[3.16.y-ckt stable] Linux 3.16.7-ckt27 stable review

[Luis Henriques]

NOTE: 3.16.7-ckt27 release will be the last 3.16 stable kernel
release  provided by the Canonical kernel team.  However, as
previously announced [1], Ben Hutchings will continue to maintain it
for the Debian 8 'jessie'.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/07/msg00413.html

This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.16.7-ckt27 stable
kernel.

This version contains 17 new patches, summarized below.  The new patches
are posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-review

git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git  linux-3.16.y-review

The review period for version 3.16.7-ckt27 will be open for the next three
days.  To report a problem, please reply to the relevant follow-up patch
message.

For more information about the Linux 3.16.y-ckt extended stable kernel
series, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable .

 -Luis

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 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h      |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c               | 12 ++++++++++
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_sa.c         |  7 ++++++
 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c                     | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/input/misc/ati_remote2.c           | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/input/misc/powermate.c             |  3 +++
 drivers/scsi/ipr.c                         | 10 ++++++---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_tiocmd.c |  2 +-
 drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c                |  3 +++
 drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c               |  6 +++++
 fs/ceph/mds_client.c                       |  6 ++++-
 include/linux/cpu.h                        |  6 +++++
 include/linux/poison.h                     |  4 ++--
 init/main.c                                |  1 +
 kernel/cpu.c                               | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 net/ipv4/devinet.c                         |  4 ++++
 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c                    |  4 ++++
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.c        | 12 ++++++++--
 sound/usb/clock.c                          |  2 ++
 sound/usb/endpoint.c                       |  3 +++
 sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c                   |  4 ++++
 sound/usb/pcm.c                            |  2 ++
 sound/usb/quirks.c                         |  6 +++++
 24 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Andy Lutomirski (1):
      x86/iopl/64: Properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV

David S. Miller (1):
      ipv4: Don't do expensive useless work during inetdev destroy.

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi (1):
      ipr: Fix regression when loading firmware

Ingo Molnar (1):
      cpu: Provide smpboot_thread_init() on !CONFIG_SMP kernels as well

Insu Yun (1):
      ipr: Fix out-of-bounds null overwrite

Josh Boyer (2):
      Input: powermate - fix oops with malicious USB descriptors
      USB: iowarrior: fix oops with malicious USB descriptors

Nicolai HÃhnle (1):
      drm/radeon: hold reference to fences in radeon_sa_bo_new (3.17 and older)

Oliver Neukum (1):
      USB: cdc-acm: more sanity checking

Paul E. McKenney (1):
      cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler

Spencer E. Olson (1):
      staging: comedi: ni_tiocmd: change mistaken use of start_src for start_arg

Takashi Iwai (2):
      ALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL dereference in create_fixed_stream_quirk()
      ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity checks for endpoint accesses

Vasily Kulikov (1):
      include/linux/poison.h: fix LIST_POISON{1,2} offset

Vitaly Kuznetsov (1):
      Drivers: hv: vmbus: prevent cpu offlining on newer hypervisors

Vladis Dronov (1):
      Input: ati_remote2 - fix crashes on detecting device with invalid descriptor

Yan, Zheng (1):
      ceph: fix request time stamp encoding