This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.96 release. There are 32 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, 07 Feb 2021 14:06:42 +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-5.4.96-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.4.96-rc1

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org workqueue: Restrict affinity change to rescuer

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Don't fail on missing symbol table

Bing Guo bing.guo@amd.com drm/amd/display: Change function decide_dp_link_settings to avoid infinite looping

Jake Wang haonan.wang2@amd.com drm/amd/display: Update dram_clock_change_latency for DCN2.1

Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au selftests/powerpc: Only test lwm/stmw on big endian

Revanth Rajashekar revanth.rajashekar@intel.com nvme: check the PRINFO bit before deciding the host buffer length

lianzhi chang changlianzhi@uniontech.com udf: fix the problem that the disc content is not displayed

Kai-Chuan Hsieh kaichuan.hsieh@canonical.com ALSA: hda: Add Cometlake-R PCI ID

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com scsi: ibmvfc: Set default timeout to avoid crash during migration

Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: fix fast-rx encryption check

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Resume codec to do jack detection

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn scsi: fnic: Fix memleak in vnic_dev_init_devcmd2

Javed Hasan jhasan@marvell.com scsi: libfc: Avoid invoking response handler twice if ep is already completed

Martin Wilck mwilck@suse.com scsi: scsi_transport_srp: Don't block target in failfast state

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86: __always_inline __{rd,wr}msr()

Arnold Gozum arngozum@gmail.com platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Support for tablet mode on Dell Inspiron 7352

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add swap-x-y quirk for Goodix touchscreen on Estar Beauty HD tablet

Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com phy: cpcap-usb: Fix warning for missing regulator_disable

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: gen_estimator: support large ewma log

ethanwu ethanwu@synology.com btrfs: backref, use correct count to resolve normal data refs

ethanwu ethanwu@synology.com btrfs: backref, only search backref entries from leaves of the same root

ethanwu ethanwu@synology.com btrfs: backref, don't add refs from shared block when resolving normal backref

ethanwu ethanwu@synology.com btrfs: backref, only collect file extent items matching backref offset

Enke Chen enchen@paloaltonetworks.com tcp: make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT accurate for zero window probes

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com arm64: Do not pass tagged addresses to __is_lm_address()

Vincenzo Frascino vincenzo.frascino@arm.com arm64: Fix kernel address detection of __is_lm_address()

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: thermal: Do not call acpi_thermal_check() directly

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "Revert "block: end bio with BLK_STS_AGAIN in case of non-mq devs and REQ_NOWAIT""

Lijun Pan ljp@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: Ensure that CRQ entry read are correctly ordered

Rasmus Villemoes rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk net: switchdev: don't set port_obj_info->handled true when -EOPNOTSUPP

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com net: dsa: bcm_sf2: put device node before return

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 10 +- arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 4 +- block/blk-core.c | 11 +- drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 55 +++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c | 3 + .../gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn21/dcn21_resource.c | 2 +- drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 + drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 17 ++- drivers/phy/motorola/phy-cpcap-usb.c | 19 ++- drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c | 6 + drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c | 18 +++ drivers/scsi/fnic/vnic_dev.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_exch.c | 16 ++- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c | 9 +- fs/btrfs/backref.c | 157 +++++++++++++-------- fs/udf/super.c | 7 +- include/linux/kthread.h | 3 + include/net/tcp.h | 1 + kernel/kthread.c | 27 +++- kernel/smpboot.c | 1 + kernel/workqueue.c | 9 +- net/core/gen_estimator.c | 11 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 + net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 18 +++ net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 + net/switchdev/switchdev.c | 23 +-- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 3 + sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-codec.c | 3 +- tools/objtool/elf.c | 7 +- .../powerpc/alignment/alignment_handler.c | 5 +- 35 files changed, 348 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-)