This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.209 release. There are 59 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 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:46:17 +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-4.4.209-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 4.4.209-rc1

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit ME910G1 0x110a composition

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: core: fix check for duplicate endpoints

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com macvlan: do not assume mac_header is set in macvlan_broadcast()

Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com vxlan: fix tos value before xmit

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com vlan: fix memory leak in vlan_dev_set_egress_priority

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com vlan: vlan_changelink() should propagate errors

Pengcheng Yang yangpc@wangsu.com tcp: fix "old stuff" D-SACK causing SACK to be treated as D-SACK

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: free cmd->obj.chunk for the unprocessed SCTP_CMD_REPLY

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com pkt_sched: fq: do not accept silly TCA_FQ_QUANTUM

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: usb: lan78xx: fix possible skb leak

Chen-Yu Tsai wens@csie.org net: stmmac: dwmac-sunxi: Allow all RGMII modes

Chan Shu Tak, Alex alexchan@task.com.hk llc2: Fix return statement of llc_stat_ev_rx_null_dsap_xid_c (and _test_c)

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Fix compiler warnings in debug_core.c

Thomas Hebb tommyhebb@gmail.com kconfig: don't crash on NULL expressions in expr_eq()

Andreas Kemnade andreas@kemnade.info regulator: rn5t618: fix module aliases

Shengjiu Wang shengjiu.wang@nxp.com ASoC: wm8962: fix lambda value

Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu rfkill: Fix incorrect check to avoid NULL pointer dereference

Cristian Birsan cristian.birsan@microchip.com net: usb: lan78xx: Fix error message format specifier

Manish Chopra manishc@marvell.com bnx2x: Fix logic to get total no. of PFs per engine

Manish Chopra manishc@marvell.com bnx2x: Do not handle requests from VFs after parity

Mike Rapoport rppt@linux.ibm.com powerpc: Ensure that swiotlb buffer is allocated from low memory

Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com ARM: dts: am437x-gp/epos-evm: fix panel compatible

Phil Sutter phil@nwl.cc netfilter: uapi: Avoid undefined left-shift in xt_sctp.h

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com ARM: vexpress: Set-up shared OPP table instead of individual for each CPU

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: ctnetlink: netns exit must wait for callbacks

Marco Elver elver@google.com locking/spinlock/debug: Fix various data races

Aleksandr Yashkin a.yashkin@inango-systems.com pstore/ram: Write new dumps to start of recycled zones

Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com locking/x86: Remove the unused atomic_inc_short() methd

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390/smp: fix physical to logical CPU map for SMT

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: add annotations on hh->hh_len lockless accesses

Masashi Honma masashi.honma@gmail.com ath9k_htc: Discard undersized packets

Masashi Honma masashi.honma@gmail.com ath9k_htc: Modify byte order for an error message

Daniel Axtens dja@axtens.net powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix stack overread via udbg

Imre Deak imre.deak@intel.com drm/mst: Fix MST sideband up-reply failure handling

Leo Yan leo.yan@linaro.org tty: serial: msm_serial: Fix lockup for sysrq and oops

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Bluetooth: delete a stray unlock

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com Bluetooth: btusb: fix PM leak in error case of setup

Wen Yang wenyang@linux.alibaba.com ftrace: Avoid potential division by zero in function profiler

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com ALSA: cs4236: fix error return comparison of an unsigned integer

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk gpiolib: fix up emulated open drain outputs

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de compat_ioctl: block: handle Persistent Reservations

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de dmaengine: Fix access to uninitialized dma_slave_caps

Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com locks: print unsigned ino in /proc/locks

Paul Burton paulburton@kernel.org MIPS: Avoid VDSO ABI breakage due to global register variable

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: ice1724: Fix sleep-in-atomic in Infrasonic Quartet support code

Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "perf report: Add warning when libunwind not compiled in"

Christian Brauner christian.brauner@ubuntu.com taskstats: fix data-race

Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com xfs: fix mount failure crash on invalid iclog memory access

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/balloon: fix ballooned page accounting without hotplug enabled

Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.ibm.com s390/cpum_sf: Avoid SBD overflow condition in irq handler

Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.ibm.com s390/cpum_sf: Adjust sampling interval to avoid hitting sample limits

Zhiqiang Liu liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com md: raid1: check rdev before reference in raid1_sync_request func

EJ Hsu ejh@nvidia.com usb: gadget: fix wrong endpoint desc

Jason Yan yanaijie@huawei.com scsi: libsas: stop discovering if oob mode is disconnected

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com scsi: iscsi: qla4xxx: fix double free in probe

Roman Bolshakov r.bolshakov@yadro.com scsi: qla2xxx: Don't call qlt_async_event twice

Bo Wu wubo40@huawei.com scsi: lpfc: Fix memory leak on lpfc_bsg_write_ebuf_set func

Chuhong Yuan hslester96@gmail.com RDMA/cma: add missed unregister_pernet_subsys in init failure

Leonard Crestez leonard.crestez@nxp.com PM / devfreq: Don't fail devfreq_dev_release if not in list

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am437x-gp-evm.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am43x-epos-evm.dts | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-vexpress/spc.c | 12 +++- arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h | 20 +++++- arch/parisc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 10 ++- arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 8 +++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvconsole.c | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_sf.c | 22 +++++-- arch/s390/kernel/smp.c | 80 +++++++++++++++-------- arch/tile/lib/atomic_asm_32.S | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h | 13 ---- block/compat_ioctl.c | 9 +++ drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 3 +- drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 6 +- drivers/firewire/net.c | 6 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 8 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 6 +- drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 1 + drivers/md/raid1.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 12 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c | 12 ++++ drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sunxi.c | 2 +- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 11 ++-- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c | 23 +++++-- drivers/regulator/rn5t618-regulator.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c | 11 +++- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_bsg.c | 15 +++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 4 -- drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c | 1 - drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_vio.c | 16 ++++- drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 13 +++- drivers/usb/core/config.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++---- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ecm.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_rndis.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 2 + drivers/xen/balloon.c | 3 +- fs/locks.c | 2 +- fs/pstore/ram.c | 11 ++++ fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 2 + include/linux/dmaengine.h | 5 +- include/linux/if_ether.h | 8 +++ include/net/neighbour.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_sctp.h | 6 +- kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c | 32 ++++----- kernel/taskstats.c | 30 +++++---- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 6 +- net/8021q/vlan.h | 1 + net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 3 +- net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c | 19 ++++-- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 4 +- net/core/neighbour.c | 4 +- net/ethernet/eth.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 5 +- net/llc/llc_station.c | 4 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 3 + net/rfkill/core.c | 7 +- net/sched/sch_fq.c | 2 +- net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 28 +++++--- scripts/kconfig/expr.c | 7 ++ sound/isa/cs423x/cs4236.c | 3 +- sound/pci/ice1712/ice1724.c | 9 ++- sound/soc/codecs/wm8962.c | 4 +- tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 7 -- 68 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 190 deletions(-)