[PATCH 4.4 00/12] 4.4.147-stable review

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

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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 4.4.147-rc1

Shankara Pailoor <shankarapailoor@gmail.com>
    jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size

Esben Haabendal <eha@deif.com>
    i2c: imx: Fix reinit_completion() use

Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer

Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
    ACPI / PCI: Bail early in acpi_pci_add_bus() if there is no ACPI handle

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    ext4: fix false negatives *and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors()

Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
    netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups

Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
    netlink: Don't shift with UB on nlk->ngroups

Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
    netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups

Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
    nohz: Fix local_timer_softirq_pending()

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    genirq: Make force irq threading setup more robust

Anil Gurumurthy <anil.gurumurthy@cavium.com>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Return error when TMF returns

Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@cavium.com>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Fix ISP recovery on unload


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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(-)