This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.2 release. There are 18 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 Fri Nov 24 10:11:38 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.2-rc1.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.14.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.14.2-rc1
Jan Harkes jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync
Jaewon Kim jaewon31.kim@samsung.com mm/page_ext.c: check if page_ext is not prepared
Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@oracle.com mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation
Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com ipmi: fix unsigned long underflow
alex chen alex.chen@huawei.com ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr()
Changwei Ge ge.changwei@h3c.com ocfs2: fix cluster hang after a node dies
Jann Horn jannh@google.com mm/pagewalk.c: report holes in hugetlb ranges
Neeraj Upadhyay neeraju@codeaurora.org rcu: Fix up pending cbs check in rcu_prepare_for_idle
Alexander Steffen Alexander.Steffen@infineon.com tpm-dev-common: Reject too short writes
Ji-Ze Hong (Peter Hong) hpeter@gmail.com serial: 8250_fintek: Fix finding base_port with activated SuperIO
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de serial: omap: Fix EFR write on RTS deassertion
Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu@huawei.com ima: do not update security.ima if appraisal status is not INTEGRITY_PASS
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname
Huacai Chen chenhc@lemote.com fealnx: Fix building error on MIPS
Bjørn Mork bjorn@mork.no net: cdc_ncm: GetNtbFormat endian fix
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com vxlan: fix the issue that neigh proxy blocks all icmpv6 packets
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com af_netlink: ensure that NLMSG_DONE never fails in dumps
Michael Lyle mlyle@lyle.org bio: ensure __bio_clone_fast copies bi_partno
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- block/bio.c | 1 + drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 10 ++++++---- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/fealnx.c | 6 +++--- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_fintek.c | 3 +++ drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 2 +- fs/coda/upcall.c | 3 +-- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c | 1 + fs/ocfs2/file.c | 9 +++++++-- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++--------- mm/page_ext.c | 4 ---- mm/pagewalk.c | 6 +++++- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 17 +++++++++++------ net/netlink/af_netlink.h | 1 + net/sctp/ipv6.c | 5 +++-- security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 3 +++ 21 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)