This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.2.1 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 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:04:16 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.2.1-rc1.g... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.2.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.2.1-rc1

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com randstruct: disable Clang 15 support

Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org ext4: Fix function prototype mismatch for ext4_feat_ktype

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: nvidia-wmi-ec-backlight: Add force module parameter

Shyam Sundar S K Shyam-sundar.S-k@amd.com platform/x86/amd/pmf: Add depends on CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY

Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com audit: update the mailing list in MAINTAINERS

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de wifi: mwifiex: Add missing compatible string for SD8787

Benjamin Tissoires benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com HID: mcp-2221: prevent UAF in delayed work

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/static_call: Add support for Jcc tail-calls

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to patch Jcc.d32 instructions

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/alternatives: Introduce int3_emulate_jcc()

Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user()

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Diffstat:

MAINTAINERS | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h | 31 +++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++------- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 38 ++++------------ arch/x86/kernel/static_call.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c | 3 ++ drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.c | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/nvidia-wmi-ec-backlight.c | 6 ++- fs/ext4/sysfs.c | 7 ++- include/linux/nospec.h | 4 ++ kernel/bpf/core.c | 2 - lib/usercopy.c | 7 +++ security/Kconfig.hardening | 3 ++ 15 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)