[PATCH 4.4 0/5] 4.4.153-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.153 release.
There are 5 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 Tue Aug 28 06:40:50 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-4.4.153-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 4.4.153-rc1

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ovl: Do d_type check only if work dir creation was successful

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ovl: Ensure upper filesystem supports d_type

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/mm: Fix use-after-free of ldt_struct

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/mm/pat: Fix L1TF stable backport for CPA


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                           |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h |  3 +--
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c             |  2 +-
 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h           |  1 +
 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c             | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/overlayfs/super.c               | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)