This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.18.18 release. There are 34 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 Sat Nov 10 21:51:21 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-4.18.18-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.18.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.18.18-rc1

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de x86/fpu: Fix i486 + no387 boot crash by only saving FPU registers on context switch if there is an FPU

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de x86/swiotlb: Enable swiotlb for > 4GiG RAM on 32-bit kernels

Nathan Chancellor natechancellor@gmail.com x86/time: Correct the attribute on jiffies' definition

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/percpu: Fix this_cpu_read()

Zhimin Gu kookoo.gu@intel.com x86, hibernate: Fix nosave_regions setup for hibernation

Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86/tsc: Force inlining of cyc2ns bits

Phil Auld pauld@redhat.com sched/fair: Fix throttle_list starvation with low CFS quota

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon@bootlin.com drm/sun4i: Fix an ulong overflow in the dotclock driver

Mikhail Nikiforov jackxviichaos@gmail.com Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15IGM

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org tracing: Fix synthetic event to allow semicolon at end

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org tracing: Fix synthetic event to accept unsigned modifier

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com block: don't deal with discard limit in blkdev_issue_discard()

Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu USB: fix the usbfs flag sanitization for control transfers

Heikki Krogerus heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com usb: xhci: pci: Enable Intel USB role mux on Apollo Lake platforms

Wan Ahmad Zainie wan.ahmad.zainie.wan.mohamad@intel.com usb: roles: intel_xhci: Fix Unbalanced pm_runtime_enable

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com usb: gadget: storage: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) shuah@kernel.org usb: usbip: Fix BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in vhci_hub_control()

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com cdc-acm: fix race between reset and control messaging

Tobias Herzog t-herzog@gmx.de cdc-acm: correct counting of UART states in serial state notification

Tobias Herzog t-herzog@gmx.de cdc-acm: do not reset notification buffer index upon urb unlinking

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com IB/ucm: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com RDMA/ucma: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

Eugeniy Paltsev Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com drm: fb-helper: Reject all pixel format changing requests

Clint Taylor clinton.a.taylor@intel.com drm/edid: VSDB yCBCr420 Deep Color mode bit definitions

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com drm/edid: Add 6 bpc quirk for BOE panel in HP Pavilion 15-n233sl

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com ptp: fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

Eric Sandeen sandeen@redhat.com fscache: Fix out of bound read in long cookie keys

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk cachefiles: fix the race between cachefiles_bury_object() and rmdir(2)

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com fscache: Fix incomplete initialisation of inline key space

Chen-Yu Tsai wens@csie.org clk: sunxi-ng: sun4i: Set VCO and PLL bias current to lowest setting

Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org gpio: mxs: Get rid of external API call

Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net bpf: fix partial copy of map_ptr when dst is scalar

Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com vfs: swap names of {do,vfs}_clone_file_range()

Alan Chiang alanx.chiang@intel.com eeprom: at24: Add support for address-width property

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 8 +-- arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/time.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 6 +- block/blk-lib.c | 28 +------- drivers/clk/sunxi-ng/ccu-sun4i-a10.c | 10 ++- drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 91 ++++++++------------------ drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_dotclock.c | 12 +++- drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c | 3 + drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 3 + drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 1 + drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 17 +++++ drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c | 4 ++ drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 16 ++--- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_mass_storage.c | 3 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/roles/intel-xhci-usb-role-switch.c | 2 + drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c | 57 +++++++++++----- fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 2 +- fs/fscache/cookie.c | 31 +++------ fs/fscache/internal.h | 1 - fs/fscache/main.c | 4 +- fs/ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 3 +- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 +- fs/read_write.c | 17 ++++- include/drm/drm_edid.h | 6 +- include/linux/bpf_verifier.h | 3 + include/linux/fs.h | 17 +---- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 10 +-- kernel/sched/fair.c | 22 ++++++- kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 + kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 32 +++++++-- 39 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 200 deletions(-)