This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.43 release. There are 19 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made by Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late. A combined patch relative to 3.16.42 will be posted as an additional response to this. A shortlog and diffstat can be found below. Ben. ------------- Andre Przywara (1): fs/nfs: fix new compiler warning about boolean in switch [c7757074839f2cd440521482d76ea180d0d4bdac] Arnd Bergmann (2): crypto: improve gcc optimization flags for serpent and wp512 [7d6e9105026788c497f0ab32fa16c82f4ab5ff61] mmc: sunxi: avoid invalid pointer calculation [d34712d2e3db9b241d0484a6e3839c6b7ef9df78] Ben Hutchings (1): keys: Guard against null match function in keyring_search_aux() [c06cfb08b88dfbe13be44a69ae2fdc3a7c902d81] Eric W. Biederman (1): vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. [22f6b4d34fcf039c63a94e7670e0da24f8575a5a] Fabio Estevam (1): serial: samsung: Use %pa to print 'resource_size_t' type [1ff5b64dccbf23acfe7993b9132b6992922a4756] Florian Westphal (1): netlink: remove mmapped netlink support [d1b4c689d4130bcfd3532680b64db562300716b6] James C Boyd (1): HID: hid-input: Add parentheses to quell gcc warning [09a5c34e8d6b05663ec4c3d22b1fbd9fec89aaf9] Jann Horn (1): aio: mark AIO pseudo-fs noexec [22f6b4d34fcf039c63a94e7670e0da24f8575a5a] John Crispin (1): MIPS: ralink: Cosmetic change to prom_init(). [9c48568b3692f1a56cbf1935e4eea835e6b185b1] Linus Torvalds (1): blk: rq_data_dir() should not return a boolean [10fbd36e362a0f367e34a7cd876a81295d8fc5ca] Manuel Lauss (1): MIPS: Fix build with binutils 2.24.51+ [842dfc11ea9a21f9825167c8a4f2834b205b0a79] Paul Burton (4): MIPS: init upper 64b of vector registers when MSA is first used [c9017757c532d48bf43d6e7d3b7282443ad4207b] MIPS: preserve scalar FP CSR when switching vector context [b83406735a4ae0aff4b614664d6a64a0fd6b9917] MIPS: save/disable MSA in lose_fpu [33c771ba5c5d067f85a5a6c4b11047219b5b8f4e] MIPS: save/restore MSACSR register on context switch [f7a46fa7bb0047d3e226702a0c4b786862fe6843] Ralf Baechle (1): MIPS: Zero variable read by get_user / __get_user in case of an error. [640465bda58c7078725201be7430c31a349121e9] Tillmann Heidsieck (1): atm: iphase: fix misleading indention [cbb41b91e68a302087762823136c9067138cff7c] Tim Gardner (1): fs: namespace: suppress 'may be used uninitialized' warnings [b8850d1fa8e2f6653e57daf6d08e58c5f5eb2c85] Documentation/networking/netlink_mmap.txt | 339 -------------- Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/Makefile | 9 + arch/mips/include/asm/asmmacro-32.h | 6 + arch/mips/include/asm/asmmacro.h | 49 ++ arch/mips/include/asm/fpregdef.h | 14 + arch/mips/include/asm/fpu.h | 15 +- arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h | 11 +- arch/mips/include/asm/msa.h | 1 + arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h | 5 +- arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/branch.c | 8 +- arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/r2300_fpu.S | 6 + arch/mips/kernel/r2300_switch.S | 5 + arch/mips/kernel/r4k_fpu.S | 27 +- arch/mips/kernel/r4k_switch.S | 24 +- arch/mips/kernel/r6000_fpu.S | 5 + arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 38 +- arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c | 6 +- arch/mips/ralink/prom.c | 9 +- crypto/Makefile | 2 + drivers/atm/iphase.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c | 4 +- fs/aio.c | 1 + fs/compat.c | 10 +- fs/exec.c | 10 +- fs/internal.h | 2 +- fs/namespace.c | 26 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 11 +- fs/open.c | 2 +- fs/proc/root.c | 2 +- fs/sysfs/mount.c | 3 +- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 3 + include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 4 + include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h | 2 + kernel/sys.c | 3 +- mm/mmap.c | 4 +- mm/nommu.c | 2 +- net/netlink/Kconfig | 9 - net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 738 +----------------------------- net/netlink/af_netlink.h | 15 - net/netlink/diag.c | 39 -- security/keys/keyring.c | 6 +- security/security.c | 2 +- 48 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 1215 deletions(-) -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.