This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.99 release. There are 28 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 Nov 18 17:41:29 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-4.4.99-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 4.4.99-rc1 Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> misc: panel: properly restore atomic counter on error path Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Fix node_acl demo-mode + uncached dynamic shutdown regression Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> target/iscsi: Fix iSCSI task reassignment handling Chi-hsien Lin <Chi-Hsien.Lin@xxxxxxxxxxx> brcmfmac: remove setting IBSS mode when stopping AP Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tipc: fix link attribute propagation bug Bilal Amarni <bilal.amarni@xxxxxxxxx> security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp/dccp: fix other lockdep splats accessing ireq_opt Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp/dccp: fix lockdep splat in inet_csk_route_req() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp/dccp: fix ireq->opt races Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> ipip: only increase err_count for some certain type icmp in ipip_err Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: reset owner sk for data chunks on out queues when migrating a sock Julien Gomes <julien@xxxxxxxxxx> tun: allow positive return values on dev_get_valid_name() call Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> ip6_gre: only increase err_count for some certain type icmpv6 in ip6gre_err Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> net/unix: don't show information about sockets from other namespaces Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: flowlabel: do not leave opt->tot_len with garbage Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: avoid panic in packet_getsockopt() Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: add the missing sock_owned_by_user check in sctp_icmp_redirect Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice() Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: check ps->sock before running pppol2tp_session_ioctl() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: fix tcp_mtu_probe() vs highest_sack Craig Gallek <kraig@xxxxxxxxxx> tun/tap: sanitize TUNSETSNDBUF input Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Cancel pending autoload work at unbinding device Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Input: ims-psu - check if CDC union descriptor is sane Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: usbtest: fix NULL pointer dereference Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: don't compare TKIP TX MIC key in reinstall prevention Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: use constant time comparison with keys Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: accept key reinstall without changing anything ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 5 -- arch/s390/Kconfig | 3 -- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 3 -- arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 -- drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c | 16 +++++- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 + drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 20 ++++++++ drivers/net/tun.c | 7 +++ drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 -- drivers/staging/panel/panel.c | 23 +++++++-- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 19 +++---- drivers/target/target_core_tpg.c | 4 +- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 5 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 ++ include/net/inet_sock.h | 8 ++- include/net/tcp.h | 6 +-- include/target/target_core_base.h | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 6 +-- net/dccp/ipv4.c | 13 +++-- net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 24 +++------ net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 9 ++-- net/ipv4/ipip.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++------ net/ipv4/syncookies.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 21 ++++---- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 11 ++-- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 3 ++ net/mac80211/key.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++-- net/packet/af_packet.c | 24 ++++++--- net/sctp/input.c | 2 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 32 ++++++++++++ net/tipc/link.c | 28 +++-------- net/tipc/link.h | 1 - net/unix/diag.c | 2 + security/keys/Kconfig | 4 ++ sound/core/seq/seq_device.c | 3 ++ 41 files changed, 299 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)