[PATCH 4.14 00/23] 4.14.272-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.272 release.
There are 23 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, 16 Mar 2022 11:27:22 +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-4.14.272-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-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 <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Linux 4.14.272-rc1

Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
    btrfs: unlock newly allocated extent buffer after error

Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: add check to prevent attempting to resize an fs with sparse_super2

Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    ARM: fix Thumb2 regression with Spectre BHB

Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
    virtio: acknowledge all features before access

Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
    virtio: unexport virtio_finalize_features

James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
    KVM: arm64: Reset PMC_EL0 to avoid a panic() on systems with no PMU

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
    staging: gdm724x: fix use after free in gdm_lte_rx()

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    ARM: Spectre-BHB: provide empty stub for non-config

Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
    selftests/memfd: clean up mapping in mfd_fail_write

Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    tracing: Ensure trace buffer is at least 4096 bytes large

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Revert "xen-netback: Check for hotplug-status existence before watching"

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Revert "xen-netback: remove 'hotplug-status' once it has served its purpose"

suresh kumar <suresh2514@xxxxxxxxx>
    net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speed_show

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
    sctp: fix kernel-infoleak for SCTP sockets

Mark Featherston <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    gpio: ts4900: Do not set DAT and OE together

Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
    NFC: port100: fix use-after-free in port100_send_complete

Mohammad Kabat <mohammadkab@xxxxxxxxxx>
    net/mlx5: Fix size field in bufferx_reg struct

Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ax25: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ax25_kill_by_device

Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    net: ethernet: lpc_eth: Handle error for clk_enable

Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    net: ethernet: ti: cpts: Handle error for clk_enable

Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
    ethernet: Fix error handling in xemaclite_of_probe

Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
    qed: return status of qed_iov_get_link

Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
    net: qlogic: check the return value of dma_alloc_coherent() in qed_vf_hw_prepare()


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                      |  4 +--
 arch/arm/include/asm/spectre.h                |  6 ++++
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S                  |  4 +--
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c                     |  4 ++-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-ts4900.c                    | 24 ++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/nxp/lpc_eth.c            |  5 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c   | 18 +++++++-----
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c      |  7 +++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpts.c                |  4 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c |  4 ++-
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c              | 13 ++++-----
 drivers/nfc/port100.c                         |  2 ++
 drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_lte.c             |  5 ++--
 drivers/virtio/virtio.c                       | 40 ++++++++++++++-------------
 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c                        |  1 +
 fs/ext4/resize.c                              |  5 ++++
 include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h                 |  4 +--
 include/linux/virtio.h                        |  1 -
 include/linux/virtio_config.h                 |  3 +-
 kernel/trace/trace.c                          | 10 ++++---
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c                            |  7 +++++
 net/core/net-sysfs.c                          |  2 +-
 net/sctp/sctp_diag.c                          |  9 ++----
 tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c    |  1 +
 24 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)