This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.148 release. There are 37 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 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:47:02 +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-4.19.148-rc... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.19.148-rc1

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de serial: 8250: Avoid error message on reprobe

Priyaranjan Jha priyarjha@google.com tcp_bbr: adapt cwnd based on ack aggregation estimation

Priyaranjan Jha priyarjha@google.com tcp_bbr: refactor bbr_target_cwnd() for general inflight provisioning

Xunlei Pang xlpang@linux.alibaba.com mm: memcg: fix memcg reclaim soft lockup

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org kbuild: support LLVM=1 to switch the default tools to Clang/LLVM

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org kbuild: replace AS=clang with LLVM_IAS=1

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org kbuild: remove AS variable

Dmitry Golovin dima@golovin.in x86/boot: kbuild: allow readelf executable to be specified

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org net: wan: wanxl: use $(M68KCC) instead of $(M68KAS) for rebuilding firmware

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware

Fangrui Song maskray@google.com Documentation/llvm: fix the name of llvm-size

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM

Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com kbuild: add OBJSIZE variable for the size tool

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com MAINTAINERS: add CLANG/LLVM BUILD SUPPORT info

David Ahern dsahern@kernel.org ipv4: Update exception handling for multipath routes via same device

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: add __must_check to skb_put_padto()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: qrtr: check skb_put_padto() return value

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy_detach() when driver is unbound

Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Protect bnxt_set_eee() and bnxt_set_pauseparam() with mutex.

Edwin Peer edwin.peer@broadcom.com bnxt_en: return proper error codes in bnxt_show_temp

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com tipc: use skb_unshare() instead in tipc_buf_append()

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp tipc: fix shutdown() of connection oriented socket

Peilin Ye yepeilin.cs@gmail.com tipc: Fix memory leak in tipc_group_create_member()

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nfp: use correct define to return NONE fec

Yunsheng Lin linyunsheng@huawei.com net: sch_generic: aviod concurrent reset and enqueue op for lockless qdisc

Necip Fazil Yildiran fazilyildiran@gmail.com net: ipv6: fix kconfig dependency warning for IPV6_SEG6_HMAC

Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org net: dsa: rtl8366: Properly clear member config

Petr Machata petrm@nvidia.com net: DCB: Validate DCB_ATTR_DCB_BUFFER argument

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: avoid lockdep issue in fib6_del()

Wei Wang weiwan@google.com ip: fix tos reflection in ack and reset packets

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com hdlc_ppp: add range checks in ppp_cp_parse_cr()

Mark Gray mark.d.gray@redhat.com geneve: add transport ports in route lookup for geneve

Ganji Aravind ganji.aravind@chelsio.com cxgb4: Fix offset when clearing filter byte counters

Ralph Campbell rcampbell@nvidia.com mm/thp: fix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD

Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com kprobes: fix kill kprobe which has been marked as gone

Rustam Kovhaev rkovhaev@gmail.com KVM: fix memory leak in kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev()

Mark Salyzyn salyzyn@android.com af_key: pfkey_dump needs parameter validation

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Diffstat:

Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst | 87 ++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 9 ++ Makefile | 40 +++-- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366.c | 20 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 19 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 31 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_filter.c | 9 +- .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_ethtool.c | 4 +- drivers/net/geneve.c | 37 +++-- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wan/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/net/wan/Makefile | 12 +- drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c | 16 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 11 +- include/linux/skbuff.h | 7 +- include/net/inet_connection_sock.h | 4 +- kernel/kprobes.c | 9 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 40 +++-- mm/vmscan.c | 8 + net/dcb/dcbnl.c | 8 + net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/route.c | 11 +- net/ipv4/tcp_bbr.c | 180 ++++++++++++++++++--- net/ipv6/Kconfig | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 13 +- net/key/af_key.c | 7 + net/qrtr/qrtr.c | 20 +-- net/sched/sch_generic.c | 49 ++++-- net/tipc/group.c | 14 +- net/tipc/msg.c | 3 +- net/tipc/socket.c | 5 +- tools/objtool/Makefile | 6 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 21 +-- 34 files changed, 550 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)