This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.333 release. There are 25 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 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:19:59 +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-4.14.333-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 4.14.333-rc1 Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> drop_monitor: Require 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' when joining "events" group Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> psample: Require 'CAP_NET_ADMIN' when joining "packets" group Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> genetlink: add CAP_NET_ADMIN test for multicast bind Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> netlink: don't call ->netlink_bind with table lock held Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx> nilfs2: fix missing error check for sb_set_blocksize call Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> KVM: s390/mm: Properly reset no-dat Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@xxxxxxxxxxx> serial: 8250_omap: Add earlycon support for the AM654 UART controller Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> serial: sc16is7xx: address RX timeout interrupt errata Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> ARM: PL011: Fix DMA support Cameron Williams <cang1@xxxxxxxxxx> parport: Add support for Brainboxes IX/UC/PX parallel cards Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> packet: Move reference count in packet_sock to atomic_long_t Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix a possible race when disabling buffered events Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix incomplete locking when disabling buffered events Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Always update snapshot buffer size Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx> nilfs2: prevent WARNING in nilfs_sufile_set_segment_usage() Jason Zhang <jason.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: pcm: fix out-of-bounds in snd_pcm_state_names Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: be2iscsi: Fix a memleak in beiscsi_init_wrb_handle() Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix a warning when allocating buffered events fails Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) Fix 4.29 MW bug Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> RDMA/bnxt_re: Correct module description string Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: do not accept ACK of bytes we never sent Yonglong Liu <liuyonglong@xxxxxxxxxx> net: hns: fix fake link up on xge port YuanShang <YuanShang.Mao@xxxxxxx> drm/amdgpu: correct chunk_ptr to a pointer to chunk. Alex Pakhunov <alexey.pakhunov@xxxxxxxxxx> tg3: Increment tx_dropped in tg3_tso_bug() Alex Pakhunov <alexey.pakhunov@xxxxxxxxxx> tg3: Move the [rt]x_dropped counters to tg3_napi ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c | 4 + drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 42 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_mac.c | 29 ++++++ drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 21 ++++ drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 112 +++++++++++----------- drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 12 +++ fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 44 +++++++-- fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 6 +- include/net/genetlink.h | 3 + kernel/trace/trace.c | 42 ++++---- net/core/drop_monitor.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 6 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 35 +++++++ net/packet/af_packet.c | 16 ++-- net/packet/internal.h | 2 +- net/psample/psample.c | 3 +- sound/core/pcm.c | 1 + 25 files changed, 286 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)