I'm announcing the release of the 5.6.18 kernel. All users of the 5.6 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.6.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.6.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst | 1 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst | 149 ++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 20 + Makefile | 2 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 + drivers/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 tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tc-tests/qdiscs/fq_pie.json | 21 + 50 files changed, 693 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-) Bin Liu (2): USB: serial: usb_wwan: do not resubmit rx urb on fatal errors usb: musb: start session in resume for host port Chuhong Yuan (1): NFC: st21nfca: add missed kfree_skb() in an error path Daniele Palmas (2): net: usb: qmi_wwan: add Telit LE910C1-EUX composition USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910C1-EUX compositions Davide Caratti (1): net/sched: fix infinite loop in sch_fq_pie Dinghao Liu (1): usb: musb: Fix runtime PM imbalance on error Dmitry Torokhov (1): vt: keyboard: avoid signed integer overflow in k_ascii Eric Dumazet (3): l2tp: add sk_family checks to l2tp_validate_socket l2tp: do not use inet_hash()/inet_unhash() net: be more gentle about silly gso requests coming from user Fabrice Gasnier (1): iio: adc: stm32-adc: fix a wrong error message when probing interrupts Fugang Duan (1): net: stmmac: enable timestamp snapshot for required PTP packets in dwmac v5.10a Greg Kroah-Hartman (2): Revert "net/mlx5: Annotate mutex destroy for root ns" Linux 5.6.18 Heinrich Kuhn (1): nfp: flower: fix used time of merge flow statistics Jia He (1): virtio_vsock: Fix race condition in virtio_transport_recv_pkt Jiri Slaby (1): tty: hvc_console, fix crashes on parallel open/close Johan Hovold (1): USB: serial: ch341: fix lockup of devices with limited prescaler Jonas Falkevik (1): sctp: check assoc before SCTP_ADDR_{MADE_PRIM, ADDED} event Jonathan Cameron (2): iio:chemical:sps30: Fix timestamp alignment iio:chemical:pms7003: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak. Josh Poimboeuf (1): x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list Josh Triplett (1): serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86 Mark Bloch (1): net/mlx5: Fix crash upon suspend/resume Mark Gross (4): x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches() x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation Mathieu Othacehe (1): iio: vcnl4000: Fix i2c swapped word reading. Matt Jolly (1): USB: serial: qcserial: add DW5816e QDL support Michael Hanselmann (1): USB: serial: ch341: add basis for quirk detection Oleg Nesterov (1): uprobes: ensure that uprobe->offset and ->ref_ctr_offset are properly aligned Oliver Neukum (1): CDC-ACM: heed quirk also in error handling Pablo Neira Ayuso (1): net/mlx5e: replace EINVAL in mlx5e_flower_parse_meta() Paolo Abeni (1): mptcp: fix unblocking connect() Pascal Terjan (1): staging: rtl8712: Fix IEEE80211_ADDBA_PARAM_BUF_SIZE_MASK Srinivas Kandagatla (1): nvmem: qfprom: remove incorrect write support Stefano Garzarella (1): vsock: fix timeout in vsock_accept() Vladimir Oltean (1): net: dsa: felix: send VLANs on CPU port as egress-tagged Willem de Bruijn (1): net: check untrusted gso_size at kernel entry Yang Yingliang (1): devinet: fix memleak in inetdev_init()