This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.258 release. There are 35 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 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:07:46 +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-4.4.258-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 4.4.258-rc1 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kvm: check tlbs_dirty directly Arun Easi <aeasi@xxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash during driver load on big endian machines Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: fix error handling in xen_blkbk_map() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-scsiback: don't "handle" error by BUG() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-netback: don't "handle" error by BUG() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-blkback: don't "handle" error by BUG() Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/arm: don't ignore return errors from set_phys_to_machine Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/gntdev: correct error checking in gntdev_map_grant_pages() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/gntdev: correct dev_bus_addr handling in gntdev_map_grant_pages() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/x86: also check kernel mapping in set_foreign_p2m_mapping() Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Xen/x86: don't bail early from clear_foreign_p2m_mapping() Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 build due to bad merge with -mrecord-mcount Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel for 32-bit too Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> vsock: fix locking in vsock_shutdown() Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: watchdog: hold device global xmit lock during tx disable Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: ulpi: Replace CPU-based busyloop with Protocol-based one Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: ulpi: fix checkpatch warning Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> h8300: fix PREEMPTION build, TI_PRE_COUNT undefined Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: xt_recent: Fix attempt to update deleted entry Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> squashfs: add more sanity checks in xattr id lookup Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> squashfs: add more sanity checks in inode lookup Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> squashfs: add more sanity checks in id lookup Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> include/trace/events/writeback.h: fix -Wstringop-truncation warnings Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx> lib/string: Add strscpy_pad() function Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: Handle 0 length opaque XDR object data properly Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> SUNRPC: Move simple_get_bytes and simple_get_netobj into private header Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> iwlwifi: mvm: guard against device removal in reprobe Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> iwlwifi: pcie: add a NULL check in iwl_pcie_txq_unmap Cong Wang <cong.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> af_key: relax availability checks for skb size calculation Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Do not count ftrace events in top level enable output ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 11 +++++- arch/arm/xen/p2m.c | 6 ++- arch/h8300/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 3 ++ arch/x86/Makefile | 6 +-- arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 15 ++++---- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 28 ++++++++------ drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c | 5 +++ drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_tmpl.c | 9 +++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_tmpl.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/ulpi.c | 20 ++++++++-- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 33 +++++++++++------ drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 4 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +- fs/squashfs/export.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++---- fs/squashfs/id.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++---- fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h | 1 + fs/squashfs/super.c | 6 +-- fs/squashfs/xattr.h | 10 ++++- fs/squashfs/xattr_id.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 10 +++++ include/linux/ftrace.h | 4 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 + include/linux/string.h | 4 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h | 3 +- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 35 +++++++++-------- include/xen/grant_table.h | 1 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 - kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 +- lib/string.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++---- mm/backing-dev.c | 1 + mm/memblock.c | 49 +++--------------------- net/key/af_key.c | 6 +-- net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 12 +++++- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 30 +-------------- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss_internal.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++ net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c | 31 +--------------- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 8 ++-- scripts/Makefile.build | 3 ++ virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +- 41 files changed, 389 insertions(+), 225 deletions(-)
