This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.12 release. There are 56 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, 27 Sep 2020 12:47:02 +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-5.8.12-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.8.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.8.12-rc1

Maor Dickman maord@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Fix endianness when calculating pedit mask first bit

Maxim Mikityanskiy maximmi@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Use synchronize_rcu to sync with NAPI

Maxim Mikityanskiy maximmi@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Use RCU to protect rq->xdp_prog

Taehee Yoo ap420073@gmail.com Revert "netns: don't disable BHs when locking "nsid_lock""

Parshuram Thombare pthombar@cadence.com net: macb: fix for pause frame receive enable bit

Matthias Schiffer matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com net: dsa: microchip: ksz8795: really set the correct number of ports

Vladimir Oltean olteanv@gmail.com net: dsa: link interfaces with the DSA master to get rid of lockdep warnings

Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com hv_netvsc: Fix hibernation for mlx5 VF driver

Luo bin luobin9@huawei.com hinic: fix rewaking txq after netif_tx_disable

Jianbo Liu jianbol@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Fix memory leak of tunnel info when rule under multipath not ready

Vadym Kochan vadym.kochan@plvision.eu net: ipa: fix u32_replace_bits by u32p_xxx version

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com wireguard: peerlookup: take lock before checking hash in replace operation

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com wireguard: noise: take lock when removing handshake entry from table

Grygorii Strashko grygorii.strashko@ti.com net: ethernet: ti: cpsw_new: fix suspend/resume

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: add __must_check to skb_put_padto()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: qrtr: check skb_put_padto() return value

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: Do not warn in phy_stop() on PHY_DOWN

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: Avoid NPD upon phy_detach() when driver is unbound

Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de net: lantiq: Disable IRQs only if NAPI gets scheduled

Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de net: lantiq: Use napi_complete_done()

Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de net: lantiq: use netif_tx_napi_add() for TX NAPI

Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de net: lantiq: Wake TX queue again

Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Protect bnxt_set_eee() and bnxt_set_pauseparam() with mutex.

Edwin Peer edwin.peer@broadcom.com bnxt_en: return proper error codes in bnxt_show_temp

Vasundhara Volam vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Use memcpy to copy VPD field info.

Tariq Toukan tariqt@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: TLS, Do not expose FPGA TLS counter if not supported

Maor Dickman maord@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: Enable adding peer miss rules only if merged eswitch is supported

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com tipc: use skb_unshare() instead in tipc_buf_append()

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp tipc: fix shutdown() of connection oriented socket

Peilin Ye yepeilin.cs@gmail.com tipc: Fix memory leak in tipc_group_create_member()

Vinicius Costa Gomes vinicius.gomes@intel.com taprio: Fix allowing too small intervals

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org nfp: use correct define to return NONE fec

Henry Ptasinski hptasinski@google.com net: sctp: Fix IPv6 ancestor_size calc in sctp_copy_descendant

Yunsheng Lin linyunsheng@huawei.com net: sch_generic: aviod concurrent reset and enqueue op for lockless qdisc

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com net: sched: initialize with 0 before setting erspan md->u

Yoshihiro Shimoda yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com net: phy: call phy_disable_interrupts() in phy_attach_direct() instead

Maor Gottlieb maorg@nvidia.com net/mlx5: Fix FTE cleanup

Necip Fazil Yildiran fazilyildiran@gmail.com net: ipv6: fix kconfig dependency warning for IPV6_SEG6_HMAC

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com net: Fix bridge enslavement failure

Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org net: dsa: rtl8366: Properly clear member config

Petr Machata petrm@nvidia.com net: DCB: Validate DCB_ATTR_DCB_BUFFER argument

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com net: bridge: br_vlan_get_pvid_rcu() should dereference the VLAN group under RCU

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: avoid lockdep issue in fib6_del()

David Ahern dsahern@kernel.org ipv4: Update exception handling for multipath routes via same device

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv4: Initialize flowi4_multipath_hash in data path

Wei Wang weiwan@google.com ip: fix tos reflection in ack and reset packets

Luo bin luobin9@huawei.com hinic: bump up the timeout of SET_FUNC_STATE cmd

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com hdlc_ppp: add range checks in ppp_cp_parse_cr()

Mark Gray mark.d.gray@redhat.com geneve: add transport ports in route lookup for geneve

Ganji Aravind ganji.aravind@chelsio.com cxgb4: Fix offset when clearing filter byte counters

Raju Rangoju rajur@chelsio.com cxgb4: fix memory leak during module unload

Vasundhara Volam vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Fix NULL ptr dereference crash in bnxt_fw_reset_task()

Vasundhara Volam vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Avoid sending firmware messages when AER error is detected.

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com act_ife: load meta modules before tcf_idr_check_alloc()

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org ibmvnic: add missing parenthesis in do_reset()

Mingming Cao mmc@linux.vnet.ibm.com ibmvnic fix NULL tx_pools and rx_tools issue at do_reset

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz8795.c | 2 +- drivers/net/dsa/rtl8366.c | 20 ++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 40 ++++++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 31 +++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_filter.c | 9 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_mps.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_mgmt.c | 16 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_main.c | 24 ++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_tx.c | 18 +----- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 21 ++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_xrx200.c | 21 ++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c | 2 +- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c | 14 +---- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/setup.c | 3 +- .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/tls_stats.c | 12 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 65 ++++++++++------------ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 12 +--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 39 +++++++------ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c | 17 ++++-- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c | 52 +++++++++-------- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 8 +-- .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_ethtool.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/geneve.c | 37 ++++++++---- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 16 ++++-- drivers/net/ipa/ipa_table.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 11 ++-- drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c | 16 ++++-- drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c | 5 +- drivers/net/wireguard/peerlookup.c | 11 +++- include/linux/skbuff.h | 7 ++- include/net/flow.h | 1 + include/net/sctp/structs.h | 8 ++- net/bridge/br_vlan.c | 27 +++++---- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/core/filter.c | 1 + net/core/net_namespace.c | 22 ++++---- net/dcb/dcbnl.c | 8 +++ net/dsa/slave.c | 18 +++++- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/route.c | 14 +++-- net/ipv6/Kconfig | 1 + net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 13 +++-- net/qrtr/qrtr.c | 21 +++---- net/sched/act_ife.c | 44 +++++++++++---- net/sched/cls_flower.c | 1 + net/sched/sch_generic.c | 48 +++++++++++----- net/sched/sch_taprio.c | 28 ++++++---- net/sctp/socket.c | 9 +-- net/tipc/group.c | 14 +++-- net/tipc/msg.c | 3 +- net/tipc/socket.c | 5 +- 58 files changed, 573 insertions(+), 326 deletions(-)