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This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.259 release. There are 92 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 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:25:07 +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-4.4.259-rc2.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 4.4.259-rc2

Nikos Tsironis <[email protected]>
dm era: Update in-core bitset after committing the metadata

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
futex: Fix OWNER_DEAD fixup

Nikos Tsironis <[email protected]>
dm era: only resize metadata in preresume

Nikos Tsironis <[email protected]>
dm era: Reinitialize bitset cache before digesting a new writeset

Nikos Tsironis <[email protected]>
dm era: Use correct value size in equality function of writeset tree

Nikos Tsironis <[email protected]>
dm era: Fix bitset memory leaks

Nikos Tsironis <[email protected]>
dm era: Verify the data block size hasn't changed

Nikos Tsironis <[email protected]>
dm era: Recover committed writeset after crash

Bob Peterson <[email protected]>
gfs2: Don't skip dlm unlock if glock has an lvb

Al Viro <[email protected]>
sparc32: fix a user-triggerable oops in clear_user()

Chao Yu <[email protected]>
f2fs: fix out-of-repair __setattr_copy()

Maxim Kiselev <[email protected]>
gpio: pcf857x: Fix missing first interrupt

Fangrui Song <[email protected]>
module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols

Dan Williams <[email protected]>
libnvdimm/dimm: Avoid race between probe and available_slots_show()

Yoshihiro Shimoda <[email protected]>
usb: renesas_usbhs: Clear pipe running flag in usbhs_pkt_pop()

Muchun Song <[email protected]>
mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page

Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix

Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
x86/reboot: Force all cpus to exit VMX root if VMX is supported

Martin Kaiser <[email protected]>
staging: rtl8188eu: Add Edimax EW-7811UN V2 to device table

Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <[email protected]>
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: restrict too big queue size in qp_host_alloc_queue

Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
btrfs: fix reloc root leak with 0 ref reloc roots on recovery

Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
KEYS: trusted: Fix migratable=1 failing

Thinh Nguyen <[email protected]>

    usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix dep->interval for fullspeed interrupt

Thinh Nguyen <[email protected]>
usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix setting of DEPCFG.bInterval_m1

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

    USB: serial: mos7720: fix error code in mos7720_write()

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

    USB: serial: mos7840: fix error code in mos7840_write()

Lech Perczak <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: update interface mapping for ZTE P685M

Marcos Paulo de Souza <[email protected]>
Input: i8042 - add ASUS Zenbook Flip to noselftest list

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Input: joydev - prevent potential read overflow in ioctl

Olivier Crête <[email protected]>
Input: xpad - add support for PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox Series X|S

Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
block: Move SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT definitions into <linux/blkdev.h>

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
scsi: bnx2fc: Fix Kconfig warning & CNIC build errors

Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
i2c: brcmstb: Fix brcmstd_send_i2c_cmd condition

Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
mm/hugetlb: fix potential double free in hugetlb_register_node() error path

Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
mm/memory.c: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error

Heiner Kallweit <[email protected]>
PCI: Align checking of syscall user config accessors

Jorgen Hansen <[email protected]>
VMCI: Use set_page_dirty_lock() when unregistering guest memory

Aswath Govindraju <[email protected]>
misc: eeprom_93xx46: Add module alias to avoid breaking support for non device tree users

Aswath Govindraju <[email protected]>
misc: eeprom_93xx46: Fix module alias to enable module autoprobe

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
sparc64: only select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF is set

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Input: elo - fix an error code in elo_connect()

Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
perf test: Fix unaligned access in sample parsing test

Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
perf intel-pt: Fix missing CYC processing in PSB

Nathan Lynch <[email protected]>
powerpc/pseries/dlpar: handle ibm, configure-connector delay status

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
mfd: wm831x-auxadc: Prevent use after free in wm831x_auxadc_read_irq()

Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory failure

Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
amba: Fix resource leak for drivers without .remove

Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]>
ARM: 9046/1: decompressor: Do not clear SCTLR.nTLSMD for ARMv7+ cores

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
mmc: usdhi6rol0: Fix a resource leak in the error handling path of the probe

Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
powerpc/47x: Disable 256k page size

Shay Drory <[email protected]>
IB/umad: Return EIO in case of when device disassociated

Pan Bian <[email protected]>
isofs: release buffer head before return

Pan Bian <[email protected]>

    regulator: axp20x: Fix reference cout leak

Tom Rix <[email protected]>
clocksource/drivers/mxs_timer: Add missing semicolon when DEBUG is defined

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path of the probe function

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
dmaengine: fsldma: Fix a resource leak in the remove function

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
HID: core: detect and skip invalid inputs to snto32()

Martin Blumenstingl <[email protected]>
clk: meson: clk-pll: fix initializing the old rate (fallback) for a PLL

Tom Rix <[email protected]>
jffs2: fix use after free in jffs2_sum_write_data()

Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
fs/jfs: fix potential integer overflow on shift of a int

Zhihao Cheng <[email protected]>
btrfs: clarify error returns values in __load_free_space_cache

Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
media: uvcvideo: Accept invalid bFormatIndex and bFrameIndex values

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
media: cx25821: Fix a bug when reallocating some dma memory

Joe Perches <[email protected]>
media: lmedm04: Fix misuse of comma

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
ASoC: cs42l56: fix up error handling in probe

Dinghao Liu <[email protected]>
media: tm6000: Fix memleak in tm6000_start_stream

Dinghao Liu <[email protected]>
media: media/pci: Fix memleak in empress_init

Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
MIPS: lantiq: Explicitly compare LTQ_EBU_PCC_ISTAT against 0

Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
MIPS: c-r4k: Fix section mismatch for loongson2_sc_init

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
gma500: clean up error handling in init

Jialin Zhang <[email protected]>
drm/gma500: Fix error return code in psb_driver_load()

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
fbdev: aty: SPARC64 requires FB_ATY_CT

Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
b43: N-PHY: Fix the update of coef for the PHY revision >= 3case

Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/netback: fix spurious event detection for common event case

Edwin Peer <[email protected]>
bnxt_en: reverse order of TX disable and carrier off

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
ARM: s3c: fix fiq for clang IAS

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
usb: dwc2: Make "trimming xfer length" a debug message

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
usb: dwc2: Abort transaction after errors with unknown reason

Pan Bian <[email protected]>
Bluetooth: Put HCI device if inquiry procedure interrupts

Pan Bian <[email protected]>
Bluetooth: drop HCI device reference before return

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Arndale Octa

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
ARM: dts: exynos: correct PMIC interrupt trigger level on Spring

Christopher William Snowhill <[email protected]>
Bluetooth: Fix initializing response id after clearing struct

Alexander Lobakin <[email protected]>
MIPS: vmlinux.lds.S: add missing PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA() section

Sumit Garg <[email protected]>
kdb: Make memory allocations more robust

Rong Chen <[email protected]>
scripts/recordmcount.pl: support big endian for ARCH sh

Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
igb: Remove incorrect "unexpected SYS WRAP" log message

Rustam Kovhaev <[email protected]>
ntfs: check for valid standard information attribute

David Vrabel <[email protected]>
xen-netback: delete NAPI instance when queue fails to initialize

Stefan Ursella <[email protected]>
usb: quirks: add quirk to start video capture on ELMO L-12F document camera reliable

Will McVicker <[email protected]>
HID: make arrays usage and value to be the same

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S                    |  4 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-spring.dts            |  2 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5420-arndale-octa.dts      |  2 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S                     |  1 +
 arch/mips/lantiq/irq.c                             |  2 +-
 arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c                               |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                               |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c             |  7 +-
 arch/sparc/Kconfig                                 |  2 +-
 arch/sparc/lib/memset.S                            |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c                           | 29 +++----
 arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c                |  1 -
 block/blk-settings.c                               | 12 +++
 drivers/amba/bus.c                                 | 20 +++--
 drivers/block/brd.c                                |  1 -
 drivers/block/floppy.c                             | 27 ++++---
 drivers/block/rbd.c                                |  9 ---
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h                      |  1 -
 drivers/clk/meson/clk-pll.c                        |  2 +-
 drivers/clocksource/mxs_timer.c                    |  5 +-
 drivers/dma/fsldma.c                               |  6 ++
 drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c                        |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_hdmi_i2c.c         | 22 ++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.c                   |  2 +
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c                             |  9 ++-
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c                               |  8 +-
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.h                               |  6 +-
 drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c                 |  7 +-
 drivers/input/joydev.c                             |  7 +-
 drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c                      |  1 +
 drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h              |  4 +
 drivers/input/touchscreen/elo.c                    |  4 +-
 drivers/md/dm-era-target.c                         | 93 ++++++++++++++--------
 drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-core.c           |  4 +-
 drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-empress.c        |  5 +-
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c             |  2 +-
 drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c              |  4 +
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c                   | 18 ++---
 drivers/mfd/wm831x-auxadc.c                        |  3 +-
 drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c                |  1 +
 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c            |  5 +-
 drivers/mmc/host/usdhi6rol0.c                      |  4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c          |  3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c          |  2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c                |  9 ++-
 drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c                         | 18 ++++-
 drivers/nvdimm/nd.h                                |  1 -
 drivers/pci/syscall.c                              | 10 +--
 drivers/regulator/axp20x-regulator.c               |  7 +-
 drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/Kconfig                        |  1 +
 drivers/scsi/gdth.h                                |  3 -
 drivers/spi/spi-s3c24xx-fiq.S                      |  9 +--
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c        |  1 +
 drivers/usb/core/quirks.c                          |  3 +
 drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd_intr.c                        | 14 +++-
 drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c                          | 19 ++++-
 drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c                   |  2 +
 drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c                       |  4 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c                       |  4 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        |  3 +-
 drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig                        |  2 +-
 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c                        |  6 +-
 fs/btrfs/relocation.c                              |  4 +-
 fs/f2fs/file.c                                     |  3 +-
 fs/gfs2/lock_dlm.c                                 |  8 +-
 fs/isofs/dir.c                                     |  1 +
 fs/isofs/namei.c                                   |  1 +
 fs/jffs2/summary.c                                 |  3 +
 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c                                  |  2 +-
 fs/ntfs/inode.c                                    |  6 ++
 include/linux/blkdev.h                             | 42 +++++++---
 include/linux/device-mapper.h                      |  2 -
 include/linux/ide.h                                |  1 -
 include/uapi/linux/msdos_fs.h                      |  2 +
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h                     |  2 +-
 kernel/futex.c                                     |  7 +-
 kernel/module.c                                    | 21 ++++-
 kernel/tracepoint.c                                | 80 +++++++++++++++----
 mm/hugetlb.c                                       | 43 +++++++++-
 mm/memory.c                                        |  6 +-
 net/bluetooth/a2mp.c                               |  3 +-
 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c                           |  6 +-
 scripts/recordmcount.pl                            |  6 +-
 security/keys/trusted.c                            |  2 +-
 sound/soc/codecs/cs42l56.c                         |  3 +-
 tools/perf/tests/sample-parsing.c                  |  2 +-
 .../perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c  |  3 +
 90 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)
Tested-by on the v1 series
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Hi!

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This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.259 release. There are 92 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

Best regards,
Pavel

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maintainer Tested-by on the v1 series
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In reply to Greg Kroah-Hartman
Quoted 9 lines · Greg Kroah-Hartman

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.259 release. There are 92 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 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:25:07 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

Quoted 8 lines
	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.259-rc2.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

All tests passing for Tegra ...

Test results for stable-v4.4:

    6 builds:	6 pass, 0 fail
    12 boots:	12 pass, 0 fail
    28 tests:	28 pass, 0 fail

Linux version: 4.4.259-rc2-ga8379a8a874e
Boards tested: tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra20-ventana,

                tegra30-cardhu-a04

Jon

Tested-by Linux Kernel Functional Testing on the v1 series
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In reply to Greg Kroah-Hartman
Quoted 10 lines · Greg Kroah-Hartman

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.259 release. There are 92 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 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:25:07 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

Quoted 8 lines
        https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.259-rc2.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.

Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------

kernel: 4.4.259-rc2
git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
git branch: linux-4.4.y
git commit: a8379a8a874e8a88249eb6f87a66d886cb72259f
git describe: v4.4.258-93-ga8379a8a874e
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.4.y/build/v4.4.258-93-ga8379a8a874e

No regressions (compared to build v4.4.258)

No fixes (compared to build v4.4.258)

Ran 27052 total tests in the following environments and test suites.

Environments
--------------
- arm
- arm64
- i386
- juno-r2 - arm64
- mips
- qemu-arm64-kasan
- qemu-x86_64-kasan
- qemu_arm
- qemu_arm64
- qemu_arm64-compat
- qemu_i386
- qemu_x86_64
- qemu_x86_64-compat
- sparc
- x15 - arm
- x86_64
- x86_64

Test Suites
-----------
* build
* linux-log-parser
* 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-lkdtm
* 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
* network-basic-tests
* perf
* kvm-unit-tests
* libhugetlbfs
* ltp-controllers-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-mm-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* v4l2-compliance
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-crypto-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* ltp-tracing-tests
* install-android-platform-tools-r2600
* fwts

Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------

kernel: 4.4.259-rc2
git repo: https://git.linaro.org/lkft/arm64-stable-rc.git
git tag: 4.4.259-rc2-hikey-20210302-945
git commit: 425e0998cf27fbb998d5d1e6692f592dd9ff6a14
git describe: 4.4.259-rc2-hikey-20210302-945
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linaro-hikey-stable-rc-4.4-oe/build/4.4.259-rc2-hikey-20210302-945

No regressions (compared to build 4.4.259-rc1-hikey-20210228-942)

No fixes (compared to build 4.4.259-rc1-hikey-20210228-942)

Ran 1951 total tests in the following environments and test suites.

Environments
--------------
- hi6220-hikey - arm64

Test Suites
-----------
* build
* install-android-platform-tools-r2600
* libhugetlbfs
* linux-log-parser
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-dio-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-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-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* perf
* spectre-meltdown-checker-test
* v4l2-compliance
* 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-lkdtm
* 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

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Tested-by on the v1 series
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In reply to Greg Kroah-Hartman
Quoted 8 lines · Greg Kroah-Hartman

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.259 release. There are 92 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 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:25:07 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.

Build results:

	total: 165 pass: 165 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 329 pass: 329 fail: 0

Guenter