This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.333 release. There are 25 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 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:19:59 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.333-rc... 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 4.14.333-rc1

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com drop_monitor: Require 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' when joining "events" group

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com psample: Require 'CAP_NET_ADMIN' when joining "packets" group

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com genetlink: add CAP_NET_ADMIN test for multicast bind

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com netlink: don't call ->netlink_bind with table lock held

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: fix missing error check for sb_set_blocksize call

Claudio Imbrenda imbrenda@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390/mm: Properly reset no-dat

Ronald Wahl ronald.wahl@raritan.com serial: 8250_omap: Add earlycon support for the AM654 UART controller

Daniel Mack daniel@zonque.org serial: sc16is7xx: address RX timeout interrupt errata

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: PL011: Fix DMA support

Cameron Williams cang1@live.co.uk parport: Add support for Brainboxes IX/UC/PX parallel cards

Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net packet: Move reference count in packet_sock to atomic_long_t

Petr Pavlu petr.pavlu@suse.com tracing: Fix a possible race when disabling buffered events

Petr Pavlu petr.pavlu@suse.com tracing: Fix incomplete locking when disabling buffered events

Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Always update snapshot buffer size

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: prevent WARNING in nilfs_sufile_set_segment_usage()

Jason Zhang jason.zhang@rock-chips.com ALSA: pcm: fix out-of-bounds in snd_pcm_state_names

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn scsi: be2iscsi: Fix a memleak in beiscsi_init_wrb_handle()

Petr Pavlu petr.pavlu@suse.com tracing: Fix a warning when allocating buffered events fails

Armin Wolf W_Armin@gmx.de hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) Fix 4.29 MW bug

Kalesh AP kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com RDMA/bnxt_re: Correct module description string

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: do not accept ACK of bytes we never sent

Yonglong Liu liuyonglong@huawei.com net: hns: fix fake link up on xge port

YuanShang YuanShang.Mao@amd.com drm/amdgpu: correct chunk_ptr to a pointer to chunk.

Alex Pakhunov alexey.pakhunov@spacex.com tg3: Increment tx_dropped in tg3_tso_bug()

Alex Pakhunov alexey.pakhunov@spacex.com tg3: Move the [rt]x_dropped counters to tg3_napi

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c | 4 + drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 42 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_mac.c | 29 ++++++ drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 21 ++++ drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 112 +++++++++++----------- drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 12 +++ fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 44 +++++++-- fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 6 +- include/net/genetlink.h | 3 + kernel/trace/trace.c | 42 ++++---- net/core/drop_monitor.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 35 +++++++ net/packet/af_packet.c | 16 ++-- net/packet/internal.h | 2 +- net/psample/psample.c | 3 +- sound/core/pcm.c | 1 + 25 files changed, 286 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)