This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.84 release. There are 20 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 Aug 24 19:09:07 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-4.4.84-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 4.4.84-rc1 Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> usb: qmi_wwan: add D-Link DWM-222 device ID Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: optimize acpi companion search for usb port devices Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/x86: Fix LBR related crashes on Intel Atom Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> irqchip/atmel-aic: Fix unbalanced refcount in aic_common_rtc_irq_fixup() Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> irqchip/atmel-aic: Fix unbalanced of_node_put() in aic_common_irq_fixup() Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/asm/64: Clear AC on NMI entries Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> xen: fix bio vec merging Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: revert x86_64 and arm64 ELF_ET_DYN_BASE base changes zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/mempolicy: fix use after free when calling get_mempolicy Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Add mute TLV for playback volumes on C-Media devices Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Apply sample rate quirk to Sennheiser headset Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: 2nd attempt at fixing race creating a queue KT Liao <kt.liao@xxxxxxxxxx> Input: elan_i2c - Add antoher Lenovo ACPI ID for upcoming Lenovo NB Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: elan_i2c - add ELAN0608 to the ACPI table megha.dey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <megha.dey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: x86/sha1 - Fix reads beyond the number of blocks passed Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> parisc: pci memory bar assignment fails with 64bit kernels on dino/cujo Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> audit: Fix use after free in audit_remove_watch_rule() Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: nf_ct_ext: fix possible panic after nf_ct_extend_unregister ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 4 +- arch/x86/crypto/sha1_avx2_x86_64_asm.S | 67 ++++++++++++++++-------------- arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c | 8 ++-- drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 4 ++ drivers/irqchip/irq-atmel-aic-common.c | 5 +-- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/parisc/dino.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/usb-acpi.c | 26 ++++++++++-- drivers/xen/biomerge.c | 3 +- include/linux/pid.h | 4 +- include/linux/sched.h | 50 ++++++++++++---------- kernel/audit_watch.c | 12 +++--- kernel/pid.c | 11 ++--- mm/mempolicy.c | 5 --- mm/migrate.c | 11 ++--- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c | 13 ++++-- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 13 ++---- sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c | 14 ++++--- sound/core/seq/seq_queue.h | 2 +- sound/usb/mixer.c | 2 + sound/usb/mixer.h | 1 + sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 6 +++ sound/usb/quirks.c | 1 + 27 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)