This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.206 release. There are 92 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 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:42:37 +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-4.4.206-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 4.4.206-rc1

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix ACPI errors caused by too small buffer

Lionel Debieve lionel.debieve@st.com hwrng: stm32 - fix unbalanced pm_runtime_enable

Candle Sun candle.sun@unisoc.com HID: core: check whether Usage Page item is after Usage ID items

Dust Li dust.li@linux.alibaba.com net: sched: fix `tc -s class show` no bstats on class with nolock subqueues

John Rutherford john.rutherford@dektech.com.au tipc: fix link name length check

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com openvswitch: remove another BUG_ON()

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com openvswitch: drop unneeded BUG_ON() in ovs_flow_cmd_build_info()

Jouni Hogander jouni.hogander@unikie.com slip: Fix use-after-free Read in slip_open

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com openvswitch: fix flow command message size

Menglong Dong dong.menglong@zte.com.cn macvlan: schedule bc_work even if error

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de pwm: Clear chip_data in pwm_put()

Luca Ceresoli luca@lucaceresoli.net net: macb: fix error format in dev_err()

Eugen Hristev eugen.hristev@microchip.com media: v4l2-ctrl: fix flags for DO_WHITE_BALANCE

Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: bus: prefix device names on bus with the bus name

Fabio D'Urso fabiodurso@hotmail.it USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add device IDs for U-Blox C099-F9P

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com staging: rtl8192e: fix potential use after free

Boris Brezillon bbrezillon@kernel.org mtd: Remove a debug trace in mtdpart.c

Gen Zhang blackgod016574@gmail.com powerpc/pseries/dlpar: Fix a missing check in dlpar_parse_cc_property()

John Garry john.garry@huawei.com scsi: libsas: Check SMP PHY control function result

James Morse james.morse@arm.com ACPI / APEI: Switch estatus pool to use vmalloc memory

John Garry john.garry@huawei.com scsi: libsas: Support SATA PHY connection rate unmatch fixing during discovery

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com net: dev: Use unsigned integer as an argument to left-shift

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: fix possible overflow in __sk_mem_raise_allocated()

Bert Kenward bkenward@solarflare.com sfc: initialise found bitmap in efx_ef10_mtd_probe

Hoang Le hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au tipc: fix skb may be leaky in tipc_link_input

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com decnet: fix DN_IFREQ_SIZE

Edward Cree ecree@solarflare.com sfc: suppress duplicate nvmem partition types in efx_ef10_mtd_probe

Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru net/core/neighbour: fix kmemleak minimal reference count for hash tables

Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru net/core/neighbour: tell kmemleak about hash tables

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump

Boris Brezillon bbrezillon@kernel.org mtd: Check add_mtd_device() ret code

Olof Johansson olof@lixom.net lib/genalloc.c: include vmalloc.h

Huang Shijie sjhuang@iluvatar.ai lib/genalloc.c: use vzalloc_node() to allocate the bitmap

Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: clear journal dirty flag after shutdown journal

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu atl1e: checking the status of atl1e_write_phy_reg

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu net: stmicro: fix a missing check of clk_prepare

Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at um: Make GCOV depend on !KCOV

Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu net/net_namespace: Check the return value of register_pernet_subsys()

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu regulator: tps65910: fix a missing check of return value

Luc Van Oostenryck luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com drbd: fix print_st_err()'s prototype to match the definition

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg@linbit.com drbd: reject attach of unsuitable uuids even if connected

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org powerpc/44x/bamboo: Fix PCI range

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc/mm: Make NULL pointer deferences explicit on bad page faults.

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc/prom: fix early DEBUG messages

Kyle Roeschley kyle.roeschley@ni.com ath6kl: Fix off by one error in scan completion

Kyle Roeschley kyle.roeschley@ni.com ath6kl: Only use match sets when firmware supports it

Varun Prakash varun@chelsio.com scsi: csiostor: fix incorrect dma device in case of vport

Anatoliy Glagolev glagolig@gmail.com scsi: qla2xxx: deadlock by configfs_depend_item

Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org RDMA/srp: Propagate ib_post_send() failures to the SCSI mid-layer

Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org openrisc: Fix broken paths to arch/or32

Alexander Shiyan shc_work@mail.ru serial: max310x: Fix tx_empty() callback

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu drivers/regulator: fix a missing check of return value

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc/xmon: fix dump_segments()

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr powerpc/book3s/32: fix number of bats in p/v_block_mapped()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com IB/qib: Fix an error code in qib_sdma_verbs_send()

Nick Bowler nbowler@draconx.ca xfs: Align compat attrlist_by_handle with native implementation.

Bob Peterson rpeterso@redhat.com gfs2: take jdata unstuff into account in do_grow

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer@who-t.net HID: doc: fix wrong data structure reference for UHID_OUTPUT

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be pinctrl: sh-pfc: sh7734: Fix shifted values in IPSR10

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be pinctrl: sh-pfc: sh7264: Fix PFCR3 and PFCR0 register configuration

Michael Mueller mimu@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: unregister debug feature on failing arch init

Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com xen/pciback: Check dev_data before using it

Josef Bacik jbacik@fb.com btrfs: only track ref_heads in delayed_ref_updates

Lepton Wu ytht.net@gmail.com VSOCK: bind to random port for VMADDR_PORT_ANY

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org gpiolib: Fix return value of gpio_to_desc() stub if !GPIOLIB

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com microblaze: move "... is ready" messages to arch/microblaze/Makefile

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com microblaze: adjust the help to the real behavior

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com ubi: Do not drop UBI device reference before using

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com ubi: Put MTD device after it is not used

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: require both realtime inodes to mount

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com rtl818x: fix potential use after free

Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org mwifiex: debugfs: correct histogram spacing, formatting

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com mwifiex: fix potential NULL dereference and use after free

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: user - support incremental algorithm dumps

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI / LPSS: Ignore acpi_device_fix_up_power() return value

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: ks8695: fix section mismatch warning

Thomas Meyer thomas@m3y3r.de PM / AVS: SmartReflex: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed

Suzuki K Poulose Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com arm64: smp: Handle errors reported by the firmware

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Fix HP SDC hpa address output

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Fix serio address output

Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com ARM: dts: imx53-voipac-dmm-668: Fix memory node duplication

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de ARM: debug-imx: only define DEBUG_IMX_UART_PORT if needed

James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix dif and first burst use in write commands

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com block: drbd: remove a stray unlock in __drbd_send_protocol()

Ilya Leoshkevich iii@linux.ibm.com scripts/gdb: fix debugging modules compiled with hot/cold partitioning

Jeroen Hofstee jhofstee@victronenergy.com can: c_can: D_CAN: c_can_chip_config(): perform a sofware reset on open

Jeroen Hofstee jhofstee@victronenergy.com can: peak_usb: report bus recovery as well

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org reset: fix reset_control_ops kerneldoc comment

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com clk: samsung: exynos5420: Preserve PLL configuration during suspend/resume

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ASoC: kirkwood: fix external clock probe defer

Xiaojun Sang xsang@codeaurora.org ASoC: compress: fix unsigned integer overflow check

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Diffstat:

Documentation/hid/uhid.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | 28 ++++++------ arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-voipac-dmm-668.dtsi | 8 +--- arch/arm/mach-ks8695/board-acs5k.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 1 + arch/microblaze/Makefile | 12 ++--- arch/microblaze/boot/Makefile | 4 -- arch/openrisc/kernel/entry.S | 2 +- arch/openrisc/kernel/head.S | 2 +- arch/powerpc/boot/dts/bamboo.dts | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 6 +-- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 17 ++++---- arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 4 ++ arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 2 +- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 17 ++++++-- arch/um/Kconfig.debug | 1 + crypto/crypto_user.c | 37 ++++++++-------- drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c | 7 +-- drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 30 ++++++------- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c | 1 - drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 6 +-- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 19 ++++++++ drivers/block/drbd/drbd_state.h | 2 +- drivers/char/hw_random/stm32-rng.c | 8 ++++ drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5420.c | 6 +++ drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_sdma.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 1 + drivers/input/serio/gscps2.c | 4 +- drivers/input/serio/hp_sdc.c | 4 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls.c | 1 + drivers/misc/mei/bus.c | 9 ++-- drivers/mtd/mtdcore.h | 2 +- drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 35 ++++++++++++--- drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can.c | 26 +++++++++++ drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb.c | 15 ++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 12 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c | 29 ++++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sunxi.c | 4 +- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 3 +- drivers/net/slip/slip.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/debugfs.c | 14 +++--- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c | 18 ++++---- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187/dev.c | 3 +- drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-sh7264.c | 9 +++- drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-sh7734.c | 16 +++---- drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c | 6 +-- drivers/power/avs/smartreflex.c | 3 +- drivers/pwm/core.c | 1 + drivers/pwm/pwm-samsung.c | 1 - drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c | 5 ++- drivers/regulator/tps65910-regulator.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_init.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 29 +++++++++++- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_scsi.c | 18 ++++++++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.c | 48 ++++---------------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/tcm_qla2xxx.h | 3 -- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 5 ++- drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c | 7 +-- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 ++ drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 7 +++ drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.c | 3 -- fs/gfs2/bmap.c | 2 + fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 6 +-- fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c | 6 +++ fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c | 4 +- include/linux/gpio/consumer.h | 2 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +- include/linux/reset-controller.h | 2 +- include/net/sock.h | 2 +- lib/genalloc.c | 5 ++- net/core/neighbour.c | 13 ++++-- net/core/net_namespace.c | 3 +- net/core/sock.c | 2 +- net/decnet/dn_dev.c | 2 +- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 17 ++++++-- net/sched/sch_mq.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_mqprio.c | 3 +- net/sched/sch_multiq.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_prio.c | 2 +- net/tipc/link.c | 2 +- net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 8 +++- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 7 ++- scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py | 3 +- sound/core/compress_offload.c | 2 +- sound/soc/kirkwood/kirkwood-i2s.c | 8 ++-- 93 files changed, 493 insertions(+), 271 deletions(-)