This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.122 release. There are 29 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 Sun Sep 9 21:08:52 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-3.18.122-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 3.18.122-rc1
Shan Hai shan.hai@oracle.com bcache: release dc->writeback_lock properly in bch_writeback_thread()
Christian Brauner christian@brauner.io getxattr: use correct xattr length
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com udlfb: set optimal write delay
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com fb: fix lost console when the user unplugs a USB adapter
Vignesh R vigneshr@ti.com pwm: tiehrpwm: Fix disabling of output of PWMs
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubifs: Fix synced_i_size calculation for xattr inodes
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at Revert "UBIFS: Fix potential integer overflow in allocation"
Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at ubifs: Fix memory leak in lprobs self-check
Jann Horn jannh@google.com userns: move user access out of the mutex
Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com userns; Correct the comment in map_write
Jann Horn jannh@google.com sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk osf_getdomainname(): use copy_to_user()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org mm/tlb: Remove tlb_remove_table() non-concurrent condition
Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com ARM: tegra: Fix Tegra30 Cardhu PCA954x reset
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com pnfs/blocklayout: off by one in bl_map_stripe()
Tomas Bortoli tomasbortoli@gmail.com 9p: fix multiple NULL-pointer-dereferences
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
Snild Dolkow snild@sony.com kthread, tracing: Don't expose half-written comm when creating kthreads
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing/blktrace: Fix to allow setting same value
Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change
Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de iio: ad9523: Fix return value for ad952x_store()
Lars-Peter Clausen lars@metafoo.de iio: ad9523: Fix displayed phase
Mike Snitzer snitzer@redhat.com dm cache metadata: save in-core policy_hint_size to on-disk superblock
Tomas Bortoli tomasbortoli@gmail.com net/9p/trans_fd.c: fix race-condition by flushing workqueue before the kfree()
Tomas Bortoli tomasbortoli@gmail.com net/9p/client.c: version pointer uninitialized
jiangyiwen jiangyiwen@huawei.com 9p/virtio: fix off-by-one error in sg list bounds check
Mahesh Salgaonkar mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/pseries: Fix endianness while restoring of r3 in MCE handler.
Hari Bathini hbathini@linux.ibm.com powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow
Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com spi: davinci: fix a NULL pointer dereference
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 64 +++++++++++------------ arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-cardhu.dtsi | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h | 3 -- arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_32.c | 22 ++++---- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 20 +++++--- drivers/iio/frequency/ad9523.c | 4 +- drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 3 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-tiehrpwm.c | 2 + drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c | 2 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 38 +++++++++++--- fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c | 2 +- fs/ubifs/journal.c | 7 ++- fs/ubifs/lprops.c | 8 +-- fs/xattr.c | 2 +- include/video/udlfb.h | 2 +- kernel/kthread.c | 8 ++- kernel/sys.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++------------------ kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 ++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +- kernel/user_namespace.c | 22 ++++---- kernel/utsname_sysctl.c | 41 +++++++++------ mm/memory.c | 9 ---- net/9p/client.c | 2 +- net/9p/trans_fd.c | 7 ++- net/9p/trans_rdma.c | 3 ++ net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 6 ++- 31 files changed, 299 insertions(+), 185 deletions(-)