This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.199 release. There are 46 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 06 Nov 2019 09:14:04 PM UTC. 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-4.4.199-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 4.4.199-rc1

Vratislav Bendel vbendel@redhat.com xfs: Correctly invert xfs_buftarg LRU isolation logic

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: not bind the socket in sctp_connect

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: fix the issue that flags are ignored when using kernel_connect

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com sch_netem: fix rcu splat in netem_enqueue()

Valentin Vidic vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr net: usb: sr9800: fix uninitialized local variable

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bonding: fix potential NULL deref in bond_update_slave_arr

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com llc: fix sk_buff leak in llc_conn_service()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com llc: fix sk_buff leak in llc_sap_state_process()

Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com rtlwifi: Fix potential overflow on P2P code

Yihui ZENG yzeng56@asu.edu s390/cmm: fix information leak in cmm_timeout_handler()

Markus Theil markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de nl80211: fix validation of mesh path nexthop

Michał Mirosław mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl HID: fix error message in hid_open_report()

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu HID: Fix assumption that devices have inputs

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: whiteheat: fix line-speed endianness

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: whiteheat: fix potential slab corruption

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: ldusb: fix control-message timeout

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: ldusb: fix ring-buffer locking

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu USB: gadget: Reject endpoints with 0 maxpacket value

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu UAS: Revert commit 3ae62a42090f ("UAS: fix alignment of scatter/gather segments")

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: bebob: Fix prototype of helper function to return negative value

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: truncate pending writes on O_TRUNC

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: flush dirty data/metadata before non-truncate setattr

Hui Peng benquike@gmail.com ath6kl: fix a NULL-ptr-deref bug in ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe()

Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com thunderbolt: Use 32-bit writes when writing ring producer/consumer

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: legousbtower: fix a signedness bug in tower_probe()

Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com tracing: Initialize iter->seq after zeroing in tracing_read_pipe()

Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com NFSv4: Fix leak of clp->cl_acceptor string

Thomas Bogendoerfer tbogendoerfer@suse.de MIPS: fw: sni: Fix out of bounds init of o32 stack

Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com fs: ocfs2: fix a possible null-pointer dereference in ocfs2_info_scan_inode_alloc()

Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com fs: ocfs2: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry()

Dave Young dyoung@redhat.com efi/x86: Do not clean dummy variable in kexec path

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de efi/cper: Fix endianness of PCIe class code

Adam Ford aford173@gmail.com serial: mctrl_gpio: Check for NULL pointer

Austin Kim austindh.kim@gmail.com fs: cifs: mute -Wunused-const-variable message

Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org RDMA/iwcm: Fix a lock inversion issue

Steve MacLean Steve.MacLean@microsoft.com perf map: Fix overlapped map handling

Pascal Bouwmann bouwmann@tau-tec.de iio: fix center temperature of bmc150-accel-core

Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path

Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@fbihome.de usb: handle warm-reset port requests on hub resume

Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks

Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com x86/cpu: Add Atom Tremont (Jacobsville)

Phil Elwell phil@raspberrypi.org sc16is7xx: Fix for "Unexpected interrupt: 8"

Kent Overstreet kent.overstreet@gmail.com dm: Use kzalloc for all structs with embedded biosets/mempools

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm snapshot: rework COW throttling to fix deadlock

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm snapshot: introduce account_start_copy() and account_end_copy()

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm snapshot: use mutex instead of rw_semaphore

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/fw/sni/sniprom.c | 2 +- arch/s390/mm/cmm.c | 12 +- arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h | 3 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 3 - drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-axff.c | 11 +- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 7 +- drivers/hid/hid-dr.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-emsff.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-gaff.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-holtekff.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-lg2ff.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-lg3ff.c | 11 +- drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c | 11 +- drivers/hid/hid-lgff.c | 11 +- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-tmff.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/hid-zpff.c | 12 +- drivers/iio/accel/bmc150-accel-core.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 3 +- drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-io.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 178 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 2 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c | 8 ++ drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c | 6 + drivers/thunderbolt/nhi.c | 22 +++- drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 28 +++++ drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c | 3 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 7 ++ drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c | 13 ++- drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/storage/uas.c | 20 ---- fs/binfmt_script.c | 57 ++++++++-- fs/cifs/netmisc.c | 4 - fs/fuse/dir.c | 13 +++ fs/fuse/file.c | 10 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 1 + fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 56 ++++------ fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 2 +- include/linux/usb/gadget.h | 10 ++ include/net/llc_conn.h | 2 +- include/net/sch_generic.h | 5 + include/net/sctp/sctp.h | 2 + kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + net/llc/llc_c_ac.c | 8 +- net/llc/llc_conn.c | 32 ++---- net/llc/llc_s_ac.c | 12 +- net/llc/llc_sap.c | 23 ++-- net/sched/sch_netem.c | 2 +- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2 +- net/sctp/protocol.c | 2 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 55 ++++----- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 +- scripts/setlocalversion | 12 +- sound/firewire/bebob/bebob_stream.c | 3 +- tools/perf/util/map.c | 3 + 65 files changed, 532 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)