[PATCH 5.15 00/20] 5.15.4-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-19T17:39:56Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.4 release.
There are 20 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 Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:14:35 +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-5.15.4-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-5.15.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 5.15.4-rc1

Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Revert "ACPI: scan: Release PM resources blocked by unused objects"

Subbaraman Narayanamurthy <quic_subbaram@quicinc.com>
thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in of_thermal_ functions

Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
perf/core: Avoid put_page() when GUP fails

Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
PCI: Add MSI masking quirk for Nvidia ION AHCI

Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
PCI/MSI: Deal with devices lying about their MSI mask capability

Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
parisc/entry: fix trace test in syscall exit path

Nicholas Flintham <nick@flinny.org>
Bluetooth: btusb: Add support for TP-Link UB500 Adapter

Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size

Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
block: Add a helper to validate the block size

Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
fortify: Explicitly disable Clang support

Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: allow preallocation for relocation inodes

Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
btrfs: check for relocation inodes on zoned btrfs in should_nocow

Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: use regular writes for relocation

Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: only allow one process to add pages to a relocation inode

Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: add a dedicated data relocation block group

Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
btrfs: introduce btrfs_is_data_reloc_root

David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
KVM: Fix steal time asm constraints

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Revert "drm: fb_helper: fix CONFIG_FB dependency"

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Revert "drm: fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency"

Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
string: uninline memcpy_and_pad

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 ++--
arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 ++---
drivers/acpi/glue.c | 25 --------------------
drivers/acpi/internal.h | 1 -
drivers/acpi/scan.c | 6 -----
drivers/block/loop.c | 17 ++------------
drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 4 ++++
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 5 ++--
drivers/pci/msi.c | 3 +++
drivers/pci/quirks.c | 6 +++++
drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 9 ++++---
fs/btrfs/block-group.c | 1 +
fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 12 ++++++++++
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 ++-
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 11 +++++++++
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 29 +++++++++++++----------
fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 38 +++---------------------------
fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++
fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 3 +++
include/linux/blkdev.h | 8 +++++++
include/linux/pci.h | 2 ++
include/linux/string.h | 19 ++-------------
kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++----
lib/string_helpers.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++
security/Kconfig | 3 +++
27 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)