This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.117 release. There are 21 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, 07 May 2021 11:23:16 +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-5.4.117-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-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 5.4.117-rc1 Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/core: Fix unconditional security_locked_down() call Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> ovl: allow upperdir inside lowerdir Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: ufs: Unlock on a couple error paths Mark Pearson <markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx> platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Correct thermal sensor allocation Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@xxxxxxx> ASoC: ak5558: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@xxxxxxx> ASoC: ak4458: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: Add reset-resume quirk for WD19's Realtek Hub Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: Add LPM quirk for Lenovo ThinkPad USB-C Dock Gen2 Ethernet Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Add MIDI quirk for Vox ToneLab EX Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> perf ftrace: Fix access to pid in array when setting a pid filter Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> perf data: Fix error return code in perf_data__create_dir() Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> iwlwifi: Fix softirq/hardirq disabling in iwl_pcie_gen2_enqueue_hcmd() Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> avoid __memcat_p link failure Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Fix leakage of uninitialized bpf stack under speculation Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Fix masking negation logic upon negative dst register Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> iwlwifi: Fix softirq/hardirq disabling in iwl_pcie_enqueue_hcmd() Nick Lowe <nick.lowe@xxxxxxxxx> igb: Enable RSS for Intel I211 Ethernet Controller Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: usb: ax88179_178a: initialize local variables before use Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> ACPI: x86: Call acpi_boot_table_init() after acpi_table_upgrade() Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> ACPI: tables: x86: Reserve memory occupied by ACPI tables Romain Naour <romain.naour@xxxxxxxxx> mips: Do not include hi and lo in clobber list for R6 ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 26 +++++++++++--- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 25 +++++++------- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 ++-- drivers/acpi/tables.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx-gen2.c | 7 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c | 7 ++-- drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 31 ++++++++++++----- drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 14 +++++--- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 4 +++ fs/overlayfs/super.c | 12 ++++--- include/linux/acpi.h | 9 ++++- include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 5 +-- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 33 ++++++++++-------- kernel/events/core.c | 12 +++---- lib/Makefile | 4 +-- sound/soc/codecs/ak4458.c | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/ak5558.c | 1 + sound/usb/quirks-table.h | 10 ++++++ tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/data.c | 5 +-- 23 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)