This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.281 release. There are 25 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, 15 Aug 2021 15:05:12 +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-4.4.281-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 4.4.281-rc1

Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com ovl: prevent private clone if bind mount is not allowed

YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com net: xilinx_emaclite: Do not print real IOMEM pointer

Longfang Liu liulongfang@huawei.com USB:ehci:fix Kunpeng920 ehci hardware problem

Alex Xu (Hello71) alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages

Letu Ren fantasquex@gmail.com net/qla3xxx: fix schedule while atomic in ql_wait_for_drvr_lock and ql_adapter_reset

Prarit Bhargava prarit@redhat.com alpha: Send stop IPI to send to online CPUs

Shreyansh Chouhan chouhan.shreyansh630@gmail.com reiserfs: check directory items on read from disk

Yu Kuai yukuai3@huawei.com reiserfs: add check for root_inode in reiserfs_fill_super

Zheyu Ma zheyuma97@gmail.com pcmcia: i82092: fix a null pointer dereference bug

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk MIPS: Malta: Do not byte-swap accesses to the CBUS UART

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk serial: 8250: Mask out floating 16/32-bit bus bits

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org media: rtl28xxu: fix zero-length control request

Hui Su suhui@zeku.com scripts/tracing: fix the bug that can't parse raw_trace_func

David Bauer mail@david-bauer.net USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add device ID for Auto-M3 OP-COM v2

Willy Tarreau w@1wt.eu USB: serial: ch341: fix character loss at high transfer rates

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit FD980 composition 0x1056

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp Bluetooth: defer cleanup of resources in hci_unregister_dev()

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net: vxge: fix use-after-free in vxge_device_unregister

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net: pegasus: fix uninit-value in get_interrupt_interval

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com bnx2x: fix an error code in bnx2x_nic_load()

H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com mips: Fix non-POSIX regexp

Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com net: natsemi: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in probe and remove

Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl media: videobuf2-core: dequeue if start_streaming fails

Li Manyi limanyi@uniontech.com scsi: sr: Return correct event when media event code is 3

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix racy deletion of subscriber

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c | 2 +- arch/mips/Makefile | 2 +- arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-platform.c | 3 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/rtl28xxu.c | 11 +++++- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 13 ++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/natsemi.c | 8 +--- drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c | 5 +-- drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 14 +++++-- drivers/pcmcia/i82092.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sr.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 12 ++++-- drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c | 3 ++ drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 3 ++ drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 2 + fs/namespace.c | 42 +++++++++++++-------- fs/pipe.c | 17 ++++++++- fs/reiserfs/stree.c | 31 +++++++++++++--- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 8 ++++ include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h | 1 + net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 16 ++++---- net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++-------- net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c | 3 ++ scripts/tracing/draw_functrace.py | 6 +-- sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c | 39 ++++++++++++++------ 30 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)