This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.50 release. There are 20 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 Feb 18 17:52:49 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.50-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 ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.4.50-rc1 Pau Espin Pedrol <pespin.shar@xxxxxxxxx> tcp: fix mark propagation with fwmark_reflect enabled Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: do not use udp_ioctl() WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> ping: fix a null pointer dereference Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: round up linear to header len Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> net: introduce device min_header_len WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> sit: fix a double free on error path Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: avoid BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> mlx4: Invoke softirqs after napi_reschedule Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> macvtap: read vnet_hdr_size once Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> tun: read vnet_hdr_sz once Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: avoid infinite loop in tcp_splice_read() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: tcp: add a missing tcp_v6_restore_cb() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ip6_gre: fix ip6gre_err() invalid reads Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> netlabel: out of bound access in cipso_v4_validate() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv4: keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: use a work queue to defer net_disable_timestamp() work Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: fix 0 divide in __tcp_select_window() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: pointer math error in ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> can: Fix kernel panic at security_sock_rcv_skb ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 5 +++- drivers/net/loopback.c | 1 + drivers/net/macvtap.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/tun.c | 10 +++++--- include/linux/can/core.h | 7 +++-- include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 +++ include/net/cipso_ipv4.h | 4 +++ net/can/af_can.c | 12 +++++++-- net/can/af_can.h | 3 ++- net/can/bcm.c | 4 +-- net/can/gw.c | 2 +- net/can/raw.c | 4 +-- net/core/dev.c | 31 ++++++++++------------ net/ethernet/eth.c | 1 + net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 4 +++ net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 9 ++++++- net/ipv4/ping.c | 2 ++ net/ipv4/tcp.c | 6 +++++ net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 6 +++-- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++-------------- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++--------- net/ipv6/sit.c | 1 + net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 25 ++++++++++-------- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 1 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 7 ++--- net/sctp/socket.c | 3 ++- 30 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)