This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.74 release. There are 27 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, 15 Oct 2022 17:51:33 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.74-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.15.74-rc1

Shunsuke Mie mie@igel.co.jp misc: pci_endpoint_test: Fix pci_endpoint_test_{copy,write,read}() panic

Shunsuke Mie mie@igel.co.jp misc: pci_endpoint_test: Aggregate params checking for xfer

Cameron Gutman aicommander@gmail.com Input: xpad - fix wireless 360 controller breaking after suspend

Pavel Rojtberg rojtberg@gmail.com Input: xpad - add supported devices as contributed on github

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: cfg80211: update hidden BSSes to avoid WARN_ON

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: mac80211: fix crash in beacon protection for P2P-device

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: mac80211_hwsim: avoid mac80211 warning on bad rate

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: cfg80211: avoid nontransmitted BSS list corruption

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: cfg80211: fix BSS refcounting bugs

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: cfg80211: ensure length byte is present before access

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: reject bad MBSSID elements

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: cfg80211: fix u8 overflow in cfg80211_update_notlisted_nontrans()

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com random: use expired timer rather than wq for mixing fast pool

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com random: avoid reading two cache lines on irq randomness

Giovanni Cabiddu giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com Revert "crypto: qat - reduce size of mapped region"

Nathan Lynch nathanl@linux.ibm.com Revert "powerpc/rtas: Implement reentrant rtas call"

Frank Wunderlich frank-w@public-files.de USB: serial: qcserial: add new usb-id for Dell branded EM7455

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org scsi: stex: Properly zero out the passthrough command structure

Orlando Chamberlain redecorating@protonmail.com efi: Correct Macmini DMI match in uefi cert quirk

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda: Fix position reporting on Poulsbo

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com random: clamp credited irq bits to maximum mixed

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com random: restore O_NONBLOCK support

Hu Weiwen sehuww@mail.scut.edu.cn ceph: don't truncate file in atomic_open

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: fix leak of nilfs_root in case of writer thread creation failure

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of struct nilfs_root

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference at nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 1 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h | 1 - arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c | 32 ----------- arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 54 ------------------- arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-rtas.c | 22 ++++---- drivers/char/mem.c | 4 +- drivers/char/random.c | 25 ++++++--- drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_asym_algs.c | 12 ++--- drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c | 20 ++++++- drivers/misc/pci_endpoint_test.c | 34 +++++++++--- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 2 + drivers/scsi/stex.c | 17 +++--- drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c | 1 + fs/ceph/file.c | 10 ++-- fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 19 ++++++- fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 21 +++++--- include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h | 2 +- net/mac80211/rx.c | 12 +++-- net/mac80211/util.c | 2 + net/wireless/scan.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++---------- security/integrity/platform_certs/load_uefi.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 3 +- 23 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 179 deletions(-)