This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.297 release. There are 17 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, 29 Dec 2021 15:13:09 +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-4.4.297-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 4.4.297-rc1 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@xxxxxxxxxx> phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe Lin Ma <linma@xxxxxxxxxx> hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD Lin Ma <linma@xxxxxxxxxx> hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev Lin Ma <linma@xxxxxxxxxx> ax25: NPD bug when detaching AX25 device Samuel Čavoj <samuel@xxxxxxxxx> Input: i8042 - enable deferred probe quirk for ASUS UM325UA Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> xen/blkfront: fix bug in backported patch Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> ARM: 9169/1: entry: fix Thumb2 bug in iWMMXt exception handling Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> ALSA: drivers: opl3: Fix incorrect use of vp->state Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@xxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: jack: Check the return value of kstrdup() Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hwmon: (lm90) Fix usage of CONFIG2 register in detect function Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> drivers: net: smc911x: Check for error irq Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@xxxxxxxxxx> bonding: fix ad_actor_system option setting to default Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> qlcnic: potential dereference null pointer of rx_queue->page_ring José Expósito <jose.exposito89@xxxxxxxxx> IB/qib: Fix memory leak in qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts() Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> HID: holtek: fix mouse probing Jimmy Assarsson <extja@xxxxxxxxxx> can: kvaser_usb: get CAN clock frequency from device Greg Jesionowski <jesionowskigreg@xxxxxxxxx> net: usb: lan78xx: add Allied Telesis AT29M2-AF ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 11 +++--- Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 8 ++--- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 4 --- drivers/hid/hid-holtek-mouse.c | 15 ++++++++ drivers/hwmon/lm90.c | 5 ++- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_sdma.c | 2 +- drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 7 ++++ drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov.h | 2 +- .../ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_common.c | 12 +++++-- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_pf.c | 4 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc911x.c | 5 +++ drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c | 5 +-- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 6 ++++ net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 4 ++- net/phonet/pep.c | 2 ++ sound/core/jack.c | 4 +++ sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_midi.c | 2 +- 20 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)