This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.62 release. There are 21 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 Aug 9 17:23:22 UTC 2018. 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-4.14.62-rc1... 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 4.14.62-rc1
Shankara Pailoor shankarapailoor@gmail.com jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size
Eric Sandeen sandeen@sandeen.net xfs: don't call xfs_da_shrink_inode with NULL bp
Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com xfs: validate cached inodes are free when allocated
Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com xfs: catch inode allocation state mismatch corruption
Len Brown len.brown@intel.com intel_idle: Graceful probe failure when MWAIT is disabled
James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com nvmet-fc: fix target sgl list on large transfers
Keith Busch keith.busch@intel.com nvme-pci: Fix queue double allocations
Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me nvme-pci: allocate device queues storage space at probe
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: fix file data corruption after cloning a range and fsync
Esben Haabendal eha@deif.com i2c: imx: Fix reinit_completion() use
Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer
Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets@redhat.com ACPI / PCI: Bail early in acpi_pci_add_bus() if there is no ACPI handle
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: fix false negatives *and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors()
Dmitry Safonov dima@arista.com netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups
Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirq
Anna-Maria Gleixner anna-maria@linutronix.de nohz: Fix local_timer_softirq_pending()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de genirq: Make force irq threading setup more robust
Anil Gurumurthy anil.gurumurthy@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Return error when TMF returns
Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix ISP recovery on unload
Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NPIV deletion by calling wait_for_sess_deletion
Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix unintialized List head crash
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 3 +- drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 7 ++++- drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++---------------------- drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++------ drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h | 1 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 4 +++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 7 ++--- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_inline.h | 2 ++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mid.c | 5 +++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 7 +++-- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 3 ++ fs/ext4/super.c | 4 +-- fs/jfs/xattr.c | 10 +++--- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 5 ++- fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 1 + kernel/irq/manage.c | 9 +++++- kernel/softirq.c | 2 +- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 ++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++ net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +-- 25 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)