This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.259 release. There are 93 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, 03 Mar 2021 16:09:49 +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-4.4.259-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 4.4.259-rc1 Nikos Tsironis <ntsiro...@arrikto.com> dm era: Update in-core bitset after committing the metadata Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup Nikos Tsironis <ntsiro...@arrikto.com> dm era: only resize metadata in preresume Nikos Tsironis <ntsiro...@arrikto.com> dm era: Reinitialize bitset cache before digesting a new writeset Nikos Tsironis <ntsiro...@arrikto.com> dm era: Use correct value size in equality function of writeset tree Nikos Tsironis <ntsiro...@arrikto.com> dm era: Fix bitset memory leaks Nikos Tsironis <ntsiro...@arrikto.com> dm era: Verify the data block size hasn't changed Nikos Tsironis <ntsiro...@arrikto.com> dm era: Recover committed writeset after crash Bob Peterson <rpete...@redhat.com> gfs2: Don't skip dlm unlock if glock has an lvb Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> sparc32: fix a user-triggerable oops in clear_user() Chao Yu <yuch...@huawei.com> f2fs: fix out-of-repair __setattr_copy() Maxim Kiselev <biguncle...@gmail.com> gpio: pcf857x: Fix missing first interrupt Fangrui Song <mask...@google.com> module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> libnvdimm/dimm: Avoid race between probe and available_slots_show() Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda...@renesas.com> usb: renesas_usbhs: Clear pipe running flag in usbhs_pkt_pop() Muchun Song <songmuc...@bytedance.com> mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> x86/reboot: Force all cpus to exit VMX root if VMX is supported Martin Kaiser <mar...@kaiser.cx> staging: rtl8188eu: Add Edimax EW-7811UN V2 to device table Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovit...@gmail.com> drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: restrict too big queue size in qp_host_alloc_queue Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com> btrfs: fix reloc root leak with 0 ref reloc roots on recovery Jarkko Sakkinen <jar...@kernel.org> KEYS: trusted: Fix migratable=1 failing Thinh Nguyen <thinh.ngu...@synopsys.com> usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix dep->interval for fullspeed interrupt Thinh Nguyen <thinh.ngu...@synopsys.com> usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix setting of DEPCFG.bInterval_m1 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> USB: serial: mos7720: fix error code in mos7720_write() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> USB: serial: mos7840: fix error code in mos7840_write() Lech Perczak <lech.perc...@gmail.com> USB: serial: option: update interface mapping for ZTE P685M Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdeso...@suse.com> Input: i8042 - add ASUS Zenbook Flip to noselftest list Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> Input: joydev - prevent potential read overflow in ioctl Olivier Crête <olivier.cr...@ocrete.ca> Input: xpad - add support for PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox Series X|S Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com> blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary Bart Van Assche <bart.vanass...@wdc.com> block: Move SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT definitions into <linux/blkdev.h> Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> scsi: bnx2fc: Fix Kconfig warning & CNIC build errors Maxime Ripard <max...@cerno.tech> i2c: brcmstb: Fix brcmstd_send_i2c_cmd condition Miaohe Lin <linmia...@huawei.com> mm/hugetlb: fix potential double free in hugetlb_register_node() error path Miaohe Lin <linmia...@huawei.com> mm/memory.c: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error Jann Horn <ja...@google.com> Take mmap lock in cacheflush syscall Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> PCI: Align checking of syscall user config accessors Jorgen Hansen <jhan...@vmware.com> VMCI: Use set_page_dirty_lock() when unregistering guest memory Aswath Govindraju <a-govindr...@ti.com> misc: eeprom_93xx46: Add module alias to avoid breaking support for non device tree users Aswath Govindraju <a-govindr...@ti.com> misc: eeprom_93xx46: Fix module alias to enable module autoprobe Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> sparc64: only select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF is set Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> Input: elo - fix an error code in elo_connect() Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> perf test: Fix unaligned access in sample parsing test Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> perf intel-pt: Fix missing CYC processing in PSB Nathan Lynch <nath...@linux.ibm.com> powerpc/pseries/dlpar: handle ibm, configure-connector delay status Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> mfd: wm831x-auxadc: Prevent use after free in wm831x_auxadc_read_irq() Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org> tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory failure Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de> amba: Fix resource leak for drivers without .remove Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.mur...@arm.com> ARM: 9046/1: decompressor: Do not clear SCTLR.nTLSMD for ARMv7+ cores Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr> mmc: usdhi6rol0: Fix a resource leak in the error handling path of the probe Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> powerpc/47x: Disable 256k page size Shay Drory <sh...@nvidia.com> IB/umad: Return EIO in case of when device disassociated Pan Bian <bianpan2...@163.com> isofs: release buffer head before return Pan Bian <bianpan2...@163.com> regulator: axp20x: Fix reference cout leak Tom Rix <t...@redhat.com> clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Add missing semicolon when DEBUG is defined Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr> dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path of the probe function Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr> dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in the remove function Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> HID: core: detect and skip invalid inputs to snto32() Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumensti...@googlemail.com> clk: meson: clk-pll: fix initializing the old rate (fallback) for a PLL Tom Rix <t...@redhat.com> jffs2: fix use after free in jffs2_sum_write_data() Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> fs/jfs: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int Zhihao Cheng <chengzhih...@huawei.com> btrfs: clarify error returns values in __load_free_space_cache Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com> media: uvcvideo: Accept invalid bFormatIndex and bFrameIndex values Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr> media: cx25821: Fix a bug when reallocating some dma memory Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> media: lmedm04: Fix misuse of comma Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> ASoC: cs42l56: fix up error handling in probe Dinghao Liu <dinghao....@zju.edu.cn> media: tm6000: Fix memleak in tm6000_start_stream Dinghao Liu <dinghao....@zju.edu.cn> media: media/pci: Fix memleak in empress_init Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> MIPS: lantiq: Explicitly compare LTQ_EBU_PCC_ISTAT against 0 Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> MIPS: c-r4k: Fix section mismatch for loongson2_sc_init Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> gma500: clean up error handling in init Jialin Zhang <zhangjiali...@huawei.com> drm/gma500: Fix error return code in psb_driver_load() Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> fbdev: aty: SPARC64 requires FB_ATY_CT Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> b43: N-PHY: Fix the update of coef for the PHY revision >= 3case Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> xen/netback: fix spurious event detection for common event case Edwin Peer <edwin.p...@broadcom.com> bnxt_en: reverse order of TX disable and carrier off Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> ARM: s3c: fix fiq for clang IAS Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> usb: dwc2: Make "trimming xfer length" a debug message Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> usb: dwc2: Abort transaction after errors with unknown reason Pan Bian <bianpan2...@163.com> Bluetooth: Put HCI device if inquiry procedure interrupts Pan Bian <bianpan2...@163.com> Bluetooth: drop HCI device reference before return Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org> ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Arndale Octa Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org> ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Spring Christopher William Snowhill <ch...@kode54.net> Bluetooth: Fix initializing response id after clearing struct Alexander Lobakin <aloba...@pm.me> MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section Sumit Garg <sumit.g...@linaro.org> kdb: Make memory allocations more robust Rong Chen <rong.a.c...@intel.com> scripts/recordmcount.pl: support big endian for ARCH sh Corinna Vinschen <vinsc...@redhat.com> igb: Remove incorrect "unexpected SYS WRAP" log message Rustam Kovhaev <rkovh...@gmail.com> ntfs: check for valid standard information attribute David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> xen-netback: delete NAPI instance when queue fails to initialize Stefan Ursella <stefan.urse...@wolfvision.net> usb: quirks: add quirk to start video capture on ELMO L-12F document camera reliable Will McVicker <willmcvic...@google.com> HID: make arrays usage and value to be the same ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-spring.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420-arndale-octa.dts | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/mips/lantiq/irq.c | 2 +- arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 2 +- arch/nios2/kernel/sys_nios2.c | 11 ++- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 7 +- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/sparc/lib/memset.S | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 29 +++---- arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c | 1 - block/blk-settings.c | 12 +++ drivers/amba/bus.c | 20 +++-- drivers/block/brd.c | 1 - drivers/block/floppy.c | 27 ++++--- drivers/block/rbd.c | 9 --- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 1 - drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c | 2 +- drivers/clocksource/mxs_timer.c | 5 +- drivers/dma/fsldma.c | 6 ++ drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_hdmi_i2c.c | 22 ++--- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 9 ++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c | 2 +- drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 8 +- drivers/ide/ide-cd.h | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c | 7 +- drivers/input/joydev.c | 7 +- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 1 + drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 4 + drivers/input/touchscreen/elo.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-era-target.c | 93 ++++++++++++++-------- drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-core.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-empress.c | 5 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c | 4 + drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 18 ++--- drivers/mfd/wm831x-auxadc.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c | 1 + drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c | 5 +- drivers/mmc/host/usdhi6rol0.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 - drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 9 ++- drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c | 18 ++++- drivers/nvdimm/nd.h | 1 - drivers/pci/syscall.c | 10 +-- drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c | 7 +- drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/scsi/gdth.h | 3 - drivers/spi/spi-s3c24xx-fiq.S | 9 +-- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 + drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_intr.c | 14 +++- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 19 ++++- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 3 +- drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 4 +- fs/f2fs/file.c | 3 +- fs/gfs2/lock_dlm.c | 8 +- fs/isofs/dir.c | 1 + fs/isofs/namei.c | 1 + fs/jffs2/summary.c | 3 + fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c | 2 +- fs/ntfs/inode.c | 6 ++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 42 +++++++--- include/linux/device-mapper.h | 2 - include/linux/ide.h | 1 - include/uapi/linux/msdos_fs.h | 2 + kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 2 +- kernel/futex.c | 7 +- kernel/module.c | 21 ++++- kernel/tracepoint.c | 80 +++++++++++++++---- mm/hugetlb.c | 43 +++++++++- mm/memory.c | 6 +- net/bluetooth/a2mp.c | 3 +- net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 6 +- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 6 +- security/keys/trusted.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs42l56.c | 3 +- tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c | 2 +- .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 3 + 91 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)