[PATCH 4.4 0/2] 4.4.26-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 19 2016 - 14:31:48 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.26 release.
There are 2 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 Fri Oct 21 18:27:53 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-4.4.26-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 4.4.26-rc1

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()

H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 ++--
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 14 +++++++++++++-
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
mm/gup.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
6 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)