This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.39 release. There are 16 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 Dec 15 17:15:06 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-4.4.39-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 4.4.39-rc1 David Michael <david.michael@xxxxxxxxxx> crypto: rsa - Add Makefile dependencies to fix parallel builds Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> batman-adv: Check for alloc errors when preparing TT local data Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> m68k: Fix ndelay() macro James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> arm64: futex.h: Add missing PAN toggling 추지호 <jiho.chu@xxxxxxxxxxx> can: peak: fix bad memory access and free sequence Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: raw: raw_setsockopt: limit number of can_filter that can be set tim <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: mcryptd - Check mcryptd algorithm compatibility Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86: Fix full width counter, counter overflow Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> locking/rtmutex: Use READ_ONCE() in rt_mutex_owner() Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> locking/rtmutex: Prevent dequeue vs. unlock race Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> zram: restrict add/remove attributes to root only Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc: Fix TLB related boot crash on SMP machines John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> parisc: Remove unnecessary TLB purges from flush_dcache_page_asm and flush_icache_page_asm John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> parisc: Purge TLB before setting PTE Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/eeh: Fix deadlock when PE frozen state can't be cleared ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h | 2 + arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h | 2 +- arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 ++-- arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 11 +++++ arch/parisc/kernel/pacache.S | 22 +-------- arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 2 +- crypto/Makefile | 1 + crypto/mcryptd.c | 19 +++++--- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 +++- drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 6 ++- include/linux/cpu.h | 15 ++---- include/uapi/linux/can.h | 1 + kernel/cpu.c | 3 +- kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 5 +- net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 4 +- net/can/raw.c | 3 ++ 20 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 60 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