[PATCH 3.14 00/19] 3.14.65-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-03-14T18:08:46Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.14.65 release.
There are 19 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 Mar 16 17:50:23 UTC 2016.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.14.65-rc1.gz
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 3.14.65-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Revert: "crypto: af_alg - Disallow bind/setkey/... after accept(2)"

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
modules: fix longstanding /proc/kallsyms vs module insertion race.

Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion

Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions

Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
KVM: x86: move steal time initialization to vcpu entry time

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0

Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
mac80211: fix use of uninitialised values in RX aggregation

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
wext: fix message delay/ordering

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
ASoC: wm8958: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
ASoC: wm8994: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type

Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing: Fix check for cpu online when event is disabled

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit

Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
KVM: VMX: disable PEBS before a guest entry

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Diffstat:

Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 ++
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 14 +++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 ++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 +-
crypto/af_alg.c | 35 +-----
drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 34 +++--
drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 164 +++++++++++++++++--------
fs/efivarfs/file.c | 71 +++++++++++
fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 30 +++--
fs/efivarfs/internal.h | 3 +-
fs/efivarfs/super.c | 16 ++-
include/crypto/if_alg.h | 8 +-
include/linux/efi.h | 9 +-
include/linux/module.h | 17 +--
include/linux/tracepoint.h | 17 +--
include/linux/ucs2_string.h | 4 +
kernel/module.c | 111 ++++++++++-------
lib/ucs2_string.c | 62 ++++++++++
net/mac80211/agg-rx.c | 2 +-
net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel_ht.c | 2 +-
net/wireless/wext-core.c | 51 ++++++--
sound/soc/codecs/wm8958-dsp2.c | 8 +-
sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c | 4 +-
tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/efivarfs.sh | 19 ++-
tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/open-unlink.c | 72 ++++++++++-
27 files changed, 567 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-)