This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.289 release. There are 18 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, 16 Oct 2021 14:51:59 +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-4.4.289-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 4.4.289-rc1 Anand K Mistry <amistry@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86: Reset destroy callback on event init failure Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: virtio_scsi: Fix spelling mistake "Unsupport" -> "Unsupported" Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: ses: Fix unsigned comparison with less than zero YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> mac80211: Drop frames from invalid MAC address in ad-hoc mode Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: ip6_tables: zero-initialize fragment offset Mizuho Mori <morimolymoly@xxxxxxxxx> HID: apple: Fix logical maximum and usage maximum of Magic Keyboard JIS Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gup: document and work around "COW can break either way" issue Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxxxxx> i40e: fix endless loop under rtnl Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> netlink: annotate data races around nlk->bound Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: imx6: disable the GIC CPU interface before calling stby-poweroff sequence Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ptp_pch: Load module automatically if ID matches Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net_sched: fix NULL deref in fifo_set_limit() Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> phy: mdio: fix memory leak Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> xtensa: call irqchip_init only when CONFIG_USE_OF is selected Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> nfsd4: Handle the NFSv4 READDIR 'dircount' hint being zero Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: cdc-acm: fix break reporting Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: cdc-acm: fix racy tty buffer accesses ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/mach-imx/pm-imx6.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 1 + arch/xtensa/kernel/irq.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-apple.c | 7 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 7 +++++ drivers/ptp/ptp_pch.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/ses.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 4 +-- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 8 +++++ fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 19 +++++++----- mm/gup.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- mm/huge_memory.c | 10 ++---- mm/memory.c | 12 +++++--- net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 1 + net/mac80211/rx.c | 3 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 14 ++++++--- net/sched/sch_fifo.c | 3 ++ 19 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)