This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.116 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 Jul 22 11:51:47 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-3.18.116-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 3.18.116-rc1

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp net/nfc: Avoid stalls when nfc_alloc_send_skb() returned NULL.

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com rds: avoid unenecessary cong_update in loop transport

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com KEYS: DNS: fix parsing multiple options

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: ebtables: reject non-bridge targets

Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix command interface race in polling mode

Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru net_sched: blackhole: tell upper qdisc about dropped packets

Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com vhost_net: validate sock before trying to put its fd

Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi tcp: prevent bogus FRTO undos with non-SACK flows

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: fix Fast Open key endianness

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: sungem: fix rx checksum support

Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com net/mlx5: Fix incorrect raw command length parsing

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: dccp: switch rx_tstamp_last_feedback to monotonic clock

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: dccp: avoid crash in ccid3_hc_rx_send_feedback()

Christian Lamparter chunkeey@googlemail.com crypto: crypto4xx - fix crypto4xx_build_pdr, crypto4xx_build_sdr leak

Christian Lamparter chunkeey@googlemail.com crypto: crypto4xx - remove bad list_del

Jonas Gorski jonas.gorski@gmail.com bcm63xx_enet: do not write to random DMA channel on BCM6345

Jonas Gorski jonas.gorski@gmail.com bcm63xx_enet: correct clock usage

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp loop: remember whether sysfs_create_group() was done

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/ucm: Mark UCM interface as BROKEN

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp PM / hibernate: Fix oops at snapshot_write()

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu loop: add recursion validation to LOOP_CHANGE_FD

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: x_tables: initialise match/target check parameter struct

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com xhci: xhci-mem: off by one in xhci_stream_id_to_ring()

Nico Sneck snecknico@gmail.com usb: quirks: add delay quirks for Corsair Strafe

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: mos7840: fix status-register error handling

Jann Horn jannh@google.com USB: yurex: fix out-of-bounds uaccess in read handler

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: keyspan_pda: fix modem-status error handling

Jann Horn jannh@google.com ibmasm: don't write out of bounds in read handler

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 79 +++++++++++++++------------ drivers/block/loop.h | 1 + drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.c | 23 ++++---- drivers/infiniband/Kconfig | 12 ++++ drivers/infiniband/core/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c | 27 +-------- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bcm63xx_enet.c | 34 +++++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 8 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sungem.c | 22 ++++---- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 4 ++ drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 23 ++------ drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 3 + drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 +- fs/inode.c | 6 ++ kernel/power/user.c | 5 ++ net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 15 +++++ net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c | 16 +++--- net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 28 ++++++---- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 1 + net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 18 ++++-- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 9 +++ net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 1 + net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 9 ++- net/rds/loop.c | 1 + net/rds/rds.h | 5 ++ net/rds/recv.c | 5 ++ net/sched/sch_blackhole.c | 2 +- 30 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)