[PATCH 4.4 00/14] 4.4.59-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.59 release.
There are 14 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 Apr  1 09:49:26 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-4.4.59-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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 4.4.59-rc1

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    sched/rt: Add a missing rescheduling point

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    fscrypt: remove broken support for detecting keyring key revocation

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    metag/ptrace: Reject partial NT_METAG_RPIPE writes

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    metag/ptrace: Provide default TXSTATUS for short NT_PRSTATUS

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    metag/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    sparc/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    mips/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    h8300/ptrace: Fix incorrect register transfer count

Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
    c6x/ptrace: Remove useless PTRACE_SETREGSET implementation

Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
    pinctrl: qcom: Don't clear status bit on irq_unmask

Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com>
    virtio_balloon: init 1st buffer in stats vq

Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
    xfrm_user: validate XFRM_MSG_NEWAE incoming ESN size harder

Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
    xfrm_user: validate XFRM_MSG_NEWAE XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL replay_window

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    xfrm: policy: init locks early


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                           |  4 ++--
 arch/c6x/kernel/ptrace.c           | 41 --------------------------------------
 arch/h8300/kernel/ptrace.c         |  8 +++++---
 arch/metag/kernel/ptrace.c         | 19 ++++++++++++++----
 arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c          |  3 ++-
 arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace_64.c      |  2 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c |  4 ----
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c    |  2 ++
 fs/ext4/crypto_key.c               | 28 +++++++-------------------
 fs/ext4/ext4.h                     | 14 +------------
 fs/ext4/ext4_crypto.h              |  1 -
 fs/f2fs/crypto_key.c               | 28 +++++++-------------------
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                     | 14 +------------
 fs/f2fs/f2fs_crypto.h              |  1 -
 kernel/sched/deadline.c            |  3 +--
 kernel/sched/rt.c                  |  3 +--
 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c             | 10 +++++-----
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c               |  9 ++++++++-
 18 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)