This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.253 release. There are 31 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, 24 Jan 2021 13:57:23 +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-4.4.253-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 4.4.253-rc1 Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> spi: cadence: cache reference clock rate during probe Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> rxrpc: Fix handling of an unsupported token type in rxrpc_read() Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> net: sit: unregister_netdevice on newlink's error path Petr Machata <petrm@xxxxxxxxxx> net: dcb: Accept RTM_GETDCB messages carrying set-like DCB commands Petr Machata <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: dcb: Validate netlink message in DCB handler Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rndis_host: set proper input size for OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM request Manish Chopra <manishc@xxxxxxxxxxx> netxen_nic: fix MSI/MSI-x interrupts Jouni K. Seppänen <jks@xxxxxx> net: cdc_ncm: correct overhead in delayed_ndp_size J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn't return parent of export Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@xxxxxxxxxx> iio: buffer: Fix demux update Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64 Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: ohci: Make distrust_firmware param default to false j.nixdorf@xxxxxx <j.nixdorf@xxxxxx> net: sunrpc: interpret the return value of kstrtou32 correctly Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> RDMA/usnic: Fix memleak in find_free_vf_and_create_qp_grp Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix superblock checksum failure when setting password salt Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NFS: nfs_igrab_and_active must first reference the superblock Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Input: uinput - avoid FF flush when destroying device Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ARM: picoxcell: fix missing interrupt-parent properties Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> ACPI: scan: add stub acpi_create_platform_device() for !CONFIG_ACPI Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: ethernet: fs_enet: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> misdn: dsp: select CONFIG_BITREVERSE Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> arch/arc: add copy_user_page() to <asm/page.h> to fix build error on ARC Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> ethernet: ucc_geth: fix definition and size of ucc_geth_tx_global_pram Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> ARC: build: add boot_targets to PHONY yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix bug for rename with RENAME_WHITEOUT Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/hugetlb: fix potential missing huge page size info Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Fix malformed NT_FILE and NT_SIGINFO in 32bit coredumps Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@xxxxxxxxx> ASoC: dapm: remove widget from dirty list on free ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arc/Makefile | 1 + arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/picoxcell-pc3x2.dtsi | 4 ++++ arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfn32.c | 7 +++++++ arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfo32.c | 7 +++++++ drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 6 +++--- drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c | 3 +++ drivers/input/ff-core.c | 13 ++++++++++--- drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/isdn/mISDN/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-fec.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.h | 9 ++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c | 7 +------ drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 2 +- drivers/spi/spi-cadence.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 3 +++ fs/ext4/namei.c | 16 +++++++++------- fs/nfs/internal.h | 12 +++++++----- fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 7 ++++++- include/linux/acpi.h | 7 +++++++ include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 ++++++ include/linux/input.h | 1 + mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- mm/slub.c | 2 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 9 +++++++-- net/dcb/dcbnl.c | 2 ++ net/ipv6/sit.c | 5 ++++- net/rxrpc/ar-key.c | 6 ++++-- net/sunrpc/addr.c | 2 +- security/lsm_audit.c | 7 +++++-- sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 1 + 35 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
