This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.253 release. There are 29 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 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:08:14 +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-4.4.253-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 4.4.253-rc2

Michael Hennerich michael.hennerich@analog.com spi: cadence: cache reference clock rate during probe

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix handling of an unsupported token type in rxrpc_read()

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: sit: unregister_netdevice on newlink's error path

Petr Machata petrm@nvidia.com net: dcb: Accept RTM_GETDCB messages carrying set-like DCB commands

Petr Machata me@pmachata.org net: dcb: Validate netlink message in DCB handler

Andrey Zhizhikin andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com rndis_host: set proper input size for OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM request

Manish Chopra manishc@marvell.com netxen_nic: fix MSI/MSI-x interrupts

Jouni K. Seppänen jks@iki.fi net: cdc_ncm: correct overhead in delayed_ndp_size

J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn't return parent of export

Nuno Sá nuno.sa@analog.com iio: buffer: Fix demux update

Hamish Martin hamish.martin@alliedtelesis.co.nz usb: ohci: Make distrust_firmware param default to false

j.nixdorf@avm.de j.nixdorf@avm.de net: sunrpc: interpret the return value of kstrtou32 correctly

Jann Horn jannh@google.com mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn RDMA/usnic: Fix memleak in find_free_vf_and_create_qp_grp

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: fix superblock checksum failure when setting password salt

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com NFS: nfs_igrab_and_active must first reference the superblock

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: uinput - avoid FF flush when destroying device

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: picoxcell: fix missing interrupt-parent properties

Shawn Guo shawn.guo@linaro.org ACPI: scan: add stub acpi_create_platform_device() for !CONFIG_ACPI

Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au net: ethernet: fs_enet: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de misdn: dsp: select CONFIG_BITREVERSE

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org arch/arc: add copy_user_page() to <asm/page.h> to fix build error on ARC

Rasmus Villemoes rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk ethernet: ucc_geth: fix definition and size of ucc_geth_tx_global_pram

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org ARC: build: add boot_targets to PHONY

yangerkun yangerkun@huawei.com ext4: fix bug for rename with RENAME_WHITEOUT

Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com mm/hugetlb: fix potential missing huge page size info

Thomas Hebb tommyhebb@gmail.com ASoC: dapm: remove widget from dirty list on free

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arc/Makefile | 1 + arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/picoxcell-pc3x2.dtsi | 4 ++++ drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 6 +++--- drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c | 3 +++ drivers/input/ff-core.c | 13 ++++++++++--- drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/isdn/mISDN/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-fec.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.h | 9 ++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c | 7 +------ drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 2 +- drivers/spi/spi-cadence.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 3 +++ fs/ext4/namei.c | 16 +++++++++------- fs/nfs/internal.h | 12 +++++++----- fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 7 ++++++- include/linux/acpi.h | 7 +++++++ include/linux/input.h | 1 + mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- mm/slub.c | 2 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 9 +++++++-- net/dcb/dcbnl.c | 2 ++ net/ipv6/sit.c | 5 ++++- net/rxrpc/ar-key.c | 6 ++++-- net/sunrpc/addr.c | 2 +- security/lsm_audit.c | 7 +++++-- sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 1 + 32 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)