------------------------ NOTE, this is the last expected 4.15.y release. After this one, the tree is end-of-life. Please move to 4.16.y at this point in time. ------------------------

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.15.18 release. There are 53 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 Apr 19 15:57:06 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-4.15.18-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.15.18-rc1

Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com ovl: set lower layer st_dev only if setting lower st_ino

Sudhir Sreedharan ssreedharan@mvista.com rtl8187: Fix NULL pointer dereference in priv->conf_mutex

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Bluetooth: hci_bcm: Treat Interrupt ACPI resources as always being active-low

Szymon Janc szymon.janc@codecoup.pl Bluetooth: Fix connection if directed advertising and privacy is used

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk getname_kernel() needs to make sure that ->name != ->iname in long case

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com mm/gup_benchmark: handle gup failures

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com get_user_pages_fast(): return -EFAULT on access_ok failure

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com s390/compat: fix setup_frame32

Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com s390/ipl: ensure loadparm valid flag is set

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qdio: don't merge ERROR output buffers

Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com s390/qdio: don't retry EQBS after CCQ 96

Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com nfit: fix region registration vs block-data-window ranges

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp block/loop: fix deadlock after loop_set_status

John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix resource audit messages when auditing peer

John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix display of .ns_name for containers

John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix logging of the existence test for signals

Bill Kuzeja William.Kuzeja@stratus.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix small memory leak in qla2x00_probe_one on probe failure

J. Bruce Fields bfields@redhat.com nfsd: fix incorrect umasks

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com hugetlbfs: fix bug in pgoff overflow checking

Simon Gaiser simon@invisiblethingslab.com xen: xenbus_dev_frontend: Fix XS_TRANSACTION_END handling

Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com ovl: fix lookup with middle layer opaque dir and absolute path redirects

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com blk-mq: don't keep offline CPUs mapped to hctx 0

Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com blk-mq: order getting budget and driver tag

Yury Norov ynorov@caviumnetworks.com lib: fix stall in __bitmap_parselist()

Keith Busch keith.busch@intel.com nvme: Skip checking heads without namespaces

Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@wdc.com block: Change a rcu_read_{lock,unlock}_sched() pair into rcu_read_{lock,unlock}()

Yunlong Song yunlong.song@huawei.com f2fs: fix heap mode to reset it back

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com sunrpc: remove incorrect HMAC request initialization

Li RongQing lirongqing@baidu.com x86/apic: Fix signedness bug in APIC ID validity checks

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@toke.dk ath9k: Protect queue draining by rcu_read_lock()

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com hwmon: (ina2xx) Fix access to uninitialized mutex

Yazen Ghannam yazen.ghannam@amd.com x86/mce/AMD: Get address from already initialized block

Prashant Bhole bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp perf/core: Fix use-after-free in uprobe_perf_close()

Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: trace_tlbie must not be called in realmode

Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com PCI: hv: Fix 2 hang issues in hv_compose_msi_msg()

Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com PCI: hv: Serialize the present and eject work items

Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com Drivers: hv: vmbus: do not mark HV_PCIE as perf_device

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Fix HPMC handler by increasing size to multiple of 16 bytes

Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Fix out of array access in match_pci_device()

Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com ipmi: Fix some error cleanup issues

Kieran Bingham kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com media: v4l: vsp1: Fix header display list status check in continuous mode

Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@kernel.org media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: don't oops on overlay

Phil Elwell phil@raspberrypi.org lan78xx: Correctly indicate invalid OTP

Eric Auger eric.auger@redhat.com vhost: Fix vhost_copy_to_user()

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net ip_gre: clear feature flags when incompatible o_flags are set

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: fix race in duplicate tunnel detection

Guillaume Nault g.nault@alphalink.fr l2tp: fix races in tunnel creation

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha@redhat.com vhost: fix vhost_vq_access_ok() log check

Tejaswi Tanikella tejaswit@codeaurora.org slip: Check if rstate is initialized before uncompressing

Ka-Cheong Poon ka-cheong.poon@oracle.com rds: MP-RDS may use an invalid c_path

Bassem Boubaker bassem.boubaker@actia.fr cdc_ether: flag the Cinterion AHS8 modem by gemalto as WWAN

Jozsef Kadlecsik kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu netfilter: ipset: Missing nfnl_lock()/nfnl_unlock() is added to ip_set_net_exit()

Manasi Navare manasi.d.navare@intel.com drm/i915/edp: Do not do link training fallback or prune modes on EDP

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c | 4 + arch/parisc/kernel/hpmc.S | 6 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c | 4 - arch/s390/kernel/compat_signal.c | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 13 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 15 ++ arch/x86/xen/apic.c | 2 +- block/blk-core.c | 4 +- block/blk-mq-cpumap.c | 5 - block/blk-mq.c | 21 +- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 22 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 12 +- drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c | 20 +- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 18 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_link_training.c | 26 ++- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/ina2xx.c | 3 +- drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_dl.c | 3 +- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c | 4 +- drivers/net/slip/slhc.c | 5 + drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c | 6 + drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 4 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187/dev.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 1 + drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c | 92 +++++++-- drivers/s390/cio/qdio_main.c | 42 ++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 44 ++-- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 10 +- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 2 +- fs/f2fs/gc.c | 5 +- fs/f2fs/segment.c | 3 +- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 10 +- fs/namei.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 12 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 8 +- fs/nfsd/xdr4.h | 2 + fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 7 +- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 9 + include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h | 2 +- include/net/slhc_vj.h | 1 + kernel/events/core.c | 6 + lib/bitmap.c | 2 +- lib/test_bitmap.c | 4 + mm/gup.c | 5 +- mm/gup_benchmark.c | 4 +- net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c | 29 ++- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 15 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 6 + net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 225 +++++++++------------ net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 4 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c | 22 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 9 + net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 2 + net/rds/send.c | 15 +- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c | 3 - security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 4 +- security/apparmor/include/audit.h | 8 +- security/apparmor/include/sig_names.h | 4 +- security/apparmor/ipc.c | 2 +- 69 files changed, 504 insertions(+), 345 deletions(-)