This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.159 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 Sat Sep 29 09:06:27 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-4.4.159-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 4.4.159-rc1
Steve Wise swise@opengridcomputing.com iw_cxgb4: only allow 1 flush on user qps
Roderick Colenbrander roderick.colenbrander@sony.com HID: sony: Support DS4 dongle
Roderick Colenbrander roderick.colenbrander@sony.com HID: sony: Update device ids
Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com arm64: Add trace_hardirqs_off annotation in ret_to_user
Li Dongyang dongyangli@ddn.com ext4: don't mark mmp buffer head dirty
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: fix online resizing for bigalloc file systems with a 1k block size
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: fix online resize's handling of a too-small final block group
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: recalucate superblock checksum after updating free blocks/inodes
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: avoid divide by zero fault when deleting corrupted inline directories
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com tty: vt_ioctl: fix potential Spectre v1
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/nouveau/drm/nouveau: Use pm_runtime_get_noresume() in connector_detect()
Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: fix ocfs2 read block panic
Vincent Pelletier plr.vincent@gmail.com scsi: target: iscsi: Use hex2bin instead of a re-implementation
Vasily Khoruzhick vasilykh@arista.com neighbour: confirm neigh entries when ARP packet is received
Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com net: hp100: fix always-true check for link up state
Willy Tarreau w@1wt.eu net/appletalk: fix minor pointer leak to userspace in SIOCFINDIPDDPRT
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: fix possible use-after-free in ip6_xmit()
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@toke.dk gso_segment: Reset skb->mac_len after modifying network header
Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org mm: shmem.c: Correctly annotate new inodes for lockdep
Vaibhav Nagarnaik vnagarnaik@google.com ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages
Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com xen/x86/vpmu: Zero struct pt_regs before calling into sample handling code
Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netfront: don't bug in case of too many frags
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com platform/x86: alienware-wmi: Correct a memory leak
Willy Tarreau w@1wt.eu ALSA: emu10k1: fix possible info leak to userspace on SNDRV_EMU10K1_IOCTL_INFO
Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: bebob: use address returned by kmalloc() instead of kernel stack for streaming DMA mapping
Sébastien Szymanski sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com ASoC: cs4265: fix MMTLR Data switch control
Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com NFC: Fix the number of pipes
Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com NFC: Fix possible memory corruption when handling SHDLC I-Frame commands
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 3 +++ arch/x86/xen/pmu.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c | 20 ++++++++++--------- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 3 +++ drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 2 ++ drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/hp/hp100.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 8 +++++++- drivers/platform/x86/alienware-wmi.c | 1 + drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.c | 30 ++++++++++++++--------------- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 4 ++++ fs/ext4/dir.c | 20 +++++++++---------- fs/ext4/inline.c | 4 +++- fs/ext4/mmp.c | 1 - fs/ext4/resize.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 ++ fs/ocfs2/buffer_head_io.c | 1 + include/net/nfc/hci.h | 2 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 ++ mm/shmem.c | 2 ++ net/core/neighbour.c | 13 ++++++++----- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 6 ++---- net/nfc/hci/core.c | 10 ++++++++++ sound/firewire/bebob/bebob_maudio.c | 24 +++++++++++++---------- sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs4265.c | 4 ++-- 31 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)