This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.161 release. There are 27 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 Oct 13 15:25:23 UTC 2018. 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-4.4.161-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 4.4.161-rc1

Gao Feng gfree.wind@vip.163.com ebtables: arpreply: Add the standard target sanity check

Zhi Chen zhichen@codeaurora.org ath10k: fix scan crash due to incorrect length calculation

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: add tcp_ooo_try_coalesce() helper

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: call tcp_drop() from tcp_data_queue_ofo()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: free batches of packets in tcp_prune_ofo_queue()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: fix a stale ooo_last_skb after a replace

Yaogong Wang wygivan@google.com tcp: use an RB tree for ooo receive queue

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: increment sk_drops for dropped rx packets

Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubifs: Check for name being NULL while mounting

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com ucma: fix a use-after-free in ucma_resolve_ip()

Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com ARC: clone syscall to setp r25 as thread pointer

Michal Suchanek msuchanek@suse.de powerpc/fadump: Return error when fadump registration fails

Carl Huang cjhuang@codeaurora.org ath10k: fix use-after-free in ath10k_wmi_cmd_send_nowait

Prateek Sood prsood@codeaurora.org cgroup: Fix deadlock in cpu hotplug path

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: always verify the magic number in xattr blocks

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: add corruption check in ext4_xattr_set_entry()

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net of: unittest: Disable interrupt node tests for old world MAC systems

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: simple: add Motorola Tetra MTP6550 id

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: Add missing CAS workaround for Intel Sunrise Point xHCI

Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com dm cache: fix resize crash if user doesn't reload cache table

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com PM / core: Clear the direct_complete flag on errors

Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: fix setting IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_RX_MGMT for AP mode keys

Daniel Drake drake@endlessm.com PCI: Reprogram bridge prefetch registers on resume

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/vdso: Fix vDSO syscall fallback asm constraint regression

Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org x86/vdso: Fix asm constraints on vDSO syscall fallbacks

Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com fbdev/omapfb: fix omapfb_memory_read infoleak

Jann Horn jannh@google.com mm/vmstat.c: skip NR_TLB_REMOTE_FLUSH* properly

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/kernel/process.c | 20 ++ arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 23 +- arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 26 +- drivers/base/power/main.c | 5 +- drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 2 + drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 9 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/trace.h | 12 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c | 8 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c | 2 +- drivers/of/unittest.c | 28 +- drivers/pci/pci.c | 27 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial-simple.c | 3 +- drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-ioctl.c | 5 +- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 28 +- fs/ubifs/super.c | 3 + include/linux/netfilter_bridge/ebtables.h | 5 + include/linux/skbuff.h | 8 + include/linux/tcp.h | 7 +- include/net/sock.h | 7 + include/net/tcp.h | 2 +- kernel/cgroup.c | 6 +- mm/vmstat.c | 3 + net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_arpreply.c | 3 + net/core/skbuff.c | 19 ++ net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 417 +++++++++++++++--------- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 1 - net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 1 + net/mac80211/cfg.c | 2 +- 32 files changed, 453 insertions(+), 242 deletions(-)