I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.248 kernel. All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 4.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt | 2 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt | 2 Makefile | 2 arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 36 +++++++--- arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 3 arch/powerpc/lib/ppc_ksyms.c | 1 arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h | 15 ++++ arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 10 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 30 +++++++- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 2 drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 4 + drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 3 drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 2 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 61 ++++++++++++------ drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs_slave.c | 18 ----- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c | 1 drivers/net/ethernet/pasemi/pasemi_mac.c | 8 +- drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c | 2 drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 22 ++---- drivers/spi/spi.c | 54 +++++++++++++++ drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 51 ++++++++++----- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 6 + drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 5 - drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c | 10 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 5 + fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 6 + fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 7 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 fs/gfs2/rgrp.c | 4 + include/linux/if_vlan.h | 29 ++++++-- include/linux/spi/spi.h | 2 include/linux/tty.h | 4 + include/net/bonding.h | 8 ++ include/net/inet_ecn.h | 1 kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 +- kernel/trace/trace.h | 6 + mm/huge_memory.c | 8 -- net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 7 +- net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 4 - net/rose/rose_loopback.c | 17 +++-- net/x25/af_x25.c | 6 + sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.c | 12 ++- sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.h | 1 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 44 files changed, 353 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-) Anmol Karn (1): rose: Fix Null pointer dereference in rose_send_frame() Antoine Tenart (1): netfilter: bridge: reset skb->pkt_type after NF_INET_POST_ROUTING traversal Ard Biesheuvel (1): arm64: assembler: make adr_l work in modules under KASLR Bob Peterson (1): gfs2: check for empty rgrp tree in gfs2_ri_update Christian Eggers (2): i2c: imx: Fix reset of I2SR_IAL flag i2c: imx: Check for I2SR_IAL after every byte Dan Carpenter (1): net/x25: prevent a couple of overflows Gerald Schaefer (1): mm/userfaultfd: do not access vma->vm_mm after calling handle_userfault() Giacinto Cifelli (1): USB: serial: option: add support for Thales Cinterion EXS82 Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 4.4.248 Jamie Iles (1): bonding: wait for sysfs kobject destruction before freeing struct slave Jan-Niklas Burfeind (1): USB: serial: ch341: add new Product ID for CH341A Jann Horn (2): tty: Fix ->pgrp locking in tiocspgrp() tty: Fix ->session locking Johan Hovold (2): USB: serial: kl5kusb105: fix memleak on open USB: serial: ch341: sort device-id entries Josef Bacik (2): btrfs: sysfs: init devices outside of the chunk_mutex btrfs: cleanup cow block on error Julian Wiedmann (1): net/af_iucv: set correct sk_protocol for child sockets Kailang Yang (1): ALSA: hda/realtek - Add new codec supported for ALC897 Krzysztof Kozlowski (1): dt-bindings: net: correct interrupt flags in examples Lukas Wunner (2): spi: Introduce device-managed SPI controller allocation spi: bcm2835: Fix use-after-free on unbind Luo Meng (1): Input: i8042 - fix error return code in i8042_setup_aux() Masami Hiramatsu (1): x86/uprobes: Do not use prefixes.nbytes when looping over prefixes.bytes Michal Suchanek (1): powerpc: Stop exporting __clear_user which is now inlined. Paulo Alcantara (1): cifs: fix potential use-after-free in cifs_echo_request() Peter Ujfalusi (1): spi: bcm2835: Release the DMA channel if probe fails after dma_init Po-Hsu Lin (1): Input: i8042 - add ByteSpeed touchpad to noloop table Sanjay Govind (1): Input: xpad - support Ardwiino Controllers Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1): tracing: Fix userstacktrace option for instances Suravee Suthikulpanit (1): iommu/amd: Set DTE[IntTabLen] to represent 512 IRTEs Takashi Iwai (1): ALSA: hda/generic: Add option to enforce preferred_dacs pairs Toke Høiland-Jørgensen (1): vlan: consolidate VLAN parsing code and limit max parsing depth Vamsi Krishna Samavedam (1): usb: gadget: f_fs: Use local copy of descriptors for userspace copy Vincent Palatin (1): USB: serial: option: add Fibocom NL668 variants Yves-Alexis Perez (1): usbnet: ipheth: fix connectivity with iOS 14 Zhang Changzhong (2): cxgb3: fix error return code in t3_sge_alloc_qset() net: pasemi: fix error return code in pasemi_mac_open()