This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.57 release. There are 30 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 Mar 26 15:12:02 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-4.4.57-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 4.4.57-rc1 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix fencepost in s_first_meta_bg validation Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx> percpu: acquire pcpu_lock when updating pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> gfs2: Avoid alignment hole in struct lm_lockname Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> isdn/gigaset: fix NULL-deref at probe Max Lohrmann <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Fix VERIFY_16 handling in sbc_parse_cdb Chris Leech <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libiscsi: add lock around task lists to fix list corruption regression Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> scsi: lpfc: Add shutdown method for kexec Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target/pscsi: Fix TYPE_TAPE + TYPE_MEDIMUM_CHANGER export Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> md/raid1/10: fix potential deadlock Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> cpufreq: Fix and clean up show_cpuinfo_cur_freq() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork() Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> give up on gcc ilog2() constant optimizations Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kernek/fork.c: allocate idle task for a CPU always on its local node Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> hv_netvsc: use skb_get_hash() instead of a homegrown implementation Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tpm_tis: Use devm_free_irq not free_irq Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/amdgpu: add missing irq.h include Sebastian Ott <sebott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> s390/pci: fix use after free in dma_init Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix illegal opcode emulation Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/qspinlock: Don't kick CPU if IRQ is not initialized Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Drivers: hv: avoid vfree() on crash Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Drivers: hv: balloon: don't crash when memory is added in non-sorted order Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: cherryview: Do not mask all interrupts in probe Alex Hung <alex.hung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ACPI / video: skip evaluating _DOD when it does not exist Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cxlflash: Increase cmd_per_lun for better throughput Wang, Rui Y <rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx> crypto: mcryptd - Fix load failure Wang, Rui Y <rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx> crypto: cryptd - Assign statesize properly Wang, Rui Y <rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx> crypto: ghash-clmulni - Fix load failure Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: don't free bandwidth_mutex too early Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx> usb: core: hub: hub_port_init lock controller instead of bus ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S | 1 + arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c | 1 - arch/s390/pci/pci_dma.c | 16 ++++--- arch/x86/crypto/ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.c | 26 ++++++++++++ arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 6 +++ crypto/cryptd.c | 1 + crypto/mcryptd.c | 1 + drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 3 ++ drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 8 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_irq.c | 1 + drivers/hv/hv.c | 8 ++-- drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 4 +- drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 2 +- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 8 ++-- drivers/isdn/gigaset/bas-gigaset.c | 3 ++ drivers/md/raid10.c | 18 ++++++++ drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 67 ++---------------------------- drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-cherryview.c | 5 +-- drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h | 8 ++-- drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 26 +++++++++++- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 1 + drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c | 47 ++++++--------------- drivers/target/target_core_sbc.c | 10 ++++- drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 26 ++++++++---- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 8 ++-- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- fs/gfs2/incore.h | 2 +- include/linux/log2.h | 13 +----- include/linux/usb.h | 3 +- include/linux/usb/hcd.h | 1 + include/scsi/libiscsi.h | 1 + kernel/events/core.c | 5 ++- kernel/fork.c | 15 ++++--- mm/percpu.c | 5 ++- tools/include/linux/log2.h | 13 +----- 38 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)