This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.17.1 release. There are 15 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 14:59:48 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-4.17.1-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.17.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.17.1-rc1
Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com PCI: hv: Do not wait forever on a device that has disappeared
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net ipmr: fix error path when ipmr_new_table fails
Arun Parameswaran arun.parameswaran@broadcom.com net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC
Stephen Suryaputra ssuryaextr@gmail.com vrf: check the original netdevice for generating redirect
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()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/packet: refine check for priv area size
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: metrics: add proper netlink validation
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports
Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: fix refcount leakage on PPPoL2TP sockets
Michal Kubecek mkubecek@suse.cz ipv6: omit traffic class when calculating flow hash
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds
Julia Lawall Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr bnx2x: use the right constant
Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com netfilter: nf_flow_table: attach dst to skbs
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Diffstat:
Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt | 9 +++++ Makefile | 4 +-- 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/team/team.c | 3 +- drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++------- include/linux/mroute_base.h | 10 ------ include/net/ipv6.h | 5 +++ net/core/flow_dissector.c | 2 +- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 ++--- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 4 +++ net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c | 8 +++-- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv4.c | 5 +-- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 21 +++++++---- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 6 ++++ net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv6.c | 1 + net/ipv6/route.c | 4 +-- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 35 +++++++++--------- net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 +- net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +- 23 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)