[PATCH 4.4 00/15] 4.4.245-rc1 review

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

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.245 release.
There are 15 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 Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:45:32 +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-4.4.245-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 4.4.245-rc1

David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>
    KVM: x86: clflushopt should be treated as a no-op by emulation

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    mac80211: always wind down STA state

Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
    Input: sunkbd - avoid use-after-free in teardown paths

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
    powerpc/8xx: Always fault when _PAGE_ACCESSED is not set

Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    xfs: validate cached inodes are free when allocated

Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    xfs: catch inode allocation state mismatch corruption

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
    i2c: imx: Fix external abort on interrupt in exit paths

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    powerpc/uaccess: Evaluate macro arguments once, before user access is allowed

Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
    powerpc: Fix __clear_user() with KUAP enabled

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
    powerpc: Implement user_access_begin and friends

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
    powerpc: Add a framework for user access tracking

Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry

Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
    powerpc/64s: move some exception handlers out of line

Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
    powerpc/64s: Define MASKABLE_RELON_EXCEPTION_PSERIES_OOL


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Diffstat:

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt            |   7 +
 Makefile                                       |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup-radix.h |  23 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h       |  15 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h      |  19 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h               |   4 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h                 |  40 +++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h   |   7 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h               |   4 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h             | 142 +++++++++++++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S           | 210 +++++++++++++++----------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S                 |   8 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c                |  10 ++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c                 | 138 ++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S              |  14 ++
 arch/powerpc/lib/checksum_wrappers_64.c        |   4 +
 arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c              | 104 ++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/lib/string.S                      |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/lib/string_64.S                   |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c         |  15 ++
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c         |   8 +
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c                         |   8 +-
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c                   |  25 +--
 drivers/input/keyboard/sunkbd.c                |  41 ++++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c                            |  58 ++++++-
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c                        |  18 +++
 26 files changed, 782 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)