This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.67 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 Sun May 7 18:32:22 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-4.4.67-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 4.4.67-rc1 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd4: minor NFSv2/v3 write decoding cleanup Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4/fscrypto: avoid RCU lookup in d_revalidate Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4 crypto: use dget_parent() in ext4_d_revalidate() Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or removing the key Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> ext4: require encryption feature for EXT4_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> IB/ehca: fix maybe-uninitialized warnings Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> IB/qib: rename BITS_PER_PAGE to RVT_BITS_PER_PAGE Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx> netlink: Allow direct reclaim for fallback allocation Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 8250_pci: Fix potential use-after-free in error path Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: cxlflash: Improve EEH recovery time Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: cxlflash: Fix to avoid EEH and host reset collisions Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: cxlflash: Scan host only after the port is ready for I/O Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> net: tg3: avoid uninitialized variable warning Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> mtd: avoid stack overflow in MTD CFI code Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> drbd: avoid redefinition of BITS_PER_PAGE Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ALSA: ppc/awacs: shut up maybe-uninitialized warning Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ASoC: intel: Fix PM and non-atomic crash in bytcr drivers Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Handle mismatched open calls Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c | 6 ++++ drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_qp.c | 18 +++++------ drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c | 23 ++++++++++++-- drivers/staging/rdma/ehca/ehca_mrmw.c | 3 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 12 +++---- fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 11 +++++++ fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 4 +++ fs/cifs/connect.c | 13 ++++++-- fs/cifs/smb2misc.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 4 +++ fs/cifs/smb2proto.h | 7 +++++ fs/cifs/smb2transport.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/cifs/transport.c | 2 ++ fs/ext4/crypto.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/ext4/dir.c | 6 ++++ fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 + fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 3 ++ fs/ext4/namei.c | 18 +++++++++++ fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 12 ++++--- fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c | 10 +++--- fs/timerfd.c | 17 ++++++++-- include/linux/mtd/map.h | 19 +++++------ net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +- sound/ppc/awacs.c | 1 + sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_rt5640.c | 3 +- 28 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)