This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 release. There are 23 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.4.296-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 4.4.296-rc1

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms

Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Input: touchscreen - avoid bitwise vs logical OR warning

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre@linaro.org ARM: 8805/2: remove unneeded naked function usage

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com net: lan78xx: Avoid unnecessary self assignment

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle

Yu Liao liaoyu15@huawei.com timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit FN990 compositions

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de PCI/MSI: Clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL on error

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org USB: gadget: bRequestType is a bitfield, not a enum

Letu Ren fantasquex@gmail.com igbvf: fix double free in `igbvf_probe`

Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org soc/tegra: fuse: Fix bitwise vs. logical OR warning

J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race

Joe Thornber ejt@redhat.com dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children()

Jerome Marchand jmarchan@redhat.com recordmcount.pl: look for jgnop instruction as well as bcrl on s390

Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: send ADDBA requests using the tid/queue of the aggregation session

Armin Wolf W_Armin@gmx.de hwmon: (dell-smm) Fix warning on /proc/i8k creation error

Harshit Mogalapalli harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com net: netlink: af_netlink: Prevent empty skb by adding a check on len.

Ondrej Jirman megous@megous.com i2c: rk3x: Handle a spurious start completion interrupt flag

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc/agp: Annotate parisc agp init functions with __init

Tadeusz Struk tadeusz.struk@linaro.org nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c | 35 ++++---- arch/arm/mm/copypage-feroceon.c | 98 ++++++++++----------- arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4mc.c | 19 ++-- arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wb.c | 41 +++++---- arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wt.c | 37 ++++---- arch/arm/mm/copypage-xsc3.c | 71 +++++++-------- arch/arm/mm/copypage-xscale.c | 71 ++++++++------- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 12 ++- drivers/char/agp/parisc-agp.c | 6 +- drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 7 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rk3x.c | 4 +- drivers/input/touchscreen/of_touchscreen.c | 18 ++-- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 5 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 1 + drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 6 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 13 ++- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/pci/msi.c | 2 +- drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse-tegra.c | 2 +- drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse.h | 2 +- drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 30 ++++++- drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/dbgp.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 8 ++ fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 9 +- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 3 +- net/mac80211/agg-tx.c | 2 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 5 ++ net/nfc/netlink.c | 6 +- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +- 34 files changed, 388 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)