This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.97 release. There are 40 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 Nov 8 09:44:42 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-4.4.97-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 4.4.97-rc1 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> staging: r8712u: Fix Sparse warning in rtl871x_xmit.c Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> xen: don't print error message in case of missing Xenstore entry Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> bt8xx: fix memory leak Stefan Haberland <sth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> s390/dasd: check for device error pointer within state change interrupts Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> mei: return error on notification request to a disconnected client Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> exynos4-is: fimc-is: Unmap region obtained by of_iomap() Alexander Boyko <alexander.boyko@xxxxxxxxxxx> staging: lustre: ptlrpc: skip lock if export failed frank zago <fzago@xxxxxxxx> staging: lustre: hsm: stack overrun in hai_dump_data_field Yang Sheng <yang.sheng@xxxxxxxxx> staging: lustre: llite: don't invoke direct_IO for the EOF case Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix module autoload Raghava Aditya Renukunta <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: aacraid: Process Error for response I/O Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen/manage: correct return value check on xenbus_scanf() Archit Taneja <architt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/msm/dsi: Set msm_dsi->encoders before initializing bridge Oleh Kravchenko <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> cx231xx: Fix I2C on Internal Master 3 Bus Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx> perf tools: Only increase index if perf_evsel__new_idx() succeeds Rex Zhu <Rex.Zhu@xxxxxxx> drm/amdgpu: when dpm disabled, also need to stop/start vce. Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: riic: correctly finish transfers Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ext4: do not use stripe_width if it is not set Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix stripe-unaligned allocations Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> staging: rtl8712u: Fix endian settings for structs describing network packets Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> mfd: axp20x: Fix axp288 PEK_DBR and PEK_DBF irqs being swapped Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> mfd: ab8500-sysctrl: Handle probe deferral Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> ARM: pxa: Don't rely on public mmc header to include leds.h Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> mmc: s3cmci: include linux/interrupt.h for tasklet_struct Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> PM / wakeirq: report a wakeup_event on dedicated wekup irq Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix tracing sample code warning. Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing/samples: Fix creation and deletion of simple_thread_fn creation Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/msm: fix an integer overflow test Kasin Li <donglil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/msm: Fix potential buffer overflow issue Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> perf tools: Fix build failure on perl script context Ashish Samant <ashish.samant@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: fstrim: Fix start offset of first cluster group during fstrim Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ARM: 8715/1: add a private asm/unaligned.h Yan Markman <ymarkman@xxxxxxxxxxx> ARM: dts: mvebu: pl310-cache disable double-linefill Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: ensure __dump_instr() checks addr_limit Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@xxxxxxxx> ASoC: adau17x1: Workaround for noise bug in ADC Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> KEYS: fix out-of-bounds read during ASN.1 parsing Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> KEYS: return full count in keyring_read() if buffer is too small Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> cifs: check MaxPathNameComponentLength != 0 before using it Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Fix nested rwsem annotation for lockdep splat Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: timer: Add missing mutex lock for compat ioctls ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-375.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-39x.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 - arch/arm/include/asm/unaligned.h | 27 ++ arch/arm/mach-pxa/balloon3.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-pxa/colibri-pxa270-income.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-pxa/corgi.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-pxa/trizeps4.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-pxa/vpac270.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-pxa/zeus.c | 1 + arch/arm/mach-pxa/zylonite.c | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 2 +- drivers/base/power/wakeirq.c | 7 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vce.c | 9 + drivers/gpu/drm/msm/dsi/dsi.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 7 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-riic.c | 30 ++- drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c | 1 + drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/fimc-is.c | 8 +- drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-core.c | 7 +- drivers/mfd/ab8500-sysctrl.c | 14 +- drivers/mfd/axp20x.c | 8 +- drivers/misc/mei/client.c | 3 + drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.c | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c | 1 + drivers/s390/block/dasd.c | 7 +- drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c | 289 +++++++++++---------- .../lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_user.h | 18 +- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lock.c | 7 + drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c | 4 + drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c | 21 +- drivers/staging/rtl8712/ieee80211.h | 84 +++--- drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c | 7 +- drivers/xen/manage.c | 12 +- fs/cifs/dir.c | 5 +- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 4 +- fs/ocfs2/alloc.c | 24 +- lib/asn1_decoder.c | 3 + samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c | 14 +- security/keys/keyring.c | 39 ++- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 2 +- sound/core/timer_compat.c | 17 +- sound/soc/codecs/adau17x1.c | 24 +- sound/soc/codecs/adau17x1.h | 2 + tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Build | 4 +- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 3 +- 49 files changed, 468 insertions(+), 285 deletions(-)