This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.4.14 release. There are 9 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, 02 Sep 2023 11:11:18 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.4.14-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-6.4.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 6.4.14-rc1 Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx> kallsyms: Fix kallsyms_selftest failure Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc: sys_parisc: parisc_personality() is called from asm code Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> lockdep: fix static memory detection even more James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> ARM: module: Use module_init_layout_section() to spot init sections James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> arm64: module: Use module_init_layout_section() to spot init sections Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> arm64: module-plts: inline linux/moduleloader.h James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> module: Expose module_init_layout_section() Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> module/decompress: use vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> ACPI: thermal: Drop nocrt parameter ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 --- Makefile | 4 +-- arch/arm/kernel/module-plts.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c | 3 ++- arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c | 3 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h | 18 ------------- drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 6 +---- include/linux/moduleloader.h | 5 ++++ kernel/kallsyms.c | 17 +++++------- kernel/kallsyms_selftest.c | 23 +--------------- kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 36 ++++++++++--------------- kernel/module/decompress.c | 4 +-- kernel/module/main.c | 2 +- 13 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)