4.14.333-rc2 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.333 release. There are 24 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, 14 Dec 2023 12:01:26 +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-4.14.333-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 4.14.333-rc2

Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
drop_monitor: Require 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' when joining "events" group

Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
psample: Require 'CAP_NET_ADMIN' when joining "packets" group

Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
genetlink: add CAP_NET_ADMIN test for multicast bind

Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>

    netlink: don't call ->netlink_bind with table lock held

Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
nilfs2: fix missing error check for sb_set_blocksize call

Claudio Imbrenda <[email protected]>
KVM: s390/mm: Properly reset no-dat

Ronald Wahl <[email protected]>
serial: 8250_omap: Add earlycon support for the AM654 UART controller

Daniel Mack <[email protected]>
serial: sc16is7xx: address RX timeout interrupt errata

Cameron Williams <[email protected]>
parport: Add support for Brainboxes IX/UC/PX parallel cards

Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
packet: Move reference count in packet_sock to atomic_long_t

Petr Pavlu <[email protected]>
tracing: Fix a possible race when disabling buffered events

Petr Pavlu <[email protected]>
tracing: Fix incomplete locking when disabling buffered events

Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
tracing: Always update snapshot buffer size

Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
nilfs2: prevent WARNING in nilfs_sufile_set_segment_usage()

Jason Zhang <[email protected]>
ALSA: pcm: fix out-of-bounds in snd_pcm_state_names

Dinghao Liu <[email protected]>
scsi: be2iscsi: Fix a memleak in beiscsi_init_wrb_handle()

Petr Pavlu <[email protected]>
tracing: Fix a warning when allocating buffered events fails

Armin Wolf <[email protected]>
hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) Fix 4.29 MW bug

Kalesh AP <[email protected]>
RDMA/bnxt_re: Correct module description string

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
tcp: do not accept ACK of bytes we never sent

Yonglong Liu <[email protected]>
net: hns: fix fake link up on xge port

YuanShang <[email protected]>
drm/amdgpu: correct chunk_ptr to a pointer to chunk.

Alex Pakhunov <[email protected]>
tg3: Increment tx_dropped in tg3_tso_bug()

Alex Pakhunov <[email protected]>
tg3: Move the [rt]x_dropped counters to tg3_napi

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                          |  4 +--
 arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c                            |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c                  |  4 +++
 drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c              |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c               | 42 ++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h               |  4 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_mac.c | 29 +++++++++++++++
 drivers/parport/parport_pc.c                      | 21 +++++++++++
 drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c                   |  1 +
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c              |  1 +
 drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c                    | 12 +++++++
 fs/nilfs2/sufile.c                                | 44 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c                             |  6 +++-
 include/net/genetlink.h                           |  3 ++
 kernel/trace/trace.c                              | 42 +++++++++++-----------
 net/core/drop_monitor.c                           |  4 ++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                              |  6 +++-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c                          |  4 +--
 net/netlink/genetlink.c                           | 35 ++++++++++++++++++
 net/packet/af_packet.c                            | 16 ++++-----
 net/packet/internal.h                             |  2 +-
 net/psample/psample.c                             |  3 +-
 sound/core/pcm.c                                  |  1 +
 24 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)