This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.115 release. There are 23 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 Jul 12 18:22:59 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/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.115-rc... 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 3.18.115-rc1
Jann Horn jannh@google.com netfilter: nf_log: don't hold nf_log_mutex during user access
Tokunori Ikegami ikegami@allied-telesis.co.jp mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to check chip good only
Tokunori Ikegami ikegami@allied-telesis.co.jp mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to retry for error
Tokunori Ikegami ikegami@allied-telesis.co.jp mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change definition naming to retry write operation
Martin Kaiser martin@kaiser.cx mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spare area size register explicitly
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm bufio: drop the lock when doing GFP_NOIO allocation
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org dm bufio: avoid sleeping while holding the dm_bufio lock
Brad Love brad@nextdimension.cc media: cx25840: Use subdev host data for PLL override
Daniel Rosenberg drosen@google.com HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user()
Jason Andryuk jandryuk@gmail.com HID: i2c-hid: Fix "incomplete report" noise
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data
Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg descriptors
Paulo Alcantara paulo@paulo.ac cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option
Jann Horn jannh@google.com scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse
Finn Thain fthain@telegraphics.com.au net/sonic: Use dma_mapping_error()
Josh Hill josh@joshuajhill.com net: qmi_wwan: Add Netgear Aircard 779S
Ivan Bornyakov brnkv.i1@gmail.com atm: zatm: fix memcmp casting
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com netfilter: ebtables: handle string from userspace with care
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end
Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com staging: android: ion: Return an ERR_PTR in ion_map_kernel
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp n_tty: Fix stall at n_tty_receive_char_special().
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c | 34 ++++++++---- drivers/atm/zatm.c | 4 +- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 8 ++- drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 15 +++++- drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c | 28 +++++++--- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 30 +++++++---- drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c | 5 +- drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/sonic.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sg.c | 42 ++++++++++++++- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 13 +++-- fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 10 +++- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 18 ++++--- fs/ext4/inline.c | 1 + fs/ext4/super.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++---- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 3 +- net/netfilter/nf_log.c | 9 ++-- 21 files changed, 318 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)