This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.4 release. There are 20 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 Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:14:35 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.4-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.15.4-rc1
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Revert "ACPI: scan: Release PM resources blocked by unused objects"
Subbaraman Narayanamurthy quic_subbaram@quicinc.com thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in of_thermal_ functions
Greg Thelen gthelen@google.com perf/core: Avoid put_page() when GUP fails
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org PCI: Add MSI masking quirk for Nvidia ION AHCI
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org PCI/MSI: Deal with devices lying about their MSI mask capability
Sven Schnelle svens@stackframe.org parisc/entry: fix trace test in syscall exit path
Nicholas Flintham nick@flinny.org Bluetooth: btusb: Add support for TP-Link UB500 Adapter
Xie Yongji xieyongji@bytedance.com loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
Xie Yongji xieyongji@bytedance.com block: Add a helper to validate the block size
Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org fortify: Explicitly disable Clang support
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: allow preallocation for relocation inodes
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: check for relocation inodes on zoned btrfs in should_nocow
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: use regular writes for relocation
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: only allow one process to add pages to a relocation inode
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: add a dedicated data relocation block group
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: introduce btrfs_is_data_reloc_root
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk KVM: Fix steal time asm constraints
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "drm: fb_helper: fix CONFIG_FB dependency"
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "drm: fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency"
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net string: uninline memcpy_and_pad
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 ++--- drivers/acpi/glue.c | 25 -------------------- drivers/acpi/internal.h | 1 - drivers/acpi/scan.c | 6 ----- drivers/block/loop.c | 17 ++------------ drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 4 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 5 ++-- drivers/pci/msi.c | 3 +++ drivers/pci/quirks.c | 6 +++++ drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 9 ++++--- fs/btrfs/block-group.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 12 ++++++++++ fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 ++- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 11 +++++++++ fs/btrfs/inode.c | 29 +++++++++++++---------- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 38 +++--------------------------- fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++ fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 3 +++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 8 +++++++ include/linux/pci.h | 2 ++ include/linux/string.h | 19 ++------------- kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++---- lib/string_helpers.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++ security/Kconfig | 3 +++ 27 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)