This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.255 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 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:29:33 +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-4.4.255-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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 4.4.255-rc1
Pan Bian <bianpan2...@163.com>
NFC: fix possible resource leak
Pan Bian <bianpan2...@163.com>
NFC: fix resource leak when target index is invalid
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@baylibre.com>
iommu/vt-d: Don't dereference iommu_device if IOMMU_API is not built
David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk>
iommu/vt-d: Gracefully handle DMAR units with no supported address widths
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
can: dev: prevent potential information leak in can_fill_info()
Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
mac80211: pause TX while changing interface type
Kamal Heib <kamalhe...@gmail.com>
RDMA/cxgb4: Fix the reported max_recv_sge value
Shmulik Ladkani <shmu...@metanetworks.com>
xfrm: Fix oops in xfrm_replay_advance_bmp
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org>
netfilter: nft_dynset: add timeout extension to template
Max Krummenacher <max.oss...@gmail.com>
ARM: imx: build suspend-imx6.S with arm instruction set
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Prevent exit livelock
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Add mutex around futex exit
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Sanitize exit state handling
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
futex: Move futex exit handling into futex code
Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c
Lorenzo Bianconi <lore...@kernel.org>
mt7601u: fix rx buffer refcounting
Lorenzo Bianconi <lore...@kernel.org>
mt7601u: fix kernel crash unplugging the device
Like Xu <like...@linux.intel.com>
KVM: x86/pmu: Fix HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES event pseudo-encoding in
intel_arch_events[]
Giacinto Cifelli <gciof...@gmail.com>
net: usb: qmi_wwan: added support for Thales Cinterion PLSx3 modem family
Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
wext: fix NULL-ptr-dereference with cfg80211's lack of commit()
Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.f...@canonical.com>
ACPI: sysfs: Prefer "compatible" modalias
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/mach-imx/suspend-imx6.S | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/pmu_intel.c | 2 +-
drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c | 20 +-
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c | 2 +-
drivers/iommu/dmar.c | 43 ++-
drivers/net/can/dev.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/dma.c | 5 +-
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
include/linux/compat.h | 2 -
include/linux/futex.h | 44 ++-
include/linux/intel-iommu.h | 2 +
include/linux/sched.h | 9 +-
kernel/Makefile | 3 -
kernel/exit.c | 25 +-
kernel/fork.c | 40 +--
kernel/futex.c | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
kernel/futex_compat.c | 201 -------------
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 1 +
net/mac80211/iface.c | 6 +
net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c | 4 +-
net/nfc/netlink.c | 1 +
net/nfc/rawsock.c | 2 +-
net/wireless/wext-core.c | 5 +-
net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c | 2 +-
26 files changed, 526 insertions(+), 349 deletions(-)
