This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.2 release. There are 18 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 Fri Nov 24 10:11:38 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.2-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 ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.14.2-rc1 Jan Harkes <jaharkes@xxxxxxxxxx> coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> mm/page_ext.c: check if page_ext is not prepared Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> ipmi: fix unsigned long underflow alex chen <alex.chen@xxxxxxxxxx> ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr() Changwei Ge <ge.changwei@xxxxxxx> ocfs2: fix cluster hang after a node dies Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/pagewalk.c: report holes in hugetlb ranges Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rcu: Fix up pending cbs check in rcu_prepare_for_idle Alexander Steffen <Alexander.Steffen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tpm-dev-common: Reject too short writes Ji-Ze Hong (Peter Hong) <hpeter@xxxxxxxxx> serial: 8250_fintek: Fix finding base_port with activated SuperIO Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> serial: omap: Fix EFR write on RTS deassertion Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx> ima: do not update security.ima if appraisal status is not INTEGRITY_PASS Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx> fealnx: Fix building error on MIPS Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> net: cdc_ncm: GetNtbFormat endian fix Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> vxlan: fix the issue that neigh proxy blocks all icmpv6 packets Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> af_netlink: ensure that NLMSG_DONE never fails in dumps Michael Lyle <mlyle@xxxxxxxx> bio: ensure __bio_clone_fast copies bi_partno ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- block/bio.c | 1 + drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 10 ++++++---- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/fealnx.c | 6 +++--- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_fintek.c | 3 +++ drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 2 +- fs/coda/upcall.c | 3 +-- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c | 1 + fs/ocfs2/file.c | 9 +++++++-- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++--------- mm/page_ext.c | 4 ---- mm/pagewalk.c | 6 +++++- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 17 +++++++++++------ net/netlink/af_netlink.h | 1 + net/sctp/ipv6.c | 5 +++-- security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 3 +++ 21 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)