This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.247 release. There are 24 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 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:46:29 +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-4.4.247-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 4.4.247-rc1

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix lockdep splat when reading qgroup config on mount

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu USB: core: Fix regression in Hercules audio card

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: core: add endpoint-blacklist quirk

Anand K Mistry amistry@google.com x86/speculation: Fix prctl() when spectre_v2_user={seccomp,prctl},ibpb

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu USB: core: Change %pK for __user pointers to %px

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org perf probe: Fix to die_entrypc() returns error correctly

Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()"

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org nfc: s3fwrn5: use signed integer for parsing GPIO numbers

Xiongfeng Wang wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com IB/mthca: fix return value of error branch in mthca_init_cq()

Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Release PCI regions when DMA mask setup fails during probe.

Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the VRAM

Zhang Changzhong zhangchangzhong@huawei.com bnxt_en: fix error return code in bnxt_init_board()

Stanley Chu stanley.chu@mediatek.com scsi: ufs: Fix race between shutdown and runtime resume flow

Mike Christie michael.christie@oracle.com scsi: target: iscsi: Fix cmd abort fabric stop race

Lee Duncan lduncan@suse.com scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition

Sugar Zhang sugar.zhang@rock-chips.com dmaengine: pl330: _prep_dma_memcpy: Fix wrong burst size

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components

Brian Masney bmasney@redhat.com x86/xen: don't unbind uninitialized lock_kicker_irq

Pablo Ceballos pceballos@google.com HID: hid-sensor-hub: Fix issue with devices with no report ID

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Input: i8042 - allow insmod to succeed on devices without an i8042 controller

Frank Yang puilp0502@gmail.com HID: cypress: Support Varmilo Keyboards' media hotkeys

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: Fix split-irqchip vs interrupt injection window request

Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: inode: Verify inode mode to avoid NULL pointer dereference

Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: tree-checker: Enhance chunk checker to validate chunk profile

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 4 +-- arch/x86/kvm/irq.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 18 +++++++------ arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 12 ++++++++- drivers/dma/pl330.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-cypress.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 2 ++ drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c | 3 ++- drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c | 10 ++++--- drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 12 ++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 ++- drivers/nfc/s3fwrn5/i2c.c | 4 +-- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 23 ++++++++++------ drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 6 +---- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 17 +++++++++--- drivers/usb/core/config.c | 11 ++++++++ drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 4 +-- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/usb/core/usb.h | 3 +++ drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c | 7 ++++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++------ fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/tests/inode-tests.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 7 +++++ fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 2 ++ fs/efivarfs/super.c | 1 - fs/proc/self.c | 7 +++++ include/linux/usb/quirks.h | 3 +++ include/scsi/libiscsi.h | 3 +++ tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c | 8 ++++++ 32 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)