This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.38 release. There are 28 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 Dec 11 16:17:32 UTC 2016. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.38-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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 4.4.38-rc1 Tobias Brunner <tob...@strongswan.org> esp6: Fix integrity verification when ESN are used Tobias Brunner <tob...@strongswan.org> esp4: Fix integrity verification when ESN are used Eli Cooper <elicoo...@gmx.com> ipv4: Set skb->protocol properly for local output Eli Cooper <elicoo...@gmx.com> ipv6: Set skb->protocol properly for local output Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> constify iov_iter_count() and iter_is_iovec() Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Don't feed anything but regular iovec's to blk_rq_map_user_iov Thomas Tai <thomas....@oracle.com> sparc64: fix compile warning section mismatch in find_node() Thomas Tai <thomas....@oracle.com> sparc64: Fix find_node warning if numa node cannot be found Andreas Larsson <andr...@gaisler.com> sparc32: Fix inverted invalid_frame_pointer checks on sigreturns Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> net: avoid signed overflows for SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net> geneve: avoid use-after-free of skb->data Chris Brandt <chris.bra...@renesas.com> sh_eth: remove unchecked interrupts for RZ/A1 Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> net: bcmgenet: Utilize correct struct device for all DMA operations Philip Pettersson <philip.petters...@gmail.com> packet: fix race condition in packet_set_ring Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> net/dccp: fix use-after-free in dccp_invalid_packet Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> netlink: Do not schedule work from sk_destruct Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> netlink: Call cb->done from a worker thread Amir Vadai <a...@vadai.me> net/sched: pedit: make sure that offset is valid Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> net, sched: respect rcu grace period on cls destruction Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Ensure we re-negotiate EEE during after link change Guillaume Nault <g.na...@alphalink.fr> l2tp: fix racy SOCK_ZAPPED flag check in l2tp_ip{,6}_bind() Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net> rtnetlink: fix FDB size computation WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> af_unix: conditionally use freezable blocking calls in read Jeremy Linton <jeremy.lin...@arm.com> net: sky2: Fix shutdown crash Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com> ip6_tunnel: disable caching when the traffic class is inherited WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> net: check dead netns for peernet2id_alloc() Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> virtio-net: add a missing synchronize_net() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/sparc/kernel/signal_32.c | 4 +- arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- block/blk-map.c | 3 ++ drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 8 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 13 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 2 +- drivers/net/geneve.c | 14 ++--- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 ++ include/linux/uio.h | 4 +- net/core/net_namespace.c | 2 + net/core/rtnetlink.c | 5 +- net/core/sock.c | 4 +- net/dccp/ipv4.c | 12 +++-- net/ipv4/esp4.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 3 ++ net/ipv4/ping.c | 4 ++ net/ipv6/esp6.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 13 ++++- net/ipv6/output_core.c | 2 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 5 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 5 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 21 +++++++- net/netlink/af_netlink.h | 2 + net/packet/af_packet.c | 18 ++++--- net/sched/act_pedit.c | 24 +++++++-- net/sched/cls_basic.c | 4 -- net/sched/cls_bpf.c | 4 -- net/sched/cls_cgroup.c | 7 ++- net/sched/cls_flow.c | 1 - net/sched/cls_flower.c | 31 +++++++++-- net/sched/cls_rsvp.h | 3 +- net/sched/cls_tcindex.c | 1 - net/unix/af_unix.c | 17 +++--- 35 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)