[PATCH 4.4 00/23] 4.4.296-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Dec 20 2021 - 09:37:23 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 release.
There are 23 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, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.4.296-rc1.gz
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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 4.4.296-rc1

Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages

Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms

Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms

Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Input: touchscreen - avoid bitwise vs logical OR warning

Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: 8805/2: remove unneeded naked function usage

Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
net: lan78xx: Avoid unnecessary self assignment

Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle

Yu Liao <liaoyu15@xxxxxxxxxx>
timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive

Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@xxxxxxxxx>
USB: serial: option: add Telit FN990 compositions

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
PCI/MSI: Clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL on error

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
USB: gadget: bRequestType is a bitfield, not a enum

Letu Ren <fantasquex@xxxxxxxxx>
igbvf: fix double free in `igbvf_probe`

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
soc/tegra: fuse: Fix bitwise vs. logical OR warning

J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race

Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx>
dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children()

Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
recordmcount.pl: look for jgnop instruction as well as bcrl on s390

Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
mac80211: send ADDBA requests using the tid/queue of the aggregation session

Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>
hwmon: (dell-smm) Fix warning on /proc/i8k creation error

Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: netlink: af_netlink: Prevent empty skb by adding a check on len.

Ondrej Jirman <megous@xxxxxxxxxx>
i2c: rk3x: Handle a spurious start completion interrupt flag

Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
parisc/agp: Annotate parisc agp init functions with __init

Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx>
nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c | 35 ++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-feroceon.c | 98 ++++++++++-----------
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4mc.c | 19 ++--
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wb.c | 41 +++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wt.c | 37 ++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-xsc3.c | 71 +++++++--------
arch/arm/mm/copypage-xscale.c | 71 ++++++++-------
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 12 ++-
drivers/char/agp/parisc-agp.c | 6 +-
drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 7 +-
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rk3x.c | 4 +-
drivers/input/touchscreen/of_touchscreen.c | 18 ++--
drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 5 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.h | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 1 +
drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 13 ++-
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/pci/msi.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse-tegra.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse.h | 2 +-
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 30 ++++++-
drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/dbgp.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 8 ++
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 9 +-
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 3 +-
net/mac80211/agg-tx.c | 2 +-
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 5 ++
net/nfc/netlink.c | 6 +-
scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +-
34 files changed, 388 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)