This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.6.18 release. There are 41 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 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:40:51 +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-5.6.18-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-5.6.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 5.6.18-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "net/mlx5: Annotate mutex destroy for root ns" Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> uprobes: ensure that uprobe->offset and ->ref_ctr_offset are properly aligned Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches() Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> nvmem: qfprom: remove incorrect write support Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> CDC-ACM: heed quirk also in error handling Pascal Terjan <pterjan@xxxxxxxxxx> staging: rtl8712: Fix IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> tty: hvc_console, fix crashes on parallel open/close Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> vt: keyboard: avoid signed integer overflow in k_ascii Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86 Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> usb: musb: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error Bin Liu <b-liu@xxxxxx> usb: musb: start session in resume for host port Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@xxxxxx> iio: adc: stm32-adc: fix a wrong error message when probing interrupts Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> iio:chemical:pms7003: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak. Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@xxxxxxxxx> iio: vcnl4000: Fix i2c swapped word reading. Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> iio:chemical:sps30: Fix timestamp alignment Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: ch341: fix lockup of devices with limited prescaler Michael Hanselmann <public@xxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: ch341: add basis for quirk detection Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@xxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910C1-EUX compositions Bin Liu <b-liu@xxxxxx> USB: serial: usb_wwan: do not resubmit rx urb on fatal errors Matt Jolly <Kangie@footclan.ninja> USB: serial: qcserial: add DW5816e QDL support Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5e: replace EINVAL in mlx5e_flower_parse_meta() Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> net/sched: fix infinite loop in sch_fq_pie Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> mptcp: fix unblocking connect() Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> net: dsa: felix: send VLANs on CPU port as egress-tagged Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: be more gentle about silly gso requests coming from user Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> vsock: fix timeout in vsock_accept() Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx> virtio_vsock: Fix race condition in virtio_transport_recv_pkt Jonas Falkevik <jonas.falkevik@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: check assoc before SCTP_ADDR_{MADE_PRIM, ADDED} event Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> nfp: flower: fix used time of merge flow statistics Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@xxxxxxxxx> NFC: st21nfca: add missed kfree_skb() in an error path Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@xxxxxxxxx> net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Telit LE910C1-EUX composition Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx> net: stmmac: enable timestamp snapshot for required PTP packets in dwmac v5.10a Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5: Fix crash upon suspend/resume Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> net: check untrusted gso_size at kernel entry Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: do not use inet_hash()/inet_unhash() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: add sk_family checks to l2tp_validate_socket Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> devinet: fix memleak in inetdev_init() ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst | 1 + .../special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 20 +++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/cpu_device_id.h | 30 +++++ arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 4 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 106 +++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 56 ++++++-- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/match.c | 7 +- drivers/base/cpu.c | 8 ++ drivers/iio/adc/stm32-adc-core.c | 34 ++--- drivers/iio/chemical/pms7003.c | 17 ++- drivers/iio/chemical/sps30.c | 9 +- drivers/iio/light/vcnl4000.c | 6 +- drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 6 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 18 +++ .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/offload.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c | 4 +- drivers/nvmem/qfprom.c | 14 -- drivers/staging/rtl8712/wifi.h | 9 +- drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c | 23 ++-- drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 26 ++-- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/musb/musb_core.c | 7 + drivers/usb/musb/musb_debugfs.c | 10 +- drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c | 68 +++++++++- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 4 + drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/usb_wwan.c | 4 + include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 6 + include/linux/virtio_net.h | 25 +++- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 16 ++- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 1 + net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 3 + net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 29 +++- net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 30 +++-- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 20 ++- net/sched/sch_fq_pie.c | 4 +- net/sctp/ulpevent.c | 3 + net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 8 ++ .../tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/fq_pie.json | 21 +++ 50 files changed, 694 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)