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[Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

+ SRU Justification
  
-     SRU Justification
+     Impact:
+        The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
+        in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
+        demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
+        by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
+        backported form of that patch. The liv3.16.5 upstream stable
+        patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
+        kernel as well.
  
-     Impact:
-        The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
-        in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
-        demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
-        by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
-        backported form of that patch. The liv3.16.5 upstream stable
-        patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
-        kernel as well.
+        git://git.kernel.org/
  
-        git://git.kernel.org/
+     TEST CASE: TBD
  
-     TEST CASE: TBD
+        The following patches are in the liv3.16.5 stable release:
  
-        The following patches are in the liv3.16.5 stable release:
+ ASoC: ssm2602: do not hardcode type to SSM2602
+ ASoC: core: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.
+ perf: fix perf bug in fork()
+ mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
+ mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
+ i2c: qup: Fix order of runtime pm initialization
+ i2c: rk3x: fix 0 length write transfers
+ ACPI / i915: Update the condition to ignore firmware backlight change request
+ cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type
+ cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Fix wait_event() under spinlock
+ md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
+ drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend
+ Fix problem recognizing symlinks
+ init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu
+ ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer
+ uas: Only complain about missing sg if all other checks succeed
+ uas: Log a warning when we cannot use uas because the hcd lacks streams
+ uas: Disable uas on ASM1051 devices
+ uas: Add missing le16_to_cpu calls to asm1051 / asm1053 usb-id check
+ x86, ia64: Move EFI_FB vga_default_device() initialization to pci_vga_fixup()
+ vgaarb: Don't default exclusively to first video device with mem+io
+ mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map
+ mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages
+ media: vb2: fix VBI/poll regression
+ jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
+ Linux 3.16.5

** Summary changed:

- Utopic update to liv3.16.5 stable release
+ Utopic update to v3.16.5 stable release

** Description changed:

  SRU Justification
  
      Impact:
         The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
         in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
         demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
         by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
-        backported form of that patch. The liv3.16.5 upstream stable
+        backported form of that patch. The v3.16.5 upstream stable
         patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
         kernel as well.
  
         git://git.kernel.org/
  
      TEST CASE: TBD
  
         The following patches are in the liv3.16.5 stable release:
  
  ASoC: ssm2602: do not hardcode type to SSM2602
  ASoC: core: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.
  perf: fix perf bug in fork()
  mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
  mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
  i2c: qup: Fix order of runtime pm initialization
  i2c: rk3x: fix 0 length write transfers
  ACPI / i915: Update the condition to ignore firmware backlight change request
  cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type
  cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Fix wait_event() under spinlock
  md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
  drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend
  Fix problem recognizing symlinks
  init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu
  ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer
  uas: Only complain about missing sg if all other checks succeed
  uas: Log a warning when we cannot use uas because the hcd lacks streams
  uas: Disable uas on ASM1051 devices
  uas: Add missing le16_to_cpu calls to asm1051 / asm1053 usb-id check
  x86, ia64: Move EFI_FB vga_default_device() initialization to pci_vga_fixup()
  vgaarb: Don't default exclusively to first video device with mem+io
  mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map
  mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages
  media: vb2: fix VBI/poll regression
  jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
  Linux 3.16.5

** Description changed:

  SRU Justification
  
      Impact:
         The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
         in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
         demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
         by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
         backported form of that patch. The v3.16.5 upstream stable
         patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
         kernel as well.
  
         git://git.kernel.org/
  
      TEST CASE: TBD
  
-        The following patches are in the liv3.16.5 stable release:
+        The following patches are in the v3.16.5 stable release:
  
  ASoC: ssm2602: do not hardcode type to SSM2602
  ASoC: core: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.
  perf: fix perf bug in fork()
  mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
  mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
  i2c: qup: Fix order of runtime pm initialization
  i2c: rk3x: fix 0 length write transfers
  ACPI / i915: Update the condition to ignore firmware backlight change request
  cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type
  cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Fix wait_event() under spinlock
  md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
  drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend
  Fix problem recognizing symlinks
  init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu
  ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer
  uas: Only complain about missing sg if all other checks succeed
  uas: Log a warning when we cannot use uas because the hcd lacks streams
  uas: Disable uas on ASM1051 devices
  uas: Add missing le16_to_cpu calls to asm1051 / asm1053 usb-id check
  x86, ia64: Move EFI_FB vga_default_device() initialization to pci_vga_fixup()
  vgaarb: Don't default exclusively to first video device with mem+io
  mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map
  mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages
  media: vb2: fix VBI/poll regression
  jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
  Linux 3.16.5

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379785

Title:
  Utopic update to v3.16.5 stable release

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “linux” source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  SRU Justification

      Impact:
         The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar
         in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to
         demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream
         by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
         backported form of that patch. The v3.16.5 upstream stable
         patch set is now available. It should be included in the Ubuntu
         kernel as well.

         git://git.kernel.org/

      TEST CASE: TBD

         The following patches are in the v3.16.5 stable release:

  ASoC: ssm2602: do not hardcode type to SSM2602
  ASoC: core: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.
  perf: fix perf bug in fork()
  mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
  mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
  i2c: qup: Fix order of runtime pm initialization
  i2c: rk3x: fix 0 length write transfers
  ACPI / i915: Update the condition to ignore firmware backlight change request
  cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type
  cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Fix wait_event() under spinlock
  md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
  drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend
  Fix problem recognizing symlinks
  init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu
  ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer
  uas: Only complain about missing sg if all other checks succeed
  uas: Log a warning when we cannot use uas because the hcd lacks streams
  uas: Disable uas on ASM1051 devices
  uas: Add missing le16_to_cpu calls to asm1051 / asm1053 usb-id check
  x86, ia64: Move EFI_FB vga_default_device() initialization to pci_vga_fixup()
  vgaarb: Don't default exclusively to first video device with mem+io
  mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map
  mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages
  media: vb2: fix VBI/poll regression
  jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
  Linux 3.16.5

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