This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.38 release. There are 80 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 Apr 29 13:57:13 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-4.14.38-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 4.14.38-rc1

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI / video: Only default only_lcd to true on Win8-ready _desktops_

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390/uprobes: implement arch_uretprobe_is_alive()

Stefan Haberland sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/dasd: fix IO error for newly defined devices

Sebastian Ott sebott@linux.ibm.com s390/cio: update chpid descriptor after resource accessibility event

Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com tracing: Fix missing tab for hwlat_detector print format

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Fix IO error at end of medium

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Fix array bounds check

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Select appropriate drive on device open

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Rename macros to avoid inconsistent inverted logic

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Remove extra put_disk() call from error path

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Don't log an error message for an invalid ioctl

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au block/swim: Check drive type

Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au m68k/mac: Don't remap SWIM MMIO region

Robert Kolchmeyer rkolchmeyer@google.com fsnotify: Fix fsnotify_mark_connector race

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com cdrom: information leak in cdrom_ioctl_media_changed()

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com scsi: mptsas: Disable WRITE SAME

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure.

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "mm/hmm: fix header file if/else/endif maze"

Klaus Goger klaus.goger@theobroma-systems.com arm64: dts: rockchip: remove vdd_log from rk3399-puma

Michal Simek michal.simek@xilinx.com microblaze: Setup dependencies for ASM optimized lib functions

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: correct module section names for expoline code revert

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: correct nospec auto detection init order

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add sysfs attributes for spectre

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: report spectre mitigation via syslog

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add automatic detection of the spectre defense

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: move nobp parameter functions to nospec-branch.c

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390/entry.S: fix spurious zeroing of r0

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: do not bypass BPENTER for interrupt system calls

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: Replace IS_ENABLED(EXPOLINE_*) with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EXPOLINE_*)

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com KVM: s390: force bp isolation for VSIE

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: run user space and KVM guests with modified branch prediction

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add options to change branch prediction behaviour for the kernel

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390/alternative: use a copy of the facility bit mask

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: add optimized array_index_mask_nospec

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: scrub registers on kernel entry and KVM exit

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: enable CPU alternatives unconditionally

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com s390: introduce CPU alternatives

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "microblaze: fix endian handling"

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio_net: fix adding vids on big-endian

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio_net: split out ctrl buffer

Ivan Khoronzhuk ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix tx vlan priority mapping

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: fix NULL pointer deref for SOCK_ZAPPED

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: hold llc_sap before release_sock()

Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: sched: ife: check on metadata length

Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: sched: ife: handle malformed tlv length

Soheil Hassas Yeganeh soheil@google.com tcp: clear tp->packets_out when purging write queue

Alexander Aring aring@mojatatu.com net: sched: ife: signal not finding metaid

Doron Roberts-Kedes doronrk@fb.com strparser: Fix incorrect strp->need_bytes value.

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com amd-xgbe: Only use the SFP supported transceiver signals

Doron Roberts-Kedes doronrk@fb.com strparser: Do not call mod_delayed_work with a timeout of LONG_MAX

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com amd-xgbe: Improve KR auto-negotiation and training

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: do not check port in sctp_inet6_cmp_addr

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com amd-xgbe: Add pre/post auto-negotiation phy hooks

Toshiaki Makita makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp vlan: Fix reading memory beyond skb->tail in skb_vlan_tagged_multi

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr pppoe: check sockaddr length in pppoe_connect()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tipc: add policy for TIPC_NLA_NET_ADDR

Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com packet: fix bitfield update race

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com team: fix netconsole setup over team

Ursula Braun ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com net/smc: fix shutdown in state SMC_LISTEN

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com team: avoid adding twice the same option to the event list

Wolfgang Bumiller w.bumiller@proxmox.com net: fix deadlock while clearing neighbor proxy table

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: md5: reject TCP_MD5SIG or TCP_MD5SIG_EXT on established sockets

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: af_packet: fix race in PACKET_{R|T}X_RING

Jann Horn jannh@google.com tcp: don't read out-of-bounds opsize

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com llc: delete timers synchronously in llc_sk_free()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: validate attribute sizes in neigh_dump_table()

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: check sockaddr length in pppol2tp_connect()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: DNS: limit the length of option strings

Ahmed Abdelsalam amsalam20@gmail.com ipv6: sr: fix NULL pointer dereference in seg6_do_srh_encap()- v4 pkts

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: add RTA_TABLE and RTA_PREFSRC to rtm_ipv6_policy

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com bonding: do not set slave_dev npinfo before slave_enable_netpoll in bond_enslave

Karthikeyan Periyasamy periyasa@codeaurora.org Revert "ath10k: send (re)assoc peer command when NSS changed"

James Bottomley James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com tpm: add retry logic

Winkler, Tomas tomas.winkler@intel.com tpm: tpm-interface: fix tpm_transmit/_cmd kdoc

Tomas Winkler tomas.winkler@intel.com tpm: cmd_ready command can be issued only after granting locality

Paweł Jabłoński pawel.jablonski@intel.com i40e: Fix attach VF to VM issue

Neil Armstrong narmstrong@baylibre.com drm: bridge: dw-hdmi: Fix overflow workaround for Amlogic Meson GX SoCs

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "pinctrl: intel: Initialize GPIO properly when used through irqchip"

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Diffstat:

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-puma.dtsi | 11 - arch/microblaze/Kconfig.platform | 1 + arch/microblaze/Makefile | 17 +- arch/microblaze/lib/fastcopy.S | 4 - arch/s390/Kconfig | 47 ++++ arch/s390/Makefile | 10 + arch/s390/include/asm/alternative.h | 149 ++++++++++++ arch/s390/include/asm/barrier.h | 24 ++ arch/s390/include/asm/facility.h | 18 ++ arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +- arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h | 7 +- arch/s390/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 17 ++ arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h | 4 + arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 + arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 5 +- arch/s390/kernel/Makefile | 6 +- arch/s390/kernel/alternative.c | 112 +++++++++ arch/s390/kernel/early.c | 5 + arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | 250 ++++++++++++++++++--- arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 1 + arch/s390/kernel/module.c | 65 +++++- arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c | 169 ++++++++++++++ arch/s390/kernel/processor.c | 18 ++ arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 14 +- arch/s390/kernel/smp.c | 7 +- arch/s390/kernel/uprobes.c | 9 + arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 37 +++ arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 12 + arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 30 +++ drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 27 ++- drivers/block/swim.c | 49 ++-- drivers/block/swim3.c | 6 +- drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 2 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 131 ++++++++--- drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 1 + drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c | 108 ++++++--- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c | 3 + drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c | 1 + drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-common.h | 8 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-debugfs.c | 16 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c | 24 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-pci.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-phy-v2.c | 196 ++++++++++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h | 9 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 11 + drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 4 + drivers/net/team/team.c | 38 +++- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 68 +++--- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 5 +- drivers/pinctrl/intel/pinctrl-intel.c | 23 +- drivers/s390/block/dasd_alias.c | 13 +- drivers/s390/char/Makefile | 2 + drivers/s390/cio/chsc.c | 14 +- include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 4 +- include/linux/hmm.h | 9 +- include/linux/if_vlan.h | 7 +- include/linux/tpm.h | 2 +- include/net/ife.h | 3 +- include/net/llc_conn.h | 1 + include/net/tcp.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 + kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 2 +- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/core/neighbour.c | 40 ++-- net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 13 +- net/ife/ife.c | 38 +++- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 + net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 2 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 7 + net/llc/af_llc.c | 14 +- net/llc/llc_c_ac.c | 9 +- net/llc/llc_conn.c | 22 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 83 ++++--- net/packet/internal.h | 10 +- net/sched/act_ife.c | 9 +- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 60 ++--- net/smc/af_smc.c | 10 +- net/strparser/strparser.c | 9 +- net/tipc/netlink.c | 3 +- security/commoncap.c | 2 + 88 files changed, 1842 insertions(+), 371 deletions(-)