4.4.297-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.297 release. There are 17 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, 29 Dec 2021 15:13:09 +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-4.4.297-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 4.4.297-rc1

Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]>
phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe

Lin Ma <[email protected]>
hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD

Lin Ma <[email protected]>
hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev

Lin Ma <[email protected]>
ax25: NPD bug when detaching AX25 device

Samuel Čavoj <[email protected]>
Input: i8042 - enable deferred probe quirk for ASUS UM325UA

Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
xen/blkfront: fix bug in backported patch

Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
ARM: 9169/1: entry: fix Thumb2 bug in iWMMXt exception handling

Colin Ian King <[email protected]>

    ALSA: drivers: opl3: Fix incorrect use of vp->state

Xiaoke Wang <[email protected]>
ALSA: jack: Check the return value of kstrdup()

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
hwmon: (lm90) Fix usage of CONFIG2 register in detect function

Jiasheng Jiang <[email protected]>
drivers: net: smc911x: Check for error irq

Fernando Fernandez Mancera <[email protected]>
bonding: fix ad_actor_system option setting to default

Jiasheng Jiang <[email protected]>

    qlcnic: potential dereference null pointer of rx_queue->page_ring

José Expósito <[email protected]>
IB/qib: Fix memory leak in qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts()

Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]>
HID: holtek: fix mouse probing

Jimmy Assarsson <[email protected]>
can: kvaser_usb: get CAN clock frequency from device

Greg Jesionowski <[email protected]>
net: usb: lan78xx: add Allied Telesis AT29M2-AF

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/networking/bonding.txt               | 11 +++---
 Makefile                                           |  4 +--
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S                       |  8 ++---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c                       |  4 ---
 drivers/hid/hid-holtek-mouse.c                     | 15 ++++++++
 drivers/hwmon/lm90.c                               |  5 ++-
 drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_sdma.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h              |  7 ++++
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c                 |  2 +-
 drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c                   | 41 +++++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov.h  |  2 +-
 .../ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_common.c   | 12 +++++--
 .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_pf.c   |  4 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smc911x.c                |  5 +++
 drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c                       |  5 +--
 drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c                          |  6 ++++
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c                                 |  4 ++-
 net/phonet/pep.c                                   |  2 ++
 sound/core/jack.c                                  |  4 +++
 sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_midi.c                     |  2 +-
 20 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)