4.4.250-rc2 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.250 release. There are 20 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 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:30:35 +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-4.4.250-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 4.4.250-rc2

Zhang Xiaohui <[email protected]>
mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start

Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
iio:magnetometer:mag3110: Fix alignment and data leak issues.

Jessica Yu <[email protected]>
module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call

Qinglang Miao <[email protected]>
powerpc: sysdev: add missing iounmap() on error in mpic_msgr_probe()

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
quota: Don't overflow quota file offsets

Miroslav Benes <[email protected]>
module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: seq: Use bool for snd_seq_queue internal flags

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
media: gp8psk: initialize stats at power control logic

Anant Thazhemadam <[email protected]>
misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells()

Rustam Kovhaev <[email protected]>
reiserfs: add check for an invalid ih_entry_count

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
of: fix linker-section match-table corruption

Petr Vorel <[email protected]>
uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h>

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix write-wakeup deadlocks

Stefan Haberland <[email protected]>
s390/dasd: fix hanging device offline processing

Kailang Yang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236

Hui Wang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Fix a wrong FIXUP for alc289 on Dell machines

Kailang Yang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda/realtek - Support Dell headset mode for ALC3271

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
ALSA: usb-audio: fix sync-ep altsetting sanity check

Alberto Aguirre <[email protected]>
ALSA: usb-audio: simplify set_sync_ep_implicit_fb_quirk

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda/ca0132 - Fix work handling in delayed HP detection

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                |  4 +--
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_msgr.c         |  2 +-
 drivers/iio/magnetometer/mag3110.c      | 13 +++++++---
 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/gp8psk.c      |  2 +-
 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/join.c     |  2 ++
 drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c         | 10 +++++++-
 drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c    | 45 ++++++++++-----------------------
 fs/quota/quota_tree.c                   |  8 +++---
 fs/reiserfs/stree.c                     |  6 +++++
 include/linux/of.h                      |  1 +
 include/uapi/linux/const.h              |  5 ++++
 include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h           |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/netlink.h            |  2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/sysctl.h             |  2 +-
 kernel/module.c                         |  6 +++--
 sound/core/seq/seq_queue.h              |  8 +++---
 sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c            | 16 ++++++++++--
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c           | 25 +++++++++++++++---
 sound/usb/pcm.c                         | 38 ++++++++++++----------------
 21 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)