This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.298 release.
There are 11 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, 05 Jan 2022 14:20:40 +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-4.4.298-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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 4.4.298-rc1

Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
    net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler

Leo L. Schwab <ewhac@ewhac.org>
    Input: spaceball - fix parsing of movement data packets

Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
    Input: appletouch - initialize work before device registration

Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
    scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Set residual data length conditionally

Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>
    usb: gadget: f_fs: Clear ffs_eventfd in ffs_data_clear.

Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
    xhci: Fresco FL1100 controller should not have BROKEN_MSI quirk set.

Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
    uapi: fix linux/nfc.h userspace compilation errors

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
    nfc: uapi: use kernel size_t to fix user-space builds

Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
    selinux: initialize proto variable in selinux_ip_postroute_compat()

Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
    recordmcount.pl: fix typo in s390 mcount regex

Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
    platform/x86: apple-gmux: use resource_size() with res


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                           |  4 ++--
 drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c | 11 +++++++++--
 drivers/input/mouse/appletouch.c   |  4 ++--
 drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c          |  7 +++++--
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c |  9 ++++++---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c        |  5 ++++-
 include/uapi/linux/nfc.h           |  6 +++---
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c                 | 10 ++++------
 scripts/recordmcount.pl            |  2 +-
 security/selinux/hooks.c           |  2 +-
 11 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Hi!

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.298 release.
> There are 11 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.

CIP testing did not find any problems here:

https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/tree/linux-4.4.y

Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@denx.de>

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel
-- 
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany

On 1/3/22 7:21 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.298 release.
> There are 11 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, 05 Jan 2022 14:20:40 +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-4.4.298-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
> 

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 19:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.298 release.
> There are 11 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, 05 Jan 2022 14:20:40 +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-4.4.298-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

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

## Build
* kernel: 4.4.298-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git branch: linux-4.4.y
* git commit: a1c4d899b5013233346ba4f33d952c391f0fe7fb
* git describe: v4.4.297-12-ga1c4d899b501
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.4.y/build/v4.4.297-12-ga1c4d899b501

## Test Regressions (compared to v4.4.297)
No test regressions found.

## Metric Regressions (compared to v4.4.297)
No metric regressions found.

## Test Fixes (compared to v4.4.297)
No test fixes found.

## Metric Fixes (compared to v4.4.297)
No metric fixes found.

## Test result summary
total: 32658, pass: 26026, fail: 62, skip: 5888, xfail: 682

## Build Summary
* arm: 129 total, 129 passed, 0 failed
* arm64: 31 total, 31 passed, 0 failed
* i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed
* juno-r2: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* mips: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 12 total, 12 passed, 0 failed
* x15: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x86: 1 total, 1 passed, 0 failed
* x86_64: 30 total, 24 passed, 6 failed

## Test suites summary
* libhugetlbfs
* linux-log-parser
* ltp-cap_bounds-tests
* ltp-commands-tests
* ltp-containers-tests
* ltp-controllers-tests
* ltp-cpuhotplug-tests
* ltp-crypto-tests
* ltp-cve-tests
* ltp-dio-tests
* ltp-fcntl-locktests-tests
* ltp-filecaps-tests
* ltp-fs-tests
* ltp-fs_bind-tests
* ltp-fs_perms_simple-tests
* ltp-fsx-tests
* ltp-hugetlb-tests
* ltp-io-tests
* ltp-ipc-tests
* ltp-math-tests
* ltp-mm-tests
* ltp-nptl-tests
* ltp-pty-tests
* ltp-sched-tests
* ltp-securebits-tests
* ltp-syscalls-tests
* ltp-tracing-tests
* packetdrill
* v4l2-compliance

--
Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 03:21:11PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.298 release.
> There are 11 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, 05 Jan 2022 14:20:40 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 

Build results:
	total: 160 pass: 160 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 339 pass: 339 fail: 0

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Guenter