This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.156 release. There are 60 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 Sep 15 13:17:29 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-4.4.156-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 4.4.156-rc1

Ethan Lien ethanlien@synology.com btrfs: use correct compare function of dirty_metadata_bytes

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com ASoC: wm8994: Fix missing break in switch

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390/lib: use expoline for all bcr instructions

Tomas Winkler tomas.winkler@intel.com mei: me: allow runtime pm for platform with D0i3

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com sch_tbf: fix two null pointer dereferences on init failure

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com sch_netem: avoid null pointer deref on init failure

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com sch_hhf: fix null pointer dereference on init failure

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com sch_multiq: fix double free on init failure

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com sch_htb: fix crash on init failure

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com ovl: proper cleanup of workdir

Antonio Murdaca amurdaca@redhat.com ovl: override creds with the ones from the superblock mounter

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com ovl: rename is_merge to is_lowest

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com irqchip/gic: Make interrupt ID 1020 invalid

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com irqchip/gic-v3: Add missing barrier to 32bit version of gic_read_iar()

Shanker Donthineni shankerd@codeaurora.org irqchip/gicv3-its: Avoid cache flush beyond ITS_BASERn memory size

Shanker Donthineni shankerd@codeaurora.org irqchip/gicv3-its: Fix memory leak in its_free_tables()

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com irqchip/gic-v3-its: Recompute the number of pages on page size change

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com genirq: Delay incrementing interrupt count if it's disabled/pending

Chas Williams chas3@att.com Fixes: Commit cdbf92675fad ("mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages")

Govindarajulu Varadarajan gvaradar@cisco.com enic: do not call enic_change_mtu in enic_probe

Fabio Estevam fabio.estevam@nxp.com Revert "ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select ULPI support"

Tyler Hicks tyhicks@canonical.com irda: Only insert new objects into the global database via setsockopt

Tyler Hicks tyhicks@canonical.com irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org kbuild: make missing $DEPMOD a Warning instead of an Error

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com x86/pae: use 64 bit atomic xchg function in native_ptep_get_and_clear

Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org debugobjects: Make stack check warning more informative

Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: Don't remove block group that still has pinned down bytes

Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: relocation: Only remove reloc rb_trees if reloc control has been initialized

Misono Tomohiro misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com btrfs: replace: Reset on-disk dev stats value after replace

Mahesh Salgaonkar mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/pseries: Avoid using the size greater than RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX.

Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com SMB3: Number of requests sent should be displayed for SMB3 not just CIFS

Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com smb3: fix reset of bytes read and written stats

Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org selftests/powerpc: Kill child processes on SIGINT

Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk staging: comedi: ni_mio_common: fix subdevice flags for PFI subdevice

John Pittman jpittman@redhat.com dm kcopyd: avoid softlockup in run_complete_job

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com PCI: mvebu: Fix I/O space end address calculation

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com scsi: aic94xx: fix an error code in aic94xx_init()

Stefan Haberland sth@linux.ibm.com s390/dasd: fix hanging offline processing due to canceled worker

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com powerpc: Fix size calculation using resource_size()

Jean-Philippe Brucker jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com net/9p: fix error path of p9_virtio_probe

Jonas Gorski jonas.gorski@gmail.com irqchip/bcm7038-l1: Hide cpu offline callback when building for !SMP

Aleh Filipovich aleh@vaolix.com platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Add keymap entry for lid flip action on UX360

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net mfd: sm501: Set coherent_dma_mask when creating subdevices

Tan Hu tan.hu@zte.com.cn ipvs: fix race between ip_vs_conn_new() and ip_vs_del_dest()

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp fs/dcache.c: fix kmemcheck splat at take_dentry_name_snapshot()

Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com mm/fadvise.c: fix signed overflow UBSAN complaint

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org scripts: modpost: check memory allocation results

OGAWA Hirofumi hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp fat: validate ->i_start before using

Ernesto A. Fernández ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com hfsplus: fix NULL dereference in hfsplus_lookup()

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de reiserfs: change j_timestamp type to time64_t

Jann Horn jannh@google.com fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child

Ernesto A. Fernández ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com hfs: prevent crash on exit from failed search

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp hfsplus: don't return 0 when fill_super() failed

Ronnie Sahlberg lsahlber@redhat.com cifs: check if SMB2 PDU size has been padded and suppress the warning

Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com vti6: remove !skb->ignore_df check from vti6_xmit()

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de tcp: do not restart timewait timer on rst reception

Manish Chopra manish.chopra@cavium.com qlge: Fix netdev features configuration.

Doug Berger opendmb@gmail.com net: bcmgenet: use MAC link status for fixed phy

Greg Hackmann ghackmann@android.com staging: android: ion: fix ION_IOC_{MAP,SHARE} use-after-free

Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.cz x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix up pte->pfn conversion for PAE

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig | 2 - arch/arm/include/asm/arch_gicv3.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.c | 2 +- arch/s390/lib/mem.S | 9 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 7 +- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1.c | 4 ++ drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 34 ++++++---- drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 2 + drivers/mfd/sm501.c | 1 + drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.h | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c | 10 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c | 23 +++---- drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c | 2 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 1 + drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c | 7 +- drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 60 ++++++++++------- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c | 6 ++ fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 10 +-- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 23 ++++--- fs/cifs/cifs_debug.c | 8 +++ fs/cifs/smb2misc.c | 7 ++ fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 2 +- fs/dcache.c | 3 +- fs/fat/cache.c | 19 ++++-- fs/fat/fat.h | 5 ++ fs/fat/fatent.c | 6 +- fs/hfs/brec.c | 7 +- fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 4 +- fs/hfsplus/super.c | 4 +- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 26 +------ fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 67 ++----------------- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 3 + fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++------ fs/overlayfs/super.c | 20 +++++- fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.h | 2 +- kernel/fork.c | 2 + kernel/irq/chip.c | 8 +-- lib/debugobjects.c | 7 +- mm/fadvise.c | 8 ++- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 +- net/irda/af_irda.c | 13 +++- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c | 15 +++-- net/sched/sch_hhf.c | 3 + net/sched/sch_htb.c | 5 +- net/sched/sch_multiq.c | 9 +-- net/sched/sch_netem.c | 4 +- net/sched/sch_tbf.c | 5 +- scripts/depmod.sh | 4 +- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 8 +-- sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/harness.c | 18 +++-- 63 files changed, 369 insertions(+), 260 deletions(-)