This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.15 release. There are 48 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 Mon Jun 11 14:59:28 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-4.16.15-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 4.16.15-rc1
Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com PCI: hv: Do not wait forever on a device that has disappeared
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com vhost_net: flush batched heads before trying to busy polling
Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org net: netsec: reduce DMA mask to 40 bits
Nicolas Dichtel nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com ip_tunnel: restore binding to ifaces with a large mtu
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com virtio-net: correctly redirect linearized packet
Or Gerlitz ogerlitz@mellanox.com net : sched: cls_api: deal with egdev path only if needed
Arun Parameswaran arun.parameswaran@broadcom.com net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com virtio-net: correctly check num_buf during err path
Toshiaki Makita makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp tun: Fix NULL pointer dereference in XDP redirect
Eran Ben Elisha eranbe@mellanox.com net/mlx5e: When RXFCS is set, add FCS data into checksum calculation
Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il net/mlx4: Fix irq-unsafe spinlock usage
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com virtio-net: fix leaking page for gso packet during mergeable XDP
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com virtio-net: correctly transmit XDP buff after linearizing
Alexander Duyck alexander.h.duyck@intel.com net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in XPS configuration
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: broadcom: Fix auxiliary control register reads
Mathieu Xhonneux m.xhonneux@gmail.com ipv6: sr: fix memory OOB access in seg6_do_srh_encap/inline
Stephen Suryaputra ssuryaextr@gmail.com vrf: check the original netdevice for generating redirect
Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com vhost: synchronize IOTLB message with dev cleanup
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com team: use netdev_features_t instead of u32
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: not allow transport timeout value less than HZ/5 for hb_timer
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink()
Shahed Shaikh shahed.shaikh@cavium.com qed: Fix mask for physical address in ILT entry
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com packet: fix reserve calculation
Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com net: usb: cdc_mbim: add flag FLAG_SEND_ZLP
Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com net: phy: broadcom: Fix bcm_write_exp()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/packet: refine check for priv area size
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: metrics: add proper netlink validation
Roopa Prabhu roopa@cumulusnetworks.com net: ipv4: add missing RTA_TABLE to rtm_ipv4_policy
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com net: ethernet: davinci_emac: fix error handling in probe()
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports
Petr Machata petrm@mellanox.com mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid creation of VLAN 1 over port/LAG
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: fix refcount leakage on PPPoL2TP sockets
Kirill Tkhai ktkhai@virtuozzo.com kcm: Fix use-after-free caused by clonned sockets
Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu isdn: eicon: fix a missing-check bug
Michal Kubecek mkubecek@suse.cz ipv6: omit traffic class when calculating flow hash
Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com ipv4: remove warning in ip_recv_error
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipmr: properly check rhltable_init() return value
Nicolas Dichtel nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com ip6_tunnel: remove magic mtu value 0xFFF8
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds
Govindarajulu Varadarajan gvaradar@cisco.com enic: set DMA mask to 47 bit
Alexey Kodanev alexey.kodanev@oracle.com dccp: don't free ccid2_hc_tx_sock struct in dccp_disconnect()
Paul Blakey paulb@mellanox.com cls_flower: Fix incorrect idr release when failing to modify rule
Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr bnx2x: use the right constant
Suresh Reddy suresh.reddy@broadcom.com be2net: Fix error detection logic for BE3
Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com netfilter: nf_flow_table: attach dst to skbs
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org mmap: relax file size limit for regular files
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits
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Diffstat:
Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt | 9 +++++ Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.c | 22 ++++++++---- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.h | 5 +-- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasmain.c | 18 ++++++---- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 15 +++++++- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_priv.h | 2 ++ drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 8 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 4 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/qp.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 5 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_cxt.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/netsec.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 22 ++++++------ drivers/net/phy/bcm-cygnus.c | 6 ++-- drivers/net/phy/bcm-phy-lib.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/bcm-phy-lib.h | 7 ++++ drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/team/team.c | 3 +- drivers/net/tun.c | 15 ++++---- drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c | 2 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 21 ++++++----- drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++------- drivers/vhost/net.c | 37 ++++++++++++------- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 ++ include/net/ipv6.h | 5 +++ mm/mmap.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++ net/core/flow_dissector.c | 2 +- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 6 ++-- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 ++--- net/dccp/proto.c | 2 -- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 1 + net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 4 +++ net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 -- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 8 ++--- net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 7 +++- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv4.c | 5 +-- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 11 ++++-- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 6 ++++ net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv6.c | 1 + net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 4 +-- net/ipv6/sit.c | 5 +-- net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 2 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 35 +++++++++--------- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +-- net/sched/cls_api.c | 2 +- net/sched/cls_flower.c | 2 +- net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +- scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 +- 55 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)