This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.204 release. There are 11 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, 15 Aug 2021 15:05:12 +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-4.19.204-rc... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.19.204-rc1
YueHaibing yuehaibing@huawei.com net: xilinx_emaclite: Do not print real IOMEM pointer
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com ovl: prevent private clone if bind mount is not allowed
Pali Rohár pali@kernel.org ppp: Fix generating ppp unit id when ifname is not specified
Longfang Liu liulongfang@huawei.com USB:ehci:fix Kunpeng920 ehci hardware problem
Lai Jiangshan laijs@linux.alibaba.com KVM: X86: MMU: Use the correct inherited permissions to get shadow page
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf, selftests: Adjust few selftest outcomes wrt unreachable code
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: Fix leakage under speculation on mispredicted branches
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: Do not mark insn as seen under speculative path verification
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: Inherit expanded/patched seen count from old aux data
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org tracing: Reject string operand in the histogram expression
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SVM: Fix off-by-one indexing when nullifying last used SEV VMCB
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Diffstat:
Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 14 ++++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 19 ++++++-- drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c | 3 ++ fs/namespace.c | 42 +++++++++++------ kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++---- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 14 ++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier.c | 2 + 11 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)