I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.253 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 ------------ Makefile | 2 +- arch/arc/Makefile | 1 + arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/picoxcell-pc3x2.dtsi | 4 ++++ 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/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 + 32 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) Al Viro (1): dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name Andrey Zhizhikin (1): rndis_host: set proper input size for OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM request Arnd Bergmann (2): misdn: dsp: select CONFIG_BITREVERSE ARM: picoxcell: fix missing interrupt-parent properties David Howells (1): rxrpc: Fix handling of an unsupported token type in rxrpc_read() Dinghao Liu (1): RDMA/usnic: Fix memleak in find_free_vf_and_create_qp_grp Dmitry Torokhov (1): Input: uinput - avoid FF flush when destroying device Eric Dumazet (1): net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 4.4.253 Hamish Martin (1): usb: ohci: Make distrust_firmware param default to false J. Bruce Fields (1): nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn't return parent of export Jakub Kicinski (1): net: sit: unregister_netdevice on newlink's error path Jan Kara (1): ext4: fix superblock checksum failure when setting password salt Jann Horn (1): mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails Jouni K. Seppänen (1): net: cdc_ncm: correct overhead in delayed_ndp_size Manish Chopra (1): netxen_nic: fix MSI/MSI-x interrupts Masahiro Yamada (1): ARC: build: add boot_targets to PHONY Miaohe Lin (1): mm/hugetlb: fix potential missing huge page size info Michael Ellerman (1): net: ethernet: fs_enet: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE Michael Hennerich (1): spi: cadence: cache reference clock rate during probe Nuno Sá (1): iio: buffer: Fix demux update Petr Machata (2): net: dcb: Validate netlink message in DCB handler net: dcb: Accept RTM_GETDCB messages carrying set-like DCB commands Randy Dunlap (1): arch/arc: add copy_user_page() to <asm/page.h> to fix build error on ARC Rasmus Villemoes (1): ethernet: ucc_geth: fix definition and size of ucc_geth_tx_global_pram Shawn Guo (1): ACPI: scan: add stub acpi_create_platform_device() for !CONFIG_ACPI Thomas Hebb (1): ASoC: dapm: remove widget from dirty list on free Trond Myklebust (1): NFS: nfs_igrab_and_active must first reference the superblock j.nixdorf@xxxxxx (1): net: sunrpc: interpret the return value of kstrtou32 correctly yangerkun (1): ext4: fix bug for rename with RENAME_WHITEOUT