4.14.269-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.269 release. There are 31 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, 02 Mar 2022 17:20:16 +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-4.14.269-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 4.14.269-rc1

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation

Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
memblock: use kfree() to release kmalloced memblock regions

Karol Herbst <[email protected]>
Revert "drm/nouveau/pmu/gm200-: avoid touching PMU outside of DEVINIT/PREOS/ACR"

[email protected] <[email protected]>
tty: n_gsm: fix proper link termination after failed open

[email protected] <[email protected]>
tty: n_gsm: fix encoding of control signal octet bit DV

Hongyu Xie <[email protected]>
xhci: Prevent futile URB re-submissions due to incorrect return value.

Puma Hsu <[email protected]>
xhci: re-initialize the HC during resume if HCE was set

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
usb: dwc3: gadget: Let the interrupt handler disable bottom halves.

Daniele Palmas <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910R1 compositions

Slark Xiao <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add support for DW5829e

Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
tracefs: Set the group ownership in apply_options() not parse_options()

Szymon Heidrich <[email protected]>
USB: gadget: validate endpoint index for xilinx udc

Daehwan Jung <[email protected]>
usb: gadget: rndis: add spinlock for rndis response list

Dmytro Bagrii <[email protected]>
Revert "USB: serial: ch341: add new Product ID for CH341A"

Sergey Shtylyov <[email protected]>
ata: pata_hpt37x: disable primary channel on HPT371

Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
iio: adc: men_z188_adc: Fix a resource leak in an error handling path

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
RDMA/ib_srp: Fix a deadlock

ChenXiaoSong <[email protected]>
configfs: fix a race in configfs_{,un}register_subsystem()

Gal Pressman <[email protected]>
net/mlx5e: Fix wrong return value on ioctl EEPROM query failure

Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
drm/edid: Always set RGB444

Paul Blakey <[email protected]>
openvswitch: Fix setting ipv6 fields causing hw csum failure

Tao Liu <[email protected]>
gso: do not skip outer ip header in case of ipip and net_failover

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net: __pskb_pull_tail() & pskb_carve_frag_list() drop_monitor friends

Xin Long <[email protected]>
ping: remove pr_err from ping_lookup

Robert Hancock <[email protected]>
serial: 8250: of: Fix mapped region size when using reg-offset property

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
USB: zaurus: support another broken Zaurus

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
sr9700: sanity check for packet length

Helge Deller <[email protected]>
parisc/unaligned: Fix ldw() and stw() unalignment handlers

Helge Deller <[email protected]>
parisc/unaligned: Fix fldd and fstd unaligned handlers on 32-bit kernel

Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
vhost/vsock: don't check owner in vhost_vsock_stop() while releasing

Zhang Qiao <[email protected]>
cgroup/cpuset: Fix a race between cpuset_attach() and cpu hotplug

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c                     | 14 ++---
 drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c                          | 14 +++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/pmu/base.c     | 37 +++++------
 drivers/iio/adc/men_z188_adc.c                     |  9 ++-
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c                |  6 +-
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_ethtool.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c                        | 12 ++++
 drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c                           |  2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/zaurus.c                           | 12 ++++
 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c                                |  4 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c                  | 11 +++-
 drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c                          |  2 +
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c                |  8 +++
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.h                |  1 +
 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/udc-xilinx.c                |  6 ++
 drivers/usb/host/xhci.c                            | 28 ++++++---
 drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c                         |  1 -
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        | 12 ++++
 drivers/vhost/vsock.c                              | 21 ++++---
 fs/configfs/dir.c                                  | 14 +++++
 fs/file.c                                          | 73 +++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/tracefs/inode.c                                 |  5 +-
 include/net/checksum.h                             |  5 ++
 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c                             |  2 +
 mm/memblock.c                                      | 10 ++-
 net/core/skbuff.c                                  |  4 +-
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c                                 |  5 +-
 net/ipv4/ping.c                                    |  1 -
 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c                             |  2 +
 net/openvswitch/actions.c                          | 46 +++++++++++---
 32 files changed, 287 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)