This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.227 release. There are 43 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, 24 Mar 2021 12:19:09 +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-4.14.227-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 4.14.227-rc1

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de genirq: Disable interrupts for force threaded handlers

Shijie Luo luoshijie1@huawei.com ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode

zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: do not try to set xattr into ea_inode if value is empty

zhangyi (F) yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: find old entry again if failed to rename whiteout

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com x86: Introduce TS_COMPAT_RESTART to fix get_nr_restart_syscall()

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com x86: Move TS_COMPAT back to asm/thread_info.h

Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel, fs: Introduce and use set_restart_fn() and arch_set_restart_data()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/ioapic: Ignore IRQ2 again

Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel: Fix a crash caused by zero PEBS status

Tyrel Datwyler tyreld@linux.ibm.com PCI: rpadlpar: Fix potential drc_name corruption in store functions

Ye Xiang xiang.ye@intel.com iio: hid-sensor-temperature: Fix issues of timestamp channel

Ye Xiang xiang.ye@intel.com iio: hid-sensor-prox: Fix scale not correct issue

Ye Xiang xiang.ye@intel.com iio: hid-sensor-humidity: Fix alignment issue of timestamp channel

Dinghao Liu dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn iio: gyro: mpu3050: Fix error handling in mpu3050_trigger_handler

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com iio: adis16400: Fix an error code in adis16400_initial_setup()

Jonathan Albrieux jonathan.albrieux@gmail.com iio:adc:qcom-spmi-vadc: add default scale to LR_MUX2_BAT_ID channel

Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com iio:adc:stm32-adc: Add HAS_IOMEM dependency

Jim Lin jilin@nvidia.com usb: gadget: configfs: Fix KASAN use-after-free

Macpaul Lin macpaul.lin@mediatek.com USB: replace hardcode maximum usb string length by definition

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu usb-storage: Add quirk to defeat Kindle's automatic unload

Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me nvme-rdma: fix possible hang when failing to set io queues

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com scsi: lpfc: Fix some error codes in debugfs

Pavel Skripkin paskripkin@gmail.com net/qrtr: fix __netdev_alloc_skb call

Daniel Kobras kobras@puzzle-itc.de sunrpc: fix refcount leak for rpc auth modules

Timo Rothenpieler timo@rothenpieler.org svcrdma: disable timeouts on rdma backchannel

Joe Korty joe.korty@concurrent-rt.com NFSD: Repair misuse of sv_lock in 5.10.16-rt30.

Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me nvmet: don't check iosqes,iocqes for discovery controllers

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix race when cloning extent buffer during rewind of an old root

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools build feature: Check if pthread_barrier_t is available

Changbin Du changbin.du@gmail.com perf: Make perf able to build with latest libbfd

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools build: Check if gettid() is available before providing helper

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools build feature: Check if eventfd() is available

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com tools build feature: Check if get_current_dir_name() is available

Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com perf tools: Use %define api.pure full instead of %pure-parser

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Revert "PM: runtime: Update device status before letting suppliers suspend"

Piotr Krysiuk piotras@gmail.com bpf: Prohibit alu ops for pointer types not defining ptr_limit

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: dsa: b53: Support setting learning on port

Piotr Krysiuk piotras@gmail.com bpf: Add sanity check for upper ptr_limit

Piotr Krysiuk piotras@gmail.com bpf: Simplify alu_limit masking for pointer arithmetic

Piotr Krysiuk piotras@gmail.com bpf: Fix off-by-one for area size in creating mask to left

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: check journal inode extents more carefully

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: don't allow overlapping system zones

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz ext4: handle error of ext4_setup_system_zone() on remount

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 9 --- arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 23 +++++++- arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 10 ++++ arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 24 +------- drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 62 +++++++++------------ drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/iio/adc/qcom-spmi-vadc.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/gyro/mpu3050-core.c | 2 + drivers/iio/humidity/hid-sensor-humidity.c | 12 ++-- drivers/iio/imu/adis16400_core.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c | 13 ++++- drivers/iio/temperature/hid-sensor-temperature.c | 14 +++-- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 20 +++++++ drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_regs.h | 1 + drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 5 ++ drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2_regs.h | 2 + drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c | 7 ++- drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 17 +++++- drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c | 14 ++--- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 16 ++++-- drivers/usb/gadget/usbstring.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/storage/transport.c | 7 +++ drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 12 ++++ fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 2 + fs/ext4/block_validity.c | 71 +++++++++++------------- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 +- fs/ext4/extents.c | 16 ++---- fs/ext4/indirect.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 ++--- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/namei.c | 29 +++++++++- fs/ext4/super.c | 5 +- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 +- fs/select.c | 10 ++-- include/linux/thread_info.h | 13 +++++ include/linux/usb_usual.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/usb/ch9.h | 3 + kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 33 +++++++---- kernel/futex.c | 3 +- kernel/irq/manage.c | 4 ++ kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 2 +- kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 +- net/qrtr/qrtr.c | 2 +- net/sunrpc/svc.c | 6 +- net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 4 +- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_backchannel.c | 6 +- tools/build/Makefile.feature | 4 ++ tools/build/feature/Makefile | 16 ++++++ tools/build/feature/test-all.c | 20 +++++++ tools/build/feature/test-eventfd.c | 9 +++ tools/build/feature/test-get_current_dir_name.c | 10 ++++ tools/build/feature/test-gettid.c | 11 ++++ tools/build/feature/test-pthread-barrier.c | 12 ++++ tools/perf/Makefile.config | 16 ++++++ tools/perf/jvmti/jvmti_agent.c | 2 + tools/perf/util/Build | 1 + tools/perf/util/expr.y | 3 +- tools/perf/util/get_current_dir_name.c | 18 ++++++ tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 2 +- tools/perf/util/srcline.c | 16 +++++- tools/perf/util/util.h | 4 ++ 66 files changed, 469 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-)