** Description changed: + SRU Justification - SRU Justification + Impact: + The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar + in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to + demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream + by originating either directly from a mainline/stable Linux tree or + a minimally backported form of that patch. The 4.4.140 upstream stable + patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu + kernel as well. - Impact: - The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar - in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to - demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream - by originating either directly from a mainline/stable Linux tree or - a minimally backported form of that patch. The 4.4.140 upstream stable - patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu - kernel as well. + git://git.kernel.org/ - git://git.kernel.org/ + TEST CASE: TBD - TEST CASE: TBD + The following patches from the 4.4.140 stable release shall be + applied: - The following patches from the 4.4.140 stable release shall be - applied: + * usb: cdc_acm: Add quirk for Uniden UBC125 scanner + * USB: serial: cp210x: add CESINEL device ids + * USB: serial: cp210x: add Silicon Labs IDs for Windows Update + * n_tty: Fix stall at n_tty_receive_char_special(). + * staging: android: ion: Return an ERR_PTR in ion_map_kernel + * n_tty: Access echo_* variables carefully. + * x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end + * ath10k: fix rfc1042 header retrieval in QCA4019 with eth decap mode + * i2c: rcar: fix resume by always initializing registers before transfer + * ipv4: Fix error return value in fib_convert_metrics() + * kprobes/x86: Do not modify singlestep buffer while resuming + * nvme-pci: initialize queue memory before interrupts + * netfilter: nf_tables: use WARN_ON_ONCE instead of BUG_ON in nft_do_chain() + * ARM: dts: imx6q: Use correct SDMA script for SPI5 core + * ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA + * mm: hugetlb: yield when prepping struct pages + * tracing: Fix missing return symbol in function_graph output + * scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse + * s390: Correct register corruption in critical section cleanup + * drbd: fix access after free + * cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option + * jbd2: don't mark block as modified if the handle is out of credits + * ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg descriptors + * ext4: always check block group bounds in ext4_init_block_bitmap() + * ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid + * ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent() + * ext4: include the illegal physical block in the bad map ext4_error msg + * ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data + * ext4: add more inode number paranoia checks + * ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock + * ext4: check superblock mapped prior to committing + * HID: i2c-hid: Fix "incomplete report" noise + * HID: hiddev: fix potential Spectre v1 + * HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user() + * x86/mce: Detect local MCEs properly + * x86/mce: Fix incorrect "Machine check from unknown source" message + * media: cx25840: Use subdev host data for PLL override + * mm, page_alloc: do not break __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset + * dm bufio: avoid sleeping while holding the dm_bufio lock + * dm bufio: drop the lock when doing GFP_NOIO allocation + * mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spare area size register explicitly + * dm bufio: don't take the lock in dm_bufio_shrink_count + * mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change definition naming to retry write operation + * mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to retry for error + * mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to check chip good only + * netfilter: nf_log: don't hold nf_log_mutex during user access + * staging: comedi: quatech_daqp_cs: fix no-op loop daqp_ao_insn_write() + * Linux 4.4.140 + + Note: + The following patch needed some context adjustment to be applied: + * nvme-pci: initialize queue memory before interrupts
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