This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.4 release.
There are 57 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 Sun Oct 23 09:14:19 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-4.8.4-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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 4.8.4-rc1

Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
    cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes

Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
    acpi, nfit: check for the correct event code in notifications

Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
    drm: virtio: reinstate drm_virtio_set_busid()

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    cachefiles: Fix attempt to read i_blocks after deleting file [ver #2]

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
    vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL)

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
    dlm: free workqueues after the connections

Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
    crypto: vmx - Fix memory corruption caused by p8_ghash

Marcelo Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
    crypto: ghash-generic - move common definitions to a new header file

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    ext4: unmap metadata when zeroing blocks

gmail <yngsion@gmail.com>
    ext4: release bh in make_indexed_dir

Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
    ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    ext4: fix memory leak when symlink decryption fails

Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
    ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_insert_range()

wangguang <wang.guang55@zte.com.cn>
    ext4: bugfix for mmaped pages in mpage_release_unused_pages()

Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
    ext4: reinforce check of i_dtime when clearing high fields of uid and gid

Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
    ext4: enforce online defrag restriction for encrypted files

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    jbd2: fix lockdep annotation in add_transaction_credits()

Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>
    vfs,mm: fix a dead loop in truncate_inode_pages_range()

Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
    mm/hugetlb: fix memory offline with hugepage size > memory block size

Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
    ipc/sem.c: fix complex_count vs. simple op race

Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    scsi: ibmvfc: Fix I/O hang when port is not mapped

Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer()

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    autofs: Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()->uid

Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
    async_pq_val: fix DMA memory leak

Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    reiserfs: Unlock superblock before calling reiserfs_quota_on_mount()

Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
    ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call

John Hsu <KCHSU0@nuvoton.com>
    ASoC: nau8825: fix bug in FLL parameter

Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
    brcmfmac: use correct skb freeing helper when deleting flowring

Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
    brcmfmac: fix memory leak in brcmf_fill_bss_param

Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
    brcmfmac: fix pmksa->bssid usage

Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    mm: filemap: don't plant shadow entries without radix tree node

Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    xfs: change mailing list address

Guilherme G Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    i40e: avoid NULL pointer dereference and recursive errors on early PCI error

Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    mm: filemap: fix mapping->nrpages double accounting in fuse

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
    fuse: fix killing s[ug]id in setattr

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
    fuse: invalidate dir dentry after chmod

Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
    fuse: listxattr: verify xattr list

Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
    clk: mvebu: dynamically allocate resources in Armada CP110 system controller

Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
    clk: mvebu: fix setting unwanted flags in CP110 gate clock

Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
    IB/hfi1: Fix defered ack race with qp destroy

Peng Fan <van.freenix@gmail.com>
    drivers: base: dma-mapping: page align the size when unmap_kernel_range

Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
    mei: amthif: fix deadlock in initialization during a reset

Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@enight.me>
    btrfs: assign error values to the correct bio structs

Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
    Btrfs: catch invalid free space trees

Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
    Btrfs: fix mount -o clear_cache,space_cache=v2

Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
    Btrfs: fix free space tree bitmaps on big-endian systems

Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
    carl9170: fix debugfs crashes

Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
    b43legacy: fix debugfs crash

Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
    b43: fix debugfs crash

Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
    debugfs: introduce a public file_operations accessor

Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
    ARCv2: fix local_save_flags

Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com>
    ARCv2: intc: Use kflag if STATUS32.IE must be reset

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    serial: 8250_port: fix runtime PM use in __do_stop_tx_rs485()

Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
    serial: 8250_dw: Check the data->pclk when get apb_pclk

Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
    BUG: atmel_serial: Interrupts not disabled on close

Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
    serial: imx: Fix DCD reading


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Diffstat:

 MAINTAINERS                                        |   7 +-
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/arc/include/asm/irqflags-arcv2.h              |   2 +-
 arch/arc/kernel/intc-arcv2.c                       |   2 +-
 block/cfq-iosched.c                                |  13 +-
 crypto/async_tx/async_pq.c                         |   8 +-
 crypto/ghash-generic.c                             |  13 +-
 drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c                           |   3 +
 drivers/acpi/nfit/nfit.h                           |   4 +
 drivers/base/dma-mapping.c                         |   2 +-
 drivers/clk/mvebu/cp110-system-controller.c        |  31 +++--
 drivers/crypto/vmx/ghash.c                         |  31 ++---
 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drm_bus.c           |  10 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.c               |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_drv.h               |   1 +
 drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/rc.c                    |   5 +-
 drivers/misc/mei/amthif.c                          |  12 +-
 drivers/misc/mei/bus.c                             |   2 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c        |   6 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/debug.c          |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c        |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/debugfs.c  |   6 +-
 .../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c         |   9 +-
 .../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/flowring.c         |   9 +-
 drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c                   |  12 +-
 drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c                     |   1 -
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c                |  11 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c                  |   5 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/imx.c                           |   3 +-
 fs/attr.c                                          |  15 +++
 fs/autofs4/waitq.c                                 |   4 +-
 fs/btrfs/compression.c                             |   4 +-
 fs/btrfs/ctree.h                                   |   3 +-
 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c                                 |  33 +++--
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c                               |  64 +++++++---
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.h                               |  22 ++++
 fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c                         |  19 +--
 fs/cachefiles/interface.c                          |   8 +-
 fs/cachefiles/internal.h                           |   3 +-
 fs/cachefiles/namei.c                              |   8 +-
 fs/debugfs/file.c                                  |  13 +-
 fs/dlm/lowcomms.c                                  |   8 +-
 fs/ext4/extents.c                                  |   3 +
 fs/ext4/inode.c                                    |  24 ++--
 fs/ext4/move_extent.c                              |   7 ++
 fs/ext4/namei.c                                    |  14 +--
 fs/ext4/symlink.c                                  |   3 +-
 fs/fuse/dir.c                                      |  59 ++++++++-
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c                              |   6 +-
 fs/reiserfs/super.c                                |  12 +-
 fs/utimes.c                                        |  17 +--
 include/crypto/ghash.h                             |  23 ++++
 include/linux/debugfs.h                            |  17 +++
 include/linux/fs.h                                 |   1 +
 include/linux/radix-tree.h                         |   6 +-
 include/linux/sem.h                                |   1 +
 include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h                         |  12 +-
 ipc/sem.c                                          | 138 +++++++++++++--------
 lib/radix-tree.c                                   |  14 +--
 mm/filemap.c                                       |  51 +++++---
 mm/hugetlb.c                                       |  13 +-
 sound/soc/codecs/nau8825.c                         |   2 +-
 sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_pvt.c                 |  14 +--
 64 files changed, 581 insertions(+), 287 deletions(-)