3.14.65-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.14.65 release. There are 19 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 Mar 16 17:50:23 UTC 2016. Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:

	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.14.65-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 3.14.65-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert: "crypto: af_alg - Disallow bind/setkey/... after accept(2)"

Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
modules: fix longstanding /proc/kallsyms vs module insertion race.

Jason Andryuk <[email protected]>

    lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion

Matt Fleming <[email protected]>
efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist

Peter Jones <[email protected]>
efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default

Peter Jones <[email protected]>
efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid

Peter Jones <[email protected]>
efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8

Peter Jones <[email protected]>
efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version

Peter Jones <[email protected]>

    lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions

Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
KVM: x86: move steal time initialization to vcpu entry time

Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0

Chris Bainbridge <[email protected]>
mac80211: fix use of uninitialised values in RX aggregation

Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
wext: fix message delay/ordering

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ASoC: wm8958: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type

Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
ASoC: wm8994: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type

Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
tracing: Fix check for cpu online when event is disabled

Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit

Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
KVM: VMX: disable PEBS before a guest entry

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt         |   7 ++
 Makefile                                       |   4 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c                |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S        |  14 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c                             |   7 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                             |   9 +-
 crypto/af_alg.c                                |  35 +-----
 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c                 |  34 +++--
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c                    | 164 +++++++++++++++++--------
 fs/efivarfs/file.c                             |  71 +++++++++++
 fs/efivarfs/inode.c                            |  30 +++--
 fs/efivarfs/internal.h                         |   3 +-
 fs/efivarfs/super.c                            |  16 ++-
 include/crypto/if_alg.h                        |   8 +-
 include/linux/efi.h                            |   9 +-
 include/linux/module.h                         |  17 +--
 include/linux/tracepoint.h                     |  17 +--
 include/linux/ucs2_string.h                    |   4 +
 kernel/module.c                                | 111 ++++++++++-------
 lib/ucs2_string.c                              |  62 ++++++++++
 net/mac80211/agg-rx.c                          |   2 +-
 net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c             |   2 +-
 net/wireless/wext-core.c                       |  51 ++++++--
 sound/soc/codecs/wm8958-dsp2.c                 |   8 +-
 sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c                      |   4 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/efivarfs.sh   |  19 ++-
 tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/open-unlink.c |  72 ++++++++++-
 27 files changed, 567 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-)