5.6.18-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.6.18 release. There are 41 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, 11 Jun 2020 17:40:51 +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-5.6.18-rc1.gz

or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.6.y
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 5.6.18-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Revert "net/mlx5: Annotate mutex destroy for root ns"

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

    uprobes: ensure that uprobe->offset and ->ref_ctr_offset are properly aligned

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()

Mark Gross <[email protected]>
x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id

Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]>
nvmem: qfprom: remove incorrect write support

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
CDC-ACM: heed quirk also in error handling

Pascal Terjan <[email protected]>

    staging: rtl8712: Fix IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK

Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
tty: hvc_console, fix crashes on parallel open/close

Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
vt: keyboard: avoid signed integer overflow in k_ascii

Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86

Dinghao Liu <[email protected]>
usb: musb: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error

Bin Liu <[email protected]>
usb: musb: start session in resume for host port

Fabrice Gasnier <[email protected]>
iio: adc: stm32-adc: fix a wrong error message when probing interrupts

Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
iio:chemical:pms7003: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

Mathieu Othacehe <[email protected]>
iio: vcnl4000: Fix i2c swapped word reading.

Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
iio:chemical:sps30: Fix timestamp alignment

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: ch341: fix lockup of devices with limited prescaler

Michael Hanselmann <[email protected]>
USB: serial: ch341: add basis for quirk detection

Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910C1-EUX compositions

Bin Liu <[email protected]>
USB: serial: usb_wwan: do not resubmit rx urb on fatal errors

Matt Jolly <[email protected]>
USB: serial: qcserial: add DW5816e QDL support

Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
net/mlx5e: replace EINVAL in mlx5e_flower_parse_meta()

Davide Caratti <[email protected]>
net/sched: fix infinite loop in sch_fq_pie

Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
mptcp: fix unblocking connect()

Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
net: dsa: felix: send VLANs on CPU port as egress-tagged

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net: be more gentle about silly gso requests coming from user

Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
vsock: fix timeout in vsock_accept()

Jia He <[email protected]>
virtio_vsock: Fix race condition in virtio_transport_recv_pkt

Jonas Falkevik <[email protected]>
sctp: check assoc before SCTP_ADDR_{MADE_PRIM, ADDED} event

Heinrich Kuhn <[email protected]>
nfp: flower: fix used time of merge flow statistics

Chuhong Yuan <[email protected]>
NFC: st21nfca: add missed kfree_skb() in an error path

Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Telit LE910C1-EUX composition

Fugang Duan <[email protected]>
net: stmmac: enable timestamp snapshot for required PTP packets in dwmac v5.10a

Mark Bloch <[email protected]>
net/mlx5: Fix crash upon suspend/resume

Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
net: check untrusted gso_size at kernel entry

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
l2tp: do not use inet_hash()/inet_unhash()

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
l2tp: add sk_family checks to l2tp_validate_socket

Yang Yingliang <[email protected]>
devinet: fix memleak in inetdev_init()

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   1 +
 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst        |   1 +
 .../special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst      | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt    |  20 +++
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_device_id.h               |  30 +++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h                 |   2 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h                   |   4 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                         | 106 +++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c                       |  56 ++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h                          |   1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/match.c                        |   7 +-
 drivers/base/cpu.c                                 |   8 ++
 drivers/iio/adc/stm32-adc-core.c                   |  34 ++---
 drivers/iio/chemical/pms7003.c                     |  17 ++-
 drivers/iio/chemical/sps30.c                       |   9 +-
 drivers/iio/light/vcnl4000.c                       |   6 +-
 drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c                     |   8 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c    |   6 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c  |   6 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c     |  18 +++
 .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/offload.c    |   3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c  |   3 +-
 drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c                         |   1 +
 drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c                         |   4 +-
 drivers/nvmem/qfprom.c                             |  14 --
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h                     |   9 +-
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c                      |  23 ++--
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig                    |   1 +
 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c                          |  26 ++--
 drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c                        |   2 +-
 drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c                       |   7 +
 drivers/usb/musb/musb_debugfs.c                    |  10 +-
 drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c                         |  68 +++++++++-
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        |   4 +
 drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c                      |   1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c                      |   4 +
 include/linux/mod_devicetable.h                    |   6 +
 include/linux/virtio_net.h                         |  25 +++-
 kernel/events/uprobes.c                            |  16 ++-
 net/ipv4/devinet.c                                 |   1 +
 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c                               |   3 +
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c                                 |  29 +++-
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c                                |  30 +++--
 net/mptcp/protocol.c                               |  20 ++-
 net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c                             |   4 +-
 net/sctp/ulpevent.c                                |   3 +
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                           |   2 +-
 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c            |   8 ++
 .../tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/fq_pie.json         |  21 +++
 50 files changed, 694 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)