Re: Request for review for 4.4-st73, 4.4-cip108

[Pavel Machek <pavel@nabladev.com>]

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Hi!

> Here are the manual backports for the upcoming 4.4 kernel release. As always they can be found in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cip/linux-cip.git/log/?h=linux-4.4.y-st-rc
> 
a > dd2af1ff15baa macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source()
a > 6e7f9685b9d35 wifi: wlcore: ensure skb headroom before skb_push
a > 1b847006e7141 sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT
a> bf3c650dfddf3 btrfs: fix deadlock in wait_current_trans() due to ignored transaction type
a> 9dbc25309be1c net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class()
>

Thank you, these look good to me.

> Plus one fix for my convenience:
> 
> e0e89cfcf08df arm64: replace Sun/Solaris style flag on section directive

Pointer "mainline equivalent of this is XXX" would be nice here.

Thanks and best regards,
									Pavel

Author: Ulrich Hecht <uli@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 24 18:21:17 2026 +0800

    arm64: replace Sun/Solaris style flag on section directive
    
    Fixes compilation with recent GNU toolchains.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Hecht <uli@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
index 0b095b75abeb74..16b1b654d14020 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ alternative_else
 alternative_endif
 ENDPROC(cpu_do_switch_mm)
 
-       .section ".text.init", #alloc, #execinstr
+       .section ".text.init", "ax"
 
 /*
  *     __cpu_setup


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