[patch 00/28] 2.6.27.24-stable review

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.27.24 release.
There are 28 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
us know.  If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants
to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.

These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the Cc:
line.  If you wish to be a reviewer, please email stable@kernel.org to
add your name to the list.  If you want to be off the reviewer list,
also email us.

Responses should be made by Saturday, May 16, 20:00:00 UTC.  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/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.27.24-rc1.gz
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

 Documentation/filesystems/Locking |   26 +++--
 Makefile                          |    2 +-
 drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.c  |    2 +-
 drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-pca.c  |   11 ++
 drivers/md/bitmap.c               |   29 ++--
 drivers/md/md.c                   |    7 +-
 drivers/md/raid10.c               |   12 +-
 drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c      |   31 +++--
 drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c     |    2 +-
 drivers/usb/gadget/usbstring.c    |    6 +-
 drivers/video/fb_defio.c          |    3 +-
 fs/buffer.c                       |   20 ++-
 fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.h            |    7 +
 fs/cifs/cifssmb.c                 |   17 +--
 fs/cifs/connect.c                 |    6 +-
 fs/cifs/misc.c                    |    5 +-
 fs/cifs/readdir.c                 |    2 +-
 fs/cifs/sess.c                    |   44 +++---
 fs/eventpoll.c                    |    2 +-
 fs/ext4/ext4.h                    |    2 +-
 fs/ext4/inode.c                   |    5 +-
 fs/fcntl.c                        |    6 +-
 fs/fuse/file.c                    |    3 +-
 fs/gfs2/ops_file.c                |    7 +-
 fs/nfs/dir.c                      |    9 +-
 fs/nfs/file.c                     |    9 +-
 fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c                 |   16 ++-
 fs/ocfs2/file.c                   |   94 ++++++++++---
 fs/ocfs2/mmap.c                   |    6 +-
 fs/splice.c                       |  276 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 fs/ubifs/file.c                   |    9 +-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c       |    4 +-
 include/linux/buffer_head.h       |    2 +-
 include/linux/mm.h                |    3 +-
 include/linux/splice.h            |   12 ++
 mm/memory.c                       |  132 +++++++++++++-----
 36 files changed, 547 insertions(+), 282 deletions(-)