This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.75 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 Thu Jun 29 12:45:11 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-4.4.75-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 4.4.75-rc1 Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> nvme: apply DELAY_BEFORE_CHK_RDY quirk at probe time too Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> nvme/quirk: Add a delay before checking for adapter readiness Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: phy: fix marvell phy status reading Yendapally Reddy Dhananjaya Reddy <yendapally.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: phy: Initialize mdio clock at probe function William Wu <william.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: gadget: f_fs: avoid out of bounds access on comp_desc Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/slb: Force a full SLB flush when we insert for a bad EA Joël Esponde <joel.esponde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: spi-nor: fix spansion quad enable Tobias Wolf <dev-NTEO@xxxxxxxxx> of: Add check to of_scan_flat_dt() before accessing initial_boot_params David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: usbip: fix nonconforming hub descriptor Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> drm/amdgpu: adjust default display clock Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> drm/amdgpu/atom: fix ps allocation size for EnableDispPowerGating Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon: add a quirk for Toshiba Satellite L20-183 Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> drm/radeon: add a PX quirk for another K53TK variant Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> iscsi-target: Reject immediate data underflow larger than SCSI transfer length Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Fix kref->refcount underflow in transport_cmd_finish_abort John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> time: Fix clock->read(clock) race around clocksource changes Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu Lifebook AH544 to notimeout list Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/kprobes: Pause function_graph tracing during jprobes handling Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent Sebastian Parschauer <sparschauer@xxxxxxx> HID: Add quirk for Dell PIXART OEM mouse Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Improve readdir verbosity Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Preserve userspace HTM state properly Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@xxxxxxxxx> lib/cmdline.c: fix get_options() overflow while parsing ranges NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> autofs: sanity check status reported with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_FAIL Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> fs/exec.c: account for argv/envp pointers ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 11 +++++ arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 21 +++++++++ arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S | 10 +++++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_atombios.c | 4 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atombios_crtc.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_combios.c | 7 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c | 4 ++ drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 3 ++ drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c | 1 + drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 7 +++ drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 7 +++ drivers/net/phy/marvell.c | 2 - drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-iproc.c | 6 +-- drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 7 +++ drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 5 +++ drivers/of/fdt.c | 9 ++-- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 12 ++++++ drivers/target/target_core_internal.h | 2 +- drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c | 16 +++---- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 9 ++-- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 10 ++--- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c | 11 +++-- fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb1ops.c | 9 +++- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 4 +- fs/exec.c | 28 ++++++++++-- include/linux/timekeeper_internal.h | 1 - kernel/signal.c | 20 ++++++--- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 47 ++++++++++++++------ lib/cmdline.c | 6 +-- net/rxrpc/ar-key.c | 64 +++++++++++++++------------- 32 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)