Hi all,

Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.1.

Please try and complete validation by April 13th.

Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.

A release candidate tarball can be found at:

    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.1-rc1

These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
    https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

Thanks.

Kevin

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Adham Masarwah (2):
      net/mlx5: fix destroying empty matchers list
      app/testpmd: fix show RSS RETA on Windows

Ajit Khaparde (7):
      net/bnxt: fix ring teardown
      net/bnxt: fix PAM4 mask setting
      net/bnxt: fix crash by validating pointer
      net/bnxt: check VF representor pointer before access
      net/bnxt: fix VF resource allocation strategy
      net/bnxt: set HW coalescing parameters
      net/bnxt: fix ring calculation for representors

Alexander Kozyrev (4):
      net/mlx5: fix maximum packet headers size for TSO
      net/mlx5: fix MPRQ WQE size assertion
      net/mlx5: fix committed bucket size
      net/mlx5: fix meter capabilities reporting

Ali Alnubani (1):
      doc: fix typos and punctuation in flow API guide

Anatoly Burakov (1):
      net/qede: fix redundant condition in debug code

Andy Pei (1):
      vdpa/ifc: fix log info mismatch

Ankur Dwivedi (1):
      common/cnxk: fix NPC key extraction validation

Anoob Joseph (4):
      common/cnxk: fix reset of fields
      crypto/cnxk: fix inflight count calculation
      crypto/cnxk: fix extend tail calculation
      crypto/cnxk: fix update of number of descriptors

Arek Kusztal (1):
      cryptodev: fix RSA key type name

Asaf Ravid (1):
      net/cnxk: fix promiscuous mode in multicast enable flow

Ashwin Sekhar T K (1):
      mempool/cnxk: fix batch allocation failure path

Bin Zheng (1):
      net/ixgbe: add vector Rx parameter check

Bing Zhao (5):
      common/mlx5: fix probing failure code
      app/testpmd: fix raw encap of GENEVE option
      net/mlx5: fix matcher priority with ICMP or ICMPv6
      net/mlx5: remove unused reference counter
      net/mlx5: fix configuration without Rx queue

Brian Dooley (13):
      eal: add missing C++ guards
      telemetry: add missing C++ guards
      ethdev: add missing C++ guards
      metrics: add missing C++ guards
      acl: add missing C++ guards
      compressdev: add missing C++ guards
      eventdev: add missing C++ guards
      kni: add missing C++ guards
      vhost: add missing C++ guards
      bpf: add missing C++ guards
      cryptodev: add missing C++ guards
      examples/l2fwd-crypto: fix port mask overflow
      crypto/virtio: fix out-of-bounds access

Bruce Richardson (23):
      doc: remove dependency on findutils on FreeBSD
      dma/idxd: fix burst capacity calculation
      dma/idxd: fix paths to driver sysfs directory
      dma/idxd: fix wrap-around in burst capacity calculation
      build: fix warnings when running external commands
      build: remove deprecated Meson functions
      eal: fix C++ include
      eventdev: fix C++ include
      graph: fix C++ include
      ipsec: fix C++ include
      table: fix C++ include
      vhost: fix C++ include
      ethdev: fix cast for C++ compatibility
      test/dma: fix missing checks for device capacity
      dma/idxd: configure maximum batch size to high value
      doc: improve configuration examples in idxd guide
      distributor: fix potential overflow
      eal/freebsd: add missing C++ include guards
      compressdev: fix missing space in log macro
      cryptodev: fix clang C++ include
      eventdev: fix clang C++ include
      doc: replace characters for (R) symbol in Linux guide
      doc: fix missing note on UIO module in Linux guide

Chandubabu Namburu (1):
      net/axgbe: use PCI root complex device to distinguish device

Chenbo Xia (1):
      vhost: fix queue number check when setting inflight FD

Chengchang Tang (1):
      net/bonding: fix offloading configuration

Chengwen Feng (2):
      net/hns3: delete duplicated RSS type
      dma/hisilicon: use common PCI device naming

Chuanshe Zhang (1):
      examples/flow_classify: fix failure message

Ciara Loftus (2):
      net/af_xdp: fix build with -Wunused-function
      net/af_xdp: ensure socket is deleted on Rx queue setup error

Ciara Power (4):
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix queue setup null pointer dereference
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix queue cleanup null pointer dereference
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix tainted data for session
      crypto/ipsec_mb: remove useless check

Cristian Dumitrescu (2):
      pipeline: fix annotation checks
      pipeline: fix table state memory allocation

Dapeng Yu (2):
      net/ice: track DCF state of PF
      net/i40e: enable maximum frame size at port level

Dariusz Sosnowski (3):
      net/mlx5: fix inline length for multi-segment TSO
      net/mlx5: fix MPLS/GRE Verbs spec ordering
      net/mlx5: fix VLAN push action validation

David Marchand (8):
      devtools: fix comment detection in forbidden token check
      stack: fix stubs header export
      test/mbuf: fix mbuf data content check
      ethdev: fix MAC address in telemetry device info
      net/af_xdp: add missing trailing newline in logs
      devtools: remove event/dlb exception in ABI check
      vhost: fix FD leak with inflight messages
      bpf: fix build with some libpcap version on FreeBSD

Dawid Gorecki (2):
      net/ena: fix reset reason being overwritten
      net/ena: check memory BAR before initializing LLQ

Devendra Singh Rawat (3):
      net/qede: fix Tx completion
      net/qede: fix Rx bulk
      net/qede: fix maximum Rx packet length

Dmitry Kozlyuk (8):
      net/mlx5: fix GCC uninitialized variable warning
      net/mlx5: relax headroom assertion
      app/testpmd: fix external buffer allocation
      common/mlx5: fix MR lookup for non-contiguous mempool
      common/mlx5: add Netlink event helpers
      net/mlx5: fix link status change detection
      net/mlx5: fix initial link status detection
      net/mlx5: fix modify port action validation

Elena Agostini (3):
      gpu/cuda: fix memory list cleanup
      doc: add CUDA driver features
      gpu/cuda: fix dependency loading path

Ferruh Yigit (2):
      net/bonding: fix MTU set for slaves
      ethdev: fix doxygen comments for device info struct

Geoffrey Le Gourriérec (1):
      net/bnxt: restore dependency on kernel modules

Gerry Gribbon (1):
      app/regex: fix number of matches

Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan (6):
      event/cnxk: fix variables casting
      event/cnxk: fix uninitialized local variables
      common/cnxk: add missing checks of return values
      common/cnxk fix unintended sign extension
      common/cnxk: fix uninitialized pointer read
      net/cnxk: fix uninitialized local variable

Gregory Etelson (10):
      net/mlx5: fix RSS expansion with explicit next protocol
      net/mlx5: fix GRE protocol type translation for Verbs
      net/mlx5: fix GRE item translation in Verbs
      net/mlx5: reduce flex item flow handle size
      net/mlx5: fix flex item header length translation
      net/mlx5: fix inet IPIP protocol type
      net/mlx5: fix next protocol RSS expansion
      net/mlx5: fix flex item availability
      app/testpmd: fix GTP header parsing in checksum engine
      app/testpmd: fix flow rule with flex input link

Haiyue Wang (2):
      net/iavf: remove git residue symbol
      doc: fix KNI PMD name typo

Harman Kalra (3):
      common/cnxk: reset stale values on error debug registers
      common/cnxk: always use single interrupt ID with NIX
      common/cnxk: fix mbuf data offset for VF

Harold Huang (2):
      net/virtio-user: fix resource leak on probing failure
      net/kni: fix config initialization

Heinrich Kuhn (1):
      net/nfp: free HW ring memzone on queue release

Hemant Agrawal (1):
      crypto/dpaax_sec: fix auth/cipher xform chain checks

Honnappa Nagarahalli (3):
      examples/distributor: reduce Tx queue number to 1
      examples/l3fwd: share queue size variables
      examples/l3fwd: make Rx and Tx queue size configurable

Huisong Li (10):
      net/hns3: fix mailbox wait time
      net/hns3: fix using enum as boolean
      net/hns3: fix max packet size rollback in PF
      net/hns3: fix insecure way to query MAC statistics
      net/hns3: fix double decrement of secondary count
      net/hns3: fix operating queue when TCAM table is invalid
      kni: fix freeing order in device release
      net/hns3: fix RSS TC mode entry
      net/hns3: fix VF RSS TC mode entry
      net/hns3: increase time waiting for PF reset completion

Ivan Malov (8):
      net/sfc: validate queue span when parsing flow action RSS
      net/sfc: fix lock releases
      net/sfc: do not push fast free offload to default TxQ config
      net/sfc: demand Tx fast free offload on EF10 simple datapath
      common/sfc_efx/base: fix recirculation ID set in outer rules
      common/sfc_efx/base: add missing handler for 1-byte fields
      net/sfc: fix flow tunnel support detection
      net/sfc: reduce log level of tunnel restore info error

Jakub Poczatek (1):
      doc: fix FIPS guide

Jiawei Wang (4):
      net/mlx5: fix NIC egress flow mismatch in switchdev mode
      net/mlx5: fix sample flow action on trusted device
      net/mlx5: fix implicit tag insertion with sample action
      net/mlx5: fix port matching in sample flow rule

Jiawen Wu (8):
      net/ngbe: fix Rx by initializing packet buffer early
      net/ngbe: fix missed link interrupt
      net/ngbe: fix Tx hang on queue disable
      net/ngbe: fix packet statistics
      net/txgbe: fix link up and down
      net/txgbe: fix KR auto-negotiation
      net/ngbe: fix debug logs
      net/txgbe: fix debug logs

Jie Hai (1):
      net/hns3: remove duplicate macro definition

Jie Wang (1):
      net: fix L2TPv2 common header

Jie Zhou (2):
      eal/windows: fix error code for not supported API
      test/mem: fix error check

Josh Soref (1):
      fix spelling in comments and strings

Junfeng Guo (3):
      net/ice: fix pattern check for flow director parser
      net/ice: fix pattern check in flow director
      raw/ntb: clear all valid doorbell bits on init

Junjie Wan (1):
      net/bonding: fix slaves initializing on MTU setting

Junxiao Shi (1):
      net/af_xdp: fix custom program loading with multiple queues

Juraj Linkeš (1):
      config/arm: add values for native armv7

Kai Ji (2):
      test/crypto: fix out-of-place SGL in raw datapath
      crypto/qat: fix GEN4 AEAD job in raw data path

Kalesh AP (15):
      net/bnxt: fix multicast address set
      net/bnxt: fix multicast MAC restore during reset recovery
      net/bnxt: fix queue stop operation
      net/bnxt: restore RSS configuration after reset recovery
      net/bnxt: fix restoring VLAN filtering after recovery
      net/bnxt: cap maximum number of unicast MAC addresses
      net/bnxt: set fast-path pointers only if recovery succeeds
      net/bnxt: add null check for mark table
      net/bnxt: fix flow create when RSS is disabled
      net/bnxt: get maximum supported multicast filters count
      net/bnxt: fix handling of VF configuration change
      net/bnxt: fix xstats query
      net/bnxt: fix check for autoneg enablement
      net/bnxt: handle ring cleanup in case of error
      net/bnxt: fix memzone allocation per VNIC

Karl Bonde Torp (1):
      build: fix build on FreeBSD with Meson 0.61.1

Kathleen Capella (2):
      net/iavf: count continuous DD bits for Arm
      net/iavf: count continuous DD bits for Arm in flex Rx

Kevin Liu (2):
      net/ice: fix Tx checksum offload
      net/ice: fix Tx offload path choice

Kevin Traynor (4):
      maintainers: update for stable branches
      build: suppress rte_crypto_asym_op abi check
      Revert "crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset settings"
      Revert "net/mlx5: fix flex item availability"

Kumara Parameshwaran (2):
      ethdev: add internal function to device struct from name
      net/tap: fix to populate FDs in secondary process

Lance Richardson (2):
      buildtools: fix AVX512 check for Python 3.5
      net/bnxt: fix xstats names query overrun

Leyi Rong (1):
      net/iavf: fix potential out-of-bounds access

Lijun Ou (1):
      net/hns3: fix RSS key with null

Lior Margalit (1):
      net/mlx5: fix assertion on flags set in packet mbuf

Madhuker Mythri (1):
      devargs: fix crash with uninitialized parsing

Martijn Bakker (1):
      pflock: fix header file installation

Martin Spinler (2):
      net/nfb: fix array indexes in deinit functions
      net/nfb: fix multicast/promiscuous mode switching

Marvin Liu (1):
      net/virtio: fix slots number when indirect feature on

Matan Azrad (1):
      vdpa/mlx5: workaround queue stop with traffic

Maxime Coquelin (1):
      vhost: fix unsafe vring addresses modifications

Maxime Gouin (3):
      bus/ifpga: remove useless check while browsing devices
      net/nfp: remove duplicated check when setting MAC address
      net/nfp: remove useless range checks

Megha Ajmera (1):
      examples/qos_sched: fix core mask overflow

Michael Baum (17):
      common/mlx5: add minimum WQE size for striding RQ
      net/mlx5: improve stride parameter names
      net/mlx5: fix MPRQ stride devargs adjustment
      common/mlx5: fix error handling in multi-class probe
      net/mlx5: fix memory socket selection in ASO management
      common/mlx5: fix missing validation in devargs parsing
      net/mlx5: fix sibling device config check
      net/mlx5: fix ineffective metadata argument adjustment
      net/mlx5: fix ASO CT object release
      net/mlx5: fix errno update in shared context creation
      net/mlx5: fix entry in shared Rx queues list
      doc: remove obsolete vector Tx explanations from mlx5 guide
      doc: replace broken links in mlx guides
      doc: correct name of BlueField-2 in mlx5 guide
      net/mlx5: fix shared counter flag in flow validation
      net/mlx5: fix check in count action validation
      common/mlx5: consider local functions as internal

Michal Krawczyk (6):
      net/ena: remove unused enumeration
      net/ena: remove unused offload variables
      net/ena: skip timer if reset is triggered
      net/ena: fix meta descriptor DF flag setup
      net/ena: fix checksum flag for L4
      bus/pci: assign driver pointer before mapping

Michal Wilczynski (1):
      net/ice: fix overwriting of LSE bit by DCF

Min Hu (Connor) (6):
      net/hns3: fix Rx/Tx functions update
      net/hns3: fix vector Rx/Tx when PTP enabled
      net/bonding: fix promiscuous and allmulticast state
      net/bonding: fix reference count on mbufs
      app/testpmd: fix bonding mode set
      app/testpmd: check starting port is not in bonding

Naga Harish K S V (2):
      eventdev/eth_tx: fix queue add error code
      eventdev/eth_rx: fix queue config query

Nicolas Chautru (1):
      baseband/acc100: avoid out-of-bounds access

Nipun Gupta (1):
      examples/l3fwd: fix Rx burst size for event mode

Nithin Dabilpuram (11):
      examples/ipsec-secgw: fix eventdev start sequence
      examples/ipsec-secgw: fix default flow rule creation
      common/cnxk: fix shift offset for TL3 length disable
      common/cnxk: fix byte order of frag sizes and infos
      common/cnxk: fix null pointer dereferences
      common/cnxk: fix uninitialized variables
      examples/ipsec-secgw: fix buffer freeing in vector mode
      net/cnxk: fix inline device RQ tag mask
      net/cnxk: register callback early to handle initial packets
      net/cnxk: fix inline IPsec security error handling
      common/cnxk: fix bitmap usage for TM

Pablo de Lara (9):
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix buffer overrun
      crypto/ipsec_mb: check missing operation types
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix ZUC authentication verify
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix ZUC operation overwrite
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset settings
      test/efd: fix sockets mask size
      efd: fix uninitialized structure
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset settings
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix GMAC parameters setting

Pavan Nikhilesh (6):
      eventdev/eth_rx: fix missing internal port checks
      event/cnxk: fix QoS devargs parsing
      common/cnxk: add workaround for vWQE flush
      config: align mempool elements to 128 bytes on CN10K
      event/cnxk: fix sub-event clearing mask length
      event/cnxk: fix Rx adapter config check

Peng Yu (1):
      vhost: fix linker script syntax

Piotr Bronowski (2):
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix premature dereference
      crypto/ipsec_mb: fix GCM requested digest length

Qi Zhang (2):
      net/ice: fix Tx checksum offload capability
      doc: update matching versions in ice guide

Radu Nicolau (5):
      examples/ipsec-secgw: fix offload flag used for TSO IPv6
      net/iavf: fix segmentation offload condition
      net/iavf: fix segmentation offload buffer size
      net/iavf: support NAT-T / UDP encapsulation
      net/iavf: fix AES-GMAC IV size

Rahul Bhansali (2):
      net/cnxk: fix mbuf data length
      examples/l3fwd: fix buffer overflow in Tx

Rahul Lakkireddy (1):
      net/cxgbe: fix dangling pointer by mailbox access rework

Raja Zidane (8):
      net/mlx5: fix mark enabling for Rx
      app/testpmd: fix GENEVE parsing in checksum mode
      app/compress-perf: fix cycle count operations allocation
      app/compress-perf: optimize operations pool allocation
      compress/mlx5: support out-of-space status
      app/compress-perf: fix socket ID type during init
      app/compress-perf: fix number of queue pairs to setup
      compressdev: fix socket ID type

Rakesh Kudurumalla (2):
      net/cnxk: fix build with GCC 12
      net/cnxk: fix RSS RETA table update

Rashmi Shetty (1):
      doc: fix dlb2 guide

Reshma Pattan (1):
      app/pdump: abort on multi-core capture limit

Rongwei Liu (3):
      net/mlx5: fix shared RSS destroy
      net/mlx5: fix meter creation default state
      net/mlx5: forbid multiple ASO actions in a single rule

Ruifeng Wang (1):
      config: add arch define for Arm

Satheesh Paul (5):
      common/cnxk: fix nibble parsing order when dumping MCAM
      common/cnxk: fix flow deletion
      common/cnxk: fix log level during MCAM allocation
      common/cnxk: fix base rule merge
      net/cnxk: fix Rx/Tx function update

Sean Morrissey (2):
      app/testpmd: fix dereference before null check
      doc: fix telemetry example in cryptodev guide

Shijith Thotton (1):
      crypto/cnxk: enable allocated queues only

Shun Hao (3):
      net/mlx5: fix meter sub-policy creation
      net/mlx5: fix E-Switch manager vport ID
      net/mlx5: fix meter policy creation assert

Simei Su (1):
      net/ice: fix mbuf offload flag for Rx timestamp

Srikanth Yalavarthi (1):
      dma/cnxk: fix installing internal headers

Stephen Douthit (1):
      net/ixgbe: fix FSP check for X550EM devices

Stephen Hemminger (7):
      eal/linux: log hugepage create errors with filename
      net/memif: remove unnecessary Rx interrupt stub
      ipc: end multiprocess thread during cleanup
      vfio: cleanup the multiprocess sync handle
      pcapng: handle failure of link status query
      test/bpf: skip dump if conversion fails
      app/dumpcap: check for failure to set promiscuous

Steve Yang (4):
      app/testpmd: fix stack overflow for EEPROM display
      net/i40e: fix unintentional integer overflow
      eal/linux: fix illegal memory access in uevent handler
      net/iavf: fix function pointer in multi-process

Suanming Mou (3):
      net/mlx5: set flow error for hash list create
      net/mlx5: remove unused function
      net/mlx5: fix indexed pool fetch overlap

Thinh Tran (1):
      net/mlx5: fix CPU socket ID for Rx queue creation

Thomas Monjalon (6):
      doc: replace deprecated distutils version parsing
      dmadev: add missing header include
      app/testpmd: fix build without drivers
      regexdev: fix section attribute of symbols
      build: hide local symbols in shared libraries
      devtools: fix symbols check

Tianfei Zhang (2):
      raw/ifpga/base: fix SPI transaction
      raw/ifpga: fix thread closing

Tianli Lai (1):
      examples/kni: add missing trailing newline in log

Timothy McDaniel (3):
      event/dlb2: update rolling mask used for dequeue
      event/dlb2: poll HW CQ inflights before mapping queue
      event/dlb2: add shift value check in sparse dequeue

Vanshika Shukla (2):
      net/dpaa2: fix unregistering interrupt handler
      net/dpaa2: fix timestamping for IEEE1588

Viacheslav Ovsiienko (4):
      net/mlx5: fix modify field MAC address offset
      app/testpmd: fix Tx scheduling interval
      net/mlx5: fix metadata endianness in modify field action
      doc: fix modify field action description for mlx5

Vladimir Medvedkin (1):
      app/fib: fix division by zero

Wei Huang (5):
      raw/ifpga/base: fix port feature ID
      raw/ifpga: fix variable initialization in probing
      raw/ifpga: fix interrupt handle allocation
      raw/ifpga: fix monitor thread
      raw/ifpga: fix build with optimization

Weiguo Li (14):
      common/cnxk: fix error checking
      net/enic: fix dereference before null check
      net/dpaa2: fix null pointer dereference
      regex/mlx5: fix memory allocation check
      net/memif: remove pointer deference before null check
      net/iavf: fix null pointer dereference
      vdpa/sfc: fix null dereference during config
      vdpa/sfc: fix null dereference during removal
      compress/octeontx: fix null pointer dereference
      eventdev/eth_rx: fix parameters parsing memory leak
      net/sfc: fix memory allocation size for cache
      net/txgbe: fix queue statistics mapping
      sched: remove useless malloc in PIE data init
      net/bnxt: fix null dereference in session cleanup

Wenwu Ma (1):
      examples/vhost: fix launch with physical port

Wenxuan Wu (1):
      eal/linux: fix device monitor stop return

Xiaoyu Min (1):
      net/mlx5: reject jump to root table

Xuan Ding (2):
      vhost: fix field naming in guest page struct
      vhost: fix physical address mapping

Xueming Li (1):
      net/virtio: fix Tx queue 0 overriden by queue 128

Yajun Wu (1):
      common/mlx5: fix queue pair ack timeout configuration

Yiding Zhou (1):
      net/ice: fix build with 16-byte Rx descriptor

Yu Wenjun (1):
      net/bonding: fix RSS with early configure

Yuan Wang (1):
      vhost: fix guest to host physical address mapping

Yunjian Wang (12):
      net/bonding: fix mode type mismatch
      ethdev: fix Rx queue telemetry memory leak on failure
      net/ice: fix link up when starting device
      net/virtio-user: check FD flags getting failure
      net/virtio: fix uninitialized RSS key
      ring: fix error code when creating ring
      net/ixgbe: check filter init failure
      mem: check allocation in dynamic hugepage init
      ethdev: remove unnecessary null check
      net/ixgbe: reset security context pointer on close
      net/txgbe: reset security context pointer on close
      net/iavf: reset security context pointer on stop

Yuying Zhang (1):
      net/ice/base: add profile validation on switch filter

Zhihong Wang (1):
      ring: fix overflow in memory size calculation