This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.83 release.
There are 23 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 Thu Aug 17 01:17:45 UTC 2017.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
        kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.83-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