This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.96 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 Nov 2 09:55:01 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-4.4.96-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 4.4.96-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "drm: bridge: add DT bindings for TI ths8135" Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> ecryptfs: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> x86/microcode/intel: Disable late loading on model 79 Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> regulator: fan53555: fix I2C device ids Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@xxxxxxxxx> can: kvaser_usb: Ignore CMD_FLUSH_QUEUE_REPLY messages Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@xxxxxxxxx> can: kvaser_usb: Correct return value in printout Gerhard Bertelsmann <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> can: sun4i: fix loopback mode Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sg: Re-fix off by one in sg_fill_request_table() Steffen Maier <maier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: zfcp: fix erp_action use-before-initialize in REC action trace David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> assoc_array: Fix a buggy node-splitting case Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Input: gtco - fix potential out-of-bound access Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: elan_i2c - add ELAN0611 to the ACPI table Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> xen/gntdev: avoid out of bounds access in case of partial gntdev_mmap() Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fix READDIRPLUS skipping an entry Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx> spi: uapi: spidev: add missing ioctl header Mayank Rana <mrana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: xhci: Handle error condition in xhci_stop_device() Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> ceph: unlock dangling spinlock in try_flush_caps() Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - fix headset mic problem for Dell machines with alc236 Kailang Yang <kailang@xxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda/realtek - Add support for ALC236/ALC3204 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> workqueue: replace pool->manager_arb mutex with a flag ------------- Diffstat: .../bindings/display/bridge/ti,ths8135.txt | 46 ------------------- Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 18 ++++++++ drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 1 + drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c | 17 +++++--- drivers/net/can/sun4i_can.c | 3 +- drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 9 +++- drivers/regulator/fan53555.c | 5 ++- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_aux.c | 5 +++ drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c | 18 +++++--- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_scsi.c | 5 +++ drivers/scsi/sg.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c | 22 +++++++--- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 2 +- fs/ceph/caps.c | 5 ++- fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 24 +++++++--- fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c | 9 +++- fs/fuse/dir.c | 3 +- include/uapi/linux/spi/spidev.h | 1 + kernel/workqueue.c | 37 +++++++--------- lib/assoc_array.c | 51 ++++++++-------------- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 19 ++++++++ 22 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)