This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.247 release. There are 24 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 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:46:29 +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-4.4.247-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 4.4.247-rc1 Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> btrfs: fix lockdep splat when reading qgroup config on mount Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: core: Fix regression in Hercules audio card Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: core: add endpoint-blacklist quirk Anand K Mistry <amistry@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/speculation: Fix prctl() when spectre_v2_user={seccomp,prctl},ibpb Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: core: Change %pK for __user pointers to %px Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> perf probe: Fix to die_entrypc() returns error correctly Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> nfc: s3fwrn5: use signed integer for parsing GPIO numbers Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx> IB/mthca: fix return value of error branch in mthca_init_cq() Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> bnxt_en: Release PCI regions when DMA mask setup fails during probe. Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the VRAM Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx> bnxt_en: fix error return code in bnxt_init_board() Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: ufs: Fix race between shutdown and runtime resume flow Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: target: iscsi: Fix cmd abort fabric stop race Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition Sugar Zhang <sugar.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: pl330: _prep_dma_memcpy: Fix wrong burst size Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/xen: don't unbind uninitialized lock_kicker_irq Pablo Ceballos <pceballos@xxxxxxxxxx> HID: hid-sensor-hub: Fix issue with devices with no report ID Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Input: i8042 - allow insmod to succeed on devices without an i8042 controller Frank Yang <puilp0502@xxxxxxxxx> HID: cypress: Support Varmilo Keyboards' media hotkeys Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: Fix split-irqchip vs interrupt injection window request Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> btrfs: inode: Verify inode mode to avoid NULL pointer dereference Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> btrfs: tree-checker: Enhance chunk checker to validate chunk profile ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 4 +-- arch/x86/kvm/irq.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 18 +++++++------ arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 12 ++++++++- drivers/dma/pl330.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-cypress.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 2 ++ drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c | 3 ++- drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c | 10 ++++--- drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 12 ++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 ++- drivers/nfc/s3fwrn5/i2c.c | 4 +-- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 23 ++++++++++------ drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 6 +---- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 17 +++++++++--- drivers/usb/core/config.c | 11 ++++++++ drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 4 +-- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/usb/core/usb.h | 3 +++ drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c | 7 ++++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++------ fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/tests/inode-tests.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 7 +++++ fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 2 ++ fs/efivarfs/super.c | 1 - fs/proc/self.c | 7 +++++ include/linux/usb/quirks.h | 3 +++ include/scsi/libiscsi.h | 3 +++ tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c | 8 ++++++ 32 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)