This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.59 release. There are 14 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 Apr 1 09:49:26 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-4.4.59-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 4.4.59-rc1 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sched/rt: Add a missing rescheduling point Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> fscrypt: remove broken support for detecting keyring key revocation Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> metag/ptrace: Reject partial NT_METAG_RPIPE writes Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> metag/ptrace: Provide default TXSTATUS for short NT_PRSTATUS Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> metag/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> sparc/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> mips/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> h8300/ptrace: Fix incorrect register transfer count Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> c6x/ptrace: Remove useless PTRACE_SETREGSET implementation Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> pinctrl: qcom: Don't clear status bit on irq_unmask Ladi Prosek <lprosek@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio_balloon: init 1st buffer in stats vq Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> xfrm_user: validate XFRM_MSG_NEWAE incoming ESN size harder Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> xfrm_user: validate XFRM_MSG_NEWAE XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL replay_window Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> xfrm: policy: init locks early ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/c6x/kernel/ptrace.c | 41 -------------------------------------- arch/h8300/kernel/ptrace.c | 8 +++++--- arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c | 19 ++++++++++++++---- arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c | 3 ++- arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c | 2 +- drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c | 4 ---- drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 ++ fs/ext4/crypto_key.c | 28 +++++++------------------- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 14 +------------ fs/ext4/ext4_crypto.h | 1 - fs/f2fs/crypto_key.c | 28 +++++++------------------- fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 14 +------------ fs/f2fs/f2fs_crypto.h | 1 - kernel/sched/deadline.c | 3 +-- kernel/sched/rt.c | 3 +-- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 10 +++++----- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 9 ++++++++- 18 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)