This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.60 release. There are 26 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 8 08:35:54 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-4.4.60-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 4.4.60-rc1 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> padata: avoid race in reordering NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> blk: Ensure users for current->bio_list can see the full list. NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request() Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> power: reset: at91-poweroff: timely shutdown LPDDR memories David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() should never fail Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: s35390a: improve irq handling Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: s35390a: implement reset routine as suggested by the reference Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: s35390a: make sure all members in the output are set Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rtc: s35390a: fix reading out alarm Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> MIPS: Lantiq: Fix cascaded IRQ setup Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm, hugetlb: use pte_present() instead of pmd_present() in follow_huge_pmd() Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon: Override fpfn for all VRAM placements in radeon_evict_flags Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: clear bus pointer when destroyed Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: fix linked-list corruption in rh_call_control() Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tty/serial: atmel: fix TX path in atmel_console_write() Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> tty/serial: atmel: fix race condition (TX+DMA) Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> ACPI: Do not create a platform_device for IOAPIC/IOxAPIC Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> ACPI: Fix incompatibility with mcount-based function graph tracing Songjun Wu <songjun.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ASoC: atmel-classd: fix audio clock rate Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - fix a problem for lineout on a Dell AIO machine Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Fix race during FIFO resize John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: libsas: fix ata xfer length peter chang <dpf@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sg: check length passed to SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthrough commands Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/setup: Don't relocate p2m over existing one Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> libceph: force GFP_NOIO for socket allocations ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/lantiq/irq.c | 38 ++++---- arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 6 +- block/bio.c | 12 ++- block/blk-core.c | 40 +++++++-- drivers/acpi/Makefile | 1 - drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_ttm.c | 4 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 3 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 3 +- drivers/power/reset/at91-poweroff.c | 54 ++++++++++- drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c | 167 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.h | 12 +++ drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 40 ++++++--- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 2 + drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 8 ++ drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 7 +- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 4 +- kernel/padata.c | 5 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 6 +- net/ceph/messenger.c | 6 ++ sound/core/seq/seq_fifo.c | 4 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 12 ++- sound/soc/atmel/atmel-classd.c | 2 +- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 3 +- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 40 ++++++--- 27 files changed, 372 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)