This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.237 release. There are 49 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, 16 Jun 2021 10:26:30 +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-4.14.237-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 4.14.237-rc1

Liangyan liangyan.peng@linux.alibaba.com tracing: Correct the length check which causes memory corruption

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com scsi: core: Only put parent device if host state differs from SHOST_CREATED

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com scsi: core: Put .shost_dev in failure path if host state changes to RUNNING

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsi_host_alloc()

Dai Ngo dai.ngo@oracle.com NFSv4: nfs4_proc_set_acl needs to restore NFS_CAP_UIDGID_NOMAP on error.

Anna Schumaker Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com NFS: Fix use-after-free in nfs4_init_client()

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com kvm: fix previous commit for 32-bit builds

Leo Yan leo.yan@linaro.org perf session: Correct buffer copying when peeking events

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com NFS: Fix a potential NULL dereference in nfs_get_client()

Marco Elver elver@google.com perf: Fix data race between pin_count increment/decrement

Dmitry Osipenko digetx@gmail.com regulator: max77620: Use device_set_of_node_from_dev()

Dmitry Baryshkov dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org regulator: core: resolve supply for boot-on/always-on regulators

Maciej Żenczykowski maze@google.com usb: fix various gadget panics on 10gbps cabling

Maciej Żenczykowski maze@google.com usb: fix various gadgets null ptr deref on 10gbps cabling.

Linyu Yuan linyyuan@codeaurora.com usb: gadget: eem: fix wrong eem header operation

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: quatech2: fix control-request directions

Alexandre GRIVEAUX agriveaux@deutnet.info USB: serial: omninet: add device id for Zyxel Omni 56K Plus

George McCollister george.mccollister@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: add NovaTech OrionMX product ID

Wesley Cheng wcheng@codeaurora.org usb: gadget: f_fs: Ensure io_completion_wq is idle during unbind

Mayank Rana mrana@codeaurora.org usb: typec: ucsi: Clear PPM capability data in ucsi_init() error path

Marian-Cristian Rotariu marian.c.rotariu@gmail.com usb: dwc3: ep0: fix NULL pointer exception

Maciej Żenczykowski maze@google.com USB: f_ncm: ncm_bitrate (speed) is unsigned

Alexander Kuznetsov wwfq@yandex-team.ru cgroup1: don't allow '\n' in renaming

Ritesh Harjani riteshh@linux.ibm.com btrfs: return value from btrfs_mark_extent_written() in case of error

Wenli Looi wlooi@ucalgary.ca staging: rtl8723bs: Fix uninitialized variables

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com kvm: avoid speculation-based attacks from out-of-range memslot accesses

Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi desmondcheongzx@gmail.com drm: Lock pointer access in drm_master_release()

Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi desmondcheongzx@gmail.com drm: Fix use-after-free read in drm_getunique()

Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz i2c: mpc: implement erratum A-004447 workaround

Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz i2c: mpc: Make use of i2c_recover_bus()

Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz powerpc/fsl: set fsl,i2c-erratum-a004447 flag for P1010 i2c controllers

Chris Packham chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz powerpc/fsl: set fsl,i2c-erratum-a004447 flag for P2041 i2c controllers

Jiapeng Chong jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com bnx2x: Fix missing error code in bnx2x_iov_init_one()

Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn MIPS: Fix kernel hang under FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER and PREEMPT_TRACER

Saubhik Mukherjee saubhik.mukherjee@gmail.com net: appletalk: cops: Fix data race in cops_probe1

Zong Li zong.li@sifive.com net: macb: ensure the device is available before accessing GEMGXL control registers

Dmitry Bogdanov d.bogdanov@yadro.com scsi: target: qla2xxx: Wait for stop_phase1 at WWN removal

Matt Wang wwentao@vmware.com scsi: vmw_pvscsi: Set correct residual data length

Zheyu Ma zheyuma97@gmail.com net/qla3xxx: fix schedule while atomic in ql_sem_spinlock

Sergey Senozhatsky senozhatsky@chromium.org wq: handle VM suspension in stall detection

Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com cgroup: disable controllers at parse time

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com net: mdiobus: get rid of a BUG_ON()

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com netlink: disable IRQs for netlink_lock_table()

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com bonding: init notify_work earlier to avoid uninitialized use

Zheyu Ma zheyuma97@gmail.com isdn: mISDN: netjet: Fix crash in nj_probe:

Zou Wei zou_wei@huawei.com ASoC: sti-sas: add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE

Jeimon jjjinmeng.zhou@gmail.com net/nfc/rawsock.c: fix a permission check bug

Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c | 12 +-- arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1010si-post.dtsi | 8 ++ arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p2041si-post.dtsi | 16 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c | 9 ++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/netjet.c | 1 - drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c | 4 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 3 +- drivers/regulator/core.c | 6 ++ drivers/regulator/max77620-regulator.c | 7 ++ drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 33 ++++---- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c | 2 + drivers/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 8 +- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/dwc3/ep0.c | 3 + drivers/usb/gadget/config.c | 8 ++ drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ecm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_eem.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 3 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_loopback.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_printer.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_rndis.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_serial.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_sourcesink.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_subset.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c | 2 + drivers/usb/serial/quatech2.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/client.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 8 ++ fs/proc/base.c | 9 ++- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 10 ++- kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 4 + kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 13 ++-- kernel/events/core.c | 2 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 8 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- kernel/workqueue.c | 12 ++- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 6 +- net/nfc/rawsock.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/sti-sas.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/session.c | 1 + 55 files changed, 291 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)