This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.235 release. There are 61 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, 04 Sep 2020 07:47:57 +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-4.4.235-rc2... 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 4.4.235-rc2

Hector Martin marcan@marcan.st ALSA: usb-audio: Update documentation comment for MS2109 quirk

Peilin Ye yepeilin.cs@gmail.com HID: hiddev: Fix slab-out-of-bounds write in hiddev_ioctl_usage()

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: check the right error variable in btrfs_del_dir_entries_in_log

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu usb: storage: Add unusual_uas entry for Sony PSZ drives

Tang Bin tangbin@cmss.chinamobile.com usb: host: ohci-exynos: Fix error handling in exynos_ohci_probe()

Cyril Roelandt tipecaml@gmail.com USB: Ignore UAS for JMicron JMS567 ATA/ATAPI Bridge

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com USB: quirks: Add no-lpm quirk for another Raydium touchscreen

Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: uas: Add quirk for PNY Pro Elite

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu USB: yurex: Fix bad gfp argument

Heikki Krogerus heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com device property: Fix the secondary firmware node handling in set_primary_fwnode()

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com PM: sleep: core: Fix the handling of pending runtime resume requests

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com xhci: Do warm-reset when both CAS and XDEV_RESUME are set

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de XEN uses irqdesc::irq_data_common::handler_data to store a per interrupt XEN data pointer which contains XEN specific information.

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz writeback: Fix sync livelock due to b_dirty_time processing

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz writeback: Avoid skipping inode writeback

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz writeback: Protect inode->i_io_list with inode->i_lock

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com serial: 8250: change lock order in serial8250_do_startup()

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de serial: pl011: Don't leak amba_ports entry on driver register error

Tamseel Shams m.shams@samsung.com serial: samsung: Removes the IRQ not found warning

George Kennedy george.kennedy@oracle.com vt_ioctl: change VT_RESIZEX ioctl to check for error return from vc_resize()

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp vt: defer kfree() of vc_screenbuf in vc_do_resize()

Evgeny Novikov novikov@ispras.ru USB: lvtest: return proper error code in probe

George Kennedy george.kennedy@oracle.com fbcon: prevent user font height or width change from causing potential out-of-bounds access

Sumera Priyadarsini sylphrenadin@gmail.com net: gianfar: Add of_node_put() before goto statement

Stanley Chu stanley.chu@mediatek.com scsi: ufs: Fix possible infinite loop in ufshcd_hold

Vineeth Vijayan vneethv@linux.ibm.com s390/cio: add cond_resched() in the slow_eval_known_fn() loop

zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com jbd2: abort journal if free a async write error metadata buffer

Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com jbd2: make sure jh have b_transaction set in refile/unfile_buffer

Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com i2c: rcar: in slave mode, clear NACK earlier

Zhi Chen zhichen@codeaurora.org Revert "ath10k: fix DMA related firmware crashes on multiple devices"

Changming Liu charley.ashbringer@gmail.com USB: sisusbvga: Fix a potential UB casued by left shifting a negative value

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de powerpc/spufs: add CONFIG_COREDUMP dependency

Evgeny Novikov novikov@ispras.ru media: davinci: vpif_capture: fix potential double free

Jason Baron jbaron@akamai.com EDAC/ie31200: Fallback if host bridge device is already initialized

Javed Hasan jhasan@marvell.com scsi: fcoe: Memory leak fix in fcoe_sysfs_fcf_del()

Xiubo Li xiubli@redhat.com ceph: fix potential mdsc use-after-free crash

Jing Xiangfeng jingxiangfeng@huawei.com scsi: iscsi: Do not put host in iscsi_set_flashnode_param()

Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk locking/lockdep: Fix overflow in presentation of average lock-time

Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu drm/nouveau: Fix reference count leak in nouveau_connector_detect

Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu drm/nouveau/drm/noveau: fix reference count leak in nouveau_fbcon_open

Peng Fan fanpeng@loongson.cn mips/vdso: Fix resource leaks in genvdso.c

Reto Schneider code@reto-schneider.ch rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Prevent leaking urb

Qiushi Wu wu000273@umn.edu PCI: Fix pci_create_slot() reference count leak

Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario desnesn@linux.ibm.com selftests/powerpc: Purge extra count_pmc() calls of ebb selftests

Dick Kennedy dick.kennedy@broadcom.com scsi: lpfc: Fix shost refcount mismatch when deleting vport

Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com drm/amdgpu/display: fix ref count leak when pm_runtime_get_sync fails

Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com drm/amdgpu: fix ref count leak in amdgpu_display_crtc_set_config

Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com drm/amd/display: fix ref count leak in amdgpu_drm_ioctl

Navid Emamdoost navid.emamdoost@gmail.com drm/amdgpu: fix ref count leak in amdgpu_driver_open_kms

Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu drm/radeon: fix multiple reference count leak

Qiushi Wu wu000273@umn.edu drm/amdkfd: Fix reference count leaks.

Bodo Stroesser bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com scsi: target: tcmu: Fix crash on ARM during cmd completion

Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju@tsinghua.edu.cn media: pci: ttpci: av7110: fix possible buffer overflow caused by bad DMA value in debiirq()

Qiushi Wu wu000273@umn.edu ASoC: tegra: Fix reference count leaks.

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org ALSA: pci: delete repeated words in comments

Vasant Hegde hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/pseries: Do not initiate shutdown when system is running on UPS

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com bonding: fix a potential double-unregister

Jarod Wilson jarod@redhat.com bonding: show saner speed for broadcast mode

Mahesh Bandewar maheshb@google.com ipvlan: fix device features

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com tipc: fix uninit skb->data in tipc_nl_compat_dumpit()

Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com net: Fix potential wrong skb->protocol in skb_vlan_untag()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/vdso/genvdso.c | 10 +++ arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/Kconfig | 1 + arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 1 - drivers/base/core.c | 12 ++-- drivers/base/power/main.c | 16 +++-- drivers/edac/ie31200_edac.c | 50 ++++++++++++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_connectors.c | 16 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_display.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_topology.c | 20 ++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_connectors.c | 20 ++++-- drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c | 4 ++ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rcar.c | 1 + drivers/media/pci/ttpci/av7110.c | 5 +- drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpif_capture.c | 2 - drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 24 +++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 25 +++++-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/hw.h | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 5 +- drivers/pci/slot.c | 6 +- drivers/s390/cio/css.c | 5 ++ drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_ctlr.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_vport.c | 26 +++---- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 5 +- drivers/target/target_core_user.c | 9 ++- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 9 ++- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c | 8 ++- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 12 +++- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 2 + drivers/usb/host/ohci-exynos.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c | 19 ++--- drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h | 14 ++++ drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 25 ++++++- drivers/xen/events/events_base.c | 16 ++--- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 10 +-- fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 14 +++- fs/fs-writeback.c | 83 ++++++++++++---------- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 26 +++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 8 ++- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 13 ++-- kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c | 2 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 4 +- net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 12 +++- sound/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c | 2 +- sound/pci/cs46xx/dsp_spos_scb_lib.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c | 2 +- sound/pci/ice1712/prodigy192.c | 2 +- sound/pci/oxygen/xonar_dg.c | 2 +- sound/soc/tegra/tegra30_ahub.c | 4 +- sound/soc/tegra/tegra30_i2s.c | 4 +- sound/usb/quirks-table.h | 4 +- .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/back_to_back_ebbs_test.c | 2 - .../selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/cycles_test.c | 2 - .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/cycles_with_freeze_test.c | 2 - .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/cycles_with_mmcr2_test.c | 2 - tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/ebb.c | 2 - .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/ebb_on_willing_child_test.c | 2 - .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/lost_exception_test.c | 1 - .../selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/multi_counter_test.c | 7 -- .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/multi_ebb_procs_test.c | 2 - .../selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/pmae_handling_test.c | 2 - .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/pmc56_overflow_test.c | 2 - 76 files changed, 445 insertions(+), 203 deletions(-)