This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.272 release. There are 23 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, 10 Jun 2021 17:59:18 +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-4.4.272-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 4.4.272-rc1

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com xen-pciback: redo VF placement in the virtual topology

Michael Weiser michael.weiser@gmx.de arm64: Remove unimplemented syscall log message

Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SVM: Truncate GPR value for DR and CR accesses in !64-bit mode

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: fixup error handling in fixup_inode_link_counts

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com nfc: fix NULL ptr dereference in llcp_sock_getname() after failed connect

Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: fix data corruption by fallocate

Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com pid: take a reference when initializing `cad_pid`

Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com ext4: fix bug on in ext4_es_cache_extent as ext4_split_extent_at failed

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: timer: Fix master timer notification

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net: caif: fix memory leak in cfusbl_device_notify

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net: caif: fix memory leak in caif_device_notify

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net: caif: add proper error handling

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net: caif: added cfserl_release function

Lin Ma linma@zju.edu.cn Bluetooth: use correct lock to prevent UAF of hdev object

Lin Ma linma@zju.edu.cn Bluetooth: fix the erroneous flush_work() order

Wei Yongjun weiyongjun1@huawei.com ieee802154: fix error return code in ieee802154_llsec_getparams()

Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com ieee802154: fix error return code in ieee802154_add_iface()

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: hit EBUSY on updates if size mismatches

Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com HID: pidff: fix error return code in hid_pidff_init()

Julian Anastasov ja@ssi.bg ipvs: ignore IP_VS_SVC_F_HASHED flag when adding service

Max Gurtovoy mgurtovoy@nvidia.com vfio/platform: fix module_put call in error flow

Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com vfio/pci: Fix error return code in vfio_ecap_init()

Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk efi: cper: fix snprintf() use in cper_dimm_err_location()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 8 ---- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 8 ++-- drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c | 4 +- drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c | 1 + drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c | 2 +- drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/xen-pciback/vpci.c | 14 ++++--- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 13 ++++--- fs/ext4/extents.c | 43 ++++++++++++---------- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/net/caif/caif_dev.h | 2 +- include/net/caif/cfcnfg.h | 2 +- include/net/caif/cfserl.h | 1 + init/main.c | 2 +- net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 7 +++- net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 4 +- net/caif/caif_dev.c | 13 +++++-- net/caif/caif_usb.c | 14 ++++++- net/caif/cfcnfg.c | 16 +++++--- net/caif/cfserl.c | 5 +++ net/ieee802154/nl-mac.c | 4 +- net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c | 4 +- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 8 +++- net/nfc/llcp_sock.c | 2 + sound/core/timer.c | 3 +- 27 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)