4.14.272-rc2 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.272 release. There are 22 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, 16 Mar 2022 14:58:59 +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-4.14.272-rc2.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 4.14.272-rc2

Qu Wenruo <[email protected]>
btrfs: unlock newly allocated extent buffer after error

Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
ext4: add check to prevent attempting to resize an fs with sparse_super2

Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]>
ARM: fix Thumb2 regression with Spectre BHB

Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
virtio: acknowledge all features before access

Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
virtio: unexport virtio_finalize_features

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx()

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
ARM: Spectre-BHB: provide empty stub for non-config

Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
selftests/memfd: clean up mapping in mfd_fail_write

Sven Schnelle <[email protected]>
tracing: Ensure trace buffer is at least 4096 bytes large

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <[email protected]>
Revert "xen-netback: Check for hotplug-status existence before watching"

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <[email protected]>
Revert "xen-netback: remove 'hotplug-status' once it has served its purpose"

suresh kumar <[email protected]>
net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
sctp: fix kernel-infoleak for SCTP sockets

Mark Featherston <[email protected]>
gpio: ts4900: Do not set DAT and OE together

Pavel Skripkin <[email protected]>
NFC: port100: fix use-after-free in port100_send_complete

Mohammad Kabat <[email protected]>
net/mlx5: Fix size field in bufferx_reg struct

Duoming Zhou <[email protected]>
ax25: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ax25_kill_by_device

Jiasheng Jiang <[email protected]>
net: ethernet: lpc_eth: Handle error for clk_enable

Jiasheng Jiang <[email protected]>
net: ethernet: ti: cpts: Handle error for clk_enable

Miaoqian Lin <[email protected]>
ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe

Tom Rix <[email protected]>
qed: return status of qed_iov_get_link

Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]>
net: qlogic: check the return value of dma_alloc_coherent() in qed_vf_hw_prepare()

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                      |  4 +--
 arch/arm/include/asm/spectre.h                |  6 ++++
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S                  |  4 +--
 drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4900.c                    | 24 ++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c            |  5 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c   | 18 +++++++-----
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c      |  7 +++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c                |  4 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c |  4 ++-
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c              | 13 ++++-----
 drivers/nfc/port100.c                         |  2 ++
 drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_lte.c             |  5 ++--
 drivers/virtio/virtio.c                       | 40 ++++++++++++++-------------
 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c                        |  1 +
 fs/ext4/resize.c                              |  5 ++++
 include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h                 |  4 +--
 include/linux/virtio.h                        |  1 -
 include/linux/virtio_config.h                 |  3 +-
 kernel/trace/trace.c                          | 10 ++++---
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c                            |  7 +++++
 net/core/net-sysfs.c                          |  2 +-
 net/sctp/sctp_diag.c                          |  9 ++----
 tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c    |  1 +
 23 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)