This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.218 release. There are 50 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, 31 Jan 2021 10:59:01 +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-4.14.218-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 4.14.218-rc1

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single_inode()

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz writeback: Drop I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de fs: move I_DIRTY_INODE to fs.h

Arvind Sankar nivedita@alum.mit.edu x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation

Gaurav Kohli gkohli@codeaurora.org tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Handle faults correctly for PI futexes

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Simplify fixup_pi_state_owner()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Use pi_state_update_owner() in put_pi_state()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de rtmutex: Remove unused argument from rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Provide and use pi_state_update_owner()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Replace pointless printk in fixup_owner()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de futex: Ensure the correct return value from futex_lock_pi()

Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com Revert "mm/slub: fix a memory leak in sysfs_slab_add()"

Baruch Siach baruch@tkos.co.il gpio: mvebu: fix pwm .get_state period calculation

Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz futex: futex_wake_op, fix sign_extend32 sign bits

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com net: dsa: b53: fix an off by one in checking "vlan->vid"

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: avoid shift-out-of-bounds in tcindex_set_parms()

Matteo Croce mcroce@microsoft.com ipv6: create multicast route with RTPROT_KERNEL

Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com udp: mask TOS bits in udp_v4_early_demux()

Alexander Lobakin alobakin@pm.me skbuff: back tiny skbs with kmalloc() in __netdev_alloc_skb() too

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be sh_eth: Fix power down vs. is_opened flag ordering

Necip Fazil Yildiran fazilyildiran@gmail.com sh: dma: fix kconfig dependency for G2_DMA

Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com netfilter: rpfilter: mask ecn bits before fib lookup

Will Deacon will@kernel.org compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64

JC Kuo jckuo@nvidia.com xhci: tegra: Delay for disabling LFPS detector

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: make sure TRB is fully written before giving it to the controller

Patrik Jakobsson patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com usb: bdc: Make bdc pci driver depend on BROKEN

Thinh Nguyen Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com usb: udc: core: Use lock when write to soft_connect

Longfang Liu liulongfang@huawei.com USB: ehci: fix an interrupt calltrace error

Eugene Korenevsky ekorenevsky@astralinux.ru ehci: fix EHCI host controller initialization sequence

Wang Hui john.wanghui@huawei.com stm class: Fix module init return on allocation failure

Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com intel_th: pci: Add Alder Lake-P support

Mathias Kresin dev@kresin.me irqchip/mips-cpu: Set IPI domain parent chip

Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de iio: ad5504: Fix setting power-down state

Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr can: vxcan: vxcan_xmit: fix use after free bug

Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr can: dev: can_restart: fix use after free bug

Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com i2c: octeon: check correct size of maximum RECV_LEN packet

Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/i2c/gm200: increase width of aux semaphore owner fields

Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/privring: ack interrupts the same way as RM

Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/bios: fix issue shadowing expansion ROMs

David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk xen: Fix event channel callback via INTX/GSI

Can Guo cang@codeaurora.org scsi: ufs: Correct the LUN used in eh_device_reset_handler() callback

Cezary Rojewski cezary.rojewski@intel.com ASoC: Intel: haswell: Add missing pm_ops

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com drm/atomic: put state on error path

Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t()

Alex Leibovich alexl@marvell.com mmc: sdhci-xenon: fix 1.8v regulator stabilization

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com ACPI: scan: Make acpi_bus_get_device() clear return pointer on error

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/via: Add minimum mute flag

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: oss: Fix missing error check in snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info()

Mikko Perttunen mperttunen@nvidia.com i2c: bpmp-tegra: Ignore unknown I2C_M flags

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 2 +- arch/sh/drivers/dma/Kconfig | 3 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 + drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 + drivers/gpio/gpio-mvebu.c | 25 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadow.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/i2c/auxgm200.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ibus/gf100.c | 10 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/ibus/gk104.c | 10 +- drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/pci.c | 5 + drivers/hwtracing/stm/heartbeat.c | 6 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-octeon-core.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra-bpmp.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c | 4 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c | 7 + drivers/md/dm-table.c | 15 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-xenon.c | 7 +- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 4 +- drivers/net/can/vxcan.c | 6 +- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 11 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/bdc/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c | 13 +- drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 12 ++ drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c | 3 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 2 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-tegra.c | 7 + drivers/xen/events/events_base.c | 10 - drivers/xen/platform-pci.c | 1 - drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus.h | 1 + drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c | 8 - drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 81 ++++++-- fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 43 ++-- fs/gfs2/super.c | 2 +- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 6 + include/linux/fs.h | 4 +- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 1 - include/xen/xenbus.h | 2 +- kernel/futex.c | 223 +++++++++------------ kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 3 +- kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 3 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 + mm/slub.c | 4 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_rpfilter.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 1 + net/sched/cls_tcindex.c | 8 +- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 3 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c | 1 + sound/soc/intel/boards/haswell.c | 1 + 55 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-)