[PATCH 4.4 00/15] 4.4.245-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 06:03:31 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.245 release.
There are 15 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 Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:45:32 +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-4.4.245-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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 4.4.245-rc1

David Edmondson <david.edmondson@xxxxxxxxxx>
KVM: x86: clflushopt should be treated as a no-op by emulation

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
mac80211: always wind down STA state

Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Input: sunkbd - avoid use-after-free in teardown paths

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/8xx: Always fault when _PAGE_ACCESSED is not set

Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: validate cached inodes are free when allocated

Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: catch inode allocation state mismatch corruption

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
i2c: imx: Fix external abort on interrupt in exit paths

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/uaccess: Evaluate macro arguments once, before user access is allowed

Andrew Donnellan <ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc: Fix __clear_user() with KUAP enabled

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
powerpc: Add a framework for user access tracking

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry

Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/64s: move some exception handlers out of line

Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/64s: Define MASKABLE_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES_OOL


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Diffstat:

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup-radix.h | 23 +++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 15 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h | 19 +++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h | 4 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h | 40 +++++
arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h | 7 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h | 4 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 142 +++++++++++++----
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 210 +++++++++++++++----------
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 8 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c | 10 ++
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 138 ++++++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 14 ++
arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_wrappers_64.c | 4 +
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 104 ++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/lib/string.S | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/lib/string_64.S | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 15 ++
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 8 +
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 8 +-
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 25 +--
drivers/input/keyboard/sunkbd.c | 41 ++++-
fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 58 ++++++-
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 18 +++
26 files changed, 782 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)