This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.90 release. There are 38 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 Dec 24 08:44:40 UTC 2017. 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-3.18.90-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 3.18.90-rc1

Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com fm10k: ensure we process SM mbx when processing VF mbx

Dick Kennedy dick.kennedy@broadcom.com scsi: lpfc: PLOGI failures during NPIV testing

Dick Kennedy dick.kennedy@broadcom.com scsi: lpfc: Fix secure firmware updates

Gabriele Paoloni gabriele.paoloni@huawei.com PCI/AER: Report non-fatal errors only to the affected endpoint

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr igb: check memory allocation failure

Stuart Hayes stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com PCI: Create SR-IOV virtfn/physfn links before attaching driver

Varun Prakash varun@chelsio.com scsi: cxgb4i: fix Tx skb leak

David Daney david.daney@cavium.com PCI: Avoid bus reset if bridge itself is broken

Dan Murphy dmurphy@ti.com net: phy: at803x: Change error to EINVAL for invalid MAC

Christian Lamparter chunkeey@gmail.com crypto: crypto4xx - increase context and scatter ring buffer elements

Derek Basehore dbasehore@chromium.org backlight: pwm_bl: Fix overflow condition

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com cpuidle: powernv: Pass correct drv->cpumask for registration

Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk ARM: dma-mapping: disallow dma_get_sgtable() for non-kernel managed memory

Adam Wallis awallis@codeaurora.org xhci: plat: Register shutdown for xhci_plat

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de isdn: kcapi: avoid uninitialized data

Reizer, Eyal eyalr@ti.com ARM: dts: am335x-evmsk: adjust mmc2 param to allow suspend

Gao Feng fgao@ikuai8.com netfilter: nf_nat_snmp: Fix panic when snmp_trap_helper fails to register

Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix a race when walk the nf_ct_helper_hash table

Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov@ispras.ru irda: vlsi_ir: fix check for DMA mapping errors

Alexander Duyck alexander.h.duyck@intel.com i40e: Do not enable NAPI on q_vectors that have no rings

Alexander Duyck alexander.h.duyck@intel.com net: Do not allow negative values for busy_read and busy_poll sysctl interfaces

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qeth: no ETH header for outbound AF_IUCV

Peter Stein peter@stuntstein.dk HID: xinmo: fix for out of range for THT 2P arcade controller.

Mike Looijmans mike.looijmans@topic.nl i2c: mux: pca954x: Add missing pca9546 definition to chip_desc

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de hwmon: (asus_atk0110) fix uninitialized data access

Rob Herring robh@kernel.org ARM: dts: ti: fix PCI bus dtc warnings

Wanpeng Li wanpeng.li@hotmail.com KVM: x86: correct async page present tracepoint

Dick Kennedy dick.kennedy@broadcom.com scsi: lpfc: Fix PT2PT PRLI reject

Jeffy Chen jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: Fix memory leak

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: fix runtime expectation policy updates

Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com usb: gadget: udc: remove pointer dereference after free

Roger Quadros rogerq@ti.com usb: gadget: f_uvc: Sanity check wMaxPacketSize for SuperSpeed

Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com net: qmi_wwan: Add USB IDs for MDM6600 modem on Motorola Droid 4

Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: deadlock between crypto_alg_sem/rtnl_mutex/genl_mutex

hayeswang hayeswang@realtek.com r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com cpuidle: Validate cpu_dev in cpuidle_add_sysfs()

Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz ALSA: hda - add support for docking station for HP 820 G2

Steve Capper steve.capper@arm.com arm64: Initialise high_memory global variable earlier

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/am335x-evmsk.dts | 1 + arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi | 2 + arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 20 +- arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 3 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 18 ++ drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c | 12 ++ drivers/crypto/amcc/crypto4xx_core.h | 10 +- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-xinmo.c | 1 + drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c | 3 + drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca954x.c | 6 +- drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 16 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 + drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c | 8 +- drivers/net/phy/at803x.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 4 + drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 1 + drivers/pci/iov.c | 3 +- drivers/pci/pci.c | 4 + drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aerdrv_core.c | 9 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 15 +- drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hw4.h | 2 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c | 8 + drivers/usb/gadget/udc/pch_udc.c | 1 - drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c | 1 + drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 7 +- net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c | 19 +- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 267 +++++++++++++++++---------- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 41 ++++ sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 14 +- 39 files changed, 368 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)