This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.259 release. There are 92 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 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:25:07 +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-4.4.259-rc2... 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 4.4.259-rc2

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Update in-core bitset after committing the metadata

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: only resize metadata in preresume

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Reinitialize bitset cache before digesting a new writeset

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Use correct value size in equality function of writeset tree

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Fix bitset memory leaks

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Verify the data block size hasn't changed

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm era: Recover committed writeset after crash

Bob Peterson rpeterso@redhat.com gfs2: Don't skip dlm unlock if glock has an lvb

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk sparc32: fix a user-triggerable oops in clear_user()

Chao Yu yuchao0@huawei.com f2fs: fix out-of-repair __setattr_copy()

Maxim Kiselev bigunclemax@gmail.com gpio: pcf857x: Fix missing first interrupt

Fangrui Song maskray@google.com module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com libnvdimm/dimm: Avoid race between probe and available_slots_show()

Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com usb: renesas_usbhs: Clear pipe running flag in usbhs_pkt_pop()

Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page

Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix

Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com x86/reboot: Force all cpus to exit VMX root if VMX is supported

Martin Kaiser martin@kaiser.cx staging: rtl8188eu: Add Edimax EW-7811UN V2 to device table

Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov snovitoll@gmail.com drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: restrict too big queue size in qp_host_alloc_queue

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: fix reloc root leak with 0 ref reloc roots on recovery

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko@kernel.org KEYS: trusted: Fix migratable=1 failing

Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix dep->interval for fullspeed interrupt

Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix setting of DEPCFG.bInterval_m1

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: serial: mos7720: fix error code in mos7720_write()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: serial: mos7840: fix error code in mos7840_write()

Lech Perczak lech.perczak@gmail.com USB: serial: option: update interface mapping for ZTE P685M

Marcos Paulo de Souza mpdesouza@suse.com Input: i8042 - add ASUS Zenbook Flip to noselftest list

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Input: joydev - prevent potential read overflow in ioctl

Olivier Crête olivier.crete@ocrete.ca Input: xpad - add support for PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox Series X|S

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary

Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com block: Move SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT definitions into <linux/blkdev.h>

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org scsi: bnx2fc: Fix Kconfig warning & CNIC build errors

Maxime Ripard maxime@cerno.tech i2c: brcmstb: Fix brcmstd_send_i2c_cmd condition

Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com mm/hugetlb: fix potential double free in hugetlb_register_node() error path

Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com mm/memory.c: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error

Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com PCI: Align checking of syscall user config accessors

Jorgen Hansen jhansen@vmware.com VMCI: Use set_page_dirty_lock() when unregistering guest memory

Aswath Govindraju a-govindraju@ti.com misc: eeprom_93xx46: Add module alias to avoid breaking support for non device tree users

Aswath Govindraju a-govindraju@ti.com misc: eeprom_93xx46: Fix module alias to enable module autoprobe

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org sparc64: only select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF is set

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Input: elo - fix an error code in elo_connect()

Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org perf test: Fix unaligned access in sample parsing test

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix missing CYC processing in PSB

Nathan Lynch nathanl@linux.ibm.com powerpc/pseries/dlpar: handle ibm, configure-connector delay status

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com mfd: wm831x-auxadc: Prevent use after free in wm831x_auxadc_read_irq()

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory failure

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de amba: Fix resource leak for drivers without .remove

Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin@arm.com ARM: 9046/1: decompressor: Do not clear SCTLR.nTLSMD for ARMv7+ cores

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr mmc: usdhi6rol0: Fix a resource leak in the error handling path of the probe

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu powerpc/47x: Disable 256k page size

Shay Drory shayd@nvidia.com IB/umad: Return EIO in case of when device disassociated

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com isofs: release buffer head before return

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com regulator: axp20x: Fix reference cout leak

Tom Rix trix@redhat.com clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Add missing semicolon when DEBUG is defined

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path of the probe function

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in the remove function

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org HID: core: detect and skip invalid inputs to snto32()

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com clk: meson: clk-pll: fix initializing the old rate (fallback) for a PLL

Tom Rix trix@redhat.com jffs2: fix use after free in jffs2_sum_write_data()

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com fs/jfs: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int

Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com btrfs: clarify error returns values in __load_free_space_cache

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com media: uvcvideo: Accept invalid bFormatIndex and bFrameIndex values

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr media: cx25821: Fix a bug when reallocating some dma memory

Joe Perches joe@perches.com media: lmedm04: Fix misuse of comma

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com ASoC: cs42l56: fix up error handling in probe

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn media: tm6000: Fix memleak in tm6000_start_stream

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn media: media/pci: Fix memleak in empress_init

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com MIPS: lantiq: Explicitly compare LTQ_EBU_PCC_ISTAT against 0

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com MIPS: c-r4k: Fix section mismatch for loongson2_sc_init

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com gma500: clean up error handling in init

Jialin Zhang zhangjialin11@huawei.com drm/gma500: Fix error return code in psb_driver_load()

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org fbdev: aty: SPARC64 requires FB_ATY_CT

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com b43: N-PHY: Fix the update of coef for the PHY revision >= 3case

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netback: fix spurious event detection for common event case

Edwin Peer edwin.peer@broadcom.com bnxt_en: reverse order of TX disable and carrier off

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: s3c: fix fiq for clang IAS

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net usb: dwc2: Make "trimming xfer length" a debug message

Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net usb: dwc2: Abort transaction after errors with unknown reason

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Bluetooth: Put HCI device if inquiry procedure interrupts

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com Bluetooth: drop HCI device reference before return

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Arndale Octa

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk@kernel.org ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Spring

Christopher William Snowhill chris@kode54.net Bluetooth: Fix initializing response id after clearing struct

Alexander Lobakin alobakin@pm.me MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section

Sumit Garg sumit.garg@linaro.org kdb: Make memory allocations more robust

Rong Chen rong.a.chen@intel.com scripts/recordmcount.pl: support big endian for ARCH sh

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com igb: Remove incorrect "unexpected SYS WRAP" log message

Rustam Kovhaev rkovhaev@gmail.com ntfs: check for valid standard information attribute

David Vrabel david.vrabel@citrix.com xen-netback: delete NAPI instance when queue fails to initialize

Stefan Ursella stefan.ursella@wolfvision.net usb: quirks: add quirk to start video capture on ELMO L-12F document camera reliable

Will McVicker willmcvicker@google.com HID: make arrays usage and value to be the same

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-spring.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420-arndale-octa.dts | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + arch/mips/lantiq/irq.c | 2 +- arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 7 +- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/sparc/lib/memset.S | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 29 +++---- arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c | 1 - block/blk-settings.c | 12 +++ drivers/amba/bus.c | 20 +++-- drivers/block/brd.c | 1 - drivers/block/floppy.c | 27 ++++--- drivers/block/rbd.c | 9 --- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 1 - drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c | 2 +- drivers/clocksource/mxs_timer.c | 5 +- drivers/dma/fsldma.c | 6 ++ drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_hdmi_i2c.c | 22 ++--- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 9 ++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c | 2 +- drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 8 +- drivers/ide/ide-cd.h | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c | 7 +- drivers/input/joydev.c | 7 +- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 1 + drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 4 + drivers/input/touchscreen/elo.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-era-target.c | 93 ++++++++++++++-------- drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-core.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-empress.c | 5 +- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c | 4 + drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 18 ++--- drivers/mfd/wm831x-auxadc.c | 3 +- drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c | 1 + drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c | 5 +- drivers/mmc/host/usdhi6rol0.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 - drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 9 ++- drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c | 18 ++++- drivers/nvdimm/nd.h | 1 - drivers/pci/syscall.c | 10 +-- drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c | 7 +- drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/scsi/gdth.h | 3 - drivers/spi/spi-s3c24xx-fiq.S | 9 +-- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 + drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_intr.c | 14 +++- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 19 ++++- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 3 +- drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 2 +- fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 4 +- fs/f2fs/file.c | 3 +- fs/gfs2/lock_dlm.c | 8 +- fs/isofs/dir.c | 1 + fs/isofs/namei.c | 1 + fs/jffs2/summary.c | 3 + fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c | 2 +- fs/ntfs/inode.c | 6 ++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 42 +++++++--- include/linux/device-mapper.h | 2 - include/linux/ide.h | 1 - include/uapi/linux/msdos_fs.h | 2 + kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 2 +- kernel/futex.c | 7 +- kernel/module.c | 21 ++++- kernel/tracepoint.c | 80 +++++++++++++++---- mm/hugetlb.c | 43 +++++++++- mm/memory.c | 6 +- net/bluetooth/a2mp.c | 3 +- net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 6 +- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 6 +- security/keys/trusted.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs42l56.c | 3 +- tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c | 2 +- .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 3 + 90 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)