This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.92 release. There are 46 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 Wed Jan 17 12:32:57 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-3.18.92-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 3.18.92-rc1
Benjamin Poirier bpoirier@suse.com e1000e: Fix e1000_check_for_copper_link_ich8lan return value.
Icenowy Zheng icenowy@aosc.io uas: ignore UAS for Norelsys NS1068(X) chips
Ben Seri ben@armis.com Bluetooth: Prevent stack info leak from the EFS element.
Viktor Slavkovic viktors@google.com staging: android: ashmem: fix a race condition in ASHMEM_SET_SIZE ioctl
Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: remove kernel addresses from usb device and urb debug msgs
Pete Zaitcev zaitcev@redhat.com USB: fix usbmon BUG trigger
Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch usb: misc: usb3503: make sure reset is low for at least 100us
Christian Holl cyborgx1@gmail.com USB: serial: cp210x: add new device ID ELV ALC 8xxx
Diego Elio Pettenò flameeyes@flameeyes.eu USB: serial: cp210x: add IDs for LifeScan OneTouch Verio IQ
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "can: kvaser_usb: free buf in error paths"
Nicholas Bellinger nab@linux-iscsi.org target: Avoid early CMD_T_PRE_EXECUTE failures during ABORT_TASK
Nicholas Bellinger nab@linux-iscsi.org iscsi-target: Make TASK_REASSIGN use proper se_cmd->cmd_kref
Jia Zhang qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check
Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove_spawns()
Jerome Brunet jbrunet@baylibre.com net: stmmac: enable EEE in MII, GMII or RGMII only
Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com sh_eth: fix SH7757 GEther initialization
Sergei Shtylyov sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com sh_eth: fix TSU resource handling
Mohamed Ghannam simo.ghannam@gmail.com RDS: null pointer dereference in rds_atomic_free_op
Mohamed Ghannam simo.ghannam@gmail.com RDS: Heap OOB write in rds_message_alloc_sgs()
Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com 8021q: fix a memory leak for VLAN 0 device
Vikas C Sajjan vikas.cha.sajjan@hpe.com x86/acpi: Reduce code duplication in mp_override_legacy_irq()
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Fix racy hw constraints adjustment
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Fix inconsistent format due to incomplete rule
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Release cable upon open error path
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Allow aborting mutex lock at OSS read/write loops
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Abort properly at pending signal in OSS read/write loops
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Add missing error checks in OSS emulation plugin builder
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Remove incorrect snd_BUG_ON() usages
Vikas C Sajjan vikas.cha.sajjan@hpe.com x86/acpi: Handle SCI interrupts above legacy space gracefully
Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com kvm: vmx: Scrub hardware GPRs at VM-exit
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Also verify sizeof `elf_fpreg_t' with PTRACE_SETREGSET
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Disallow outsized PTRACE_SETREGSET NT_PRFPREG regset accesses
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Fix an FCSR access API regression with NT_PRFPREG and MSA
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Consistently handle buffer counter with PTRACE_SETREGSET
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Guard against any partial write attempt with PTRACE_SETREGSET
Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Factor out NT_PRFPREG regset access helpers
Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com IB/srpt: Disable RDMA access by the initiator
Wolfgang Grandegger wg@grandegger.com can: gs_usb: fix return value of the "set_bittiming" callback
Aaron Ma aaron.ma@canonical.com Input: elantech - add new icbody type 15
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/signal.c: remove the no longer needed SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE check in complete_signal()
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/signal.c: protect the SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from !sig_kernel_only() signals
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/signal.c: protect the traced SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE tasks from SIGKILL
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com fscache: Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page()
Jan Engelhardt jengelh@inai.de crypto: n2 - cure use after free
Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com kernel/acct.c: fix the acct->needcheck check in check_free_space()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c | 147 ++++++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 60 +++++---- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 13 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 19 +++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 14 ++- crypto/algapi.c | 12 ++ drivers/crypto/n2_core.c | 3 + drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 3 +- drivers/input/mouse/elantech.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 2 - drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 29 ++++- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 6 + drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 + drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 21 ++-- drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c | 9 ++ drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 2 + drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c | 2 + drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 2 + drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h | 7 ++ drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c | 17 +-- include/linux/fscache.h | 2 +- include/linux/phy.h | 11 ++ include/linux/sh_eth.h | 1 - include/target/target_core_base.h | 1 + kernel/acct.c | 2 +- kernel/events/core.c | 61 ++++++++- kernel/signal.c | 18 +-- net/8021q/vlan.c | 7 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 20 +-- net/rds/rdma.c | 4 + sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 41 +++--- sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c | 14 ++- sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 4 +- sound/drivers/aloop.c | 98 ++++++++------- 38 files changed, 488 insertions(+), 193 deletions(-)