This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.62 release. There are 21 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 Thu Aug 9 17:23:22 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-4.14.62-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 4.14.62-rc1

Shankara Pailoor shankarapailoor@gmail.com jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size

Eric Sandeen sandeen@sandeen.net xfs: don't call xfs_da_shrink_inode with NULL bp

Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com xfs: validate cached inodes are free when allocated

Dave Chinner dchinner@redhat.com xfs: catch inode allocation state mismatch corruption

Len Brown len.brown@intel.com intel_idle: Graceful probe failure when MWAIT is disabled

James Smart jsmart2021@gmail.com nvmet-fc: fix target sgl list on large transfers

Keith Busch keith.busch@intel.com nvme-pci: Fix queue double allocations

Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me nvme-pci: allocate device queues storage space at probe

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Btrfs: fix file data corruption after cloning a range and fsync

Esben Haabendal eha@deif.com i2c: imx: Fix reinit_completion() use

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer

Vitaly Kuznetsov vkuznets@redhat.com ACPI / PCI: Bail early in acpi_pci_add_bus() if there is no ACPI handle

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: fix false negatives *and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors()

Dmitry Safonov dima@arista.com netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups

Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org nohz: Fix missing tick reprogram when interrupting an inline softirq

Anna-Maria Gleixner anna-maria@linutronix.de nohz: Fix local_timer_softirq_pending()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de genirq: Make force irq threading setup more robust

Anil Gurumurthy anil.gurumurthy@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Return error when TMF returns

Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix ISP recovery on unload

Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NPIV deletion by calling wait_for_sess_deletion

Quinn Tran quinn.tran@cavium.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix unintialized List head crash

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 3 +- drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 7 ++++- drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++---------------------- drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++------ drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h | 1 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 4 +++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 7 ++--- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_inline.h | 2 ++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mid.c | 5 +++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 7 +++-- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 3 ++ fs/ext4/super.c | 4 +-- fs/jfs/xattr.c | 10 +++--- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 5 ++- fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 1 + kernel/irq/manage.c | 9 +++++- kernel/softirq.c | 2 +- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 ++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++ net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +-- 25 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)