This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.254 release. There are 24 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 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:59:01 +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-4.4.254-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 4.4.254-rc1

Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation

Pawel Wieczorkiewicz wipawel@amazon.de xen-blkback: set ring->xenblkd to NULL after kthread_stop()

Gaurav Kohli gkohli@codeaurora.org tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call

Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()"

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: avoid shift-out-of-bounds in tcindex_set_parms()

Matteo Croce mcroce@microsoft.com ipv6: create multicast route with RTPROT_KERNEL

Alexander Lobakin alobakin@pm.me skbuff: back tiny skbs with kmalloc() in __netdev_alloc_skb() too

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be sh_eth: Fix power down vs. is_opened flag ordering

Necip Fazil Yildiran fazilyildiran@gmail.com sh: dma: fix kconfig dependency for G2_DMA

Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com netfilter: rpfilter: mask ecn bits before fib lookup

Will Deacon will@kernel.org compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: make sure TRB is fully written before giving it to the controller

Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com usb: bdc: Make bdc pci driver depend on BROKEN

Eugene Korenevsky ekorenevsky@astralinux.ru ehci: fix EHCI host controller initialization sequence

Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de iio: ad5504: Fix setting power-down state

Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr can: dev: can_restart: fix use after free bug

Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/i2c/gm200: increase width of aux semaphore owner fields

Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/bios: fix issue shadowing expansion ROMs

Can Guo cang@codeaurora.org scsi: ufs: Correct the LUN used in eh_device_reset_handler() callback

Cezary Rojewski cezary.rojewski@intel.com ASoC: Intel: haswell: Add missing pm_ops

Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t()

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI: scan: Make acpi_bus_get_device() clear return pointer on error

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/via: Add minimum mute flag

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: oss: Fix missing error check in snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/sh/drivers/dma/Kconfig | 3 +-- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 ++ drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 ++ drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadow.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxgm204.c | 8 ++++---- drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c | 4 ++-- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 4 ++-- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 11 ++++------- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 12 ++++++++++++ drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 2 ++ include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 ++++ mm/slub.c | 4 +--- net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +++++- net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_rpfilter.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_tcindex.c | 8 ++++++-- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 3 ++- sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c | 1 + sound/soc/intel/boards/haswell.c | 1 + 25 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)