This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.234 release. There are 34 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 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:47:07 +0000. 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-4.4.234-rc2.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 4.4.234-rc2 Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: arm/arm64: Don't reschedule in unmap_stage2_range() Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> omapfb: dss: Fix max fclk divider for omap36xx Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> xen: don't reschedule in preemption off sections Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> do_epoll_ctl(): clean the failure exits up a bit Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc: Allow 4224 bytes of stack expansion for the signal frame Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: intel: Fix memleak in sst_media_open Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split() Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> alpha: fix annotation of io{read,write}{16,32}be() Eiichi Tsukata <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> xfs: Fix UBSAN null-ptr-deref in xfs_sysfs_init Mao Wenan <wenan.mao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> virtio_ring: Avoid loop when vq is broken in virtqueue_poll Javed Hasan <jhasan@xxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libfc: Free skb in fc_disc_gpn_id_resp() for valid cases Zhe Li <lizhe67@xxxxxxxxxx> jffs2: fix UAF problem Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> xfs: fix inode quota reservation checks Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> m68knommu: fix overwriting of bits in ColdFire V3 cache control Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> Input: psmouse - add a newline when printing 'proto' by sysfs Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx> media: vpss: clean up resources in init Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@xxxxxxxxx> media: budget-core: Improve exception handling in budget_register() Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix checking of directory entry validity for inline directories Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: clean up ext4_match() and callers Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm, page_alloc: fix core hung in free_pcppages_bulk() Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> mm: include CMA pages in lowmem_reserve at boot Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> romfs: fix uninitialized memory leak in romfs_dev_read() Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> btrfs: don't show full path of bind mounts in subvol= Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@xxxxxxxx> btrfs: export helpers for subvolume name/id resolution Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> khugepaged: adjust VM_BUG_ON_MM() in __khugepaged_enter() Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid() Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumping Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> watchdog: f71808e_wdt: remove use of wrong watchdog_info option Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> watchdog: f71808e_wdt: indicate WDIOF_CARDRESET support in watchdog_info.options Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/compat: Add missing sock updates for SCM_RIGHTS Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> perf probe: Fix memory leakage when the probe point is not found Liu Ying <victor.liu@xxxxxxx> drm/imx: imx-ldb: Disable both channels for split mode in enc->disable() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 8 +-- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 8 --- arch/m68k/include/asm/m53xxacr.h | 6 +- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/imx/imx-ldb.c | 7 +- drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/ttpci/budget-core.c | 11 +++- drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpss.c | 20 ++++-- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_disc.c | 12 +++- drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/dss/dss.c | 2 +- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 3 + drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c | 6 +- drivers/xen/preempt.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 2 + fs/btrfs/export.c | 8 +-- fs/btrfs/export.h | 5 ++ fs/btrfs/super.c | 18 +++-- fs/eventpoll.c | 19 +++--- fs/ext4/namei.c | 99 +++++++++++----------------- fs/jffs2/dir.c | 6 +- fs/romfs/storage.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.h | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_trans_dquot.c | 2 +- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++ include/net/sock.h | 4 ++ mm/huge_memory.c | 4 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 25 ++++--- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +- net/compat.c | 1 + net/core/sock.c | 21 ++++++ sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c | 5 +- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 2 +- 33 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)