This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.156 release. There are 45 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, 17 Apr 2024 14:19:30 +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-5.15.156-rc... 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 5.15.156-rc1
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915/cdclk: Fix CDCLK programming order when pipes are active
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org x86/bugs: Replace CONFIG_SPECTRE_BHI_{ON,OFF} with CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org x86/bugs: Remove CONFIG_BHI_MITIGATION_AUTO and spectre_bhi=auto
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org x86/bugs: Clarify that syscall hardening isn't a BHI mitigation
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org x86/bugs: Fix BHI handling of RRSBA
Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org x86/bugs: Rename various 'ia32_cap' variables to 'x86_arch_cap_msr'
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org x86/bugs: Cache the value of MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org x86/bugs: Fix BHI documentation
Daniel Sneddon daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com x86/bugs: Fix return type of spectre_bhi_state()
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de irqflags: Explicitly ignore lockdep_hrtimer_exit() argument
Adam Dunlap acdunlap@google.com x86/apic: Force native_apic_mem_read() to use the MOV instruction
John Stultz jstultz@google.com selftests: timers: Fix abs() warning in posix_timers test
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n
Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org perf/x86: Fix out of range data
Gavin Shan gshan@redhat.com vhost: Add smp_rmb() in vhost_vq_avail_empty()
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/client: Fully protect modes[] with dev->mode_config.mutex
Boris Burkov boris@bur.io btrfs: qgroup: correctly model root qgroup rsv in convert
Jacob Pan jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com iommu/vt-d: Allocate local memory for page request queue
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de tracing: hide unused ftrace_event_id_fops
David Arinzon darinzon@amazon.com net: ena: Fix incorrect descriptor free behavior
David Arinzon darinzon@amazon.com net: ena: Wrong missing IO completions check order
David Arinzon darinzon@amazon.com net: ena: Fix potential sign extension issue
Michal Luczaj mhal@rbox.co af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect()
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com af_unix: Do not use atomic ops for unix_sk(sk)->inflight.
Arınç ÜNAL arinc.unal@arinc9.com net: dsa: mt7530: trap link-local frames regardless of ST Port State
Daniel Machon daniel.machon@microchip.com net: sparx5: fix wrong config being used when reconfiguring PCS
Cosmin Ratiu cratiu@nvidia.com net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com netfilter: complete validation of user input
Jiri Benc jbenc@redhat.com ipv6: fix race condition between ipv6_get_ifaddr and ipv6_del_addr
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ipv4/route: avoid unused-but-set-variable warning
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ipv6: fib: hide unused 'pn' variable
Geetha sowjanya gakula@marvell.com octeontx2-af: Fix NIX SQ mode and BP config
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com af_unix: Clear stale u->oob_skb.
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com geneve: fix header validation in geneve[6]_xmit_skb
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com xsk: validate user input for XDP_{UMEM|COMPLETION}_FILL_RING
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de u64_stats: Disable preemption on 32bit UP+SMP PREEMPT_RT during updates.
Ilya Maximets i.maximets@ovn.org net: openvswitch: fix unwanted error log on timeout policy probing
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org scsi: qla2xxx: Fix off by one in qla_edif_app_getstats()
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de nouveau: fix function cast warning
Alex Constantino dreaming.about.electric.sheep@gmail.com Revert "drm/qxl: simplify qxl_fence_wait"
Frank Li Frank.Li@nxp.com arm64: dts: imx8-ss-conn: fix usdhc wrong lpcg clock order
Nini Song nini.song@mediatek.com media: cec: core: remove length check of Timer Status
Dmitry Antipov dmantipov@yandex.ru Bluetooth: Fix memory leak in hci_req_sync_complete()
Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org ring-buffer: Only update pages_touched when a new page is touched
Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org batman-adv: Avoid infinite loop trying to resize local TT
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Diffstat:
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 22 +- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8-ss-conn.dtsi | 12 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 21 +- arch/x86/events/core.c | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 82 ++++---- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 48 ++--- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_cdclk.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_cdclk.h | 3 + .../gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowof.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_release.c | 50 ++++- drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c | 2 +- drivers/media/cec/core/cec-adap.c | 14 -- drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c | 229 ++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.h | 5 + drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c | 35 ++-- .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_nix.c | 22 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 3 +- .../net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_port.c | 4 +- drivers/net/geneve.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_edif.c | 2 +- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 14 +- fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 2 + include/linux/dma-fence.h | 7 + include/linux/irqflags.h | 2 +- include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h | 42 ++-- include/net/addrconf.h | 4 + include/net/af_unix.h | 2 +- include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 33 +++ kernel/cpu.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 +- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 4 + net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 2 +- net/bluetooth/hci_request.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 4 + net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 4 + net/ipv4/route.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 4 + net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 5 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 8 +- net/unix/garbage.c | 35 +++- net/unix/scm.c | 8 +- net/xdp/xsk.c | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c | 2 +- 50 files changed, 556 insertions(+), 256 deletions(-)