This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.4 release. There are 20 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, 21 Nov 2021 17:14:35 +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-5.15.4-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-5.15.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 5.15.4-rc1 Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Revert "ACPI: scan: Release PM resources blocked by unused objects" Subbaraman Narayanamurthy <quic_subbaram@xxxxxxxxxxx> thermal: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in of_thermal_ functions Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> perf/core: Avoid put_page() when GUP fails Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> PCI: Add MSI masking quirk for Nvidia ION AHCI Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> PCI/MSI: Deal with devices lying about their MSI mask capability Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> parisc/entry: fix trace test in syscall exit path Nicholas Flintham <nick@xxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: btusb: Add support for TP-Link UB500 Adapter Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> block: Add a helper to validate the block size Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> fortify: Explicitly disable Clang support Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> btrfs: zoned: allow preallocation for relocation inodes Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> btrfs: check for relocation inodes on zoned btrfs in should_nocow Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> btrfs: zoned: use regular writes for relocation Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> btrfs: zoned: only allow one process to add pages to a relocation inode Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> btrfs: zoned: add a dedicated data relocation block group Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> btrfs: introduce btrfs_is_data_reloc_root David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: Fix steal time asm constraints Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "drm: fb_helper: fix CONFIG_FB dependency" Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "drm: fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency" Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> string: uninline memcpy_and_pad ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/parisc/kernel/entry.S | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 ++--- drivers/acpi/glue.c | 25 -------------------- drivers/acpi/internal.h | 1 - drivers/acpi/scan.c | 6 ----- drivers/block/loop.c | 17 ++------------ drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 4 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 5 ++-- drivers/pci/msi.c | 3 +++ drivers/pci/quirks.c | 6 +++++ drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 9 ++++--- fs/btrfs/block-group.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 12 ++++++++++ fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 3 ++- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 11 +++++++++ fs/btrfs/inode.c | 29 +++++++++++++---------- fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 38 +++--------------------------- fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++ fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 3 +++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 8 +++++++ include/linux/pci.h | 2 ++ include/linux/string.h | 19 ++------------- kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++---- lib/string_helpers.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++ security/Kconfig | 3 +++ 27 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
