This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.272 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 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:27:22 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.272-rc... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.14.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.14.272-rc1
Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: unlock newly allocated extent buffer after error
Josh Triplett josh@joshtriplett.org ext4: add check to prevent attempting to resize an fs with sparse_super2
Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: fix Thumb2 regression with Spectre BHB
Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio: acknowledge all features before access
Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio: unexport virtio_finalize_features
James Morse james.morse@arm.com KVM: arm64: Reset PMC_EL0 to avoid a panic() on systems with no PMU
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx()
Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org ARM: Spectre-BHB: provide empty stub for non-config
Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com selftests/memfd: clean up mapping in mfd_fail_write
Sven Schnelle svens@linux.ibm.com tracing: Ensure trace buffer is at least 4096 bytes large
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com Revert "xen-netback: Check for hotplug-status existence before watching"
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com Revert "xen-netback: remove 'hotplug-status' once it has served its purpose"
suresh kumar suresh2514@gmail.com net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com sctp: fix kernel-infoleak for SCTP sockets
Mark Featherston mark@embeddedTS.com gpio: ts4900: Do not set DAT and OE together
Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com NFC: port100: fix use-after-free in port100_send_complete
Mohammad Kabat mohammadkab@nvidia.com net/mlx5: Fix size field in bufferx_reg struct
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn ax25: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ax25_kill_by_device
Jiasheng Jiang jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn net: ethernet: lpc_eth: Handle error for clk_enable
Jiasheng Jiang jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn net: ethernet: ti: cpts: Handle error for clk_enable
Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com qed: return status of qed_iov_get_link
Jia-Ju Bai baijiaju1990@gmail.com net: qlogic: check the return value of dma_alloc_coherent() in qed_vf_hw_prepare()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/include/asm/spectre.h | 6 ++++ arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 4 +-- arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 4 ++- drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4900.c | 24 ++++++++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c | 5 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c | 18 +++++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c | 7 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c | 4 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c | 4 ++- drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 13 ++++----- drivers/nfc/port100.c | 2 ++ drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_lte.c | 5 ++-- drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 40 ++++++++++++++------------- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 1 + fs/ext4/resize.c | 5 ++++ include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h | 4 +-- include/linux/virtio.h | 1 - include/linux/virtio_config.h | 3 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 ++++--- net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 7 +++++ net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 +- net/sctp/sctp_diag.c | 9 ++---- tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c | 1 + 24 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)