This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.248 release. There are 39 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, 12 Dec 2020 14:25:47 +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-4.4.248-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 4.4.248-rc1

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org x86/uprobes: Do not use prefixes.nbytes when looping over prefixes.bytes

Luo Meng luomeng12@huawei.com Input: i8042 - fix error return code in i8042_setup_aux()

Bob Peterson rpeterso@redhat.com gfs2: check for empty rgrp tree in gfs2_ri_update

Gerald Schaefer gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com mm/userfaultfd: do not access vma->vm_mm after calling handle_userfault()

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: cleanup cow block on error

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix userstacktrace option for instances

Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com spi: bcm2835: Release the DMA channel if probe fails after dma_init

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: bcm2835: Fix use-after-free on unbind

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de spi: Introduce device-managed SPI controller allocation

Suravee Suthikulpanit suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com iommu/amd: Set DTE[IntTabLen] to represent 512 IRTEs

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org arm64: assembler: make adr_l work in modules under KASLR

Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de i2c: imx: Check for I2SR_IAL after every byte

Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de i2c: imx: Fix reset of I2SR_IAL flag

Paulo Alcantara pc@cjr.nz cifs: fix potential use-after-free in cifs_echo_request()

Jann Horn jannh@google.com tty: Fix ->session locking

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/generic: Add option to enforce preferred_dacs pairs

Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Add new codec supported for ALC897

Jann Horn jannh@google.com tty: Fix ->pgrp locking in tiocspgrp()

Giacinto Cifelli gciofono@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add support for Thales Cinterion EXS82

Vincent Palatin vpalatin@chromium.org USB: serial: option: add Fibocom NL668 variants

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: ch341: sort device-id entries

Jan-Niklas Burfeind kernel@aiyionpri.me USB: serial: ch341: add new Product ID for CH341A

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: kl5kusb105: fix memleak on open

Vamsi Krishna Samavedam vskrishn@codeaurora.org usb: gadget: f_fs: Use local copy of descriptors for userspace copy

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com geneve: pull IP header before ECN decapsulation

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@redhat.com vlan: consolidate VLAN parsing code and limit max parsing depth

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: sysfs: init devices outside of the chunk_mutex

Michal Suchanek msuchanek@suse.de powerpc: Stop exporting __clear_user which is now inlined.

Po-Hsu Lin po-hsu.lin@canonical.com Input: i8042 - add ByteSpeed touchpad to noloop table

Sanjay Govind sanjay.govind9@gmail.com Input: xpad - support Ardwiino Controllers

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org dt-bindings: net: correct interrupt flags in examples

Zhang Changzhong zhangchangzhong@huawei.com net: pasemi: fix error return code in pasemi_mac_open()

Zhang Changzhong zhangchangzhong@huawei.com cxgb3: fix error return code in t3_sge_alloc_qset()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com net/x25: prevent a couple of overflows

Antoine Tenart atenart@kernel.org netfilter: bridge: reset skb->pkt_type after NF_INET_POST_ROUTING traversal

Jamie Iles jamie@nuviainc.com bonding: wait for sysfs kobject destruction before freeing struct slave

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac@corsac.net usbnet: ipheth: fix connectivity with iOS 14

Anmol Karn anmol.karan123@gmail.com rose: Fix Null pointer dereference in rose_send_frame()

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.ibm.com net/af_iucv: set correct sk_protocol for child sockets

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Diffstat:

.../devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt | 2 +- .../devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 36 +++++++++---- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 3 +- arch/powerpc/lib/ppc_ksyms.c | 1 - arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h | 15 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 10 ++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 30 +++++++++-- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 2 + drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 4 ++ drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 3 +- drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 2 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 61 +++++++++++++++------- drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_slave.c | 18 +------ drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac.c | 8 ++- drivers/net/geneve.c | 18 ++++++- drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c | 2 +- drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 22 ++++---- drivers/spi/spi.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 51 +++++++++++++----- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 6 ++- drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c | 10 ++-- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 5 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 6 +++ fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 7 +-- fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 + fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 4 ++ include/linux/if_vlan.h | 29 +++++++--- include/linux/spi/spi.h | 2 + include/linux/tty.h | 4 ++ include/net/bonding.h | 8 +++ include/net/inet_ecn.h | 1 + kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 ++-- kernel/trace/trace.h | 6 ++- mm/huge_memory.c | 8 ++- net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 7 ++- net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 4 +- net/rose/rose_loopback.c | 17 ++++-- net/x25/af_x25.c | 6 ++- sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.c | 12 +++-- sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.h | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 + 45 files changed, 370 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)