Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/53] 4.14.331-rc2 review

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Nov 27 2023 - 15:52:01 EST


Hi!

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.331 release.
> There are 53 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.

> Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> drm/amd: Fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds for Polaris and Tonga
> Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> drm/amd: Fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds for SMU7

I believed that the agreement with maintarner was that these are not
suitable for stable? There's no actual bug, but UBSAN warns anyway...

> zhujun2 <zhujun2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> selftests/efivarfs: create-read: fix a resource leak

This is wrong. It is patching userland code, there's no memory leak,
kernel closes file descriptors upon task exit.

> Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> RDMA/hfi1: Use FIELD_GET() to extract Link Width

This is a good cleanup, but not a bugfix.

> Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> atm: iphase: Do PCI error checks on own line

Just a cleanup, not sure why it was picked for stable.

Best regards,
Pavel
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