This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.74 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 Wed Jun 21 15:20:21 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-4.4.74-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 4.4.74-rc1 Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> MIPS: Fix bnezc/jialc return address calculation Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc3: exynos fix axius clock error path to do cleanup Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> genirq: Release resources in __setup_irq() error path Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> swap: cond_resched in swap_cgroup_prepare() James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> mm/memory-failure.c: use compound_head() flags for huge pages Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: gadgetfs, dummy-hcd, net2280: fix locking for callbacks Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx> usb: xhci: ASMedia ASM1042A chipset need shorts TX quirk Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx> usb: r8a66597-hcd: decrease timeout Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx> usb: r8a66597-hcd: select a different endpoint on timeout Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: gadget: dummy_hcd: fix hub-descriptor removable fields Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> pvrusb2: reduce stack usage pvr2_eeprom_analyze() Anton Bondarenko <anton.bondarenko.sama@xxxxxxxxx> usb: core: fix potential memory leak in error path during hcd creation Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: hub: fix SS max number of ports Matt Ranostay <matt.ranostay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> iio: proximity: as3935: recalibrate RCO after resume Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> staging: rtl8188eu: prevent an underflow in rtw_check_beacon_data() Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> mfd: omap-usb-tll: Fix inverted bit use for USB TLL mode Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/mm/32: Set the '__vmalloc_start_set' flag in initmem_init() Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> serial: efm32: Fix parity management in 'efm32_uart_console_get_options()' Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: fix IBSS presp allocation size Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mac80211: fix CSA in IBSS mode Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211/wpa: use constant time memory comparison for MACs Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211: don't look at the PM bit of BAR frames Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> vb2: Fix an off by one error in 'vb2_plane_vaddr' Tomasz Wilczyński <twilczynski@xxxxxxxxx> cpufreq: conservative: Allow down_threshold to take values from 1 to 10 Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: gs_usb: fix memory leak in gs_cmd_reset() Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/arc/mm/mmap.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mm/mmap.c | 4 +- arch/frv/mm/elf-fdpic.c | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/branch.c | 4 +- arch/mips/mm/mmap.c | 2 +- arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c | 15 +-- arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c | 2 +- arch/s390/mm/mmap.c | 4 +- arch/sh/mm/mmap.c | 4 +- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 4 +- arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 2 +- arch/tile/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c | 4 +- arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/numa_32.c | 1 + arch/xtensa/kernel/syscall.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c | 4 +- drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c | 6 +- drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-eeprom.c | 13 +-- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 2 +- drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/c2port/c2port-duramar2150.c | 4 +- drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 2 + drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c | 11 ++- drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-exynos.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c | 19 ++-- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/net2280.c | 9 +- drivers/usb/host/r8a66597-hcd.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 3 + fs/configfs/symlink.c | 3 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 - include/linux/mm.h | 55 +++++------ include/uapi/linux/usb/ch11.h | 3 + kernel/irq/manage.c | 4 +- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 14 ++- mm/gup.c | 5 - mm/memory-failure.c | 5 +- mm/memory.c | 38 -------- mm/mmap.c | 147 +++++++++++++++++------------ mm/swap_cgroup.c | 3 + net/mac80211/ibss.c | 6 +- net/mac80211/rx.c | 6 +- net/mac80211/wpa.c | 9 +- 50 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 227 deletions(-)