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Validate MS endpoint descriptors
Ronnie Sahlberg lsahlber@redhat.com cifs: fix memory leak in smb2_copychunk_range
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com ptrace: make ptrace() fail if the tracee changed its pid unexpectedly
Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix error return code in qla82xx_write_flash_dword()
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr openrisc: Fix a memory leak
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/openrisc/kernel/setup.c | 2 + drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c | 13 +++-- drivers/hwmon/lm80.c | 11 +---- drivers/leds/leds-lp5523.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 6 +-- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sunxi.c | 8 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c | 32 ++++++++----- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 19 ++++---- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c | 3 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 6 +-- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2 +- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 56 ++++++++++++---------- drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c | 21 ++++---- drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c | 5 -- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/xenbus.c | 22 +++++++-- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 2 + fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 6 +-- include/linux/console_struct.h | 1 + kernel/ptrace.c | 18 ++++++- sound/firewire/Kconfig | 4 +- sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c | 1 - sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 4 -- sound/usb/midi.c | 4 ++ 27 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)