This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.2 release. There are 18 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 Thu Apr 12 21:27:41 UTC 2018. 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-4.16.2-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.16.2-rc1
Dirk van der Merwe dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com nfp: use full 40 bits of the NSP buffer address
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com net_sched: fix a missing idr_remove() in u32_delete_key()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com vti6: better validate user provided tunnel names
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ip6_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ip6_gre: better validate user provided tunnel names
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: sit: better validate user provided tunnel names
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ip_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: fool proof dev_valid_name()
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com vlan: also check phy_driver ts_info for vlan's real device
Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com sky2: Increase D3 delay to sky2 stops working after suspend
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com sctp: sctp_sockaddr_af must check minimal addr length for AF_INET6
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com sctp: do not leak kernel memory to user space
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com pptp: remove a buggy dst release in pptp_connect()
Davide Caratti dcaratti@redhat.com net/sched: fix NULL dereference in the error path of tcf_bpf_init()
Jeff Barnhill 0xeffeff@gmail.com net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook
Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch net: dsa: Discard frames from unused ports
Miguel Fadon Perlines mfadon@teldat.com arp: fix arp_filter on l3slave devices
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net sparc64: Oracle DAX driver depends on SPARC64
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c | 9 +++++---- drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c | 1 - drivers/sbus/char/Kconfig | 3 ++- net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 6 +++++- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/dsa/dsa_priv.h | 8 +++++++- net/ipv4/arp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 11 ++++++----- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 8 +++++--- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 7 +++++-- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 11 +++++++---- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 7 +++++-- net/ipv6/sit.c | 8 +++++--- net/sched/act_bpf.c | 12 ++++++++---- net/sched/cls_u32.c | 1 + net/sctp/ipv6.c | 4 +++- net/sctp/socket.c | 13 ++++++++----- 19 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)