Hi Greg,
I had a brief look at Fedora and a discussion with Fedora, I realised she's already doing a decent job at sending you patches that might've been missed from stable.
So started looking at Ubuntu 4.4 (xenial), and could find some patches that seem good candidates for stable.
I'm just listing them down with upstream commit ID, description and a remark, but if you prefer another way (txt file, xls, or anything else), please let me know, and we can start following that :) (This is just something to begin with, not done the whole list of candidate patches. I will continue to monitor and send).
Patches cc'ed to stable: 91a25e463130c8e19bdb42f2d827836c7937992e drm/dp/mst: deallocate payload on port destruction 8a580f70f6936ec095da217018cdeeb5835c0207 x86/irq: Do not use apic_chip_data.old_domain as temporary buffer 3716fd27a604d61a91cda47083504971486b80f1 x86/irq: Check vector allocation early 8244062ef1e54502ef55f54cced659913f244c3e modules: fix longstanding /proc/kallsyms vs module insertion race.
Patches not CC to stable, but seem a good fix 2b2f5ff00f63847d95adad6289bd8b05f5983dd5 rtc: interface: ignore expired timers when enqueuing new timers 3084558658c2f9a48d7c460d57aeb30964c06b7e megaraid_sas: Don't issue kill adapter for MFI controllers in case of PD list DCMD failure => fixes 3084558658c2f9a48d7c460d57aeb30964c06b7e
87c279e613f848c691111b29d49de8df3f4f56da blk-mq: really fix plug list flushing for nomerge queues =>fixes 0809e3ac6231
Also wanted to ask you if there's a better way in your opinion than using "git cherry -v" to : 1. find patches IN distro, and IN mainline, 2. get patches IN distro, and NOT IN stable and then scan through them to scout? :) (If you're able to share any of your scripts for hunting distros, it'd be pretty good I suppose!)