This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.98 release. There are 56 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 Nov 15 12:55:32 UTC 2017. 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-4.4.98-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 gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.98-rc1
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com PKCS#7: fix unitialized boolean 'want'
Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/oprofile/ppro: Do not use __this_cpu*() in preemptible context
Richard Schütz rschuetz@uni-koblenz.de can: c_can: don't indicate triple sampling support for D_CAN
Gerhard Bertelsmann info@gerhard-bertelsmann.de can: sun4i: handle overrun in RX FIFO
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com rbd: use GFP_NOIO for parent stat and data requests
Sinclair Yeh syeh@vmware.com drm/vmwgfx: Fix Ubuntu 17.10 Wayland black screen issue
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com Input: elan_i2c - add ELAN060C to the ACPI table
Oswald Buddenhagen oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de MIPS: AR7: Ensure that serial ports are properly set up
Jonas Gorski jonas.gorski@gmail.com MIPS: AR7: Defer registration of GPIO
Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@kernel.org tools: firmware: check for distro fallback udev cancel rule
Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@kernel.org selftests: firmware: send expected errors to /dev/null
Brian Norris computersforpeace@gmail.com selftests: firmware: add empty string and async tests
Brian Norris computersforpeace@gmail.com test: firmware_class: report errors properly on failure
Matt Redfearn matt.redfearn@imgtec.com MIPS: SMP: Fix deadlock & online race
Matija Glavinic Pecotic matija.glavinic-pecotic.ext@nokia.com MIPS: Fix race on setting and getting cpu_online_mask
Matt Redfearn matt.redfearn@imgtec.com MIPS: SMP: Use a completion event to signal CPU up
Paul Burton paul.burton@mips.com MIPS: Fix CM region target definitions
Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com MIPS: microMIPS: Fix incorrect mask in insn_table_MM
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Avoid invalid lockdep class warning
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix OSS sysex delivery in OSS emulation
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com ARM: 8720/1: ensure dump_instr() checks addr_limit
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: fix NULL pointer dereference during ASN.1 parsing [ver #2]
Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin@virtuozzo.com crypto: x86/sha1-mb - fix panic due to unaligned access
Li Bin huawei.libin@huawei.com workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/uaccess, sched/preempt: Verify access_ok() context
Carlo Caione carlo@endlessm.com platform/x86: hp-wmi: Do not shadow error values
Carlo Caione carlo@endlessm.com platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix error value for hp_wmi_tablet_state
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: trusted: fix writing past end of buffer in trusted_read()
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: trusted: sanitize all key material
Enrico Mioso mrkiko.rs@gmail.com cdc_ncm: Set NTB format again after altsetting switch for Huawei devices
Carlo Caione carlo@endlessm.com platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix detection for dock and tablet mode
Vivien Didelot vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com net: dsa: select NET_SWITCHDEV
Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: issue STARTLAN as first IPA command
Feras Daoud ferasda@mellanox.com IB/ipoib: Change list_del to list_del_init in the tx object
Akinobu Mita akinobu.mita@gmail.com Input: mpr121 - set missing event capability
Akinobu Mita akinobu.mita@gmail.com Input: mpr121 - handle multiple bits change of status register
Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad@benyossef.com IPsec: do not ignore crypto err in ah4 input
Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com netfilter: nft_meta: deal with PACKET_LOOPBACK in netdev family
William wu wulf@rock-chips.com usb: hcd: initialize hcd->flags to 0 when rm hcd
Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com serial: sh-sci: Fix register offsets for the IRDA serial port
Volodymyr Bendiuga volodymyr.bendiuga@gmail.com phy: increase size of MII_BUS_ID_SIZE and bus_id
David Lechner david@lechnology.com dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for LEGO
David Lechner david@lechnology.com dt-bindings: Add LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 compatible specification
Alison Schofield amsfield22@gmail.com iio: trigger: free trigger resource correctly
Li Zhong zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com crypto: vmx - disable preemption to enable vsx in aes_ctr.c
Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix probe errors on UARTs 5 and 6
Valentin Longchamp valentin.longchamp@keymile.com powerpc/corenet: explicitly disable the SDHC controller on kmcoge4
Nate Watterson nwatters@codeaurora.org iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Clear prior settings when updating STEs
Li Zhong zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com KVM: PPC: Book 3S: XICS: correct the real mode ICP rejecting counter
Noralf Trønnes noralf@tronnes.org drm: drm_minor_register(): Clean up debugfs on failure
Harninder Rai harninder.rai@nxp.com dt-bindings: clockgen: Add compatible string for LS1012A
Patrick Bruenn p.bruenn@beckhoff.com ARM: dts: imx53-qsb-common: fix FEC pinmux config
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netback: set default upper limit of tx/rx queues to 8
Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com PCI: mvebu: Handle changes to the bridge windows while enabled
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org video: fbdev: pmag-ba-fb: Remove bad `__init' annotation
Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de adv7604: Initialize drive strength to default when using DT
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Diffstat:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/davinci.txt | 4 + .../devicetree/bindings/clock/qoriq-clock.txt | 1 + .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53-qsb-common.dtsi | 20 ++-- arch/arm/configs/omap2plus_defconfig | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 28 ++++-- arch/mips/ar7/platform.c | 5 + arch/mips/ar7/prom.c | 2 - arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cm.h | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/smp.c | 29 ++++-- arch/mips/mm/uasm-micromips.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/kmcoge4.dts | 4 + arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_xics.c | 5 +- arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh3/setup-sh770x.c | 1 - arch/x86/crypto/sha-mb/sha1_mb_mgr_flush_avx2.S | 12 +-- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 14 ++- arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c | 4 +- crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs7_parser.c | 2 +- drivers/block/rbd.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/vmx/aes_ctr.c | 6 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-interrupt.c | 8 +- drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-sysfs.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c | 2 +- drivers/input/keyboard/mpr121_touchkey.c | 24 +++-- drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 1 + drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-v3.c | 10 +- drivers/media/i2c/adv7604.c | 3 + drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can_pci.c | 1 - drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can_platform.c | 1 - drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c | 12 ++- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 28 ++++++ drivers/net/usb/huawei_cdc_ncm.c | 6 ++ drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 6 +- drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c | 101 ++++++++++++--------- drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c | 60 +++++++----- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core.h | 1 - drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 21 ++++- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 15 --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 15 --- drivers/staging/iio/trigger/iio-trig-bfin-timer.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 17 ++-- drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 1 + drivers/video/fbdev/pmag-ba-fb.c | 2 +- include/linux/phy.h | 8 +- include/linux/preempt.h | 21 +++-- include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h | 1 + include/sound/seq_kernel.h | 3 +- kernel/workqueue_internal.h | 3 +- lib/asn1_decoder.c | 4 +- lib/test_firmware.c | 11 ++- net/dsa/Kconfig | 5 +- net/ipv4/ah4.c | 3 + net/netfilter/nft_meta.c | 28 +++++- security/keys/trusted.c | 71 +++++++-------- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c | 4 +- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_readq.c | 29 ++++++ sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_readq.h | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_filesystem.sh | 10 +- tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_userhelper.sh | 28 +++++- 63 files changed, 468 insertions(+), 265 deletions(-)