This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.250 release. There are 10 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, 10 Oct 2021 11:27:07 +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-4.14.250-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 4.14.250-rc1 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> lib/timerqueue: Rely on rbtree semantics for next timer Kate Hsuan <hpa@xxxxxxxxxx> libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD. Wen Xiong <wenxiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: ses: Retry failed Send/Receive Diagnostic commands Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> usb: dwc2: check return value after calling platform_get_resource() Faizel K B <faizel.kb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: testusb: Fix for showing the connection speed Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sd: Free scsi_disk device via put_device() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> ext2: fix sleeping in atomic bugs on error Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sparc64: fix pci_iounmap() when CONFIG_PCI is not set Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> xen-netback: correct success/error reporting for the SKB-with-fraglist case Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> net: mdio: introduce a shutdown method to mdio device drivers ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/sparc/lib/iomap.c | 2 ++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/net/phy/mdio_device.c | 11 +++++++++++ drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 9 +++++---- drivers/scsi/ses.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c | 4 ++++ fs/ext2/balloc.c | 14 ++++++-------- include/linux/libata.h | 1 + include/linux/mdio.h | 3 +++ include/linux/timerqueue.h | 13 ++++++------- lib/timerqueue.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------------ tools/usb/testusb.c | 14 ++++++++------ 14 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)