This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.12.8 release. There are 7 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 Sat, 29 May 2021 15:11:29 +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-5.12.8-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-5.12.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 5.12.8-rc1 Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx> NFC: nci: fix memory leak in nci_allocate_device Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: x86: Defer vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> context_tracking: Move guest exit vtime accounting to separate helpers Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx> context_tracking: Move guest exit context tracking to separate helpers Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: No need to simulate speculative domain for immediates Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Wrap aux data inside bpf_sanitize_info container ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 6 +++--- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 6 +++--- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 ++++++++ include/linux/context_tracking.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++++---- include/net/nfc/nci_core.h | 1 + kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- net/nfc/nci/core.c | 1 + net/nfc/nci/hci.c | 5 +++++ 9 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)