This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.83 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 Fri Nov 23 18:34:13 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-4.14.83-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 4.14.83-rc1

Chris Paterson chris.paterson2@renesas.com ARM: dts: r8a7793: Correct critical CPU temperature

Chris Paterson chris.paterson2@renesas.com ARM: dts: r8a7791: Correct critical CPU temperature

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation"

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com inet: frags: better deal with smp races

Frieder Schrempf frieder.schrempf@kontron.de usbnet: smsc95xx: disable carrier check while suspending

Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com net: smsc95xx: Fix MTU range

Shalom Toledo shalomt@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum: Fix IP2ME CPU policer configuration

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: not increase stream's incnt before sending addstrm_in request

Martin Schiller ms@dev.tdt.de net: phy: mdio-gpio: Fix working over slow can_sleep GPIOs

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: fix strchange_flags name for Stream Change Event

Tristram Ha Tristram.Ha@microchip.com net: dsa: microchip: initialize mutex before use

Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan subashab@codeaurora.org net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix incorrect assignment of real_dev

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: systemport: Protect stop from timeout

Matthew Cover werekraken@gmail.com tuntap: fix multiqueue rx

Siva Reddy Kallam siva.kallam@broadcom.com tg3: Add PHY reset for 5717/5719/5720 in change ring and flow control paths

Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: not allow to set asoc prsctp_enable by sockopt

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net-gro: reset skb->pkt_type in napi_reuse_skb()

David Ahern dsahern@gmail.com ipv6: Fix PMTU updates for UDP/raw sockets in presence of VRF

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net ip_tunnel: don't force DF when MTU is locked

Michał Mirosław mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl ibmvnic: fix accelerated VLAN handling

배석진 soukjin.bae@samsung.com flow_dissector: do not dissect l4 ports for fragments

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7791.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/r8a7793.dtsi | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 57 +++---------------------- drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_common.c | 10 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcmsysport.c | 15 +++---- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 18 +++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_vnd.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/phy/mdio-gpio.c | 10 ++--- drivers/net/tun.c | 6 ++- drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c | 9 ++++ include/uapi/linux/sctp.h | 2 + kernel/cpu.c | 11 +---- net/core/dev.c | 4 ++ net/core/flow_dissector.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 28 ++++++------ net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/route.c | 7 ++- net/sctp/socket.c | 26 +++-------- net/sctp/stream.c | 1 - 22 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)