4.4.55-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.55 release. There are 35 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 Mar 18 14:28:52 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-4.4.55-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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 4.4.55-rc1

Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
ext4: don't BUG when truncating encrypted inodes on the orphan list

Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
dm: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock

Dan Williams <[email protected]>
nfit, libnvdimm: fix interleave set cookie calculation

Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>
s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"

Janosch Frank <[email protected]>
KVM: s390: Fix guest migration for huge guests resulting in panic

Luis de Bethencourt <[email protected]>
mvsas: fix misleading indentation

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
serial: samsung: Continue to work if DMA request fails

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: io_ti: fix information leak in completion handler

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: io_ti: fix NULL-deref in interrupt callback

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: iowarrior: fix NULL-deref in write

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: iowarrior: fix NULL-deref at probe

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: omninet: fix reference leaks at open

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: safe_serial: fix information leak in completion handler

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
usb: host: xhci-plat: Fix timeout on removal of hot pluggable xhci controllers

Peter Chen <[email protected]>
usb: host: xhci-dbg: HCIVERSION should be a binary number

Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: function: f_fs: pass companion descriptor along

Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
usb: dwc3: gadget: make Set Endpoint Configuration macros safe

Peter Chen <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: dummy_hcd: clear usb_gadget region before registration

Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
powerpc: Emulation support for load/store instructions on LE

Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
tracing: Add #undef to fix compile error

James Hogan <[email protected]>
MIPS: Netlogic: Fix CP0_EBASE redefinition warnings

Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
MIPS: DEC: Avoid la pseudo-instruction in delay slots

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
mm: memcontrol: avoid unused function warning

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
cpmac: remove hopeless #warning

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
MIPS: ralink: Remove unused rt*_wdt_reset functions

John Crispin <[email protected]>
MIPS: ralink: Cosmetic change to prom_init().

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
mtd: pmcmsp: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpy

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
MIPS: Update lemote2f_defconfig for CPU_FREQ_STAT change

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
MIPS: ip22: Fix ip28 build for modern gcc

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
MIPS: Update ip27_defconfig for SCSI_DH change

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
MIPS: ip27: Disable qlge driver in defconfig

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
MIPS: Update defconfigs for NF_CT_PROTO_DCCP/UDPLITE change

Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
crypto: improve gcc optimization flags for serpent and wp512

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix OOB-event processing

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix OOB data sanity check

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                    |  4 +--
 arch/mips/configs/ip22_defconfig            |  4 +--
 arch/mips/configs/ip27_defconfig            |  3 +-
 arch/mips/configs/lemote2f_defconfig        |  2 +-
 arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig           |  4 +--
 arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_defconfig       |  4 +--
 arch/mips/configs/malta_kvm_guest_defconfig |  4 +--
 arch/mips/configs/maltaup_xpa_defconfig     |  4 +--
 arch/mips/configs/nlm_xlp_defconfig         |  2 +-
 arch/mips/configs/nlm_xlr_defconfig         |  2 +-
 arch/mips/dec/int-handler.S                 | 40 +++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/mips/netlogic/common/reset.S           | 11 +++---
 arch/mips/netlogic/common/smpboot.S         |  4 +--
 arch/mips/ralink/prom.c                     |  9 +++--
 arch/mips/ralink/rt288x.c                   | 10 ------
 arch/mips/ralink/rt305x.c                   | 11 ------
 arch/mips/ralink/rt3883.c                   | 10 ------
 arch/mips/sgi-ip22/Platform                 |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c                    | 20 -----------
 arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c               | 18 +++++-----
 arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c                      | 19 +++++++++-
 crypto/Makefile                             |  2 ++
 drivers/acpi/nfit.c                         | 16 ++++++++-
 drivers/md/dm.c                             | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c             |  4 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c             |  2 +-
 drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c             | 28 +++++++++++----
 drivers/nvdimm/nd.h                         |  1 +
 drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c                |  9 +++++
 drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c                 |  4 +--
 drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c                |  6 ++--
 drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.h                   | 14 ++++----
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c          | 15 ++++++--
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c          |  2 ++
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbg.c                 |  2 +-
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c                |  2 ++
 drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c                | 21 +++++++----
 drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c        | 14 +++++---
 drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c                  |  8 ++++-
 drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c                |  6 ----
 drivers/usb/serial/safe_serial.c            |  5 +++
 fs/ext4/inode.c                             |  4 +++
 include/linux/libnvdimm.h                   |  2 ++
 include/trace/events/syscalls.h             |  1 +
 mm/memcontrol.c                             | 36 +++++++++----------
 45 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)