This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 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 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.4.296-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
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Linux 4.4.296-rc1
Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages
Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms
Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms
Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms
Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Input: touchscreen - avoid bitwise vs logical OR warning
Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
ARM: 8805/2: remove unneeded naked function usage
Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
net: lan78xx: Avoid unnecessary self assignment
Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle
Yu Liao <[email protected]>
timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive
Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit FN990 compositions
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
PCI/MSI: Clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL on error
Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
USB: gadget: bRequestType is a bitfield, not a enum
Letu Ren <[email protected]>
igbvf: fix double free in `igbvf_probe`
Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
soc/tegra: fuse: Fix bitwise vs. logical OR warning
J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race
Joe Thornber <[email protected]>
dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children()
Jerome Marchand <[email protected]>
recordmcount.pl: look for jgnop instruction as well as bcrl on s390
Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
mac80211: send ADDBA requests using the tid/queue of the aggregation session
Armin Wolf <[email protected]>
hwmon: (dell-smm) Fix warning on /proc/i8k creation error
Harshit Mogalapalli <[email protected]>
net: netlink: af_netlink: Prevent empty skb by adding a check on len.
Ondrej Jirman <[email protected]>
i2c: rk3x: Handle a spurious start completion interrupt flag
Helge Deller <[email protected]>
parisc/agp: Annotate parisc agp init functions with __init
Tadeusz Struk <[email protected]>
nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c | 35 ++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-feroceon.c | 98 ++++++++++-----------
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4mc.c | 19 ++--
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wb.c | 41 +++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wt.c | 37 ++++----
arch/arm/mm/copypage-xsc3.c | 71 +++++++--------
arch/arm/mm/copypage-xscale.c | 71 ++++++++-------
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 12 ++-
drivers/char/agp/parisc-agp.c | 6 +-
drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 7 +-
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rk3x.c | 4 +-
drivers/input/touchscreen/of_touchscreen.c | 18 ++--
drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 5 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.h | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 1 +
drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 13 ++-
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/pci/msi.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse-tegra.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse.h | 2 +-
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c | 30 ++++++-
drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/dbgp.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 8 ++
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 9 +-
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 3 +-
net/mac80211/agg-tx.c | 2 +-
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 5 ++
net/nfc/netlink.c | 6 +-
scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +-
34 files changed, 388 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)
Hi!
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 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.
CIP testing did not find any problems here:
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/tree/linux-4.4.y
Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <[email protected]>
Best regards,
Pavel
--
DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
On 12/20/21 7:34 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 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 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.4.296-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
>
Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
Tested-by: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
thanks,
-- Shuah
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 20:07, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 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 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.4.296-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
Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <[email protected]>
## Build
* kernel: 4.4.296-rc1
* git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
* git branch: linux-4.4.y
* git commit: f46f7fed481068d1389efbf0122c45cb9f36480d
* git describe: v4.4.295-24-gf46f7fed4810
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.4.y/build/v4.4.295-24-gf46f7fed4810
## No Test Regressions (compared to v4.4.295-6-ge478503b16a3)
## No Test Fixes (compared to v4.4.295-6-ge478503b16a3)
## Test result summary
total: 46356, pass: 37461, fail: 177, skip: 7721, xfail: 997
## Build Summary
* arm: 129 total, 129 passed, 0 failed
* arm64: 31 total, 31 passed, 0 failed
* i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed
* juno-r2: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* mips: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 12 total, 12 passed, 0 failed
* x15: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x86: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x86_64: 30 total, 24 passed, 6 failed
## Test suites summary
* fwts
* kselftest-android
* kselftest-bpf
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-cgroup
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-cpufreq
* kselftest-efivarfs
* kselftest-filesystems
* kselftest-firmware
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-gpio
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-ipc
* kselftest-ir
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-kexec
* kselftest-kvm
* kselftest-lib
* kselftest-livepatch
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-seccomp
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-splice
* kselftest-static_keys
* kselftest-sync
* kselftest-sysctl
* kselftest-timens
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user
* kselftest-vm
* kselftest-x86
* kselftest-zram
* kvm-unit-tests
* libhugetlbfs
* linux-log-parser
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-controllers-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-crypto-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-dio-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-tests
* ltp-fs-tests
* ltp-fs_bind-tests
* ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
* ltp-fsx-tests
* ltp-hugetlb-tests
* ltp-io-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-mm-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-open-posix-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* ltp-tracing-tests
* network-basic-tests
* packetdrill
* perf
* ssuite
* v4l2-compliance
--
Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:34:01PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 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 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
Build results:
total: 160 pass: 160 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
total: 339 pass: 339 fail: 0
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Guenter