Re: preparations for 4.14.5 ?

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:16:00PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> All,
> 
> while 4.14's general support period ended in January, we're considering
> to cut an out-of-band release due to the relatively large number of
> security relevant backports which has accumulated in just 2 months. By
> doing this we would _not_ be promising to do so again in the future.
> Please voice objections to the plan (or support for it) in the next
> couple of days.
> 
> Since it's a little easier to "batch" releases, I would intend to keep
> 4.14.5 aligned with 4.16.1.
> 
> Commits I have queued but not committed to the branch yet (and I won't
> until in a couple of days time, to allow for objections to the plan to
> be raised):
> 
> dd6c062a7a4a tools/libxl: Correctly align the ACPI tables
> aa390d513a67 build: fix exported variable name CFLAGS_stack_boundary
> e62cc29f9b6c tools/libs: Fix build dependencies
> eddf13b5e940 x86emul: fix VPBLENDMW with mask and memory operand
> 6bd1b4d35c05 x86/console: process softirqs between warning prints
> 07449ecfa425 tools/libxl: don't allow IOMMU usage with PoD
> 10454f381f91 xz: avoid overlapping memcpy() with invalid input with in-place 
> decompression
> 0a21660515c2 xz: validate the value before assigning it to an enum variable
> b4f211606011 vpci/msix: fix PBA accesses
> 
> Please point out backports you find missing from both the respective
> staging branch and the list above, but which you consider relevant.

I'm not sure if "just" bugfix qualify for 4.14 at this point, but if so,
I'd propose:
0a20a53df158 tools/libs/light: set video_mem for PVH guests

In any case, the above should be backported to 4.15 and 4.16.

-- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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