This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.95 release. There are 45 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 Sat Feb 17 14:40:54 UTC 2018. 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-3.18.95-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 3.18.95-rc1
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com mn10300/misalignment: Use SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR to report a failed user copy
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org ACPI: sbshc: remove raw pointer from printk() message
Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com pktcdvd: Fix pkt_setup_dev() error path
James Hogan jhogan@kernel.org EDAC, octeon: Fix an uninitialized variable warning
Max Filippov jcmvbkbc@gmail.com xtensa: fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com alpha: fix reboot on Avanti platform
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com alpha: fix crash if pthread_create races with signal delivery
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal/sh: Ensure si_signo is initialized in do_divide_error
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com signal/openrisc: Fix do_unaligned_access to send the proper signal
Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk kernel/async.c: revert "async: simplify lowest_in_progress()"
Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@osg.samsung.com media: cxusb, dib0700: ignore XC2028_I2C_FLUSH
Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com arm: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls
Horia Geantă horia.geanta@nxp.com crypto: caam - fix endless loop when DECO acquire fails
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: cryptd - pass through absence of ->setkey()
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: hash - introduce crypto_hash_alg_has_setkey()
Ivan Vecera ivecera@redhat.com kernfs: fix regression in kernfs_fop_write caused by wrong type
J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com NFS: commit direct writes even if they fail partially
Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com NFS: Add a cond_resched() to nfs_commit_release_pages()
Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com mtd: nand: Fix nand_do_read_oob() return value
Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com media: dvb-usb-v2: lmedm04: move ts2020 attach to dm04_lme2510_tuner
Malcolm Priestley tvboxspy@gmail.com media: dvb-usb-v2: lmedm04: Improve logic checking of warm start
Mohamed Ghannam simo.ghannam@gmail.com dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: vhci: stop printing kernel pointer addresses in messages
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: stub: stop printing kernel pointer addresses in messages
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: prevent leaking socket pointer address in messages
Yuyang Du yuyang.du@intel.com usbip: vhci-hcd: Add USB3 SuperSpeed support
Andrew Goodbody andrew.goodbody@cambrionix.com usb: usbip: Fix possible deadlocks reported by lockdep
Jonathan Dieter jdieter@lesbg.com usbip: Fix potential format overflow in userspace tools
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: prevent vhci_hcd driver from leaking a socket pointer address
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: fix stub_rx: harden CMD_SUBMIT path to handle malicious input
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: fix stub_rx: get_pipe() to validate endpoint number
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de posix-timer: Properly check sigevent->sigev_notify
Aurelien Aptel aaptel@suse.com CIFS: zero sensitive data when freeing
Daniel N Pettersson danielnp@axis.com cifs: Fix autonegotiate security settings mismatch
Matthew Wilcox mawilcox@microsoft.com cifs: Fix missing put_xid in cifs_file_strict_mmap
Wang Han wanghan1995315@gmail.com ipv4: Map neigh lookup keys in __ipv4_neigh_lookup_noref()
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: encrypted: fix buffer overread in valid_master_desc()
Krzysztof Kozlowski k.kozlowski@samsung.com ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable NFSv4 client
Javier Martinez Canillas javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable options to mount a rootfs via NFS
Li RongQing lirongqing@baidu.com tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
Chunhao Lin hau@realtek.com r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: igmp: add a missing rcu locking section
Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com ip6mr: fix stale iterator
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com vhost_net: stop device during reset owner
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/pci_impl.h | 3 +- arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 3 +- arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 7 ++ arch/arm/kvm/handle_exit.c | 13 ++- arch/mn10300/mm/misalignment.c | 2 +- arch/openrisc/kernel/traps.c | 10 +- arch/sh/kernel/traps_32.c | 3 +- arch/xtensa/include/asm/futex.h | 23 ++--- crypto/ahash.c | 11 +++ crypto/cryptd.c | 3 +- drivers/acpi/sbshc.c | 4 +- drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/caam/ctrl.c | 8 +- drivers/edac/octeon_edac-lmc.c | 1 + drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c | 39 +++++--- drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c | 2 + drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dib0700_devices.c | 1 + drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 5 +- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c | 18 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_dev.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c | 53 ++++++++--- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c | 15 +-- drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.h | 1 + drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_event.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c | 102 +++++++++++---------- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c | 53 ++++++----- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c | 45 +++++---- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_tx.c | 17 ++-- drivers/vhost/net.c | 1 + fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 3 +- fs/cifs/connect.c | 6 +- fs/cifs/file.c | 26 +++--- fs/cifs/misc.c | 14 +-- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 3 +- fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/direct.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 2 + include/crypto/internal/hash.h | 2 + include/net/arp.h | 6 +- kernel/async.c | 20 ++-- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 34 ++++--- net/dccp/proto.c | 5 + net/ipv4/igmp.c | 4 + net/ipv4/tcp.c | 6 ++ net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 1 + security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c | 31 +++---- tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_common.c | 9 +- tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_driver.c | 27 +++++- tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/vhci_driver.c | 8 +- 53 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 280 deletions(-)