This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.147 release. There are 12 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 9 17:23:34 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.147-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 4.4.147-rc1 Shankara Pailoor <shankarapailoor@xxxxxxxxx> jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size Esben Haabendal <eha@xxxxxxxx> i2c: imx: Fix reinit_completion() use Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> ACPI / PCI: Bail early in acpi_pci_add_bus() if there is no ACPI handle Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix false negatives *and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors() Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx> netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx> netlink: Don't shift with UB on nlk->ngroups Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx> netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> nohz: Fix local_timer_softirq_pending() Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> genirq: Make force irq threading setup more robust Anil Gurumurthy <anil.gurumurthy@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: qla2xxx: Return error when TMF returns Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: qla2xxx: Fix ISP recovery on unload ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 3 +-- drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 7 +++---- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 5 +++-- fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++-- fs/jfs/xattr.c | 10 ++++++---- include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 1 + kernel/irq/manage.c | 9 ++++++++- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++++ net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 5 +++++ 13 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
