[PATCH 5.6 00/41] 5.6.18-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-09T18:02:34Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.6.18 release.
There are 41 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, 11 Jun 2020 17:40:51 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.6.18-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-5.6.y
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 5.6.18-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Revert "net/mlx5: Annotate mutex destroy for root ns"

Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
uprobes: ensure that uprobe->offset and ->ref_ctr_offset are properly aligned

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list

Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation

Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation

Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()

Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id

Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
nvmem: qfprom: remove incorrect write support

Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
CDC-ACM: heed quirk also in error handling

Pascal Terjan <pterjan@google.com>
staging: rtl8712: Fix IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK

Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
tty: hvc_console, fix crashes on parallel open/close

Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
vt: keyboard: avoid signed integer overflow in k_ascii

Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86

Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>
usb: musb: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error

Bin Liu <b-liu@ti.com>
usb: musb: start session in resume for host port

Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
iio: adc: stm32-adc: fix a wrong error message when probing interrupts

Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
iio:chemical:pms7003: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak.

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
iio: vcnl4000: Fix i2c swapped word reading.

Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
iio:chemical:sps30: Fix timestamp alignment

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
USB: serial: ch341: fix lockup of devices with limited prescaler

Michael Hanselmann <public@hansmi.ch>
USB: serial: ch341: add basis for quirk detection

Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@gmail.com>
USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910C1-EUX compositions

Bin Liu <b-liu@ti.com>
USB: serial: usb_wwan: do not resubmit rx urb on fatal errors

Matt Jolly <Kangie@footclan.ninja>
USB: serial: qcserial: add DW5816e QDL support

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
net/mlx5e: replace EINVAL in mlx5e_flower_parse_meta()

Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
net/sched: fix infinite loop in sch_fq_pie

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
mptcp: fix unblocking connect()

Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
net: dsa: felix: send VLANs on CPU port as egress-tagged

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
net: be more gentle about silly gso requests coming from user

Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
vsock: fix timeout in vsock_accept()

Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
virtio_vsock: Fix race condition in virtio_transport_recv_pkt

Jonas Falkevik <jonas.falkevik@gmail.com>
sctp: check assoc before SCTP_ADDR_{MADE_PRIM, ADDED} event

Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com>
nfp: flower: fix used time of merge flow statistics

Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>
NFC: st21nfca: add missed kfree_skb() in an error path

Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@gmail.com>
net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Telit LE910C1-EUX composition

Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@nxp.com>
net: stmmac: enable timestamp snapshot for required PTP packets in dwmac v5.10a

Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
net/mlx5: Fix crash upon suspend/resume

Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
net: check untrusted gso_size at kernel entry

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
l2tp: do not use inet_hash()/inet_unhash()

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
l2tp: add sk_family checks to l2tp_validate_socket

Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
devinet: fix memleak in inetdev_init()

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Diffstat:

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 +
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst | 1 +
.../special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 20 +++
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_device_id.h | 30 +++++
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 4 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 106 +++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 56 ++++++--
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/match.c | 7 +-
drivers/base/cpu.c | 8 ++
drivers/iio/adc/stm32-adc-core.c | 34 ++---
drivers/iio/chemical/pms7003.c | 17 ++-
drivers/iio/chemical/sps30.c | 9 +-
drivers/iio/light/vcnl4000.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c | 8 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 6 -
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 18 +++
.../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/offload.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 +
drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c | 4 +-
drivers/nvmem/qfprom.c | 14 --
drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h | 9 +-
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c | 23 ++--
drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 26 ++--
drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 2 +-
drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c | 7 +
drivers/usb/musb/musb_debugfs.c | 10 +-
drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 68 +++++++++-
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 4 +
drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c | 4 +
include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 6 +
include/linux/virtio_net.h | 25 +++-
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 16 ++-
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 1 +
net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 3 +
net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 29 +++-
net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 30 +++--
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 20 ++-
net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c | 4 +-
net/sctp/ulpevent.c | 3 +
net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 +-
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 8 ++
.../tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/fq_pie.json | 21 +++
50 files changed, 694 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)