This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.99 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 Nov 18 17:41:29 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-4.4.99-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 4.4.99-rc1
Willy Tarreau w@1wt.eu misc: panel: properly restore atomic counter on error path
Nicholas Bellinger nab@linux-iscsi.org target: Fix node_acl demo-mode + uncached dynamic shutdown regression
Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@sandisk.com target/iscsi: Fix iSCSI task reassignment handling
Chi-hsien Lin Chi-Hsien.Lin@cypress.com brcmfmac: remove setting IBSS mode when stopping AP
Richard Alpe richard.alpe@ericsson.com tipc: fix link attribute propagation bug
Bilal Amarni bilal.amarni@gmail.com security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp/dccp: fix other lockdep splats accessing ireq_opt
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp/dccp: fix lockdep splat in inet_csk_route_req()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp/dccp: fix ireq->opt races
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com ipip: only increase err_count for some certain type icmp in ipip_err
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr ppp: fix race in ppp device destruction
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: reset owner sk for data chunks on out queues when migrating a sock
Julien Gomes julien@arista.com tun: allow positive return values on dev_get_valid_name() call
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com ip6_gre: only increase err_count for some certain type icmpv6 in ip6gre_err
Andrei Vagin avagin@openvz.org net/unix: don't show information about sockets from other namespaces
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: flowlabel: do not leave opt->tot_len with garbage
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com packet: avoid panic in packet_getsockopt()
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: add the missing sock_owned_by_user check in sctp_icmp_redirect
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: check ps->sock before running pppol2tp_session_ioctl()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: fix tcp_mtu_probe() vs highest_sack
Craig Gallek kraig@google.com tun/tap: sanitize TUNSETSNDBUF input
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Cancel pending autoload work at unbinding device
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: ims-psu - check if CDC union descriptor is sane
Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu usb: usbtest: fix NULL pointer dereference
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: don't compare TKIP TX MIC key in reinstall prevention
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com mac80211: use constant time comparison with keys
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com mac80211: accept key reinstall without changing anything
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 5 -- arch/s390/Kconfig | 3 -- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 3 -- arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 -- drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c | 16 +++++- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 2 + drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 20 ++++++++ drivers/net/tun.c | 7 +++ drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 -- drivers/staging/panel/panel.c | 23 +++++++-- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 19 +++---- drivers/target/target_core_tpg.c | 4 +- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 5 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 ++ include/net/inet_sock.h | 8 ++- include/net/tcp.h | 6 +-- include/target/target_core_base.h | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 6 +-- net/dccp/ipv4.c | 13 +++-- net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 24 +++------ net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 9 ++-- net/ipv4/ipip.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++------ net/ipv4/syncookies.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 21 ++++---- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 11 ++-- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 3 ++ net/mac80211/key.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++-- net/packet/af_packet.c | 24 ++++++--- net/sctp/input.c | 2 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 32 ++++++++++++ net/tipc/link.c | 28 +++-------- net/tipc/link.h | 1 - net/unix/diag.c | 2 + security/keys/Kconfig | 4 ++ sound/core/seq/seq_device.c | 3 ++ 41 files changed, 299 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)