[PATCH 5.15 00/45] 5.15.156-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Apr 15 2024 - 10:43:12 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.156 release.
There are 45 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, 17 Apr 2024 14:19:30 +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-5.15.156-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 5.15.156-rc1

Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
drm/i915/cdclk: Fix CDCLK programming order when pipes are active

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Replace CONFIG_SPECTRE_BHI_{ON,OFF} with CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Remove CONFIG_BHI_MITIGATION_AUTO and spectre_bhi=auto

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Clarify that syscall hardening isn't a BHI mitigation

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Fix BHI handling of RRSBA

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Rename various 'ia32_cap' variables to 'x86_arch_cap_msr'

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Cache the value of MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Fix BHI documentation

Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Fix return type of spectre_bhi_state()

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
irqflags: Explicitly ignore lockdep_hrtimer_exit() argument

Adam Dunlap <acdunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/apic: Force native_apic_mem_read() to use the MOV instruction

John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
selftests: timers: Fix abs() warning in posix_timers test

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n

Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
perf/x86: Fix out of range data

Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
vhost: Add smp_rmb() in vhost_vq_avail_empty()

Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
drm/client: Fully protect modes[] with dev->mode_config.mutex

Boris Burkov <boris@xxxxxx>
btrfs: qgroup: correctly model root qgroup rsv in convert

Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
iommu/vt-d: Allocate local memory for page request queue

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
tracing: hide unused ftrace_event_id_fops

David Arinzon <darinzon@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: ena: Fix incorrect descriptor free behavior

David Arinzon <darinzon@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: ena: Wrong missing IO completions check order

David Arinzon <darinzon@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: ena: Fix potential sign extension issue

Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect()

Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
af_unix: Do not use atomic ops for unix_sk(sk)->inflight.

Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: dsa: mt7530: trap link-local frames regardless of ST Port State

Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
net: sparx5: fix wrong config being used when reconfiguring PCS

Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
netfilter: complete validation of user input

Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxxxxx>
ipv6: fix race condition between ipv6_get_ifaddr and ipv6_del_addr

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
ipv4/route: avoid unused-but-set-variable warning

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
ipv6: fib: hide unused 'pn' variable

Geetha sowjanya <gakula@xxxxxxxxxxx>
octeontx2-af: Fix NIX SQ mode and BP config

Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
af_unix: Clear stale u->oob_skb.

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
geneve: fix header validation in geneve[6]_xmit_skb

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
xsk: validate user input for XDP_{UMEM|COMPLETION}_FILL_RING

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
u64_stats: Disable preemption on 32bit UP+SMP PREEMPT_RT during updates.

Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxx>
net: openvswitch: fix unwanted error log on timeout policy probing

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix off by one in qla_edif_app_getstats()

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
nouveau: fix function cast warning

Alex Constantino <dreaming.about.electric.sheep@xxxxxxxxx>
Revert "drm/qxl: simplify qxl_fence_wait"

Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx>
arm64: dts: imx8-ss-conn: fix usdhc wrong lpcg clock order

Nini Song <nini.song@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
media: cec: core: remove length check of Timer Status

Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: Fix memory leak in hci_req_sync_complete()

Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
ring-buffer: Only update pages_touched when a new page is touched

Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
batman-adv: Avoid infinite loop trying to resize local TT


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Diffstat:

Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 22 +-
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 +-
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8-ss-conn.dtsi | 12 +-
arch/x86/Kconfig | 21 +-
arch/x86/events/core.c | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 3 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 82 ++++----
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 48 ++---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_client_modeset.c | 3 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_cdclk.c | 7 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_cdclk.h | 3 +
.../gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowof.c | 7 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_release.c | 50 ++++-
drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/cec/core/cec-adap.c | 14 --
drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.c | 229 ++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/net/dsa/mt7530.h | 5 +
drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c | 35 ++--
.../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_nix.c | 22 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 3 +-
.../net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_port.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/geneve.c | 4 +-
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_edif.c | 2 +-
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 14 +-
fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 2 +
include/linux/dma-fence.h | 7 +
include/linux/irqflags.h | 2 +-
include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h | 42 ++--
include/net/addrconf.h | 4 +
include/net/af_unix.h | 2 +-
include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 33 +++
kernel/cpu.c | 3 +-
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 +-
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 4 +
net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 2 +-
net/bluetooth/hci_request.c | 4 +-
net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 4 +
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 4 +
net/ipv4/route.c | 4 +-
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 7 +-
net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 7 +-
net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 4 +
net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 5 +-
net/unix/af_unix.c | 8 +-
net/unix/garbage.c | 35 +++-
net/unix/scm.c | 8 +-
net/xdp/xsk.c | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/timers/posix_timers.c | 2 +-
50 files changed, 556 insertions(+), 256 deletions(-)