On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Jason Gerecke wrote:

This is to request that commit
e470127e9606b1fa151c4184243e61296d1e0c0f be cherry-picked into the
stable trees for Linux 3.17 and newer.

Best course of action here is to send backported (and tested) commit to 
stable@vger as a regular patch, with first line (before the actual patch 
metadata) referencing the commit hash in Linus' tree.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs