This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.96 release. There are 63 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 Jan 26 19:01:15 UTC 2019. 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-4.14.96-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 4.14.96-rc1

Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com ipmi:ssif: Fix handling of multi-part return messages

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com PCI: dwc: Move interrupt acking into the proper callback

Zhenyu Wang zhenyuw@linux.intel.com drm/i915/gvt: Fix mmap range check

Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com cifs: allow disabling insecure dialects in the config

Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com ipmi:pci: Blacklist a Realtek "IPMI" device

Scott Mayhew smayhew@redhat.com nfs: fix a deadlock in nfs client initialization

Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps

Aaron Lu aaron.lu@intel.com mm/swap: use nr_node_ids for avail_lists in swap_info_struct

Brian Foster bfoster@redhat.com mm/page-writeback.c: don't break integrity writeback on ->writepage() error

Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com ocfs2: fix panic due to unrecovered local alloc

Qian Cai cai@lca.pw scsi: megaraid: fix out-of-bound array accesses

Yanjiang Jin yanjiang.jin@hxt-semitech.com scsi: smartpqi: call pqi_free_interrupts() in pqi_shutdown()

Kevin Barnett kevin.barnett@microsemi.com scsi: smartpqi: correct lun reset issues

Parvi Kaustubhi pkaustub@cisco.com IB/usnic: Fix potential deadlock

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch sysfs: Disable lockdep for driver bind/unbind files

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: bebob: fix model-id of unit for Apogee Ensemble

Yangtao Li tiny.windzz@gmail.com clocksource/drivers/integrator-ap: Add missing of_node_put()

Javier Barrio javier.barrio.mart@gmail.com quota: Lock s_umount in exclusive mode for Q_XQUOTA{ON,OFF} quotactls.

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm snapshot: Fix excessive memory usage and workqueue stalls

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools lib subcmd: Don't add the kernel sources to the include path

Nikos Tsironis ntsironis@arrikto.com dm kcopyd: Fix bug causing workqueue stalls

AliOS system security alios_sys_security@linux.alibaba.com dm crypt: use u64 instead of sector_t to store iv_offset

Taehee Yoo ap420073@gmail.com netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: check MAC address when duplicate config is set

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf parse-events: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com perf svghelper: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com perf intel-pt: Fix error with config term "pt=0"

Sergey Senozhatsky sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com tty/serial: do not free trasnmit buffer page under port lock

Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de btrfs: improve error handling of btrfs_add_link

Jonas Danielsson jonas@orbital-systems.com mmc: atmel-mci: do not assume idle after atmci_request_end

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com kconfig: fix file name and line number of warn_ignored_character()

Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com arm64: Fix minor issues with the dcache_by_line_op macro

Lucas Stach l.stach@pengutronix.de clk: imx6q: reset exclusive gates on init

Dmitry V. Levin ldv@altlinux.org selftests: do not macro-expand failed assertion expressions

David Disseldorp ddiss@suse.de scsi: target: use consistent left-aligned ASCII INQUIRY data

yupeng yupeng0921@gmail.com net: call sk_dst_reset when set SO_DONTROUTE

Vivek Gautam vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org media: venus: core: Set dma maximum segment size

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com media: firewire: Fix app_info parameter type in avc_ca{,_app}_info

Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Fix preempt warning

Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org powerpc/xmon: Fix invocation inside lock region

Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid

A.s. Dong aisheng.dong@nxp.com clk: imx: make mux parent strings const

Daniel Santos daniel.santos@pobox.com jffs2: Fix use of uninitialized delayed_work, lockdep breakage

Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com rxe: IB_WR_REG_MR does not capture MR's iova field

Ondrej Mosnacek omosnace@redhat.com selinux: always allow mounting submounts

Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com usb: gadget: udc: renesas_usb3: add a safety connection way for forced_b_device

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org arm64: perf: set suppress_bind_attrs flag to true

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org MIPS: SiByte: Enable swiotlb for SWARM, LittleSur and BigSur

Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de x86/mce: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: oxfw: add support for APOGEE duet FireWire

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org serial: set suppress_bind_attrs flag only if builtin

Anders Roxell anders.roxell@linaro.org writeback: don't decrement wb->refcnt if !wb->bdi

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com e1000e: allow non-monotonic SYSTIM readings

João Paulo Rechi Vita jprvita@gmail.com platform/x86: asus-wmi: Tell the EC the OS will handle the display off hotkey

Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org gpio: pl061: Move irq_chip definition inside struct pl061

Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch net: dsa: mv88x6xxx: mv88e6390 errata

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Take rcu_read_lock in __inet6_bind for mapped addresses

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com r8169: Add support for new Realtek Ethernet

Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com qmi_wwan: add MTU default to qmap network interface

David Rientjes rientjes@google.com net, skbuff: do not prefer skb allocation fails early

Ido Schimmel idosch@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Set PVID correctly during VLAN deletion

Jiri Pirko jiri@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum: Disable lag port TX before removing it

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to a v4 mapped address

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Diffstat:

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 30 +++--- arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 1 + arch/arm64/mm/cache.S | 3 + arch/mips/Kconfig | 3 + arch/mips/sibyte/common/Makefile | 1 + arch/mips/sibyte/common/dma.c | 14 +++ arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 18 +++- arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 5 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.c | 3 +- drivers/base/bus.c | 7 +- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 12 +++ drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 25 +++-- drivers/clk/imx/clk-busy.c | 2 +- drivers/clk/imx/clk-fixup-mux.c | 2 +- drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx6q.c | 6 +- drivers/clk/imx/clk.h | 18 ++-- drivers/clocksource/timer-integrator-ap.c | 25 +++-- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 8 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-pl061.c | 21 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 21 +++- drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c | 11 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c | 1 + drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 6 +- drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 19 +++- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 22 ++++ drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c | 6 +- drivers/media/firewire/firedtv.h | 6 +- drivers/media/platform/qcom/venus/core.c | 8 ++ drivers/mmc/host/atmel-mci.c | 3 +- drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.h | 5 + drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/port.h | 10 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c | 13 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 7 +- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 2 + drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/pci/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c | 15 ++- drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fp.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 4 + drivers/target/target_core_spc.c | 17 +++- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 2 + drivers/tty/serial/pic32_uart.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 22 ++-- drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/udc/renesas_usb3.c | 15 ++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 7 +- fs/cifs/Kconfig | 17 +++- fs/cifs/connect.c | 9 ++ fs/jffs2/super.c | 3 +- fs/nfs/client.c | 11 ++ fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 17 +++- fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c | 9 +- fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 5 + fs/quota/quota.c | 3 +- include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 8 ++ include/linux/swap.h | 11 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 35 ++++--- mm/swapfile.c | 3 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 7 +- net/core/sock.c | 1 + net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 14 ++- scripts/kconfig/zconf.l | 4 +- security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/Kconfig | 1 + sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c | 8 ++ tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile | 2 - tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 11 ++ tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/svghelper.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/kselftest_harness.h | 42 ++++---- 79 files changed, 624 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)