I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.259 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/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 4 arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-spring.dts | 2 arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420-arndale-octa.dts | 2 arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 arch/mips/lantiq/irq.c | 2 arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 2 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 7 - arch/sparc/Kconfig | 2 arch/sparc/lib/memset.S | 1 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 29 ++---- arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c | 1 block/blk-settings.c | 12 ++ drivers/amba/bus.c | 20 ++-- drivers/block/brd.c | 1 drivers/block/floppy.c | 27 +++-- drivers/block/rbd.c | 9 - drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 1 drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c | 2 drivers/clocksource/mxs_timer.c | 5 - drivers/dma/fsldma.c | 6 + drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c | 2 drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_hdmi_i2c.c | 22 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.c | 2 drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 9 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c | 2 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 8 - drivers/ide/ide-cd.h | 6 - drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c | 7 + drivers/input/joydev.c | 7 + drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 1 drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 4 drivers/input/touchscreen/elo.c | 4 drivers/md/dm-era-target.c | 93 ++++++++++++-------- drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-core.c | 4 drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-empress.c | 5 - drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c | 2 drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c | 4 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 18 +-- drivers/mfd/wm831x-auxadc.c | 3 drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c | 1 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c | 5 - drivers/mmc/host/usdhi6rol0.c | 4 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c | 2 drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 9 + drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c | 18 +++ drivers/nvdimm/nd.h | 1 drivers/pci/syscall.c | 10 +- drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c | 7 - drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/Kconfig | 1 drivers/scsi/gdth.h | 3 drivers/spi/spi-s3c24xx-fiq.S | 9 - drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 1 drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_intr.c | 14 ++- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 19 +++- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 2 drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 4 drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 4 drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 3 drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 2 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 6 + fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 4 fs/f2fs/file.c | 3 fs/gfs2/lock_dlm.c | 8 - fs/isofs/dir.c | 1 fs/isofs/namei.c | 1 fs/jffs2/summary.c | 3 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c | 2 fs/ntfs/inode.c | 6 + include/linux/blkdev.h | 42 ++++++--- include/linux/device-mapper.h | 2 include/linux/ide.h | 1 include/uapi/linux/msdos_fs.h | 2 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 2 kernel/futex.c | 7 - kernel/module.c | 21 ++++ kernel/tracepoint.c | 80 +++++++++++++---- mm/hugetlb.c | 43 +++++++++ mm/memory.c | 6 - net/bluetooth/a2mp.c | 3 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 6 - scripts/recordmcount.pl | 6 + security/keys/trusted.c | 2 sound/soc/codecs/cs42l56.c | 3 tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c | 2 tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 3 90 files changed, 493 insertions(+), 242 deletions(-) Adrian Hunter (1): perf intel-pt: Fix missing CYC processing in PSB Al Viro (1): sparc32: fix a user-triggerable oops in clear_user() Alexander Lobakin (1): MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section Arnd Bergmann (1): ARM: s3c: fix fiq for clang IAS Aswath Govindraju (2): misc: eeprom_93xx46: Fix module alias to enable module autoprobe misc: eeprom_93xx46: Add module alias to avoid breaking support for non device tree users Bart Van Assche (1): block: Move SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT definitions into <linux/blkdev.h> Bob Peterson (1): gfs2: Don't skip dlm unlock if glock has an lvb Chao Yu (1): f2fs: fix out-of-repair __setattr_copy() Christophe JAILLET (4): media: cx25821: Fix a bug when reallocating some dma memory dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in the remove function dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path of the probe function mmc: usdhi6rol0: Fix a resource leak in the error handling path of the probe Christophe Leroy (1): powerpc/47x: Disable 256k page size Christopher William Snowhill (1): Bluetooth: Fix initializing response id after clearing struct Colin Ian King (2): b43: N-PHY: Fix the update of coef for the PHY revision >= 3case fs/jfs: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int Corinna Vinschen (1): igb: Remove incorrect "unexpected SYS WRAP" log message Dan Carpenter (7): gma500: clean up error handling in init ASoC: cs42l56: fix up error handling in probe mfd: wm831x-auxadc: Prevent use after free in wm831x_auxadc_read_irq() Input: elo - fix an error code in elo_connect() Input: joydev - prevent potential read overflow in ioctl USB: serial: mos7840: fix error code in mos7840_write() USB: serial: mos7720: fix error code in mos7720_write() Dan Williams (1): libnvdimm/dimm: Avoid race between probe and available_slots_show() David Vrabel (1): xen-netback: delete NAPI instance when queue fails to initialize Dinghao Liu (2): media: media/pci: Fix memleak in empress_init media: tm6000: Fix memleak in tm6000_start_stream Edwin Peer (1): bnxt_en: reverse order of TX disable and carrier off Fangrui Song (1): module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 4.4.259 Guenter Roeck (2): usb: dwc2: Abort transaction after errors with unknown reason usb: dwc2: Make "trimming xfer length" a debug message Heiner Kallweit (1): PCI: Align checking of syscall user config accessors Jarkko Sakkinen (1): KEYS: trusted: Fix migratable=1 failing Jialin Zhang (1): drm/gma500: Fix error return code in psb_driver_load() Jiri Kosina (1): floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix Joe Perches (1): media: lmedm04: Fix misuse of comma Jorgen Hansen (1): VMCI: Use set_page_dirty_lock() when unregistering guest memory Josef Bacik (1): btrfs: fix reloc root leak with 0 ref reloc roots on recovery Juergen Gross (1): xen/netback: fix spurious event detection for common event case Krzysztof Kozlowski (2): ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Spring ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Arndale Octa Laurent Pinchart (1): media: uvcvideo: Accept invalid bFormatIndex and bFrameIndex values Lech Perczak (1): USB: serial: option: update interface mapping for ZTE P685M Marcos Paulo de Souza (1): Input: i8042 - add ASUS Zenbook Flip to noselftest list Martin Blumenstingl (1): clk: meson: clk-pll: fix initializing the old rate (fallback) for a PLL Martin Kaiser (1): staging: rtl8188eu: Add Edimax EW-7811UN V2 to device table Maxim Kiselev (1): gpio: pcf857x: Fix missing first interrupt Maxime Ripard (1): i2c: brcmstb: Fix brcmstd_send_i2c_cmd condition Miaohe Lin (2): mm/memory.c: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error mm/hugetlb: fix potential double free in hugetlb_register_node() error path Mikulas Patocka (1): blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary Muchun Song (1): mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page Namhyung Kim (1): perf test: Fix unaligned access in sample parsing test Nathan Chancellor (2): MIPS: c-r4k: Fix section mismatch for loongson2_sc_init MIPS: lantiq: Explicitly compare LTQ_EBU_PCC_ISTAT against 0 Nathan Lynch (1): powerpc/pseries/dlpar: handle ibm, configure-connector delay status Nikos Tsironis (7): dm era: Recover committed writeset after crash dm era: Verify the data block size hasn't changed dm era: Fix bitset memory leaks dm era: Use correct value size in equality function of writeset tree dm era: Reinitialize bitset cache before digesting a new writeset dm era: only resize metadata in preresume dm era: Update in-core bitset after committing the metadata Olivier Crête (1): Input: xpad - add support for PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox Series X|S Pan Bian (4): Bluetooth: drop HCI device reference before return Bluetooth: Put HCI device if inquiry procedure interrupts regulator: axp20x: Fix reference cout leak isofs: release buffer head before return Peter Zijlstra (1): futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup Randy Dunlap (4): fbdev: aty: SPARC64 requires FB_ATY_CT HID: core: detect and skip invalid inputs to snto32() sparc64: only select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF is set scsi: bnx2fc: Fix Kconfig warning & CNIC build errors Rong Chen (1): scripts/recordmcount.pl: support big endian for ARCH sh Rustam Kovhaev (1): ntfs: check for valid standard information attribute Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov (1): drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: restrict too big queue size in qp_host_alloc_queue Sean Christopherson (1): x86/reboot: Force all cpus to exit VMX root if VMX is supported Shay Drory (1): IB/umad: Return EIO in case of when device disassociated Stefan Ursella (1): usb: quirks: add quirk to start video capture on ELMO L-12F document camera reliable Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1): tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory failure Sumit Garg (1): kdb: Make memory allocations more robust Thinh Nguyen (2): usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix setting of DEPCFG.bInterval_m1 usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix dep->interval for fullspeed interrupt Tom Rix (2): jffs2: fix use after free in jffs2_sum_write_data() clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Add missing semicolon when DEBUG is defined Uwe Kleine-König (1): amba: Fix resource leak for drivers without .remove Vladimir Murzin (1): ARM: 9046/1: decompressor: Do not clear SCTLR.nTLSMD for ARMv7+ cores Will McVicker (1): HID: make arrays usage and value to be the same Yoshihiro Shimoda (1): usb: renesas_usbhs: Clear pipe running flag in usbhs_pkt_pop() Zhihao Cheng (1): btrfs: clarify error returns values in __load_free_space_cache
