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(-)

Hi Greg,

No problems seen on x86_64 and aarch64 with our testing.

Thanks,
Harshit

All tests passing for Tegra ...

Test results for stable-v4.14:

    10 builds:	10 pass, 0 fail
    16 boots:	16 pass, 0 fail
    32 tests:	32 pass, 0 fail

Linux version: 4.14.333-rc2-g68f9b81cad70
Boards tested: tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra20-ventana,

                tegra210-p2371-2180, tegra30-cardhu-a04

Jon

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

## Build
* kernel: 4.14.333-rc2
* git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
* git branch: linux-4.14.y
* git commit: 68f9b81cad708b197a2f7aa4e293c2669590d2ad
* git describe: v4.14.332-25-g68f9b81cad70
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-4.14.y/build/v4.14.332-25-g68f9b81cad70

## Test Regressions (compared to v4.14.332)

## Metric Regressions (compared to v4.14.332)

## Test Fixes (compared to v4.14.332)

## Metric Fixes (compared to v4.14.332)

## Test result summary
total: 54698, pass: 45675, fail: 1625, skip: 7353, xfail: 45

## Build Summary
* arc: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed
* arm: 108 total, 103 passed, 5 failed
* arm64: 35 total, 31 passed, 4 failed
* i386: 21 total, 18 passed, 3 failed
* mips: 19 total, 19 passed, 0 failed
* parisc: 3 total, 0 passed, 3 failed
* powerpc: 8 total, 7 passed, 1 failed
* s390: 6 total, 5 passed, 1 failed
* sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed
* x86_64: 27 total, 23 passed, 4 failed

## Test suites summary
* boot
* kselftest-android
* kselftest-arm64
* kselftest-breakpoints
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-cgroup
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-cpufreq
* kselftest-drivers-dma-buf
* kselftest-efivarfs
* kselftest-filesystems
* kselftest-filesystems-binderfs
* kselftest-filesystems-epoll
* kselftest-firmware
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-ftrace
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-gpio
* kselftest-ipc
* kselftest-ir
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-kexec
* kselftest-kvm
* kselftest-lib
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-memfd
* kselftest-memory-hotplug
* kselftest-mincore
* kselftest-mount
* kselftest-mqueue
* kselftest-net
* kselftest-net-forwarding
* kselftest-net-mptcp
* kselftest-netfilter
* kselftest-nsfs
* kselftest-openat2
* kselftest-pid_namespace
* kselftest-pidfd
* kselftest-proc
* kselftest-pstore
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-seccomp
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-splice
* kselftest-static_keys
* kselftest-sync
* kselftest-sysctl
* kselftest-tc-testing
* kselftest-timens
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user
* kselftest-user_events
* kselftest-vDSO
* kselftest-vm
* kselftest-watchdog
* kselftest-zram
* kunit
* log-parser-boot
* log-parser-test
* ltp-cap_bounds
* ltp-commands
* ltp-containers
* ltp-controllers
* ltp-crypto
* ltp-cve
* ltp-fcntl-locktests
* ltp-filecaps
* ltp-fs
* ltp-fs_bind
* ltp-fs_perms_simple
* ltp-fsx
* ltp-hugetlb
* ltp-io
* ltp-ipc
* ltp-math
* ltp-mm
* ltp-nptl
* ltp-pty
* ltp-sched
* ltp-securebits
* ltp-smoke
* ltp-syscalls
* ltp-tracing
* rcutorture

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https://lkft.linaro.org

Build results:

	total: 139 pass: 139 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 440 pass: 440 fail: 0

Guenter