This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.234 release. There are 33 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, 26 Aug 2020 08:23:34 +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-4.4.234-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 4.4.234-rc1

Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com omapfb: dss: Fix max fclk divider for omap36xx

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen: don't reschedule in preemption off sections

Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk do_epoll_ctl(): clean the failure exits up a bit

Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list

Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au powerpc: Allow 4224 bytes of stack expansion for the signal frame

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn ASoC: intel: Fix memleak in sst_media_open

Eric Sandeen sandeen@redhat.com ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split()

Luc Van Oostenryck luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com alpha: fix annotation of io{read,write}{16,32}be()

Eiichi Tsukata devel@etsukata.com xfs: Fix UBSAN null-ptr-deref in xfs_sysfs_init

Mao Wenan wenan.mao@linux.alibaba.com virtio_ring: Avoid loop when vq is broken in virtqueue_poll

Javed Hasan jhasan@marvell.com scsi: libfc: Free skb in fc_disc_gpn_id_resp() for valid cases

Zhe Li lizhe67@huawei.com jffs2: fix UAF problem

Darrick J. Wong darrick.wong@oracle.com xfs: fix inode quota reservation checks

Greg Ungerer gerg@linux-m68k.org m68knommu: fix overwriting of bits in ColdFire V3 cache control

Xiongfeng Wang wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com Input: psmouse - add a newline when printing 'proto' by sysfs

Evgeny Novikov novikov@ispras.ru media: vpss: clean up resources in init

Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com media: budget-core: Improve exception handling in budget_register()

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: fix checking of directory entry validity for inline directories

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com ext4: clean up ext4_match() and callers

Charan Teja Reddy charante@codeaurora.org mm, page_alloc: fix core hung in free_pcppages_bulk()

Doug Berger opendmb@gmail.com mm: include CMA pages in lowmem_reserve at boot

Jann Horn jannh@google.com romfs: fix uninitialized memory leak in romfs_dev_read()

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: don't show full path of bind mounts in subvol=

Marcos Paulo de Souza mpdesouza@suse.com btrfs: export helpers for subvolume name/id resolution

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com khugepaged: adjust VM_BUG_ON_MM() in __khugepaged_enter()

Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()

Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumping

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum@pengutronix.de watchdog: f71808e_wdt: remove use of wrong watchdog_info option

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum@pengutronix.de watchdog: f71808e_wdt: indicate WDIOF_CARDRESET support in watchdog_info.options

Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org net/compat: Add missing sock updates for SCM_RIGHTS

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix memory leakage when the probe point is not found

Liu Ying victor.liu@nxp.com drm/imx: imx-ldb: Disable both channels for split mode in enc->disable()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 8 +-- arch/m68k/include/asm/m53xxacr.h | 6 +- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-ldb.c | 7 +- drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/ttpci/budget-core.c | 11 +++- drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpss.c | 20 ++++-- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_disc.c | 12 +++- drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/dss/dss.c | 2 +- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 3 + drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c | 6 +- drivers/xen/preempt.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 2 + fs/btrfs/export.c | 8 +-- fs/btrfs/export.h | 5 ++ fs/btrfs/super.c | 18 +++-- fs/eventpoll.c | 19 +++--- fs/ext4/namei.c | 99 +++++++++++----------------- fs/jffs2/dir.c | 6 +- fs/romfs/storage.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.h | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c | 2 +- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++ include/net/sock.h | 4 ++ mm/huge_memory.c | 4 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 25 ++++--- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +- net/compat.c | 1 + net/core/sock.c | 21 ++++++ sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c | 5 +- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 2 +- 32 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)