This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.86 release. There are 12 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 Dec 6 15:59:06 UTC 2017. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.86-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-3.18.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 3.18.86-rc1
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915: Prevent zero length "index" write
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915: Don't try indexed reads to alternate slave addresses
NeilBrown neilb@suse.com NFS: revalidate "." etc correctly on "open".
Jonathan Liu net147@gmail.com drm/panel: simple: Add missing panel_simple_unprepare() calls
Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com eeprom: at24: check at24_read/write arguments
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: inject exceptions produced by x86_decode_insn
Liran Alon liran.alon@oracle.com KVM: x86: Exit to user-mode on #UD intercept when emulator requires
Josef Bacik jbacik@fb.com btrfs: clear space cache inode generation always
chenjie chenjie6@huawei.com mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances
Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash
Tom Herbert tom@herbertland.com netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c | 4 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c | 2 ++ drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 6 ++++++ fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 14 +++++++------- fs/nfs/dir.c | 3 ++- include/linux/netlink.h | 2 ++ include/net/genetlink.h | 2 ++ mm/huge_memory.c | 14 ++++---------- mm/madvise.c | 3 +-- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 ++++ net/netlink/genetlink.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 25 +++++++++++++++---------- 16 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)