This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.250 release. There are 19 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, 09 Jan 2021 14:08:13 +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-4.4.250-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 4.4.250-rc1

Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:magnetometer:mag3110: Fix alignment and data leak issues.

Jessica Yu jeyu@kernel.org module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call

Qinglang Miao miaoqinglang@huawei.com powerpc: sysdev: add missing iounmap() on error in mpic_msgr_probe()

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz quota: Don't overflow quota file offsets

Miroslav Benes mbenes@suse.cz module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Use bool for snd_seq_queue internal flags

Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab+huawei@kernel.org media: gp8psk: initialize stats at power control logic

Anant Thazhemadam anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells()

Rustam Kovhaev rkovhaev@gmail.com reiserfs: add check for an invalid ih_entry_count

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org of: fix linker-section match-table corruption

Petr Vorel petr.vorel@gmail.com uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h>

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix write-wakeup deadlocks

Stefan Haberland sth@linux.ibm.com s390/dasd: fix hanging device offline processing

Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236

Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda - Fix a wrong FIXUP for alc289 on Dell machines

Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Support Dell headset mode for ALC3271

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ALSA: usb-audio: fix sync-ep altsetting sanity check

Alberto Aguirre albaguirre@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: simplify set_sync_ep_implicit_fb_quirk

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Fix work handling in delayed HP detection

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-- arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/magnetometer/mag3110.c | 13 +++++++--- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/gp8psk.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 10 +++++++- drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c | 45 ++++++++++----------------------- fs/quota/quota_tree.c | 8 +++--- fs/reiserfs/stree.c | 6 +++++ include/linux/of.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/const.h | 5 ++++ include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h | 2 +- kernel/module.c | 6 +++-- sound/core/seq/seq_queue.h | 8 +++--- sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c | 16 ++++++++++-- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 25 +++++++++++++++--- sound/usb/pcm.c | 38 ++++++++++++---------------- 20 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)