This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.169 release. There are 40 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 Dec 22 08:58:16 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-4.4.169-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 4.4.169-rc1 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: isa/wavefront: prevent some out of bound writes Trent Piepho <tpiepho@xxxxxxxxxx> rtc: snvs: Add timeouts to avoid kernel lockups Guy Shapiro <guy.shapiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: snvs: add a missing write sync Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> i2c: scmi: Fix probe error on devices with an empty SMB0001 ACPI device node Adamski, Krzysztof (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) <krzysztof.adamski@xxxxxxxxx> i2c: axxia: properly handle master timeout Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cifs: In Kconfig CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX needs depends on legacy (insecure cifs) Chris Cole <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: 8814/1: mm: improve/fix ARM v7_dma_inv_range() unaligned address handling Anderson Luiz Alves <alacn1@xxxxxxxxx> mv88e6060: disable hardware level MAC learning Juha-Matti Tilli <juha-matti.tilli@xxxxxx> libata: whitelist all SAMSUNG MZ7KM* solid-state disks Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Input: omap-keypad - fix keyboard debounce configuration Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> clk: mmp: Off by one in mmp_clk_add() Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx> ide: pmac: add of_node_put() Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx> drivers/tty: add missing of_node_put() Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx> drivers/sbus/char: add of_node_put() Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx> sbus: char: add of_node_put() Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: Fix a potential race in xprt_connect() Toni Peltonen <peltzi@xxxxxxxxx> bonding: fix 802.3ad state sent to partner when unbinding slave Jose Abreu <joabreu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ARC: io.h: Implement reads{x}()/writes{x}() Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/msm: Grab a vblank reference when waiting for commit_done YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei1999@xxxxxxxxx> x86/earlyprintk/efi: Fix infinite loop on some screen widths Cathy Avery <cavery@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: vmw_pscsi: Rearrange code to avoid multiple calls to free_irq during unload Fred Herard <fred.herard@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libiscsi: Fix NULL pointer dereference in iscsi_eh_session_reset Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211_hwsim: fix module init error paths for netlink Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: Fix condition validating WMM IE Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: don't WARN on bad WMM parameters from buggy APs Yunlei He <heyunlei@xxxxxxxxxx> f2fs: fix a panic caused by NULL flush_cmd_control Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "drm/rockchip: Allow driver to be shutdown on reboot/kexec" Radu Rendec <radu.rendec@xxxxxxxxx> powerpc/msi: Fix NULL pointer access in teardown code Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix memory leak of instance function hash filters Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix memory leak in set_trigger_filter() Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> MMC: OMAP: fix broken MMC on OMAP15XX/OMAP5910/OMAP310 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> aio: fix spectre gadget in lookup_ioctx Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx> pinctrl: sunxi: a83t: Fix IRQ offset typo for PH11 Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/boot: Fix random libfdt related build errors Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> timer/debug: Change /proc/timer_list from 0444 to 0400 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lib/interval_tree_test.c: allow users to limit scope of endpoint Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lib/rbtree-test: lower default params Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lib/rbtree_test.c: make input module parameters Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lib/interval_tree_test.c: allow full tree search Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lib/interval_tree_test.c: make test options module parameters ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/include/asm/io.h | 72 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/mm/cache-v7.S | 8 ++- arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 3 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/msi.c | 7 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/early_printk.c | 2 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 + drivers/clk/mmp/clk.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_atomic.c | 5 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c | 6 -- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-axxia.c | 40 ++++++++--- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-scmi.c | 10 ++- drivers/ide/pmac.c | 1 + drivers/input/keyboard/omap4-keypad.c | 18 +++-- drivers/mmc/host/omap.c | 11 ++- drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c | 3 + drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.c | 10 +-- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 12 ++-- drivers/pinctrl/sunxi/pinctrl-sun8i-a83t.c | 2 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-snvs.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++--------- drivers/sbus/char/display7seg.c | 1 + drivers/sbus/char/envctrl.c | 2 + drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/serial/suncore.c | 1 + fs/aio.c | 2 + fs/cifs/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/f2fs/segment.c | 5 +- kernel/time/timer_list.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 + kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 6 +- lib/interval_tree_test.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++--------- lib/rbtree_test.c | 55 +++++++++------ net/mac80211/mlme.c | 3 +- net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 11 ++- sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront_synth.c | 9 +++ 36 files changed, 376 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)