This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.246 release. There are 38 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, 25 Nov 2020 12:17:50 +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-4.4.246-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 4.4.246-rc1

Chen Yu yu.c.chen@intel.com x86/microcode/intel: Check patch signature before saving microcode for early loading

Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.ibm.com s390/cpum_sf.c: fix file permission for cpum_sfb_size

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: free sta in sta_info_insert_finish() on errors

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: allow driver to prevent two stations w/ same address

Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: minstrel: fix tx status processing corner case

Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: minstrel: remove deferred sampling code

Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: disable preemption around cache alias management calls

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: fix bogus warning in ext4_update_dx_flag()

Vamshi K Sthambamkadi vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()

Fugang Duan fugang.duan@nxp.com tty: serial: imx: keep console clocks always on

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: mixart: Fix mutex deadlock

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: ctl: fix error path at adding user-defined element set

Daniel Axtens dja@axtens.net powerpc/uaccess-flush: fix corenet64_smp_defconfig build

Yicong Yang yangyicong@hisilicon.com libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()

Nishanth Menon nm@ti.com regulator: ti-abb: Fix array out of bound read access on the first transition

Zhang Qilong zhangqilong3@huawei.com MIPS: Alchemy: Fix memleak in alchemy_clk_setup_cpu

Wu Bo wubo.oduw@gmail.com can: m_can: m_can_handle_state_change(): fix state change

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com can: peak_usb: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int

Alejandro Concepcion Rodriguez alejandro@acoro.eu can: dev: can_restart(): post buffer from the right context

Leo Yan leo.yan@linaro.org perf lock: Don't free "lock_seq_stat" if read_count isn't zero

Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com ARM: dts: imx50-evk: Fix the chip select 1 IOMUX

Sergey Matyukevich geomatsi@gmail.com arm: dts: imx6qdl-udoo: fix rgmii phy-mode for ksz9031 phy

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Input: adxl34x - clean up a data type in adxl34x_probe()

Paul Burton paul.burton@imgtec.com MIPS: Fix BUILD_ROLLBACK_PROLOGUE for microMIPS

Will Deacon will@kernel.org arm64: psci: Avoid printing in cpu_psci_cpu_die()

Jianqun Xu jay.xu@rock-chips.com pinctrl: rockchip: enable gpio pclk for rockchip_gpio_to_irq

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: Have netpoll bring-up DSA management interface

Filip Moc dev@moc6.cz net: usb: qmi_wwan: Set DTR quirk for MR400

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: change to hold/put transport for proto_unreach_timer

Zhang Changzhong zhangchangzhong@huawei.com qlcnic: fix error return code in qlcnic_83xx_restart_hw()

Xie He xie.he.0141@gmail.com net: x25: Increase refcnt of "struct x25_neigh" in x25_rx_call_request

Aya Levin ayal@nvidia.com net/mlx4_core: Fix init_hca fields offset

Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com netlabel: fix an uninitialized warning in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist()

Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com netlabel: fix our progress tracking in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist()

Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com net: bridge: add missing counters to ndo_get_stats64 callback

Zhang Changzhong zhangchangzhong@huawei.com net: b44: fix error return code in b44_init_one()

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de atm: nicstar: Unmap DMA on send error

Zhang Changzhong zhangchangzhong@huawei.com ah6: fix error return code in ah6_input()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx50-evk.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-udoo.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c | 5 +-- arch/mips/alchemy/common/clock.c | 9 +++- arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 3 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c | 4 +- arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 49 +--------------------- arch/xtensa/mm/cache.c | 14 +++++++ drivers/atm/nicstar.c | 2 + drivers/input/misc/adxl34x.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 4 +- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.h | 4 +- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c | 3 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c | 2 + drivers/regulator/ti-abb-regulator.c | 12 +++++- drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 20 ++------- fs/efivarfs/super.c | 1 + fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 +- fs/libfs.c | 6 ++- include/net/mac80211.h | 6 +++ net/bridge/br_device.c | 1 + net/core/netpoll.c | 22 ++++++++-- net/ipv6/ah6.c | 3 +- net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 1 + net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c | 27 +++--------- net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h | 1 - net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 32 ++++++++------ net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c | 17 +++++--- net/sctp/input.c | 4 +- net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 4 +- net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +- net/x25/af_x25.c | 1 + sound/core/control.c | 2 +- sound/pci/mixart/mixart_core.c | 5 +-- tools/perf/builtin-lock.c | 2 +- 42 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-)