4.8.1-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.1 release. There are 10 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 Oct 8 07:47:33 UTC 2016. 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-4.8.1-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-4.8.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 4.8.1-rc1

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Add the top speaker pin config for HP Spectre x360

Hui Wang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for several Dell laptops

Hui Wang <[email protected]>
ALSA: hda - Adding one more ALC255 pin definition for headset problem

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "usbtmc: convert to devm_kzalloc"

Kyle Jones <[email protected]>

    USB: serial: cp210x: Add ID for a Juniper console

Nicolas Iooss <[email protected]>
usb: usbip: vudc: fix left shift overflow

Ksenija Stanojevic <[email protected]>
Staging: fbtft: Fix bug in fbtft-core

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix NULL pointer deference

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Using BUG_ON() as an assert() is _never_ acceptable

Will Deacon <[email protected]>
arm64: debug: avoid resetting stepping state machine when TIF_SINGLESTEP

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                           |  4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c |  6 ++++--
 drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c |  4 ++--
 drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c         |  3 ++-
 drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c    | 35 +++++++++++++++++------------------
 drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c        |  1 +
 drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_rx.c        |  2 +-
 include/linux/swap.h               |  4 ++--
 sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c     | 10 ++++++++++
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c      | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 10 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)