This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.86 release. There are 16 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 Sep 2 15:42:07 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-4.4.86-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 4.4.86-rc1 Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx> f2fs: do more integrity verification for superblock Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/i915: fix compiler warning in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_uncore.c Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> scsi: sg: reset 'res_in_use' after unlinking reserved array Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> scsi: sg: protect accesses to 'reserved' page array Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> x86/io: Add "memory" clobber to insb/insw/insl/outsb/outsw/outsl Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lpfc: Fix Device discovery failures during switch reboot test. Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> p54: memset(0) whole array Javier González <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lightnvm: initialize ppa_addr in dev_to_generic_addr() Martin Liska <mliska@xxxxxxx> gcov: support GCC 7.1 Florian Meier <Florian.Meier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gcov: add support for gcc version >= 6 Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: jz4780: drop superfluous init Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> btrfs: remove duplicate const specifier Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: au88x0: Fix zero clear of stream->resources Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> scsi: isci: avoid array subscript warning ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 2 + arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 5 +- arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_uncore.c | 3 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-jz4780.c | 4 -- drivers/net/wireless/p54/fwio.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/isci/remote_node_context.c | 3 + drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 49 ++++++++++------- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 2 +- fs/f2fs/super.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/lightnvm.h | 1 + kernel/gcov/base.c | 6 ++ kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c | 4 +- sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c | 14 ++--- 16 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)