This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.4.2 release. There are 15 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, 06 Jul 2023 08:46:01 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.4.2-rc2.g... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.4.2-rc2

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org gup: avoid stack expansion warning for known-good case

SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org arch/arm64/mm/fault: Fix undeclared variable error in do_page_fault()

Bas Nieuwenhuizen bas@basnieuwenhuizen.nl drm/amdgpu: Validate VM ioctl flags.

Demi Marie Obenour demi@invisiblethingslab.com dm ioctl: Avoid double-fetch of version

Ahmed S. Darwish darwi@linutronix.de docs: Set minimal gtags / GNU GLOBAL version to 6.6.5

Ahmed S. Darwish darwi@linutronix.de scripts/tags.sh: Resolve gtags empty index generation

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss()

Finn Thain fthain@linux-m68k.org nubus: Partially revert proc_create_single_data() conversion

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Revert "cxl/port: Enable the HDM decoder capability for switch ports"

Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org nfs: don't report STATX_BTIME in ->getattr

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org execve: always mark stack as growing down during early stack setup

Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com PCI/ACPI: Call _REG when transitioning D-states

Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas@google.com PCI/ACPI: Validate acpi_pci_set_power_state() parameter

Thomas Weißschuh linux@weissschuh.net tools/nolibc: x86_64: disable stack protector for _start

Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: fix lock_mm_and_find_vma in case VMA not found

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Diffstat:

Documentation/process/changes.rst | 7 +++++ Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 2 -- drivers/cxl/core/pci.c | 27 +++-------------- drivers/cxl/cxl.h | 1 - drivers/cxl/port.c | 14 ++++----- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c | 4 +++ drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 33 +++++++++++++-------- drivers/nubus/proc.c | 22 ++++++++++---- drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 8 ++--- fs/nfs/inode.c | 2 +- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++- mm/hugetlb.c | 12 ++++---- mm/memory.c | 4 +++ mm/nommu.c | 7 ++++- scripts/tags.sh | 9 +++++- tools/include/nolibc/arch-x86_64.h | 2 +- tools/testing/cxl/Kbuild | 1 - tools/testing/cxl/test/mock.c | 15 ---------- 20 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)