This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.250 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, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +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-4.4.250-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 4.4.250-rc2 Zhang Xiaohui <ruc_zhangxiaohui@xxxxxxx> mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> iio:magnetometer:mag3110: Fix alignment and data leak issues. Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@xxxxxxxxxx> powerpc: sysdev: add missing iounmap() on error in mpic_msgr_probe() Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> quota: Don't overflow quota file offsets Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Use bool for snd_seq_queue internal flags Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> media: gp8psk: initialize stats at power control logic Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@xxxxxxxxx> misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells() Rustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@xxxxxxxxx> reiserfs: add check for an invalid ih_entry_count Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> of: fix linker-section match-table corruption Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@xxxxxxxxx> uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h> Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix write-wakeup deadlocks Stefan Haberland <sth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> s390/dasd: fix hanging device offline processing Kailang Yang <kailang@xxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236 Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Fix a wrong FIXUP for alc289 on Dell machines Kailang Yang <kailang@xxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Support Dell headset mode for ALC3271 Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: fix sync-ep altsetting sanity check Alberto Aguirre <albaguirre@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: simplify set_sync_ep_implicit_fb_quirk Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Fix work handling in delayed HP detection ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/magnetometer/mag3110.c | 13 +++++++--- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/gp8psk.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c | 2 ++ drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 10 +++++++- drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c | 45 ++++++++++----------------------- fs/quota/quota_tree.c | 8 +++--- fs/reiserfs/stree.c | 6 +++++ include/linux/of.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/const.h | 5 ++++ include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h | 2 +- kernel/module.c | 6 +++-- sound/core/seq/seq_queue.h | 8 +++--- sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c | 16 ++++++++++-- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 25 +++++++++++++++--- sound/usb/pcm.c | 38 ++++++++++++---------------- 21 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)