This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.27 release. There are 25 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 Oct 23 09:13:58 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-4.4.27-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 ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.4.27-rc1 Glauber Costa <glauber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL) Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> dlm: free workqueues after the connections Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: vmx - Fix memory corruption caused by p8_ghash Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: ghash-generic - move common definitions to a new header file gmail <yngsion@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: release bh in make_indexed_dir Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_insert_range() Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@xxxxxxxxxxx> ext4: reinforce check of i_dtime when clearing high fields of uid and gid Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> ext4: enforce online defrag restriction for encrypted files Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: ibmvfc: Fix I/O hang when port is not mapped Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@xxxxxxxxx> async_pq_val: fix DMA memory leak Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> reiserfs: switch to generic_{get,set,remove}xattr() Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> reiserfs: Unlock superblock before calling reiserfs_quota_on_mount() Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@xxxxxxx> ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> brcmfmac: fix memory leak in brcmf_fill_bss_param Guilherme G Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i40e: avoid NULL pointer dereference and recursive errors on early PCI error Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fix killing s[ug]id in setattr Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: invalidate dir dentry after chmod Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: listxattr: verify xattr list Peng Fan <van.freenix@xxxxxxxxx> drivers: base: dma-mapping: page align the size when unmap_kernel_range Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@xxxxxxxxx> btrfs: assign error values to the correct bio structs Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> serial: 8250_dw: Check the data->pclk when get apb_pclk ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- block/cfq-iosched.c | 13 +++-- crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c | 8 +-- crypto/ghash-generic.c | 13 +---- drivers/base/dma-mapping.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c | 31 ++++++------ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 6 +++ drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 12 ++++- drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c | 1 - drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 2 +- fs/attr.c | 15 ++++++ fs/btrfs/compression.c | 4 +- fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 8 +-- fs/ext4/extents.c | 3 ++ fs/ext4/inode.c | 12 ++--- fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 7 +++ fs/ext4/namei.c | 14 +++-- fs/fuse/dir.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++-- fs/reiserfs/file.c | 6 +-- fs/reiserfs/namei.c | 18 +++---- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 12 ++++- fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 54 -------------------- fs/reiserfs/xattr.h | 9 +--- fs/reiserfs/xattr_security.c | 14 +++-- fs/reiserfs/xattr_trusted.c | 14 +++-- fs/reiserfs/xattr_user.c | 14 +++-- fs/utimes.c | 16 +----- include/crypto/ghash.h | 23 +++++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 1 + sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_pvt.c | 14 +++-- 31 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 190 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