This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.186 release. There are 40 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 Sat 20 Jul 2019 02:59:27 AM UTC. 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-4.4.186-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 4.4.186-rc1

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: protect KVM_CREATE_PIT/KVM_CREATE_PIT2 with kvm->lock

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qdio: don't touch the dsci in tiqdio_add_input_queues()

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com s390/qdio: (re-)initialize tiqdio list entries

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390: fix stfle zero padding

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARC: hide unused function unw_hdr_alloc

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com kvm: x86: avoid warning on repeated KVM_SET_TSS_ADDR

Milan Broz gmazyland@gmail.com dm verity: use message limit for data block corruption message

Sergej Benilov sergej.benilov@googlemail.com sis900: fix TX completion

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4

Petr Oros poros@redhat.com be2net: fix link failure after ethtool offline test

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: omap2: remove incorrect __init annotation

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org perf/core: Fix perf_sample_regs_user() mm check

Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru e1000e: start network tx queue only when link is up

Sean Young sean@mess.org MIPS: Remove superfluous check for __linux__

Vishnu DASA vdasa@vmware.com VMCI: Fix integer overflow in VMCI handle arrays

Christian Lamparter chunkeey@gmail.com carl9170: fix misuse of device driver API

Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: fix null pointer deref on interrupt

Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk staging: comedi: dt282x: fix a null pointer deref on interrupt

Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com usb: renesas_usbhs: add a workaround for a race condition of workqueue

Kiruthika Varadarajan Kiruthika.Varadarajan@harman.com usb: gadget: ether: Fix race between gether_disconnect and rx_submit

Jörgen Storvist jorgen.storvist@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add support for GosunCn ME3630 RNDIS mode

Andreas Fritiofson andreas.fritiofson@unjo.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add ID for isodebug v1

Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs

Hongjie Fang hongjiefang@asrmicro.com fscrypt: don't set policy for a dead directory

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de mwifiex: Fix heap overflow in mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de mwifiex: Abort at too short BSS descriptor element

Dianzhang Chen dianzhangchen0@gmail.com x86/tls: Fix possible spectre-v1 in do_get_thread_area()

Dianzhang Chen dianzhangchen0@gmail.com x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptrace_get_debugreg()

Steven J. Magnani steve.magnani@digidescorp.com udf: Fix incorrect final NOT_ALLOCATED (hole) extent length

Mauro S. M. Rodrigues maurosr@linux.vnet.ibm.com bnx2x: Check if transceiver implements DDM before access

Mariusz Tkaczyk mariusz.tkaczyk@intel.com md: fix for divide error in status_resync

Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com ARM: davinci: da8xx: specify dma_coherent_mask for lcdc

Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com ARM: davinci: da850-evm: call regulator_has_full_constraints()

Anson Huang anson.huang@nxp.com Input: imx_keypad - make sure keyboard can always wake up system

Sean Nyekjaer sean@geanix.com can: mcp251x: add support for mcp25625

Sean Nyekjaer sean@geanix.com dt-bindings: can: mcp251x: add mcp25625 support

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows at parsing bss descriptor

Thomas Pedersen thomas@eero.com mac80211: mesh: fix RCU warning

Chang-Hsien Tsai luke.tw@gmail.com samples, bpf: fix to change the buffer size for read()

Aaron Ma aaron.ma@canonical.com Input: elantech - enable middle button support on 2 ThinkPads

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Diffstat:

.../bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt | 1 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/kernel/unwind.c | 9 +-- arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da850-evm.c | 2 + arch/arm/mach-davinci/devices-da8xx.c | 3 + arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm3xxx.c | 2 +- arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/sgidefs.h | 8 -- arch/s390/include/asm/facility.h | 21 +++-- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 5 +- arch/x86/kernel/tls.c | 9 ++- arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 5 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 +- drivers/input/keyboard/imx_keypad.c | 18 ++++- drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 2 + drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 4 +- drivers/md/md.c | 36 +++++---- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 80 +++++++++++-------- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_handle_array.c | 38 ++++++--- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_handle_array.h | 29 ++++--- drivers/net/can/spi/Kconfig | 5 +- drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c | 25 +++--- .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c | 28 +++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c | 16 ++-- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c | 39 ++++----- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/fw.h | 12 ++- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/ie.c | 45 +++++++---- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c | 31 +++++++- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/cio/qdio_setup.c | 2 + drivers/s390/cio/qdio_thinint.c | 5 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pci230.c | 3 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dt282x.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 34 +++++--- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 6 ++ drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 1 + fs/ext4/crypto_policy.c | 2 + fs/f2fs/crypto_policy.c | 2 + fs/udf/inode.c | 93 ++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h | 11 ++- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/mesh.c | 5 +- samples/bpf/bpf_load.c | 2 +- 49 files changed, 438 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)