4.4.227-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.227 release. There are 36 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, 11 Jun 2020 17:39:17 +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-4.4.227-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 4.4.227-rc1

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

    uprobes: ensure that uprobe->offset and ->ref_ctr_offset are properly aligned

Mathieu Othacehe <[email protected]>
iio: vcnl4000: Fix i2c swapped word reading.

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id

Jia Zhang <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping

Pascal Terjan <[email protected]>

    staging: rtl8712: Fix IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK

Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
vt: keyboard: avoid signed integer overflow in k_ascii

Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910C1-EUX compositions

Bin Liu <[email protected]>
USB: serial: usb_wwan: do not resubmit rx urb on fatal errors

Matt Jolly <[email protected]>
USB: serial: qcserial: add DW5816e QDL support

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
l2tp: do not use inet_hash()/inet_unhash()

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
l2tp: add sk_family checks to l2tp_validate_socket

Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
vsock: fix timeout in vsock_accept()

Chuhong Yuan <[email protected]>
NFC: st21nfca: add missed kfree_skb() in an error path

Yang Yingliang <[email protected]>
devinet: fix memleak in inetdev_init()

Can Guo <[email protected]>
scsi: ufs: Release clock if DMA map fails

yangerkun <[email protected]>
slip: not call free_netdev before rtnl_unlock in slip_open

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
slcan: Fix double-free on slcan_open() error path

Jérôme Pouiller <[email protected]>
mmc: fix compilation of user API

Guillaume Nault <[email protected]>
pppoe: only process PADT targeted at local interfaces

Jonathan McDowell <[email protected]>
net: ethernet: stmmac: Enable interface clocks on probe for IPQ806x

Valentin Longchamp <[email protected]>
net/ethernet/freescale: rework quiesce/activate for ucc_geth

Jeremy Kerr <[email protected]>
net: bmac: Fix read of MAC address from ROM

Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
x86/mmiotrace: Use cpumask_available() for cpumask_var_t variables

Eugeniy Paltsev <[email protected]>
ARC: Fix ICCM & DCCM runtime size checks

Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
s390/ftrace: save traced function caller

Xinwei Kong <[email protected]>
spi: dw: use "smp_mb()" to avoid sending spi data error

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - No loopback on ALC299 codec

Christophe Jaillet <[email protected]>
IB/mlx4: Fix an error handling path in 'mlx4_ib_rereg_user_mr()'

Zhen Lei <[email protected]>
esp6: fix memleak on error path in esp6_input

Lee, Chun-Yi <[email protected]>
platform/x86: acer-wmi: setup accelerometer when ACPI device was found

Eugeniu Rosca <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: f_uac2: fix error handling in afunc_bind (again)

Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
scsi: scsi_devinfo: fixup string compare

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   1 +
 .../special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst      | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt                |  20 +++
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/arc/kernel/setup.c                            |   5 +-
 arch/s390/kernel/mcount.S                          |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h                        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_device_id.h               |  27 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h                 |   2 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h                   |   4 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h                   |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c                           |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c                   |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c                          |  26 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                         | 106 +++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c                      |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                       |  62 +++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h                          |   1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c                        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c                        |  20 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/match.c                        |   7 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c              |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c                 |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c                    |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c             |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c         |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c                |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c                         |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S                          |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c                          |   2 +-
 arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c                             |   4 +-
 drivers/base/cpu.c                                 |   8 ++
 drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c                   |   2 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c                     |   2 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c                         |   6 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c                      |   2 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c                      |   2 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c               |   4 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c                    |   6 +-
 drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c                       |   2 +-
 drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c                          |   2 +-
 drivers/edac/mce_amd.c                             |   2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c                           |   6 +-
 drivers/hwmon/hwmon-vid.c                          |   2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/k10temp.c                            |   2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/k8temp.c                             |   2 +-
 drivers/iio/light/vcnl4000.c                       |   6 +-
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mr.c                    |   7 +-
 drivers/net/can/slcan.c                            |   3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/apple/bmac.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c          |  13 +-
 .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-ipq806x.c    |  13 ++
 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c                            |   3 +
 drivers/net/slip/slip.c                            |   3 +
 drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c                         |   4 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c                    |   9 +-
 drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c                        |  23 ++--
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c                          |   1 +
 drivers/spi/spi-dw.c                               |   3 +
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h                     |   9 +-
 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c                          |  26 ++--
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac2.c               |   4 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        |   4 +
 drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c                      |   1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c                      |   4 +
 drivers/video/fbdev/geode/video_gx.c               |   2 +-
 include/linux/mod_devicetable.h                    |   6 +
 include/uapi/linux/mmc/ioctl.h                     |   1 +
 kernel/events/uprobes.c                            |  16 ++-
 net/ipv4/devinet.c                                 |   1 +
 net/ipv6/esp6.c                                    |   4 +-
 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c                               |   2 +
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c                                 |  28 +++-
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c                                |  28 +++-
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                           |   2 +-
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c                      |   3 +
 76 files changed, 603 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)