This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.117 release. There are 33 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 Feb 23 12:43:54 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.117-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 4.4.117-rc1 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> media: r820t: fix r820t_write_reg for KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ARM: dts: s5pv210: add interrupt-parent for ohci Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ARM: pxa/tosa-bt: add MODULE_LICENSE tag Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vfs: don't do RCU lookup of empty pathnames Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> x86: fix build warnign with 32-bit PAE NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec_pending() Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> mvpp2: fix multicast address filter Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations Lassi Ylikojola <lassi.ylikojola@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: add implicit fb quirk for Behringer UFX1204 Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek: PCI quirk for Fujitsu U7x7 Kirill Marinushkin <k.marinushkin@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Fix UAC2 get_ctl request with a RANGE attribute Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for two Dell machines Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Btrfs: fix unexpected -EEXIST when creating new inode Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Btrfs: fix crash due to not cleaning up tree log block's dirty bits Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Btrfs: fix deadlock in run_delalloc_nocow Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> console/dummy: leave .con_font_get set to NULL Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> video: fbdev: atmel_lcdfb: fix display-timings lookup Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> mm: hide a #warning for COMPILE_TEST Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error() Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon: adjust tested variable Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM/x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range(), by always inlining iterator helper methods Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Fix regression by incorrect ioctl_mutex usages Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> arm: spear13xx: Fix spics gpio controller's warning Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> arm: spear600: Add missing interrupt-parent of rtc Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@xxxxxx> ARM: dts: STi: Add gpio polarity for "hdmi,hpd-gpio" property Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@xxxxxxxxxx> s390: fix handling of -1 in set{,fs}[gu]id16 syscalls Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> PM / devfreq: Propagate error from devfreq_add_device() Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> IB/mlx4: Fix incorrectly releasing steerable UD QPs when have only ETH ports ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/snps-dma.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm/boot/dts/s5pv210.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/spear1310-evb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear1340.dtsi | 4 ++-- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear13xx.dtsi | 6 ++--- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear600.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407.dtsi | 3 ++- arch/arm/boot/dts/stih410.dtsi | 3 ++- arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa-bt.c | 4 ++++ arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c | 8 +++---- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 10 ++++---- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_uvd.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c | 13 ++++------ drivers/md/dm.c | 3 ++- drivers/media/tuners/r820t.c | 13 ++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 11 ++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/qp.c | 3 +++ .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 5 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 1 + drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c | 12 ++++++++-- drivers/video/console/dummycon.c | 1 - drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c | 8 ++++++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 5 +++- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++ fs/ext4/super.c | 1 + fs/namei.c | 3 +++ include/linux/kaiser.h | 2 +- mm/memory.c | 2 +- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 23 ++++++++++-------- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ sound/usb/mixer.c | 18 ++++++++------ sound/usb/pcm.c | 9 +++++++ 39 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)