4.4.286-rc2 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.286 release. There are 41 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, 07 Oct 2021 08:32:44 +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-4.4.286-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 4.4.286-rc2

NeilBrown <[email protected]>
cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL.

Anirudh Rayabharam <[email protected]>
HID: usbhid: free raw_report buffers in usbhid_stop

Jozsef Kadlecsik <[email protected]>
netfilter: ipset: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls

F.A.Sulaiman <[email protected]>
HID: betop: fix slab-out-of-bounds Write in betop_probe

Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
arm64: Extend workaround for erratum 1024718 to all versions of Cortex-A55

Sai Krishna Potthuri <[email protected]>
EDAC/synopsys: Fix wrong value type assignment for edac_mode

yangerkun <[email protected]>
ext4: fix potential infinite loop in ext4_dx_readdir()

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
ipack: ipoctal: fix module reference leak

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
ipack: ipoctal: fix missing allocation-failure check

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
ipack: ipoctal: fix tty-registration error handling

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
ipack: ipoctal: fix tty registration race

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
ipack: ipoctal: fix stack information leak

Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
e100: fix buffer overrun in e100_get_regs

Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
e100: fix length calculation in e100_get_regs_len

Andrea Claudi <[email protected]>
ipvs: check that ip_vs_conn_tab_bits is between 8 and 20

Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
mac80211: fix use-after-free in CCMP/GCMP RX

Igor Matheus Andrade Torrente <[email protected]>
tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
qnx4: work around gcc false positive warning bug

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
spi: Fix tegra20 build with CONFIG_PM=n

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
net: 6pack: Fix tx timeout and slot time

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
alpha: Declare virt_to_phys and virt_to_bus parameter as pointer to volatile

Dan Li <[email protected]>
arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init

Helge Deller <[email protected]>
parisc: Use absolute_pointer() to define PAGE0

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
qnx4: avoid stringop-overread errors

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy from fixed memory location

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
m68k: Double cast io functions to unsigned long

Zhihao Cheng <[email protected]>
blktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs

Baokun Li <[email protected]>
scsi: iscsi: Adjust iface sysfs attr detection

Aya Levin <[email protected]>
net/mlx4_en: Don't allow aRFS for encapsulated packets

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
net: hso: fix muxed tty registration

Slark Xiao <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add device id for Foxconn T99W265

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: remove duplicate USB device ID

Carlo Lobrano <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit LN920 compositions

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>

    USB: serial: mos7840: remove duplicated 0xac24 device ID

Uwe Brandt <[email protected]>

    USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for GW Instek GDM-834x Digital Multimeter

Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
xen/x86: fix PV trap handling on secondary processors

Steve French <[email protected]>
cifs: fix incorrect check for null pointer in header_assemble

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
usb: musb: tusb6010: uninitialized data in tusb_fifo_write_unaligned()

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: r8a66597: fix a loop in set_feature()

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                       |  4 +-
 arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h                    |  6 +--
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                             |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c                    |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S                           |  4 +-
 arch/m68k/include/asm/raw_io.h                 | 20 ++++----
 arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h                 |  2 +-
 arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c                      |  3 +-
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c                       | 15 +++---
 drivers/edac/synopsys_edac.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/hid/hid-betopff.c                      | 13 +++--
 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c                  | 13 ++++-
 drivers/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c                | 63 +++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c              | 22 +++++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c |  3 ++
 drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c                   |  4 +-
 drivers/net/usb/hso.c                          | 12 ++---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c            |  8 +--
 drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c                |  4 +-
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c                            | 21 +++++++-
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/usb/musb/tusb6010.c                    |  1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c                    |  1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c                   |  2 -
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                    | 11 +++-
 fs/cifs/connect.c                              |  5 +-
 fs/ext4/dir.c                                  |  6 +--
 fs/qnx4/dir.c                                  | 69 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 include/linux/compiler.h                       |  2 +
 include/linux/cred.h                           | 14 ++++--
 kernel/trace/blktrace.c                        |  8 +++
 net/mac80211/wpa.c                             |  6 +++
 net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h          |  4 +-
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c                |  4 ++
 35 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)

All tests passing for Tegra ...

Test results for stable-v4.4:

    6 builds:	6 pass, 0 fail
    12 boots:	12 pass, 0 fail
    30 tests:	30 pass, 0 fail

Linux version: 4.4.286-rc2-g72b93c725842
Boards tested: tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra20-ventana,

                tegra30-cardhu-a04

Jon

Hi!

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

DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

thanks,
-- Shuah

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

## Build
* kernel: 4.4.286-rc2
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git branch: linux-4.4.y
* git commit: 72b93c7258429eb65b95794f69218e8d8e0caeaa
* git describe: v4.4.285-42-g72b93c725842
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.4.y/build/v4.4.285-42-g72b93c725842

## No regressions (compared to v4.4.285-38-gf70f9a082d64)

## No fixes (compared to v4.4.285-38-gf70f9a082d64)

## Test result summary
total: 43887, pass: 34824, fail: 167, skip: 7877, xfail: 1019

## Build Summary
* i386: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* juno-r2: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x15: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x86: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 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

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Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org

Build results:

	total: 160 pass: 160 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 339 pass: 339 fail: 0

Guenter