This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.204 release. There are 11 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, 15 Aug 2021 15:05:12 +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-4.19.204-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-4.19.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.19.204-rc1 YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> net: xilinx_emaclite: Do not print real IOMEM pointer Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> ovl: prevent private clone if bind mount is not allowed Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> ppp: Fix generating ppp unit id when ifname is not specified Longfang Liu <liulongfang@xxxxxxxxxx> USB:ehci:fix Kunpeng920 ehci hardware problem Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: X86: MMU: Use the correct inherited permissions to get shadow page Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf, selftests: Adjust few selftest outcomes wrt unreachable code Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Fix leakage under speculation on mispredicted branches Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Do not mark insn as seen under speculative path verification Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf: Inherit expanded/patched seen count from old aux data Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Reject string operand in the histogram expression Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: SVM: Fix off-by-one indexing when nullifying last used SEV VMCB ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 14 ++++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 19 ++++++-- drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c | 3 ++ fs/namespace.c | 42 +++++++++++------ kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++---- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 14 ++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier.c | 2 + 11 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)