This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.237 release. There are 46 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, 23 Sep 2020 16:20:12 +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-4.4.237-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 4.4.237-rc1

Adam Borowski kilobyte@angband.pl x86/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik@ozlabs.ru powerpc/dma: Fix dma_map_ops::get_required_mask

Quentin Perret qperret@google.com ehci-hcd: Move include to keep CRC stable

Tobias Diedrich tobiasdiedrich@gmail.com serial: 8250_pci: Add Realtek 816a and 816b

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Input: i8042 - add Entroware Proteus EL07R4 to nomux and reset lists

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com usblp: fix race between disconnect() and read()

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com USB: UAS: fix disconnect by unplugging a hub

Penghao penghao@uniontech.com USB: quirks: Add USB_QUIRK_IGNORE_REMOTE_WAKEUP quirk for BYD zhaoxin notebook

Thomas Bogendoerfer tsbogend@alpha.franken.de MIPS: SNI: Fix spurious interrupts

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp fbcon: Fix user font detection test at fbcon_resize().

Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org perf test: Free formats for perf pmu parse test

Thomas Bogendoerfer tsbogend@alpha.franken.de MIPS: SNI: Fix MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT

Evan Nimmo evan.nimmo@alliedtelesis.co.nz i2c: algo: pca: Reapply i2c bus settings after reset

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com rapidio: Replace 'select' DMAENGINES 'with depends on'

J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com SUNRPC: stop printk reading past end of string

James Smart james.smart@broadcom.com scsi: lpfc: Fix FLOGI/PLOGI receive race condition in pt2pt discovery

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn scsi: pm8001: Fix memleak in pm8001_exec_internal_task_abort

Olga Kornievskaia kolga@netapp.com NFSv4.1 handle ERR_DELAY error reclaiming locking state on delegation recall

Peter Oberparleiter oberpar@linux.ibm.com gcov: add support for GCC 10.1

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com usb: Fix out of sync data toggle if a configured device is reconfigured

Aleksander Morgado aleksander@aleksander.es USB: serial: option: add support for SIM7070/SIM7080/SIM7090 modules

Patrick Riphagen patrick.riphagen@xsens.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add IDs for Xsens Mti USB converter

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp video: fbdev: fix OOB read in vga_8planes_imageblit()

Wanpeng Li wanpengli@tencent.com KVM: VMX: Don't freeze guest when event delivery causes an APIC-access exit

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org vgacon: remove software scrollback support

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org fbcon: remove now unusued 'softback_lines' cursor() argument

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org fbcon: remove soft scrollback code

Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com rbd: require global CAP_SYS_ADMIN for mapping and unmapping

Hou Pu houpu@bytedance.com scsi: target: iscsi: Fix hang in iscsit_access_np() when getting tpg->np_login_sem

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix wrong address when faulting in pages in the search ioctl

Rustam Kovhaev rkovhaev@gmail.com staging: wlan-ng: fix out of bounds read in prism2sta_probe_usb()

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: core: add helpers to retrieve endpoints

Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:accel:mma8452: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:accel:bmc150-accel: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:light:ltr501 Fix timestamp alignment issue.

Angelo Compagnucci angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com iio: adc: mcp3422: fix locking on error path

Angelo Compagnucci angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com iio: adc: mcp3422: fix locking scope

Leon Romanovsky leonro@nvidia.com gcov: Disable gcov build with GCC 10

Rander Wang rander.wang@intel.com ALSA: hda: fix a runtime pm issue in SOF when integrated GPU is disabled

Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco: Add hard_header_len

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: initialize the shortform attr header padding entry

Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Set network_header before transmitting

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn firestream: Fix memleak in fs_open

Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com drivers/net/wan/lapbether: Added needed_tailroom

Luo Jiaxing luojiaxing@huawei.com scsi: libsas: Set data_dir as DMA_NONE if libata marks qc as NODATA

Dinh Nguyen dinguyen@kernel.org ARM: dts: socfpga: fix register entry for timer3 on Arria10

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/socfpga_arria10.dtsi | 2 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 + arch/mips/sni/a20r.c | 9 +- arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig | 1 - arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig | 1 - arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-iommu.c | 3 +- arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 1 + drivers/atm/firestream.c | 1 + drivers/block/rbd.c | 9 + drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pca.c | 35 ++-- drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c | 15 +- drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c | 11 +- drivers/iio/adc/mcp3422.c | 16 +- drivers/iio/light/ltr501.c | 15 +- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 16 ++ drivers/net/wan/hdlc_cisco.c | 1 + drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c | 3 + drivers/rapidio/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_sas.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c | 5 - drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c | 19 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c | 6 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.h | 3 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c | 3 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 11 + drivers/usb/class/usblp.c | 5 + drivers/usb/core/message.c | 91 ++++---- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 4 + drivers/usb/core/usb.c | 83 ++++++++ drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 1 + drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c | 1 - drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 2 + drivers/usb/storage/uas.c | 14 +- drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 25 --- drivers/video/console/bitblit.c | 11 +- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 338 +----------------------------- drivers/video/console/fbcon.h | 2 +- drivers/video/console/fbcon_ccw.c | 11 +- drivers/video/console/fbcon_cw.c | 11 +- drivers/video/console/fbcon_ud.c | 11 +- drivers/video/console/tileblit.c | 2 +- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 161 +------------- drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 3 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 7 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 4 +- include/linux/i2c-algo-pca.h | 15 ++ include/linux/usb.h | 35 ++++ kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c | 4 +- net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c | 4 +- sound/hda/hdac_device.c | 2 + tools/perf/tests/pmu.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 11 + tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 1 + 61 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 689 deletions(-)