This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.236 release. There are 62 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 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:24:42 +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-4.4.236-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 4.4.236-rc1

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: disable netpoll on fresh napis

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: not disable bh in the whole sctp_get_port_local()

Kamil Lorenc kamil@re-ws.pl net: usb: dm9601: Add USB ID of Keenetic Plus DSL

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org bnxt: don't enable NAPI until rings are ready

Michael Chan mchan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Failure to update PHY is not fatal condition.

Shung-Hsi Yu shung-hsi.yu@suse.com net: ethernet: mlx4: Fix memory allocation in mlx4_buddy_init()

Yuusuke Ashizuka ashiduka@fujitsu.com ravb: Fixed to be able to unload modules

Max Staudt max@enpas.org affs: fix basic permission bits to actually work

Fabian Frederick fabf@skynet.be fs/affs: use octal for permissions

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA; firewire-tascam: exclude Tascam FE-8 from detection

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: firewire-digi00x: exclude Avid Adrenaline from detection

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: firewire-digi00x: add support for console models of Digi00x series

Himadri Pandya himadrispandya@gmail.com net: usb: Fix uninit-was-stored issue in asix_read_phy_addr()

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com cfg80211: regulatory: reject invalid hints

Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com mm/hugetlb: fix a race between hugetlb sysctl handlers

Mrinal Pandey mrinalmni@gmail.com checkpatch: fix the usage of capture group ( ... )

Tim Froidcoeur tim.froidcoeur@tessares.net net: initialize fastreuse on inet_inherit_port

Tim Froidcoeur tim.froidcoeur@tessares.net net: refactor bind_bucket fastreuse into helper

Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com dm thin metadata: Avoid returning cmd->bm wild pointer on error

Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com dm cache metadata: Avoid returning cmd->bm wild pointer on error

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: oss: Remove superfluous WARN_ON() for mulaw sanity check

Tong Zhang ztong0001@gmail.com ALSA: ca0106: fix error code handling

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Telit 0x1050 composition

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Telit ME910 support

Rogan Dawes rogan@dawes.za.net usb: qmi_wwan: add D-Link DWM-222 A2 device ID

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com drivers: net: usb: qmi_wwan: add QMI_QUIRK_SET_DTR for Telit PID 0x1201

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com NET: usb: qmi_wwan: add support for Telit LE922A PID 0x1040

Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no qmi_wwan: add support for Quectel EC21 and EC25

Schemmel Hans-Christoph Hans-Christoph.Schemmel@gemalto.com qmi_wwan: Added support for Gemalto's Cinterion PHxx WWAN interface

Patrik Halfar patrik_halfar@halfarit.cz Add Dell Wireless 5809e Gobi 4G HSPA+ Mobile Broadband Card (rev3) to qmi_wwan

Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no net: qmi_wwan: ignore bogus CDC Union descriptors

Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no net: qmi_wwan: should hold RTNL while changing netdev type

Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no net: qmi_wwan: support "raw IP" mode

Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no net: qmi_wwan: MDM9x30 specific power management

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: fix potential deadlock in the search ioctl

Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net uaccess: Add non-pagefault user-space write function

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org uaccess: Add non-pagefault user-space read functions

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: set the lockdep class for log tree extent buffers

Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com btrfs: Remove extraneous extent_buffer_get from tree_mod_log_rewind

Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com btrfs: Remove redundant extent_buffer_get in get_old_root

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: drop path before adding new uuid tree entry

Jason Gunthorpe jgg@nvidia.com include/linux/log2.h: add missing () around n in roundup_pow_of_two()

Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com thermal: ti-soc-thermal: Fix bogus thermal shutdowns for omap4430

Lu Baolu baolu.lu@linux.intel.com iommu/vt-d: Serialize IOMMU GCMD register modifications

Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com tg3: Fix soft lockup when tg3_reset_task() fails.

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk fix regression in "epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list"

Vasundhara Volam vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Check for zero dir entries in NVRAM.

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com dmaengine: pl330: Fix burst length if burst size is smaller than bus width

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: nf_tables: fix destination register zeroing

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nf_tables: incorrect enum nft_list_attributes definition

Yu Kuai yukuai3@huawei.com dmaengine: at_hdmac: check return value of of_find_device_by_node() in at_dma_xlate()

Jussi Kivilinna jussi.kivilinna@haltian.com batman-adv: bla: use netif_rx_ni when not in interrupt context

Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid uninitialized chaddr when handling DHCP

Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com dmaengine: of-dma: Fix of_dma_router_xlate's of_dma_xlate handling

Simon Leiner simon@leiner.me xen/xenbus: Fix granting of vmalloc'd memory

Sven Schnelle svens@linux.ibm.com s390: don't trace preemption in percpu macros

Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org ceph: don't allow setlease on cephfs

Tom Rix trix@redhat.com hwmon: (applesmc) check status earlier.

Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary variable from free_pcppages_bulk

Kim Phillips kim.phillips@amd.com perf record/stat: Explicitly call out event modifiers in the documentation

Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org HID: core: Sanitize event code and type when mapping input

Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org HID: core: Correctly handle ReportSize being zero

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Diffstat:

Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt | 16 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h | 28 ++-- drivers/dma/at_hdmac.c | 2 + drivers/dma/of-dma.c | 8 +- drivers/dma/pl330.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 15 +- drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 4 + drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 2 + drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c | 31 ++-- drivers/iommu/intel_irq_remapping.c | 10 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 8 +- drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 17 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mr.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 110 ++++++------ drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c | 4 + drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++- .../thermal/ti-soc-thermal/omap4-thermal-data.c | 23 +-- drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/omap4xxx-bandgap.h | 10 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c | 10 +- fs/affs/amigaffs.c | 63 +++++-- fs/affs/file.c | 26 ++- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 8 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 8 +- fs/btrfs/extent_io.h | 6 +- fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 27 ++- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 3 +- fs/ceph/file.c | 1 + fs/eventpoll.c | 6 +- include/linux/hid.h | 42 +++-- include/linux/log2.h | 2 +- include/linux/uaccess.h | 26 +++ include/net/inet_connection_sock.h | 4 + include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 2 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 26 ++- mm/maccess.c | 167 +++++++++++++++++-- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +- net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c | 5 +- net/batman-adv/gateway_client.c | 6 +- net/core/dev.c | 3 +- net/core/netpoll.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 46 +++-- net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c | 1 + net/netfilter/nft_payload.c | 4 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 16 +- net/wireless/reg.c | 3 + scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 +- sound/core/oss/mulaw.c | 4 +- sound/firewire/digi00x/digi00x.c | 18 +- sound/firewire/digi00x/digi00x.h | 1 + sound/firewire/tascam/tascam.c | 30 +++- sound/pci/ca0106/ca0106_main.c | 3 +- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 + tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 4 + 59 files changed, 841 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-)