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[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@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 v3.16.7-ckt1 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 v3.16.7-ckt1 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 v3.16.7-ckt1 stable release:
  
-        The following patches are in the v3.16.7-ckt1 stable release:
+ drm/tilcdc: Fix the error path in tilcdc_load()
+ builddeb: put the dbg files into the correct directory
+ switch iov_iter_get_pages() to passing maximal number of pages
+ fuse: honour max_read and max_write in direct_io mode
+ usb: phy: return -ENODEV on failure of try_module_get
+ PM / clk: Fix crash in clocks management code if !CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
+ rt2x00: support Ralink 5362.
+ wireless: rt2x00: add new rt2800usb devices
+ NFS: Fix /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes
+ nfs: fix duplicate proc entries
+ ext4: check EA value offset when loading
+ jbd2: free bh when descriptor block checksum fails
+ ext4: don't check quota format when there are no quota files
+ target: Fix queue full status NULL pointer for SCF_TRANSPORT_TASK_SENSE
+ vfs: fix data corruption when blocksize < pagesize for mmaped data
+ ext4: fix mmap data corruption when blocksize < pagesize
+ ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
+ qla_target: don't delete changed nacls
+ target: Fix APTPL metadata handling for dynamic MappedLUNs
+ iser-target: Disable TX completion interrupt coalescing
+ ext4: don't orphan or truncate the boot loader inode
+ ext4: add ext4_iget_normal() which is to be used for dir tree lookups
+ ext4: fix reservation overflow in ext4_da_write_begin
+ ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function
+ ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
+ ARC: [nsimosci] Allow "headless" models to boot
+ ARC: Update order of registers in KGDB to match GDB 7.5
+ ARC: unbork FPU save/restore
+ ext4: check s_chksum_driver when looking for bg csum presence
+ drm/radeon: fix speaker allocation setup
+ drm/radeon: use gart memory for DMA ring tests
+ random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
+ MIPS: cp1emu: Fix ISA restrictions for cop1x_op instructions
+ freezer: Do not freeze tasks killed by OOM killer
+ OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend
+ qxl: don't create too large primary surface
+ MIPS: loongson2_cpufreq: Fix CPU clock rate setting mismerge
+ MIPS: tlbex: Properly fix HUGE TLB Refill exception handler
+ drm/cirrus: bind also to qemu-xen-traditional
+ cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix setting max_perf_pct in performance policy
+ cpufreq: expose scaling_cur_freq sysfs file for set_policy() drivers
+ cpufreq: intel_pstate: Reflect current no_turbo state correctly
+ intel_pstate: Don't lose sysfs settings during cpu offline
+ intel_pstate: Fix BYT frequency reporting
+ intel_pstate: Correct BYT VID values.
+ MIPS: ftrace: Fix a microMIPS build problem
+ kvm: x86: don't kill guest on unknown exit reason
+ kvm: fix excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path.
+ KVM: x86: Fix far-jump to non-canonical check
+ init/Kconfig: Hide printk log config if CONFIG_PRINTK=n
+ be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu()
+ can: flexcan: mark TX mailbox as TX_INACTIVE
+ can: flexcan: correctly initialize mailboxes
+ can: flexcan: implement workaround for errata ERR005829
+ can: flexcan: put TX mailbox into TX_INACTIVE mode after tx-complete
+ can: at91_can: add missing prepare and unprepare of the clock
+ virtio-rng: fix stuck of hot-unplugging busy device
+ virtio-rng: skip reading when we start to remove the device
+ pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries
+ x86: bpf_jit: fix two bugs in eBPF JIT compiler
+ ipv4: fix nexthop attlen check in fib_nh_match
+ vxlan: fix a use after free in vxlan_encap_bypass
+ vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible
+ vxlan: fix a free after use
+ ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()
+ ipv4: fix a potential use after free in ip_tunnel_core.c
+ ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure
+ net: tso: fix unaligned access to crafted TCP header in helper API
+ hyperv: Fix the total_data_buflen in send path
+ tcp: md5: do not use alloc_percpu()
+ macvlan: fix a race on port dismantle and possible skb leaks
+ ipv4: Do not cache routing failures due to disabled forwarding.
+ net/mlx4_en: Don't attempt to TX offload the outer UDP checksum for VXLAN
+ gre: Use inner mac length when computing tunnel length
+ drivers/net: macvtap and tun depend on INET
+ net: sctp: fix skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks
+ net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks
+ net: sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing
+ staging:iio:ad5933: Fix NULL pointer deref when enabling buffer
+ staging:iio:ad5933: Drop "raw" from channel names
+ iio: st_sensors: Fix buffer copy
+ iio: adc: mxs-lradc: Disable the clock on probe failure
+ spi: pl022: Fix incorrect dma_unmap_sg
+ mac80211: fix typo in starting baserate for rts_cts_rate_idx
+ ASoC: Intel: HSW/BDW only support S16 and S24 formats.
+ staging: comedi: (regression) channel list must be set for COMEDI_CMD ioctl
+ usb: dwc3: gadget: fix set_halt() bug with pending transfers
+ usb: gadget: function: acm: make f_acm pass USB20CV Chapter9
+ nfsd4: fix response size estimation for OP_SEQUENCE
+ mtd: move support for struct flash_platform_data into m25p80
+ mtd: m25p80: get rid of spi_get_device_id
+ mtd: spi-nor: make spi_nor_scan() take a chip type name, not spi_device_id
+ mtd: m25p80,spi-nor: Fix module aliases for m25p80
+ ext3: Don't check quota format when there are no quota files
+ quota: Properly return errors from dquot_writeback_dquots()
+ USB: serial: cp210x: add Silicon Labs 358x VID and PID
+ usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add Awinda Station and Dongle products
+ usb: option: add support for Telit LE910
+ USB: option: add Haier CE81B CDMA modem
+ ASoC: adau1761: Fix input PGA volume
+ x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully
+ i3200_edac: Report CE events properly
+ i82860_edac: Report CE events properly
+ cpc925_edac: Report UE events properly
+ e7xxx_edac: Report CE events properly
+ scsi: Fix error handling in SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
+ usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add "bricked" FTDI device PID
+ usb: musb: cppi41: restart hrtimer only if not yet done
+ Revert "usb: dwc3: dwc3-omap: Disable/Enable only wrapper interrupts in prepare/complete"
+ usb: gadget: f_fs: remove redundant ffs_data_get()
+ usb: ffs: fix regression when quirk_ep_out_aligned_size flag is set
+ usb: musb: dsps: start OTG timer on resume again
+ usb: gadget: udc: core: fix kernel oops with soft-connect
+ nfsd4: fix crash on unknown operation number
+ iwlwifi: configure the LTR
+ iwlwifi: dvm: drop non VO frames when flushing
+ Revert "iwlwifi: mvm: treat EAPOLs like mgmt frames wrt rate"
+ usb: dwc3: gadget: Properly initialize LINK TRB
+ Input: i8042 - quirks for Fujitsu Lifebook A544 and Lifebook AH544
+ posix-timers: Fix stack info leak in timer_create()
+ futex: Fix a race condition between REQUEUE_PI and task death
+ usb: chipidea: Fix oops when removing the ci_hdrc module
+ drm/i915: Do a dummy DPCD read before the actual read
+ ALSA: bebob: Uninitialized id returned by saffirepro_both_clk_src_get
+ PM / Sleep: fix async suspend_late/freeze_late error handling
+ PM / Sleep: fix recovery during resuming from hibernation
+ Revert "block: all blk-mq requests are tagged"
+ ALSA: pcm: Zero-clear reserved fields of PCM status ioctl in compat mode
+ ima: check xattr value length and type in the ima_inode_setxattr()
+ evm: check xattr value length and type in evm_inode_setxattr()
+ drm/radeon/dpm: disable ulv support on SI
+ drm/radeon: Use drm_malloc_ab instead of kmalloc_array
+ drm/radeon: add bapm module parameter
+ drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems
+ drm/radeon: remove invalid pci id
+ zap_pte_range: update addr when forcing flush after TLB batching faiure
+ staging: comedi: fix memory leak / bad pointer freeing for chanlist
+ drm/i915: Ignore VBT backlight check on Macbook 2, 1
+ x86, pageattr: Prevent overflow in slow_virt_to_phys() for X86_PAE
+ ACPI / EC: Fix regression due to conflicting firmware behavior between Samsung and Acer.
+ cgroup/kmemleak: add kmemleak_free() for cgroup deallocations.
+ mm: free compound page with correct order
+ mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise
+ lib/bitmap.c: fix undefined shift in __bitmap_shift_{left|right}()
+ sh: fix sh770x SCIF memory regions
+ mtd: cfi_cmdset_0001.c: fix resume for LH28F640BF chips
+ ext4: fix overflow when updating superblock backups after resize
+ ext4: fix oops when loading block bitmap failed
+ ext4: enable journal checksum when metadata checksum feature enabled
+ ext4: prevent bugon on race between write/fcntl
+ ext4: convert do_split() to use the ERR_PTR convention
+ ext4: bail out from make_indexed_dir() on first error
+ PCI: Rename sysfs 'enabled' file back to 'enable'
+ wireless: rt2x00: add new rt2800usb device
+ fs: allow open(dir, O_TMPFILE|..., 0) with mode 0
+ tracing/syscalls: Ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range
+ x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace
+ x86_64, entry: Fix out of bounds read on sysenter
+ mnt: Prevent pivot_root from creating a loop in the mount tree
+ mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended()
+ nfs: fix kernel warning when removing proc entry
+ Linux 3.16.7-ckt1
+ 
+ The following patches were dropped as they had already been applied to
+ the utopic kernel:
+ 
+ KVM: x86: Check non-canonical addresses upon WRMSR
+ KVM: x86: Prevent host from panicking on shared MSR writes.
+ KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
+ KVM: x86: Fix wrong masking on relative jump/call
+ KVM: x86: Emulator fixes for eip canonical checks on near branches
+ KVM: x86: Handle errors when RIP is set during far jumps
+ kvm: vmx: handle invvpid vm exit gracefully
+ 
+ The following patch was not applied to utopic as its effect had already
+ been dropped by another patch in utopic:
+ 
+ mm: page_alloc: fix zone allocation fairness on UP

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Title:
  Utopic update to v3.16.7-ckt1 stable release

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

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 v3.16.7-ckt1 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 v3.16.7-ckt1 stable release:

  drm/tilcdc: Fix the error path in tilcdc_load()
  builddeb: put the dbg files into the correct directory
  switch iov_iter_get_pages() to passing maximal number of pages
  fuse: honour max_read and max_write in direct_io mode
  usb: phy: return -ENODEV on failure of try_module_get
  PM / clk: Fix crash in clocks management code if !CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
  rt2x00: support Ralink 5362.
  wireless: rt2x00: add new rt2800usb devices
  NFS: Fix /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes
  nfs: fix duplicate proc entries
  ext4: check EA value offset when loading
  jbd2: free bh when descriptor block checksum fails
  ext4: don't check quota format when there are no quota files
  target: Fix queue full status NULL pointer for SCF_TRANSPORT_TASK_SENSE
  vfs: fix data corruption when blocksize < pagesize for mmaped data
  ext4: fix mmap data corruption when blocksize < pagesize
  ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  qla_target: don't delete changed nacls
  target: Fix APTPL metadata handling for dynamic MappedLUNs
  iser-target: Disable TX completion interrupt coalescing
  ext4: don't orphan or truncate the boot loader inode
  ext4: add ext4_iget_normal() which is to be used for dir tree lookups
  ext4: fix reservation overflow in ext4_da_write_begin
  ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function
  ext4: move error report out of atomic context in ext4_init_block_bitmap()
  ARC: [nsimosci] Allow "headless" models to boot
  ARC: Update order of registers in KGDB to match GDB 7.5
  ARC: unbork FPU save/restore
  ext4: check s_chksum_driver when looking for bg csum presence
  drm/radeon: fix speaker allocation setup
  drm/radeon: use gart memory for DMA ring tests
  random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data
  MIPS: cp1emu: Fix ISA restrictions for cop1x_op instructions
  freezer: Do not freeze tasks killed by OOM killer
  OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend
  qxl: don't create too large primary surface
  MIPS: loongson2_cpufreq: Fix CPU clock rate setting mismerge
  MIPS: tlbex: Properly fix HUGE TLB Refill exception handler
  drm/cirrus: bind also to qemu-xen-traditional
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix setting max_perf_pct in performance policy
  cpufreq: expose scaling_cur_freq sysfs file for set_policy() drivers
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Reflect current no_turbo state correctly
  intel_pstate: Don't lose sysfs settings during cpu offline
  intel_pstate: Fix BYT frequency reporting
  intel_pstate: Correct BYT VID values.
  MIPS: ftrace: Fix a microMIPS build problem
  kvm: x86: don't kill guest on unknown exit reason
  kvm: fix excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path.
  KVM: x86: Fix far-jump to non-canonical check
  init/Kconfig: Hide printk log config if CONFIG_PRINTK=n
  be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu()
  can: flexcan: mark TX mailbox as TX_INACTIVE
  can: flexcan: correctly initialize mailboxes
  can: flexcan: implement workaround for errata ERR005829
  can: flexcan: put TX mailbox into TX_INACTIVE mode after tx-complete
  can: at91_can: add missing prepare and unprepare of the clock
  virtio-rng: fix stuck of hot-unplugging busy device
  virtio-rng: skip reading when we start to remove the device
  pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries
  x86: bpf_jit: fix two bugs in eBPF JIT compiler
  ipv4: fix nexthop attlen check in fib_nh_match
  vxlan: fix a use after free in vxlan_encap_bypass
  vxlan: using pskb_may_pull as early as possible
  vxlan: fix a free after use
  ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()
  ipv4: fix a potential use after free in ip_tunnel_core.c
  ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure
  net: tso: fix unaligned access to crafted TCP header in helper API
  hyperv: Fix the total_data_buflen in send path
  tcp: md5: do not use alloc_percpu()
  macvlan: fix a race on port dismantle and possible skb leaks
  ipv4: Do not cache routing failures due to disabled forwarding.
  net/mlx4_en: Don't attempt to TX offload the outer UDP checksum for VXLAN
  gre: Use inner mac length when computing tunnel length
  drivers/net: macvtap and tun depend on INET
  net: sctp: fix skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks
  net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks
  net: sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing
  staging:iio:ad5933: Fix NULL pointer deref when enabling buffer
  staging:iio:ad5933: Drop "raw" from channel names
  iio: st_sensors: Fix buffer copy
  iio: adc: mxs-lradc: Disable the clock on probe failure
  spi: pl022: Fix incorrect dma_unmap_sg
  mac80211: fix typo in starting baserate for rts_cts_rate_idx
  ASoC: Intel: HSW/BDW only support S16 and S24 formats.
  staging: comedi: (regression) channel list must be set for COMEDI_CMD ioctl
  usb: dwc3: gadget: fix set_halt() bug with pending transfers
  usb: gadget: function: acm: make f_acm pass USB20CV Chapter9
  nfsd4: fix response size estimation for OP_SEQUENCE
  mtd: move support for struct flash_platform_data into m25p80
  mtd: m25p80: get rid of spi_get_device_id
  mtd: spi-nor: make spi_nor_scan() take a chip type name, not spi_device_id
  mtd: m25p80,spi-nor: Fix module aliases for m25p80
  ext3: Don't check quota format when there are no quota files
  quota: Properly return errors from dquot_writeback_dquots()
  USB: serial: cp210x: add Silicon Labs 358x VID and PID
  usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add Awinda Station and Dongle products
  usb: option: add support for Telit LE910
  USB: option: add Haier CE81B CDMA modem
  ASoC: adau1761: Fix input PGA volume
  x86, apic: Handle a bad TSC more gracefully
  i3200_edac: Report CE events properly
  i82860_edac: Report CE events properly
  cpc925_edac: Report UE events properly
  e7xxx_edac: Report CE events properly
  scsi: Fix error handling in SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
  usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add "bricked" FTDI device PID
  usb: musb: cppi41: restart hrtimer only if not yet done
  Revert "usb: dwc3: dwc3-omap: Disable/Enable only wrapper interrupts in prepare/complete"
  usb: gadget: f_fs: remove redundant ffs_data_get()
  usb: ffs: fix regression when quirk_ep_out_aligned_size flag is set
  usb: musb: dsps: start OTG timer on resume again
  usb: gadget: udc: core: fix kernel oops with soft-connect
  nfsd4: fix crash on unknown operation number
  iwlwifi: configure the LTR
  iwlwifi: dvm: drop non VO frames when flushing
  Revert "iwlwifi: mvm: treat EAPOLs like mgmt frames wrt rate"
  usb: dwc3: gadget: Properly initialize LINK TRB
  Input: i8042 - quirks for Fujitsu Lifebook A544 and Lifebook AH544
  posix-timers: Fix stack info leak in timer_create()
  futex: Fix a race condition between REQUEUE_PI and task death
  usb: chipidea: Fix oops when removing the ci_hdrc module
  drm/i915: Do a dummy DPCD read before the actual read
  ALSA: bebob: Uninitialized id returned by saffirepro_both_clk_src_get
  PM / Sleep: fix async suspend_late/freeze_late error handling
  PM / Sleep: fix recovery during resuming from hibernation
  Revert "block: all blk-mq requests are tagged"
  ALSA: pcm: Zero-clear reserved fields of PCM status ioctl in compat mode
  ima: check xattr value length and type in the ima_inode_setxattr()
  evm: check xattr value length and type in evm_inode_setxattr()
  drm/radeon/dpm: disable ulv support on SI
  drm/radeon: Use drm_malloc_ab instead of kmalloc_array
  drm/radeon: add bapm module parameter
  drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems
  drm/radeon: remove invalid pci id
  zap_pte_range: update addr when forcing flush after TLB batching faiure
  staging: comedi: fix memory leak / bad pointer freeing for chanlist
  drm/i915: Ignore VBT backlight check on Macbook 2, 1
  x86, pageattr: Prevent overflow in slow_virt_to_phys() for X86_PAE
  ACPI / EC: Fix regression due to conflicting firmware behavior between Samsung and Acer.
  cgroup/kmemleak: add kmemleak_free() for cgroup deallocations.
  mm: free compound page with correct order
  mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise
  lib/bitmap.c: fix undefined shift in __bitmap_shift_{left|right}()
  sh: fix sh770x SCIF memory regions
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0001.c: fix resume for LH28F640BF chips
  ext4: fix overflow when updating superblock backups after resize
  ext4: fix oops when loading block bitmap failed
  ext4: enable journal checksum when metadata checksum feature enabled
  ext4: prevent bugon on race between write/fcntl
  ext4: convert do_split() to use the ERR_PTR convention
  ext4: bail out from make_indexed_dir() on first error
  PCI: Rename sysfs 'enabled' file back to 'enable'
  wireless: rt2x00: add new rt2800usb device
  fs: allow open(dir, O_TMPFILE|..., 0) with mode 0
  tracing/syscalls: Ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range
  x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace
  x86_64, entry: Fix out of bounds read on sysenter
  mnt: Prevent pivot_root from creating a loop in the mount tree
  mm: Remove false WARN_ON from pagecache_isize_extended()
  nfs: fix kernel warning when removing proc entry
  Linux 3.16.7-ckt1

  The following patches were dropped as they had already been applied to
  the utopic kernel:

  KVM: x86: Check non-canonical addresses upon WRMSR
  KVM: x86: Prevent host from panicking on shared MSR writes.
  KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit
  KVM: x86: Fix wrong masking on relative jump/call
  KVM: x86: Emulator fixes for eip canonical checks on near branches
  KVM: x86: Handle errors when RIP is set during far jumps
  kvm: vmx: handle invvpid vm exit gracefully

  The following patch was not applied to utopic as its effect had
  already been dropped by another patch in utopic:

  mm: page_alloc: fix zone allocation fairness on UP

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