This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.176 release. There are 20 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 Feb 23 14:19:37 UTC 2019. 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-4.4.176-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 4.4.176-rc1 Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> KVM: VMX: Fix x2apic check in vmx_msr_bitmap_mode() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ax25: fix possible use-after-free Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> mISDN: fix a race in dev_expire_timer() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net/x25: do not hold the cpu too long in x25_new_lci() Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> mfd: as3722: Mark PM functions as __maybe_unused Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> mfd: as3722: Handle interrupts on suspend Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> kvm: fix kvm_ioctl_create_device() reference counting (CVE-2019-6974) chenzefeng (A) <chenzefeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> x86: livepatch: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32 Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx> net: ipv4: use a dedicated counter for icmp_v4 redirect packets Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: stmmac: Fix a race in EEE enable callback Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> vxlan: test dev->flags & IFF_UP before calling netif_rx() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: clear icsk_backoff in tcp_write_queue_purge() Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: Do not allocate page fragments that are not skb aligned Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: tcp_v4_err() should be more careful David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: Add header for usage of fls64() Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sky2: Increase D3 delay again Hauke Mehrtens <hauke.mehrtens@xxxxxxxxx> net: Fix for_each_netdev_feature on Big endian Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> hwmon: (lm80) Fix missing unlock on error in set_fan_div() Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> vsock: cope with memory allocation failure at socket creation time Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@xxxxxxxxxx> net: fix IPv6 prefix route residue ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/x86/kernel/livepatch.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ++- drivers/hwmon/lm80.c | 4 ++- drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c | 2 +- drivers/mfd/as3722.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 2 +- .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c | 22 ++++++++-------- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 13 ++++++++-- include/linux/netdev_features.h | 24 +++++++++++++++-- include/net/ax25.h | 12 +++++++++ include/net/inetpeer.h | 1 + include/net/tcp.h | 1 + net/ax25/ax25_ip.c | 4 +-- net/ax25/ax25_route.c | 19 ++++++-------- net/core/dev.c | 4 +-- net/core/skbuff.c | 4 +++ net/ipv4/inetpeer.c | 1 + net/ipv4/route.c | 7 +++-- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 1 - net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 7 ++--- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 3 ++- net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c | 4 +++ net/x25/af_x25.c | 6 ++--- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 ++- 25 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)