4.4.296-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.296 release. There are 23 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 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:30:09 +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-4.4.296-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 4.4.296-rc1

Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages

Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms

Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms

Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms

Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Input: touchscreen - avoid bitwise vs logical OR warning

Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
ARM: 8805/2: remove unneeded naked function usage

Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
net: lan78xx: Avoid unnecessary self assignment

Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
net: systemport: Add global locking for descriptor lifecycle

Yu Liao <[email protected]>
timekeeping: Really make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive

Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit FN990 compositions

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
PCI/MSI: Clear PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_MASKALL on error

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
USB: gadget: bRequestType is a bitfield, not a enum

Letu Ren <[email protected]>
igbvf: fix double free in igbvf_probe

Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
soc/tegra: fuse: Fix bitwise vs. logical OR warning

J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
nfsd: fix use-after-free due to delegation race

Joe Thornber <[email protected]>
dm btree remove: fix use after free in rebalance_children()

Jerome Marchand <[email protected]>
recordmcount.pl: look for jgnop instruction as well as bcrl on s390

Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
mac80211: send ADDBA requests using the tid/queue of the aggregation session

Armin Wolf <[email protected]>
hwmon: (dell-smm) Fix warning on /proc/i8k creation error

Harshit Mogalapalli <[email protected]>
net: netlink: af_netlink: Prevent empty skb by adding a check on len.

Ondrej Jirman <[email protected]>
i2c: rk3x: Handle a spurious start completion interrupt flag

Helge Deller <[email protected]>
parisc/agp: Annotate parisc agp init functions with __init

Tadeusz Struk <[email protected]>
nfc: fix segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                     |   4 +-
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-fa.c                    |  35 ++++----
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-feroceon.c              |  98 ++++++++++-----------
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4mc.c                  |  19 ++--
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wb.c                  |  41 +++++----
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-v4wt.c                  |  37 ++++----
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-xsc3.c                  |  71 +++++++--------
 arch/arm/mm/copypage-xscale.c                |  71 ++++++++-------
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c                 |  12 ++-
 drivers/char/agp/parisc-agp.c                |   6 +-
 drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c               |   7 +-
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-rk3x.c                |   4 +-
 drivers/input/touchscreen/of_touchscreen.c   |  18 ++--
 drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c   |   5 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.h   |   1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c    |   1 +
 drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c                    |   6 +-
 drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c            |  13 ++-
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c                   | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/pci/msi.c                            |   2 +-
 drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse-tegra.c          |   2 +-
 drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse.h                |   2 +-
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c                    |  30 ++++++-
 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c               |   6 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/dbgp.c             |   6 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c            |   6 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                  |   8 ++
 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c                          |   9 +-
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c                    |   3 +-
 net/mac80211/agg-tx.c                        |   2 +-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c                     |   5 ++
 net/nfc/netlink.c                            |   6 +-
 scripts/recordmcount.pl                      |   2 +-
 34 files changed, 388 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)