This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.193 release. There are 9 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 Sun 15 Sep 2019 01:03:32 PM UTC. 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-4.4.193-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 4.4.193-rc1 yongduan <yongduan@xxxxxxxxxxx> vhost: make sure log_num < in_num Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> af_packet: tone down the Tx-ring unsupported spew. Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx> x86, boot: Remove multiple copy of static function sanitize_boot_params() Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> clk: s2mps11: Add used attribute to s2mps11_dt_match Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> scripts/decode_stacktrace: match basepath using shell prefix operator, not regex Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@xxxxxxxxx> vhost/test: fix build for vhost test Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> xfrm: clean up xfrm protocol checks Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix overridden device-specific initialization Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Fix potential endless loop at applying quirks ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 1 + arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 1 - drivers/clk/clk-s2mps11.c | 2 +- drivers/vhost/test.c | 13 +++++++++---- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 ++-- include/net/xfrm.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ net/key/af_key.c | 4 +++- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 14 +------------- scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_auto_parser.c | 4 ++-- sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.c | 3 ++- sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.h | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 ++ 16 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)