This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.186 release. There are 40 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 20 Jul 2019 02:59:27 AM UTC. 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-4.4.186-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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 4.4.186-rc1 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> KVM: x86: protect KVM_CREATE_PIT/KVM_CREATE_PIT2 with kvm->lock Julian Wiedmann <j...@linux.ibm.com> s390/qdio: don't touch the dsci in tiqdio_add_input_queues() Julian Wiedmann <j...@linux.ibm.com> s390/qdio: (re-)initialize tiqdio list entries Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com> s390: fix stfle zero padding Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> ARC: hide unused function unw_hdr_alloc Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> kvm: x86: avoid warning on repeated KVM_SET_TSS_ADDR Milan Broz <gmazyl...@gmail.com> dm verity: use message limit for data block corruption message Sergej Benilov <sergej.beni...@googlemail.com> sis900: fix TX completion Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> ppp: mppe: Add softdep to arc4 Petr Oros <po...@redhat.com> be2net: fix link failure after ethtool offline test Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> ARM: omap2: remove incorrect __init annotation Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> perf/core: Fix perf_sample_regs_user() mm check Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru> e1000e: start network tx queue only when link is up Sean Young <s...@mess.org> MIPS: Remove superfluous check for __linux__ Vishnu DASA <vd...@vmware.com> VMCI: Fix integer overflow in VMCI handle arrays Christian Lamparter <chunk...@gmail.com> carl9170: fix misuse of device driver API Ian Abbott <abbo...@mev.co.uk> staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: fix null pointer deref on interrupt Ian Abbott <abbo...@mev.co.uk> staging: comedi: dt282x: fix a null pointer deref on interrupt Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda...@renesas.com> usb: renesas_usbhs: add a workaround for a race condition of workqueue Kiruthika Varadarajan <kiruthika.varadara...@harman.com> usb: gadget: ether: Fix race between gether_disconnect and rx_submit Jörgen Storvist <jorgen.storv...@gmail.com> USB: serial: option: add support for GosunCn ME3630 RNDIS mode Andreas Fritiofson <andreas.fritiof...@unjo.com> USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add ID for isodebug v1 Brian Norris <briannor...@chromium.org> mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs Hongjie Fang <hongjief...@asrmicro.com> fscrypt: don't set policy for a dead directory Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> mwifiex: Fix heap overflow in mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies() Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> mwifiex: Abort at too short BSS descriptor element Dianzhang Chen <dianzhangch...@gmail.com> x86/tls: Fix possible spectre-v1 in do_get_thread_area() Dianzhang Chen <dianzhangch...@gmail.com> x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptrace_get_debugreg() Steven J. Magnani <steve.magn...@digidescorp.com> udf: Fix incorrect final NOT_ALLOCATED (hole) extent length Mauro S. M. Rodrigues <maur...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> bnx2x: Check if transceiver implements DDM before access Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkac...@intel.com> md: fix for divide error in status_resync Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@baylibre.com> ARM: davinci: da8xx: specify dma_coherent_mask for lcdc Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@baylibre.com> ARM: davinci: da850-evm: call regulator_has_full_constraints() Anson Huang <anson.hu...@nxp.com> Input: imx_keypad - make sure keyboard can always wake up system Sean Nyekjaer <s...@geanix.com> can: mcp251x: add support for mcp25625 Sean Nyekjaer <s...@geanix.com> dt-bindings: can: mcp251x: add mcp25625 support Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows at parsing bss descriptor Thomas Pedersen <tho...@eero.com> mac80211: mesh: fix RCU warning Chang-Hsien Tsai <luke...@gmail.com> samples, bpf: fix to change the buffer size for read() Aaron Ma <aaron...@canonical.com> Input: elantech - enable middle button support on 2 ThinkPads ------------- Diffstat: .../bindings/net/can/microchip,mcp251x.txt | 1 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/kernel/unwind.c | 9 +-- arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da850-evm.c | 2 + arch/arm/mach-davinci/devices-da8xx.c | 3 + arch/arm/mach-omap2/prm3xxx.c | 2 +- arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/sgidefs.h | 8 -- arch/s390/include/asm/facility.h | 21 +++-- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 5 +- arch/x86/kernel/tls.c | 9 ++- arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 5 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 +- drivers/input/keyboard/imx_keypad.c | 18 ++++- drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 2 + drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 4 +- drivers/md/md.c | 36 +++++---- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 80 +++++++++++-------- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_handle_array.c | 38 ++++++--- drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_handle_array.h | 29 ++++--- drivers/net/can/spi/Kconfig | 5 +- drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251x.c | 25 +++--- .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_ethtool.c | 28 +++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c | 16 ++-- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c | 39 ++++----- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/fw.h | 12 ++- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/ie.c | 45 +++++++---- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/scan.c | 31 +++++++- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/wmm.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/cio/qdio_setup.c | 2 + drivers/s390/cio/qdio_thinint.c | 5 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/amplc_pci230.c | 3 +- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dt282x.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 34 +++++--- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 6 ++ drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 1 + fs/ext4/crypto_policy.c | 2 + fs/f2fs/crypto_policy.c | 2 + fs/udf/inode.c | 93 ++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h | 11 ++- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/mesh.c | 5 +- samples/bpf/bpf_load.c | 2 +- 49 files changed, 438 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)