[PATCH 4.4 00/24] 4.4.247-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.247 release.
There are 24 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 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:46:29 +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-4.4.247-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 4.4.247-rc1

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: fix lockdep splat when reading qgroup config on mount

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    USB: core: Fix regression in Hercules audio card

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    USB: core: add endpoint-blacklist quirk

Anand K Mistry <amistry@google.com>
    x86/speculation: Fix prctl() when spectre_v2_user={seccomp,prctl},ibpb

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    USB: core: Change %pK for __user pointers to %px

Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    perf probe: Fix to die_entrypc() returns error correctly

Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()"

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
    nfc: s3fwrn5: use signed integer for parsing GPIO numbers

Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
    IB/mthca: fix return value of error branch in mthca_init_cq()

Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
    bnxt_en: Release PCI regions when DMA mask setup fails during probe.

Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
    video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the VRAM

Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@huawei.com>
    bnxt_en: fix error return code in bnxt_init_board()

Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@mediatek.com>
    scsi: ufs: Fix race between shutdown and runtime resume flow

Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
    scsi: target: iscsi: Fix cmd abort fabric stop race

Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
    scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition

Sugar Zhang <sugar.zhang@rock-chips.com>
    dmaengine: pl330: _prep_dma_memcpy: Fix wrong burst size

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components

Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
    x86/xen: don't unbind uninitialized lock_kicker_irq

Pablo Ceballos <pceballos@google.com>
    HID: hid-sensor-hub: Fix issue with devices with no report ID

Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Input: i8042 - allow insmod to succeed on devices without an i8042 controller

Frank Yang <puilp0502@gmail.com>
    HID: cypress: Support Varmilo Keyboards' media hotkeys

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    KVM: x86: Fix split-irqchip vs interrupt injection window request

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: inode: Verify inode mode to avoid NULL pointer dereference

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: tree-checker: Enhance chunk checker to validate chunk profile


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                  |  4 +--
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h           |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                |  4 +--
 arch/x86/kvm/irq.c                        |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                        | 18 +++++++------
 arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c                   | 12 ++++++++-
 drivers/dma/pl330.c                       |  2 +-
 drivers/hid/hid-cypress.c                 | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/hid/hid-ids.h                     |  2 ++
 drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c              |  3 ++-
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c    | 10 ++++---
 drivers/input/serio/i8042.c               | 12 ++++++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c |  3 ++-
 drivers/nfc/s3fwrn5/i2c.c                 |  4 +--
 drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c                   | 23 ++++++++++------
 drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c                 |  6 +----
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c       | 17 +++++++++---
 drivers/usb/core/config.c                 | 11 ++++++++
 drivers/usb/core/devio.c                  |  4 +--
 drivers/usb/core/quirks.c                 | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/usb/core/usb.h                    |  3 +++
 drivers/video/fbdev/hyperv_fb.c           |  7 ++++-
 fs/btrfs/inode.c                          | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c                         |  2 +-
 fs/btrfs/tests/inode-tests.c              |  1 +
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c                        |  7 +++++
 fs/efivarfs/inode.c                       |  2 ++
 fs/efivarfs/super.c                       |  1 -
 fs/proc/self.c                            |  7 +++++
 include/linux/usb/quirks.h                |  3 +++
 include/scsi/libiscsi.h                   |  3 +++
 tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c               |  8 ++++++
 32 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)