This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.173 release. There are 65 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 Feb 6 10:35:30 UTC 2019. 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-4.4.173-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 4.4.173-rc1

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ipv4: frags: precedence bug in ip_expire()

Taehee Yoo ap420073@gmail.com ip: frags: fix crash in ip_do_fragment()

Michal Kubecek mkubecek@suse.cz net: ipv4: do not handle duplicate fragments as overlapping

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com ip: process in-order fragments efficiently

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com ip: add helpers to process in-order fragments faster.

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de ipv6: defrag: drop non-last frags smaller than min mtu

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com ip: use rb trees for IP frag queue.

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com inet: frags: get rif of inet_frag_evicting()

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com net: modify skb_rbtree_purge to return the truesize of all purged skbs.

Peter Oskolkov posk@google.com ip: discard IPv4 datagrams with overlapping segments.

Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com fs: don't scan the inode cache before SB_BORN is set

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com mm: migrate: don't rely on __PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier

Paulo Alcantara paulo@paulo.ac cifs: Always resolve hostname before reconnecting

Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com mm, oom: fix use-after-free in oom_kill_process

Andrei Vagin avagin@gmail.com kernel/exit.c: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com mmc: sdhci-iproc: handle mmc_of_parse() errors during probe

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Drop mapping of 0x33 and 0x34 scan codes

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Map 0x35 to KEY_SCREENLOCK

Andreas Gruenbacher agruenba@redhat.com gfs2: Revert "Fix loop in gfs2_rbm_find"

James Morse james.morse@arm.com arm64: hyp-stub: Forbid kprobing of the hyp-stub

Koen Vandeputte koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com ARM: cns3xxx: Fix writing to wrong PCI config registers after alignment

Waiman Long longman@redhat.com fs/dcache: Fix incorrect nr_dentry_unused accounting in shrink_dcache_sb()

Pavel Shilovsky pshilov@microsoft.com CIFS: Do not count -ENODATA as failure for query directory

Jacob Wen jian.w.wen@oracle.com l2tp: fix reading optional fields of L2TPv3

Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com l2tp: remove l2specific_len dependency in l2tp_core

Mathias Thore mathias.thore@infinera.com ucc_geth: Reset BQL queue when stopping device

Bernard Pidoux f6bvp@free.fr net/rose: fix NULL ax25_cb kernel panic

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com netrom: switch to sock timer API

Aya Levin ayal@mellanox.com net/mlx4_core: Add masking for a few queries on HCA caps

Jacob Wen jian.w.wen@oracle.com l2tp: copy 4 more bytes to linear part if necessary

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to an address

Jimmy Durand Wesolowski jdw@amazon.de fs: add the fsnotify call to vfs_iter_write

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com s390/smp: Fix calling smp_call_ipl_cpu() from ipl CPU

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "loop: Fold __loop_release into loop_release"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "loop: Get rid of loop_index_mutex"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "loop: Fix double mutex_unlock(&loop_ctl_mutex) in loop_control_ioctl()"

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com f2fs: read page index before freeing

Shaokun Zhang zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com arm64: mm: remove page_mapping check in __sync_icache_dcache

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com irqchip/gic-v3-its: Align PCI Multi-MSI allocation on their size

Milian Wolff milian.wolff@kdab.com perf unwind: Take pgoff into account when reporting elf to libdwfl

Martin Vuille jpmv27@aim.com perf unwind: Unwind with libdw doesn't take symfs into account

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre@linaro.org vt: invoke notifier on screen size change

Oliver Hartkopp socketcan@hartkopp.net can: bcm: check timer values before ktime conversion

Manfred Schlaegl manfred.schlaegl@ginzinger.com can: dev: __can_get_echo_skb(): fix bogous check for non-existing skb by removing it

Daniel Drake drake@endlessm.com x86/kaslr: Fix incorrect i8254 outb() parameters

Alexander Popov alex.popov@linux.com KVM: x86: Fix single-step debugging

Tom Panfil tom@steelseries.com Input: xpad - add support for SteelSeries Stratus Duo

Pavel Shilovsky pshilov@microsoft.com CIFS: Fix possible hang during async MTU reads and writes

Paul Fulghum paulkf@microgate.com tty/n_hdlc: fix __might_sleep warning

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org tty: Handle problem if line discipline does not have receive_buf

Michael Straube straube.linux@gmail.com staging: rtl8188eu: Add device code for D-Link DWA-121 rev B1

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com char/mwave: fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability

Gerald Schaefer gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com s390/smp: fix CPU hotplug deadlock with CPU rescan

Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@de.ibm.com s390/early: improve machine detection

Eugeniy Paltsev Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com ARC: perf: map generic branches to correct hardware condition

Kangjie Lu kjlu@umn.edu ASoC: atom: fix a missing check of snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages

Charles Yeh charlesyeh522@gmail.com USB: serial: pl2303: add new PID to support PL2303TB

Max Schulze max.schulze@posteo.de USB: serial: simple: add Motorola Tetra TPG2200 device id

Vijay Viswanath vviswana@codeaurora.org mmc: Kconfig: Enable CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_IO_ACCESSORS

Yunjian Wang wangyunjian@huawei.com net: bridge: Fix ethernet header pointer before check skb forwardable

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com net_sched: refetch skb protocol for each filter

Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com net: ipv4: Fix memory leak in network namespace dismantle

Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com openvswitch: Avoid OOB read when parsing flow nlattrs

Ross Lagerwall ross.lagerwall@citrix.com net: Fix usage of pskb_trim_rcsum

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/include/asm/perf_event.h | 3 +- arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/pcie.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 2 + arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 4 - arch/s390/kernel/early.c | 4 +- arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 2 + arch/s390/kernel/smp.c | 12 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +- drivers/base/core.c | 2 + drivers/block/loop.c | 47 +-- drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c | 7 + drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 3 + drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 25 +- drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-iproc.c | 5 +- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 27 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 75 +++-- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 3 +- drivers/s390/char/sclp_config.c | 2 + drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 1 + drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c | 1 + drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 3 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.h | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial-simple.c | 3 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 53 ++++ fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 6 +- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 4 +- fs/dcache.c | 6 +- fs/f2fs/node.c | 4 +- fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 2 +- fs/read_write.c | 4 +- fs/super.c | 30 +- include/linux/kobject.h | 17 ++ include/linux/skbuff.h | 5 +- include/net/inet_frag.h | 12 +- include/net/ip_fib.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/snmp.h | 1 + kernel/exit.c | 12 +- mm/migrate.c | 7 +- mm/oom_kill.c | 8 + net/bridge/br_forward.c | 7 +- net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c | 1 + net/bridge/netfilter/nft_reject_bridge.c | 1 + net/can/bcm.c | 27 ++ net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 14 +- net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 16 +- net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 410 ++++++++++++++++----------- net/ipv4/ip_input.c | 1 + net/ipv4/proc.c | 1 + net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 3 + net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 6 + net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 9 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 43 +-- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 31 ++ net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 3 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 3 + net/netrom/nr_timer.c | 20 +- net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 2 +- net/rose/rose_route.c | 5 + net/sched/sch_api.c | 3 +- sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c | 8 +- tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c | 4 +- 70 files changed, 706 insertions(+), 347 deletions(-)