This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.85 release. There are 67 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 Thu Nov 30 10:03:41 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-3.18.85-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 3.18.85-rc1

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen: xenbus driver must not accept invalid transaction ids

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

Richard Fitzgerald rf@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ASoC: wm_adsp: Don't overrun firmware file buffer when reading region data

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com btrfs: return the actual error value from from btrfs_uuid_tree_iterate

Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: nf_tables: fix oob access

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_queue: use raw_smp_processor_id()

Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com staging: iio: cdc: fix improper return value

Masashi Honma masashi.honma@gmail.com mac80211: Suppress NEW_PEER_CANDIDATE event if no room

Masashi Honma masashi.honma@gmail.com mac80211: Remove invalid flag operations in mesh TSF synchronization

Gabriele Mazzotta gabriele.mzt@gmail.com ALSA: hda - Apply ALC269_FIXUP_NO_SHUTUP on HDA_FIXUP_ACT_PROBE

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch drm/armada: Fix compile fail

Thomas Preisner thomas.preisner+linux@fau.de net: 3com: typhoon: typhoon_init_one: fix incorrect return values

Thomas Preisner thomas.preisner+linux@fau.de net: 3com: typhoon: typhoon_init_one: make return values more specific

Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas@google.com PCI: Apply _HPX settings only to relevant devices

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com RDS: RDMA: return appropriate error on rdma map failures

Benjamin Poirier bpoirier@suse.com e1000e: Separate signaling for link check/link up

Benjamin Poirier bpoirier@suse.com e1000e: Fix return value test

Benjamin Poirier bpoirier@suse.com e1000e: Fix error path in link detection

Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk iio: iio-trig-periodic-rtc: Free trigger resource correctly

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com USB: fix buffer overflows with parsing CDC headers

Brent Taylor motobud@gmail.com mtd: nand: Fix writing mtdoops to nand flash.

Tuomas Tynkkynen tuomas@tuxera.com net/9p: Switch to wait_event_killable()

Ricardo Ribalda Delgado ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com media: v4l2-ctrl: Fix flags field on Control events

Sean Young sean@mess.org media: rc: check for integer overflow

Michele Baldessari michele@acksyn.org media: Don't do DMA on stack for firmware upload in the AS102 driver

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()

John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net parisc: Fix validity check of pointer size argument in new CAS implementation

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com ixgbe: Fix skb list corruption on Power systems

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com fm10k: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com i40evf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com igbvf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com igb: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com i40e: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

Wang YanQing udknight@gmail.com time: Always make sure wall_to_monotonic isn't positive

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org NFC: fix device-allocation error return

Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com IB/srpt: Do not accept invalid initiator port names

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org clk: ti: dra7-atl-clock: fix child-node lookups

Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com clk: ti: dra7-atl-clock: Fix of_node reference counting

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT

Ladi Prosek lprosek@redhat.com KVM: nVMX: set IDTR and GDTR limits when loading L1 host state

Nicholas Bellinger nab@linux-iscsi.org iscsi-target: Fix non-immediate TMR reference leak

Tuomas Tynkkynen tuomas@tuxera.com fs/9p: Compare qid.path in v9fs_test_inode

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: timer: Remove kernel warning at compat ioctl error paths

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity checks in v2 clock parsers

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound access at parsing SU

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity checks to FE parser

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: fix interaction between i_size, fallocate, and delalloc after a crash

Andrew Elble aweits@rit.edu nfsd: deal with revoked delegations appropriately

Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com nfs: Fix ugly referral attributes

Joshua Watt jpewhacker@gmail.com NFS: Fix typo in nomigration mount option

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027

Coly Li colyli@suse.de bcache: check ca->alloc_thread initialized before wake up it

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com eCryptfs: use after free in ecryptfs_release_messaging()

Andreas Rohner andreas.rohner@gmx.net nilfs2: fix race condition that causes file system corruption

NeilBrown neilb@suse.com autofs: don't fail mount for transient error

Mirko Parthey mirko.parthey@web.de MIPS: BCM47XX: Fix LED inversion for WRT54GSv1

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@mips.com MIPS: Fix an n32 core file generation regset support regression

Hou Tao houtao1@huawei.com dm: fix race between dm_get_from_kobject() and __dm_destroy()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com dm bufio: fix integer overflow when limiting maximum cache size

Vijendar Mukunda Vijendar.Mukunda@amd.com ALSA: hda: Add Raven PCI ID

Philip Derrin philip@cog.systems ARM: 8721/1: mm: dump: check hardware RO bit for LPAE

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org x86/decoder: Add new TEST instruction pattern

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com lib/mpi: call cond_resched() from mpi_powm() loop

Paul E. McKenney paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com sched: Make resched_cpu() unconditional

WANG Cong xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com ipv6: only call ip6_route_dev_notify() once for NETDEV_UNREGISTER

Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/disassembler: increase show_code buffer size

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/arm/mm/dump.c | 4 ++-- arch/mips/bcm47xx/leds.c | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c | 17 +++++++++++++ arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S | 6 ++--- arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c | 2 +- arch/s390/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h | 8 +++++++ arch/s390/kernel/dis.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 7 ++++++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt | 2 +- drivers/clk/ti/clk-dra7-atl.c | 3 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/armada/Makefile | 2 ++ drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c | 9 ++++--- drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c | 3 ++- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 15 +++++------- drivers/md/dm.c | 12 ++++++---- drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.c | 9 ++++--- drivers/media/usb/as102/as102_fw.c | 28 +++++++++++++--------- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls.c | 16 +++++++++---- drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 9 ++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/3com/typhoon.c | 25 ++++++++++--------- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c | 11 ++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/phy.c | 7 +++--- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c | 9 ++++++- drivers/pci/probe.c | 15 ++++++++++-- drivers/staging/iio/cdc/ad7150.c | 2 +- .../staging/iio/trigger/iio-trig-periodic-rtc.c | 6 ++--- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c | 8 ++++--- drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c | 2 ++ drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 2 +- fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 3 +++ fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 3 +++ fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 15 +++++++++++- fs/btrfs/uuid-tree.c | 4 +--- fs/ecryptfs/messaging.c | 7 +++--- fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 +++-- fs/isofs/isofs.h | 2 +- fs/isofs/rock.h | 2 +- fs/isofs/util.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 18 +++++++------- fs/nfs/super.c | 2 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++- fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 6 +++-- kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +-- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 13 +++++++--- lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c | 2 ++ net/9p/client.c | 3 +-- net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 13 +++++----- net/ipv6/route.c | 6 ++++- net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 1 - net/mac80211/mesh.c | 3 --- net/mac80211/mesh_plink.c | 14 ++++++----- net/mac80211/mesh_sync.c | 11 --------- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nft_queue.c | 2 +- net/nfc/core.c | 2 +- net/rds/send.c | 11 ++++++++- sound/core/timer_compat.c | 12 +++++----- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 3 +++ sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm_adsp.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++- sound/usb/clock.c | 9 ++++--- sound/usb/mixer.c | 15 +++++++++++- 74 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-)