This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.299 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 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:55:53 +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-5.4.299-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 5.4.299-rc1
Qiu-ji Chen chenqiuji666@gmail.com dmaengine: mediatek: Fix a flag reuse error in mtk_cqdma_tx_status()
Roman Smirnov r.smirnov@omp.ru cifs: fix integer overflow in match_server()
Larisa Grigore larisa.grigore@nxp.com spi: spi-fsl-lpspi: Reset FIFO and disable module on transfer abort
Larisa Grigore larisa.grigore@nxp.com spi: spi-fsl-lpspi: Set correct chip-select polarity bit
Larisa Grigore larisa.grigore@nxp.com spi: spi-fsl-lpspi: Fix transmissions when using CONT
Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn pcmcia: Add error handling for add_interval() in do_validate_mem()
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/hdmi: Add pin fix for another HP EliteDesk 800 G4 model
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org randstruct: gcc-plugin: Fix attribute addition
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org randstruct: gcc-plugin: Remove bogus void member
Ronak Doshi ronak.doshi@broadcom.com vmxnet3: update MTU after device quiesce
Jakob Unterwurzacher jakobunt@gmail.com net: dsa: microchip: linearize skb for tail-tagging switches
Pieter Van Trappen pieter.van.trappen@cern.ch net: dsa: microchip: update tag_ksz masks for KSZ9477 family
Qiu-ji Chen chenqiuji666@gmail.com dmaengine: mediatek: Fix a possible deadlock error in mtk_cqdma_tx_status()
Chris Chiu chris.chiu@canonical.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Add new HP ZBook laptop with micmute led fixup
Emanuele Ghidoli emanuele.ghidoli@toradex.com gpio: pca953x: fix IRQ storm on system wake up
Luca Ceresoli luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com iio: light: opt3001: fix deadlock due to concurrent flag access
David Lechner dlechner@baylibre.com iio: chemical: pms7003: use aligned_s64 for timestamp
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: x86: Take irqfds.lock when adding/deleting IRQ bypass producer
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com cpufreq/sched: Explicitly synchronize limits_changed flag handling
Li Qiong liqiong@nfschina.com mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err()
John Evans evans1210144@gmail.com scsi: lpfc: Fix buffer free/clear order in deferred receive path
Jann Horn jannh@google.com mm/khugepaged: fix ->anon_vma race
Vitaly Lifshits vitaly.lifshits@intel.com e1000e: fix heap overflow in e1000_set_eeprom
Stanislav Fort stanislav.fort@aisle.com batman-adv: fix OOB read/write in network-coding decode
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu: drop hw access in non-DC audio fini
Qianfeng Rong rongqianfeng@vivo.com wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero
Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn pcmcia: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in __iodyn_find_io_region()
Cryolitia PukNgae cryolitia@uniontech.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add mute TLV for playback volumes on some devices
Qingfang Deng dqfext@gmail.com ppp: fix memory leak in pad_compress_skb
Wang Liang wangliang74@huawei.com net: atm: fix memory leak in atm_register_sysfs when device_register fail
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org ipv4: Fix NULL vs error pointer check in inet_blackhole_dev_init()
Rosen Penev rosenp@gmail.com net: thunder_bgx: decrement cleanup index before use
Rosen Penev rosenp@gmail.com net: thunder_bgx: add a missing of_node_put
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org wifi: libertas: cap SSID len in lbs_associate()
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org wifi: cw1200: cap SSID length in cw1200_do_join()
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix tx vlan tag for llc packets
Zhen Ni zhen.ni@easystack.cn i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty
Fabian Bläse fabian@blaese.de icmp: fix icmp_ndo_send address translation for reply direction
Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com mISDN: Fix memory leak in dsp_hwec_enable()
Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com xirc2ps_cs: fix register access when enabling FullDuplex
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen()
Phil Sutter phil@nwl.cc netfilter: conntrack: helper: Replace -EEXIST by -EBUSY
Dmitry Antipov dmantipov@yandex.ru wifi: cfg80211: fix use-after-free in cmp_bss()
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org powerpc: boot: Remove leading zero in label in udelay()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- arch/powerpc/boot/util.S | 4 +-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 16 +++++++-- drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-cqdma.c | 10 +++--- drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c | 5 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v10_0.c | 5 --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v11_0.c | 5 --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v6_0.c | 5 --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/dce_v8_0.c | 5 --- drivers/iio/chemical/pms7003.c | 5 +-- drivers/iio/light/opt3001.c | 5 +-- drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_hwec.c | 6 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.c | 20 +++++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c | 10 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 10 +++++- drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 6 ++-- drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c | 5 +-- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c | 9 +++-- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 5 +-- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/sta.c | 2 +- drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_iodyn.c | 3 ++ drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_nonstatic.c | 4 ++- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_nvmet.c | 10 +++--- drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c | 15 +++++---- fs/cifs/connect.c | 5 +++ kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 28 +++++++++++++--- mm/khugepaged.c | 14 +++++++- mm/slub.c | 7 +++- net/atm/resources.c | 6 ++-- net/ax25/ax25_in.c | 4 +++ net/batman-adv/network-coding.c | 7 +++- net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 3 ++ net/dsa/tag_ksz.c | 22 ++++++++++--- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 7 ++-- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 6 ++-- net/ipv6/ip6_icmp.c | 6 ++-- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c | 4 +-- net/wireless/scan.c | 3 +- scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gcc-plugins/randomize_layout_plugin.c | 40 +++++++---------------- sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 1 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 + sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 2 ++ 46 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 132 deletions(-)