This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.117 release. There are 33 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 Fri Feb 23 12:43:54 UTC 2018. 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-4.4.117-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 4.4.117-rc1
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de media: r820t: fix r820t_write_reg for KASAN
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: dts: s5pv210: add interrupt-parent for ohci
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: pxa/tosa-bt: add MODULE_LICENSE tag
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org vfs: don't do RCU lookup of empty pathnames
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de x86: fix build warnign with 32-bit PAE
NeilBrown neilb@suse.com dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec_pending()
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com mvpp2: fix multicast address filter
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations
Lassi Ylikojola lassi.ylikojola@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: add implicit fb quirk for Behringer UFX1204
Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@fbihome.de ALSA: hda/realtek: PCI quirk for Fujitsu U7x7
Kirill Marinushkin k.marinushkin@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix UAC2 get_ctl request with a RANGE attribute
Hui Wang hui.wang@canonical.com ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for two Dell machines
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix unexpected -EEXIST when creating new inode
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix crash due to not cleaning up tree log block's dirty bits
Liu Bo bo.li.liu@oracle.com Btrfs: fix deadlock in run_delalloc_nocow
Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly
Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre@linaro.org console/dummy: leave .con_font_get set to NULL
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org video: fbdev: atmel_lcdfb: fix display-timings lookup
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de mm: hide a #warning for COMPILE_TEST
Ernesto A. Fernández ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
Zhouyi Zhou zhouzhouyi@gmail.com ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
Stewart Smith stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr drm/radeon: adjust tested variable
Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk KVM/x86: Reduce retpoline performance impact in slot_handle_level_range(), by always inlining iterator helper methods
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix regression by incorrect ioctl_mutex usages
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org arm: spear13xx: Fix spics gpio controller's warning
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org arm: spear600: Add missing interrupt-parent of rtc
Patrice Chotard patrice.chotard@st.com ARM: dts: STi: Add gpio polarity for "hdmi,hpd-gpio" property
Eugene Syromiatnikov esyr@redhat.com s390: fix handling of -1 in set{,fs}[gu]id16 syscalls
Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org PM / devfreq: Propagate error from devfreq_add_device()
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il IB/mlx4: Fix incorrectly releasing steerable UD QPs when have only ETH ports
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Diffstat:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/snps-dma.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt | 2 +- Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm/boot/dts/s5pv210.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/spear1310-evb.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear1340.dtsi | 4 ++-- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear13xx.dtsi | 6 ++--- arch/arm/boot/dts/spear600.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407.dtsi | 3 ++- arch/arm/boot/dts/stih410.dtsi | 3 ++- arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa-bt.c | 4 ++++ arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c | 8 +++---- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 10 ++++---- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_uvd.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c | 13 ++++------ drivers/md/dm.c | 3 ++- drivers/media/tuners/r820t.c | 13 ++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 11 ++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/qp.c | 3 +++ .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 5 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 1 + drivers/rtc/rtc-opal.c | 12 ++++++++-- drivers/video/console/dummycon.c | 1 - drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c | 8 ++++++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 5 +++- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++ fs/ext4/super.c | 1 + fs/namei.c | 3 +++ include/linux/kaiser.h | 2 +- mm/memory.c | 2 +- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 23 ++++++++++-------- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ sound/usb/mixer.c | 18 ++++++++------ sound/usb/pcm.c | 9 +++++++ 39 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)