This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.159 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 Sep 29 09:06:27 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-4.4.159-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 4.4.159-rc1 Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> iw_cxgb4: only allow 1 flush on user qps Roderick Colenbrander <roderick.colenbrander@xxxxxxxx> HID: sony: Support DS4 dongle Roderick Colenbrander <roderick.colenbrander@xxxxxxxx> HID: sony: Update device ids Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> arm64: Add trace_hardirqs_off annotation in ret_to_user Li Dongyang <dongyangli@xxxxxxx> ext4: don't mark mmp buffer head dirty Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix online resizing for bigalloc file systems with a 1k block size Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix online resize's handling of a too-small final block group Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: recalucate superblock checksum after updating free blocks/inodes Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: avoid divide by zero fault when deleting corrupted inline directories Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tty: vt_ioctl: fix potential Spectre v1 Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/nouveau/drm/nouveau: Use pm_runtime_get_noresume() in connector_detect() Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: fix ocfs2 read block panic Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@xxxxxxxxx> scsi: target: iscsi: Use hex2bin instead of a re-implementation Vasily Khoruzhick <vasilykh@xxxxxxxxxx> neighbour: confirm neigh entries when ARP packet is received Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: hp100: fix always-true check for link up state Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> net/appletalk: fix minor pointer leak to userspace in SIOCFINDIPDDPRT Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix possible use-after-free in ip6_xmit() Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx> gso_segment: Reset skb->mac_len after modifying network header Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: shmem.c: Correctly annotate new inodes for lockdep Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@xxxxxxxxxx> ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/x86/vpmu: Zero struct pt_regs before calling into sample handling code Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> xen/netfront: don't bug in case of too many frags Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx> platform/x86: alienware-wmi: Correct a memory leak Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> ALSA: emu10k1: fix possible info leak to userspace on SNDRV_EMU10K1_IOCTL_INFO Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: bebob: use address returned by kmalloc() instead of kernel stack for streaming DMA mapping Sébastien Szymanski <sebastien.szymanski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: cs4265: fix MMTLR Data switch control Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> NFC: Fix the number of pipes Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> NFC: Fix possible memory corruption when handling SHDLC I-Frame commands ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 3 +++ arch/x86/xen/pmu.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c | 20 ++++++++++--------- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 3 +++ drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 2 ++ drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/hp/hp100.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 8 +++++++- drivers/platform/x86/alienware-wmi.c | 1 + drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.c | 30 ++++++++++++++--------------- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 4 ++++ fs/ext4/dir.c | 20 +++++++++---------- fs/ext4/inline.c | 4 +++- fs/ext4/mmp.c | 1 - fs/ext4/resize.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 ++ fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 1 + include/net/nfc/hci.h | 2 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 ++ mm/shmem.c | 2 ++ net/core/neighbour.c | 13 ++++++++----- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 6 ++---- net/nfc/hci/core.c | 10 ++++++++++ sound/firewire/bebob/bebob_maudio.c | 24 +++++++++++++---------- sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs4265.c | 4 ++-- 31 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)