This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.1 release. There are 10 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 Sat Oct 8 07:47:33 UTC 2016. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.8.1-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-4.8.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.8.1-rc1 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Add the top speaker pin config for HP Spectre x360 Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for several Dell laptops Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Adding one more ALC255 pin definition for headset problem Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "usbtmc: convert to devm_kzalloc" Kyle Jones <kyle@xxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: cp210x: Add ID for a Juniper console Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> usb: usbip: vudc: fix left shift overflow Ksenija Stanojevic <ksenija.stanojevic@xxxxxxxxx> Staging: fbtft: Fix bug in fbtft-core Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix NULL pointer deference Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Using BUG_ON() as an assert() is _never_ acceptable Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> arm64: debug: avoid resetting stepping state machine when TIF_SINGLESTEP ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c | 4 ++-- drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c | 3 ++- drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++------------------ drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_rx.c | 2 +- include/linux/swap.h | 4 ++-- sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 10 ++++++++++ sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html