[PATCH 4.4 00/38] 4.4.246-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Nov 23 2020 - 07:23:14 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.246 release.
There are 38 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, 25 Nov 2020 12:17:50 +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-4.4.246-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 4.4.246-rc1

Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
x86/microcode/intel: Check patch signature before saving microcode for early loading

Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
s390/cpum_sf.c: fix file permission for cpum_sfb_size

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
mac80211: free sta in sta_info_insert_finish() on errors

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
mac80211: allow driver to prevent two stations w/ same address

Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
mac80211: minstrel: fix tx status processing corner case

Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
mac80211: minstrel: remove deferred sampling code

Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
xtensa: disable preemption around cache alias management calls

Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
ext4: fix bogus warning in ext4_update_dx_flag()

Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@xxxxxxxxx>
efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()

Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx>
tty: serial: imx: keep console clocks always on

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
ALSA: mixart: Fix mutex deadlock

Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ALSA: ctl: fix error path at adding user-defined element set

Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx>
powerpc/uaccess-flush: fix corenet64_smp_defconfig build

Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()

Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
regulator: ti-abb: Fix array out of bound read access on the first transition

Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@xxxxxxxxxx>
MIPS: Alchemy: Fix memleak in alchemy_clk_setup_cpu

Wu Bo <wubo.oduw@xxxxxxxxx>
can: m_can: m_can_handle_state_change(): fix state change

Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
can: peak_usb: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int

Alejandro Concepcion Rodriguez <alejandro@xxxxxxxx>
can: dev: can_restart(): post buffer from the right context

Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
perf lock: Don't free "lock_seq_stat" if read_count isn't zero

Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
ARM: dts: imx50-evk: Fix the chip select 1 IOMUX

Sergey Matyukevich <geomatsi@xxxxxxxxx>
arm: dts: imx6qdl-udoo: fix rgmii phy-mode for ksz9031 phy

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Input: adxl34x - clean up a data type in adxl34x_probe()

Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
MIPS: Fix BUILD_ROLLBACK_PROLOGUE for microMIPS

Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
arm64: psci: Avoid printing in cpu_psci_cpu_die()

Jianqun Xu <jay.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
pinctrl: rockchip: enable gpio pclk for rockchip_gpio_to_irq

Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
net: Have netpoll bring-up DSA management interface

Filip Moc <dev@xxxxxxx>
net: usb: qmi_wwan: Set DTR quirk for MR400

Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
sctp: change to hold/put transport for proto_unreach_timer

Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
qlcnic: fix error return code in qlcnic_83xx_restart_hw()

Xie He <xie.he.0141@xxxxxxxxx>
net: x25: Increase refcnt of "struct x25_neigh" in x25_rx_call_request

Aya Levin <ayal@xxxxxxxxxx>
net/mlx4_core: Fix init_hca fields offset

Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
netlabel: fix an uninitialized warning in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist()

Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
netlabel: fix our progress tracking in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist()

Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
net: bridge: add missing counters to ndo_get_stats64 callback

Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: b44: fix error return code in b44_init_one()

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
atm: nicstar: Unmap DMA on send error

Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
ah6: fix error return code in ah6_input()


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/imx50-evk.dts | 2 +-
arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-udoo.dtsi | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c | 5 +--
arch/mips/alchemy/common/clock.c | 9 +++-
arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c | 4 +-
arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 49 +---------------------
arch/xtensa/mm/cache.c | 14 +++++++
drivers/atm/nicstar.c | 2 +
drivers/input/misc/adxl34x.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/can/dev.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 6 +--
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.h | 4 +-
.../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_init.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 2 +-
drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c | 2 +
drivers/regulator/ti-abb-regulator.c | 12 +++++-
drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 20 ++-------
fs/efivarfs/super.c | 1 +
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 +-
fs/libfs.c | 6 ++-
include/net/mac80211.h | 6 +++
net/bridge/br_device.c | 1 +
net/core/netpoll.c | 22 ++++++++--
net/ipv6/ah6.c | 3 +-
net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 1 +
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c | 27 +++---------
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.h | 1 -
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 32 ++++++++------
net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c | 17 +++++---
net/sctp/input.c | 4 +-
net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 4 +-
net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +-
net/x25/af_x25.c | 1 +
sound/core/control.c | 2 +-
sound/pci/mixart/mixart_core.c | 5 +--
tools/perf/builtin-lock.c | 2 +-
42 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-)