4.4.253-rc2 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.253 release. There are 29 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 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:08:14 +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-4.4.253-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 4.4.253-rc2

Michael Hennerich <[email protected]>
spi: cadence: cache reference clock rate during probe

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs

David Howells <[email protected]>
rxrpc: Fix handling of an unsupported token type in rxrpc_read()

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
net: sit: unregister_netdevice on newlink's error path

Petr Machata <[email protected]>
net: dcb: Accept RTM_GETDCB messages carrying set-like DCB commands

Petr Machata <[email protected]>
net: dcb: Validate netlink message in DCB handler

Andrey Zhizhikin <[email protected]>
rndis_host: set proper input size for OID_GEN_PHYSICAL_MEDIUM request

Manish Chopra <[email protected]>
netxen_nic: fix MSI/MSI-x interrupts

Jouni K. Seppänen <[email protected]>
net: cdc_ncm: correct overhead in delayed_ndp_size

J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn't return parent of export

Nuno Sá <[email protected]>
iio: buffer: Fix demux update

Hamish Martin <[email protected]>
usb: ohci: Make distrust_firmware param default to false

[email protected] <[email protected]>
net: sunrpc: interpret the return value of kstrtou32 correctly

Jann Horn <[email protected]>
mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails

Dinghao Liu <[email protected]>
RDMA/usnic: Fix memleak in find_free_vf_and_create_qp_grp

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
ext4: fix superblock checksum failure when setting password salt

Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
NFS: nfs_igrab_and_active must first reference the superblock

Al Viro <[email protected]>

    dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name

Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Input: uinput - avoid FF flush when destroying device

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
ARM: picoxcell: fix missing interrupt-parent properties

Shawn Guo <[email protected]>
ACPI: scan: add stub acpi_create_platform_device() for !CONFIG_ACPI

Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
net: ethernet: fs_enet: Add missing MODULE_LICENSE

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
misdn: dsp: select CONFIG_BITREVERSE

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
arch/arc: add copy_user_page() to <asm/page.h> to fix build error on ARC

Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
ethernet: ucc_geth: fix definition and size of ucc_geth_tx_global_pram

Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
ARC: build: add boot_targets to PHONY

yangerkun <[email protected]>
ext4: fix bug for rename with RENAME_WHITEOUT

Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
mm/hugetlb: fix potential missing huge page size info

Thomas Hebb <[email protected]>
ASoC: dapm: remove widget from dirty list on free

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                             |  4 ++--
 arch/arc/Makefile                                    |  1 +
 arch/arc/include/asm/page.h                          |  1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/picoxcell-pc3x2.dtsi               |  4 ++++
 drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c                    |  6 +++---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c         |  3 +++
 drivers/input/ff-core.c                              | 13 ++++++++++---
 drivers/input/misc/uinput.c                          | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/Kconfig                           |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/mii-fec.c     |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.h            |  9 ++++++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c |  7 +------
 drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c                            |  8 ++++++--
 drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/spi/spi-cadence.c                            |  6 ++++--
 drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.c                          |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/ioctl.c                                      |  3 +++
 fs/ext4/namei.c                                      | 16 +++++++++-------
 fs/nfs/internal.h                                    | 12 +++++++-----
 fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c                                    |  7 ++++++-
 include/linux/acpi.h                                 |  7 +++++++
 include/linux/input.h                                |  1 +
 mm/hugetlb.c                                         |  2 +-
 mm/slub.c                                            |  2 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c                                    |  9 +++++++--
 net/dcb/dcbnl.c                                      |  2 ++
 net/ipv6/sit.c                                       |  5 ++++-
 net/rxrpc/ar-key.c                                   |  6 ++++--
 net/sunrpc/addr.c                                    |  2 +-
 security/lsm_audit.c                                 |  7 +++++--
 sound/soc/soc-dapm.c                                 |  1 +
 32 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)