This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.198 release. There are 12 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 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:24:42 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.198-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 4.14.198-rc1 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> net: disable netpoll on fresh napis Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tipc: fix shutdown() of connectionless socket Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: not disable bh in the whole sctp_get_port_local() Kamil Lorenc <kamil@xxxxxxxx> net: usb: dm9601: Add USB ID of Keenetic Plus DSL Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> netlabel: fix problems with mapping removal Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> bnxt: don't enable NAPI until rings are ready Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> vfio/pci: Fix SR-IOV VF handling with MMIO blocking Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> vfio-pci: Fault mmaps to enable vma tracking Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> vfio/type1: Support faulting PFNMAP vmas Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> block: ensure bdi->io_pages is always initialized Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA; firewire-tascam: exclude Tascam FE-8 from detection ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- block/blk-core.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 9 +- drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c | 4 + drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 352 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c | 51 ++++- drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c | 14 ++ drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_private.h | 16 ++ drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c | 29 ++- drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 36 ++- net/core/dev.c | 3 +- net/core/netpoll.c | 2 +- net/netlabel/netlabel_domainhash.c | 59 ++--- net/sctp/socket.c | 16 +- net/tipc/socket.c | 9 +- sound/firewire/tascam/tascam.c | 30 ++- 16 files changed, 539 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)