This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.51 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 Thu Feb 23 13:01:31 UTC 2017. 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-4.4.51-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 4.4.51-rc1 Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxxxxxx> mmc: core: fix multi-bit bus width without high-speed mode Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state() Thomas VanSelus <tvanselus@xxxxxxxxxxx> ntb_transport: Pick an unused queue Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@xxxxxxxx> NTB: ntb_transport: fix debugfs_remove_recursive Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> printk: use rcuidle console tracepoint Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: 8658/1: uaccess: fix zeroing of 64-bit get_user() Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx> futex: Move futex_init() to core_initcall Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/dp/mst: fix kernel oops when turning off secondary monitor Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon: Use mode h/vdisplay fields to hide out of bounds HW cursor IHARA Hiroka <ihara_h@xxxxxxx> Input: elan_i2c - add ELAN0605 to the ACPI table Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix missing sanity check in /dev/sg Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> scsi: don't BUG_ON() empty DMA transfers Sahitya Tummala <stummala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fix use after free issue in fuse_dev_do_read() Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> siano: make it work again with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> vfs: fix uninitialized flags in splice_to_pipe() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm/lib/getuser.S | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cursor.c | 4 ++-- drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 1 + drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h | 4 ++-- drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++----------------- drivers/md/bcache/btree.h | 3 +-- drivers/md/bcache/request.c | 4 +--- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 ++ drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c | 18 ++++++++++----- drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c | 4 ++-- drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 5 ++--- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 3 ++- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 4 ++++ fs/fuse/dev.c | 4 ++++ fs/splice.c | 1 + kernel/futex.c | 2 +- kernel/printk/printk.c | 2 +- 19 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)