This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.184 release. There are 59 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, 22 May 2025 12:57:37 +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-5.15.184-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 5.15.184-rc1
Alexander Lobakin alexandr.lobakin@intel.com ice: arfs: fix use-after-free when freeing @rx_cpu_rmap
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: nf_tables: do not defer rule destruction via call_rcu
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nf_tables: wait for rcu grace period on net_device removal
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: nf_tables: pass nft_chain to destroy function, not nft_ctx
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com btrfs: do not clean up repair bio if submit fails
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: don't BUG_ON() when 0 reference count at btrfs_lookup_extent_info()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com sctp: add mutual exclusion in proc_sctp_do_udp_port()
Feng Tang feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com selftests/mm: compaction_test: support platform with huge mount of memory
GONG Ruiqi gongruiqi1@huawei.com usb: typec: fix pm usage counter imbalance in ucsi_ccg_sync_control()
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org usb: typec: fix potential array underflow in ucsi_ccg_sync_control()
RD Babiera rdbabiera@google.com usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: create sysfs nodes as driver's default device attribute group
Andrei Kuchynski akuchynski@chromium.org usb: typec: ucsi: displayport: Fix deadlock
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de clocksource/i8253: Use raw_spinlock_irqsave() in clockevent_i8253_disable()
Fengnan Chang changfengnan@bytedance.com block: fix direct io NOWAIT flag not work
Shuai Xue xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_setup_groups
Shuai Xue xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_setup_engines
Yemike Abhilash Chandra y-abhilashchandra@ti.com dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Use cap_mask directly from dma_device structure instead of a local copy
Ronald Wahl ronald.wahl@legrand.com dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Add missing locking
Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru wifi: mt76: disable napi on driver removal
Claudiu Beznea claudiu.beznea.uj@bp.renesas.com phy: renesas: rcar-gen3-usb2: Set timing registers only once
Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn phy: Fix error handling in tegra_xusb_port_init
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: samples: Initialize trace_array_printk() with the correct function
pengdonglin pengdonglin@xiaomi.com ftrace: Fix preemption accounting for stacktrace filter command
pengdonglin pengdonglin@xiaomi.com ftrace: Fix preemption accounting for stacktrace trigger command
Nicolas Chauvet kwizart@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Add sample rate quirk for Microdia JP001 USB Camera
Christian Heusel christian@heusel.eu ALSA: usb-audio: Add sample rate quirk for Audioengine D1
Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn ALSA: es1968: Add error handling for snd_pcm_hw_constraint_pow2()
Jeremy Linton jeremy.linton@arm.com ACPI: PPTT: Fix processor subtable walk
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix discard worker infinite loop after disabling discard
Nathan Lynch nathan.lynch@amd.com dmaengine: Revert "dmaengine: dmatest: Fix dmatest waiting less when interrupted"
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/its: FineIBT-paranoid vs ITS
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com x86/its: Fix build errors when CONFIG_MODULES=n
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/its: Use dynamic thunks for indirect branches
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/its: Align RETs in BHB clear sequence to avoid thunking
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe return thunk
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org x86/alternatives: Remove faulty optimization
Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/alternative: Optimize returns patching
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe indirect thunk
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/its: Enumerate Indirect Target Selection (ITS) bug
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com Documentation: x86/bugs/its: Add ITS documentation
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/speculation: Remove the extra #ifdef around CALL_NOSPEC
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC
Pawan Gupta pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com x86/speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86,nospec: Simplify {JMP,CALL}_NOSPEC
Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com NFSv4/pnfs: Reset the layout state after a layoutreturn
Abdun Nihaal abdun.nihaal@gmail.com qlcnic: fix memory leak in qlcnic_sriov_channel_cfg_cmd()
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be ALSA: sh: SND_AICA should depend on SH_DMA_API
Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com net: dsa: sja1105: discard incoming frames in BR_STATE_LISTENING
Mathieu Othacehe othacehe@gnu.org net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx.
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com net_sched: Flush gso_skb list too during ->change()
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be spi: loopback-test: Do not split 1024-byte hexdumps
Li Lingfeng lilingfeng3@huawei.com nfs: handle failure of nfs_get_lock_context in unlock path
Zhu Yanjun yanjun.zhu@linux.dev RDMA/rxe: Fix slab-use-after-free Read in rxe_queue_cleanup bug
David Lechner dlechner@baylibre.com iio: chemical: sps30: use aligned_s64 for timestamp
Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio: adc: ad7768-1: Fix insufficient alignment of timestamp.
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org tracing: probes: Fix a possible race in trace_probe_log APIs
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix wlan_ctrl_by_user detection
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Diffstat:
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst | 1 + .../hw-vuln/indirect-target-selection.rst | 156 +++++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 15 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 + arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 20 +- arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 32 +++ arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 8 + arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 57 +++-- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 243 ++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 139 +++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 63 +++++- arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 7 + arch/x86/kernel/static_call.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 10 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 +- arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S | 39 ++++ arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 8 +- block/fops.c | 5 +- drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 11 +- drivers/base/cpu.c | 8 + drivers/clocksource/i8253.c | 6 +- drivers/dma/dmatest.c | 6 +- drivers/dma/idxd/init.c | 8 + drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c | 10 +- drivers/iio/adc/ad7768-1.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/chemical/sps30.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_cq.c | 5 +- drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 19 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_arfs.c | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lib.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 20 +- .../ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_common.c | 7 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/dma.c | 1 + drivers/phy/renesas/phy-rcar-gen3-usb2.c | 7 +- drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c | 8 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 3 +- drivers/spi/spi-loopback-test.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/displayport.c | 18 +- drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/displayport.c | 19 +- drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c | 34 +++ drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.h | 3 + drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_ccg.c | 5 + fs/btrfs/discard.c | 17 +- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 25 ++- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 15 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 9 +- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 9 + include/linux/cpu.h | 2 + include/linux/module.h | 5 + include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 2 +- include/net/sch_generic.h | 15 ++ kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c | 16 +- kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h | 1 + kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_functions.c | 6 +- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 9 + kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 54 +++-- net/netfilter/nft_immediate.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_codel.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_fq.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_hhf.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_pie.c | 2 +- net/sctp/sysctl.c | 4 + samples/ftrace/sample-trace-array.c | 2 +- sound/pci/es1968.c | 6 +- sound/sh/Kconfig | 2 +- sound/usb/quirks.c | 4 + tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c | 19 +- 77 files changed, 1112 insertions(+), 184 deletions(-)