This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.101 release. There are 16 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 Fri Nov 24 10:11:01 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-4.4.101-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 4.4.101-rc1 Jan Harkes <jaharkes@xxxxxxxxxx> coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> ipmi: fix unsigned long underflow alex chen <alex.chen@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr() Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> nvme: Fix memory order on async queue deletion Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: fix dump_instr when PAN and UAO are in use Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> serial: omap: Fix EFR write on RTS deassertion Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx> ima: do not update security.ima if appraisal status is not INTEGRITY_PASS Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> fealnx: Fix building error on MIPS Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: do not peel off an assoc from one netns to another one Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> af_netlink: ensure that NLMSG_DONE never fails in dumps Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> vlan: fix a use-after-free in vlan_device_event() Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> bonding: discard lowest hash bit for 802.3ad layer3+4 Ye Yin <hustcat@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter/ipvs: clear ipvs_property flag when SKB net namespace changed Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: do not mangle skb->cb[] in tcp_make_synack() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 26 +++++++++++++------------- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 10 ++++++---- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/fealnx.c | 6 +++--- drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 2 +- fs/coda/upcall.c | 3 +-- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 9 +++++++-- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++- include/linux/skbuff.h | 7 +++++++ mm/page_alloc.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++--------- net/8021q/vlan.c | 6 +++--- net/core/skbuff.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 9 ++------- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 17 +++++++++++------ net/netlink/af_netlink.h | 1 + net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2 ++ net/sctp/socket.c | 4 ++++ security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 3 +++ 20 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)