This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.258 release. There are 35 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, 24 Feb 2021 12:07:46 +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-4.4.258-rc1... 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 gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.258-rc1
Lai Jiangshan laijs@linux.alibaba.com kvm: check tlbs_dirty directly
Arun Easi aeasi@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash during driver load on big endian machines
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen-blkback: fix error handling in xen_blkbk_map()
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen-scsiback: don't "handle" error by BUG()
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen-netback: don't "handle" error by BUG()
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen-blkback: don't "handle" error by BUG()
Stefano Stabellini stefano.stabellini@xilinx.com xen/arm: don't ignore return errors from set_phys_to_machine
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Xen/gntdev: correct error checking in gntdev_map_grant_pages()
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Xen/gntdev: correct dev_bus_addr handling in gntdev_map_grant_pages()
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Xen/x86: also check kernel mapping in set_foreign_p2m_mapping()
Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com Xen/x86: don't bail early from clear_foreign_p2m_mapping()
Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
Greg Thelen gthelen@google.com tracing: Fix SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 build due to bad merge with -mrecord-mcount
Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel for 32-bit too
Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vsock: fix locking in vsock_shutdown()
Edwin Peer edwin.peer@broadcom.com net: watchdog: hold device global xmit lock during tx disable
Serge Semin Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru usb: dwc3: ulpi: Replace CPU-based busyloop with Protocol-based one
Felipe Balbi balbi@kernel.org usb: dwc3: ulpi: fix checkpatch warning
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org h8300: fix PREEMPTION build, TI_PRE_COUNT undefined
Jozsef Kadlecsik kadlec@mail.kfki.hu netfilter: xt_recent: Fix attempt to update deleted entry
Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end
Phillip Lougher phillip@squashfs.org.uk squashfs: add more sanity checks in xattr id lookup
Phillip Lougher phillip@squashfs.org.uk squashfs: add more sanity checks in inode lookup
Phillip Lougher phillip@squashfs.org.uk squashfs: add more sanity checks in id lookup
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears
Qian Cai cai@lca.pw include/trace/events/writeback.h: fix -Wstringop-truncation warnings
Tobin C. Harding tobin@kernel.org lib/string: Add strscpy_pad() function
Dave Wysochanski dwysocha@redhat.com SUNRPC: Handle 0 length opaque XDR object data properly
Dave Wysochanski dwysocha@redhat.com SUNRPC: Move simple_get_bytes and simple_get_netobj into private header
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com iwlwifi: mvm: guard against device removal in reprobe
Emmanuel Grumbach emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com iwlwifi: pcie: add a NULL check in iwl_pcie_txq_unmap
Cong Wang cong.wang@bytedance.com af_key: relax availability checks for skb size calculation
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Do not count ftrace events in top level enable output
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 11 +++++- arch/arm/xen/p2m.c | 6 ++- arch/h8300/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 3 ++ arch/x86/Makefile | 6 +-- arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 15 ++++---- drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 28 ++++++++------ drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c | 5 +++ drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_tmpl.c | 9 +++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_tmpl.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/ulpi.c | 20 ++++++++-- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 33 +++++++++++------ drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 4 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +- fs/squashfs/export.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++---- fs/squashfs/id.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++---- fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h | 1 + fs/squashfs/super.c | 6 +-- fs/squashfs/xattr.h | 10 ++++- fs/squashfs/xattr_id.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 10 +++++ include/linux/ftrace.h | 4 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 + include/linux/string.h | 4 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h | 3 +- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 35 +++++++++-------- include/xen/grant_table.h | 1 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 - kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 +- lib/string.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++---- mm/backing-dev.c | 1 + mm/memblock.c | 49 +++--------------------- net/key/af_key.c | 6 +-- net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 12 +++++- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 30 +-------------- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss_internal.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++ net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c | 31 +--------------- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 8 ++-- scripts/Makefile.build | 3 ++ virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +- 41 files changed, 389 insertions(+), 225 deletions(-)