This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.73 release. There are 46 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 Jun 17 17:51:59 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-4.4.73-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 4.4.73-rc1 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> sparc64: make string buffers large enough Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> s390/kvm: do not rely on the ILC on kvm host protection fauls Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> xtensa: don't use linux IRQ #0 Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tipc: ignore requests when the connection state is not CONNECTED Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> proc: add a schedule point in proc_pid_readdir() Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: sctp_addr_id2transport should verify the addr before looking up assoc hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> r8152: avoid start_xmit to schedule napi when napi is disabled hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> r8152: fix rtl8152_post_reset function hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> r8152: re-schedule napi for tx Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> nfs: Fix "Don't increment lock sequence ID after NFS4ERR_MOVED" Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@xxxxxxxxxxx> ravb: unmap descriptors when freeing rings Y.C. Chen <yc_chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/ast: Fixed system hanged if disable P2A Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau: Don't enabling polling twice on runtime resume Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc, parport_gsc: Fixes for printk continuation lines Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> net: adaptec: starfire: add checks for dma mapping errors Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: berlin-bg4ct: fix the value for "sd1a" of pin SCRD0_CRD_PRES Arseny Solokha <asolokha@xxxxxxxxxx> gianfar: synchronize DMA API usage by free_skb_rx_queue w/ gfar_new_page Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_core: Avoid command timeouts during VF driver device shutdown Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau/fence/g84-: protect against concurrent access to semaphore buffers Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau: prevent userspace from deleting client object Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix flow labels when the traffic class is non-0 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> FS-Cache: Initialise stores_lock in netfs cookie David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> fscache: Clear outstanding writes when disabling a cookie David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> fscache: Fix dead object requeue Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> ethtool: do not vzalloc(0) on registers dump Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> log2: make order_base_2() behave correctly on const input value zero Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kasan: respect /proc/sys/kernel/traceoff_on_warning David Lin <dtwlin@xxxxxxxxxx> jump label: pass kbuild_cflags when checking for asm goto support Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> PM / runtime: Avoid false-positive warnings from might_sleep_if() Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: Fix IPv6 packet loss in scenarios involving roaming + snooping switches Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> i2c: piix4: Fix request_region size Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sierra_net: Add support for IPv6 and Dual-Stack Link Sense Indications Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sierra_net: Skip validating irrelevant fields for IDLE LSIs Kejian Yan <yankejian@xxxxxxxxxx> net: hns: Fix the device being used for dma mapping during TX Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NET: mkiss: Fix panic Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NET: Fix /proc/net/arp for AX.25 Jonathan T. Leighton <jtleight@xxxxxxxx> ipv6: Inhibit IPv4-mapped src address on the wire. Jonathan T. Leighton <jtleight@xxxxxxxx> ipv6: Handle IPv4-mapped src to in6addr_any dst. Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxxxxxx> net: xilinx_emaclite: fix receive buffer overflow Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxxxxxx> net: xilinx_emaclite: fix freezes due to unordered I/O Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Call echo service immediately after socket reconnect Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> staging: rtl8192e: rtl92e_fill_tx_desc fix write to mapped out memory. Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx> ARM: dts: imx6dl: Fix the VDD_ARM_CAP voltage for 396MHz operation Richard <richard@xxxxxxxxxx> partitions/msdos: FreeBSD UFS2 file systems are not recognized Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> s390/vmem: fix identity mapping ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 6 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6dl.dtsi | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | 19 ++- arch/s390/mm/vmem.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c | 4 +- arch/xtensa/include/asm/irq.h | 3 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/irq.c | 5 - .../platforms/xtfpga/include/platform/hardware.h | 6 +- arch/xtensa/platforms/xtfpga/setup.c | 10 +- block/partitions/msdos.c | 2 + drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 11 +- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c | 157 +++++++++++---------- drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_post.c | 18 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_usif.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv84_fence.c | 6 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c | 2 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-xtensa-mx.c | 2 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-xtensa-pic.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/adaptec/starfire.c | 45 +++++- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_enet.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/catas.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/intf.c | 12 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 112 ++++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c | 126 +++++++++-------- drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c | 4 +- drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 13 +- drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c | 111 +++++++++------ drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c | 8 +- drivers/pinctrl/berlin/berlin-bg4ct.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c | 13 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 24 +++- fs/fscache/cookie.c | 5 + fs/fscache/netfs.c | 1 + fs/fscache/object.c | 32 ++++- fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 1 + fs/proc/base.c | 2 + fs/romfs/super.c | 23 ++- include/linux/fscache-cache.h | 1 + include/linux/log2.h | 13 +- include/net/ipv6.h | 5 + mm/kasan/report.c | 3 + net/core/ethtool.c | 9 +- net/ipv4/arp.c | 12 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 10 +- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 14 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 + net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 11 +- net/ipv6/udp.c | 4 + net/sctp/socket.c | 6 +- net/tipc/server.c | 13 +- 56 files changed, 601 insertions(+), 316 deletions(-)