4.14.246-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.246 release. There are 23 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, 03 Sep 2021 12:22:41 +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-4.14.246-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-4.14.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 4.14.246-rc1

Denis Efremov <[email protected]>
Revert "floppy: reintroduce O_NDELAY fix"

Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
KVM: X86: MMU: Use the correct inherited permissions to get shadow page

Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
KVM: x86/mmu: Treat NX as used (not reserved) for all !TDP shadow MMUs

George Kennedy <[email protected]>
fbmem: add margin check to fb_check_caps()

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
vt_kdsetmode: extend console locking

Gerd Rausch <[email protected]>
net/rds: dma_map_sg is entitled to merge entries

Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
drm/nouveau/disp: power down unused DP links during init

Mark Yacoub <[email protected]>
drm: Copy drm_wait_vblank to user before returning

Neeraj Upadhyay <[email protected]>

    vringh: Use wiov->used to check for read/write desc order

Parav Pandit <[email protected]>

    virtio: Improve vq->broken access to avoid any compiler optimization

Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
opp: remove WARN when no valid OPPs remain

Jerome Brunet <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: u_audio: fix race condition on endpoint stop

Maxim Kiselev <[email protected]>
net: marvell: fix MVNETA_TX_IN_PRGRS bit number

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
xgene-v2: Fix a resource leak in the error handling path of 'xge_probe()'

Shreyansh Chouhan <[email protected]>
ip_gre: add validation for csum_start

Sasha Neftin <[email protected]>
e1000e: Fix the max snoop/no-snoop latency for 10M

Tuo Li <[email protected]>
IB/hfi1: Fix possible null-pointer dereference in _extend_sdma_tx_descs()

Wesley Cheng <[email protected]>
usb: dwc3: gadget: Stop EP0 transfers during pullup disable

Thinh Nguyen <[email protected]>
usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix dwc3_calc_trbs_left()

Zhengjun Zhang <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add new VID/PID to support Fibocom FG150

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Revert "USB: serial: ch341: fix character loss at high transfer rates"

Stefan Mätje <[email protected]>
can: usb: esd_usb2: esd_usb2_rx_event(): fix the interchange of the CAN RX and TX error counters

Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
ARC: Fix CONFIG_STACKDEPOT

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt               |  4 ++--
 Makefile                                        |  4 ++--
 arch/arc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S                   |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c                              | 11 +++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h                      | 14 ++++++++-----
 drivers/base/power/opp/of.c                     |  5 +++--
 drivers/block/floppy.c                          | 27 ++++++++++++-------------
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioc32.c                     |  4 +---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/dp.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/dp.h   |  1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/outp.c |  9 +++++++++
 drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/sdma.c               |  9 ++++-----
 drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb2.c                  |  4 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene-v2/main.c        |  4 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c     | 14 ++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.h     |  3 +++
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c           |  2 +-
 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c                       | 11 ++++++----
 drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c                       | 23 ++++++++++-----------
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_audio.c           |  5 ++---
 drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c                      |  1 -
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                     |  2 ++
 drivers/vhost/vringh.c                          |  2 +-
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c                |  4 ++++
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c                    |  6 ++++--
 net/ipv4/ip_gre.c                               |  2 ++
 net/rds/ib_frmr.c                               |  4 ++--
 27 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)