This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.109 release. There are 23 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 Wed May 16 06:46:49 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-3.18.109-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 3.18.109-rc1

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org tracing/uprobe_event: Fix strncpy corner case

Jimmy Assarsson extja@kvaser.com can: kvaser_usb: Increase correct stats counter in kvaser_usb_rx_can_msg()

Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix regex_match_front() to not over compare the test string

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com libata: Apply NOLPM quirk for SanDisk SD7UB3Q*G1001 SSDs

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org rfkill: gpio: fix memory leak in probe error path

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: fix TCP_REPAIR_QUEUE bound checking

Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org perf: Remove superfluous allocation error check

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com soreuseport: initialise timewait reuseport field

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: fix uninit-value in __hw_addr_add_ex()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: initialize skb->peeked when cloning

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: fix rtnh_ok()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com netlink: fix uninit-value in netlink_sendmsg

Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com usb: musb: host: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org USB: serial: visor: handle potential invalid device configuration

SZ Lin (林上智) sz.lin@moxa.com NET: usb: qmi_wwan: add support for ublox R410M PID 0x90b2

Leon Romanovsky leonro@mellanox.com RDMA/mlx5: Protect from shift operand overflow

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: aloop: Add missing cable lock to ctl API callbacks

Robert Rosengren robert.rosengren@axis.com ALSA: aloop: Mark paused device as inactive

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: Fix races at MIDI encoding in snd_virmidi_output_trigger()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: Check PCM state at xfern compat ioctl

Murilo Opsfelder Araujo muriloo@linux.ibm.com perf session: Fix undeclared 'oe'

Tan Xiaojun tanxiaojun@huawei.com perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time_max_percent check

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org percpu: include linux/sched.h for cond_resched()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 3 ++ drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c | 4 +++ drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/usb/musb/musb_host.c | 4 ++- drivers/usb/serial/visor.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h | 1 + include/net/nexthop.h | 2 +- kernel/events/callchain.c | 10 ++---- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 3 ++ kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 ++ mm/percpu.c | 1 + net/core/dev_addr_lists.c | 4 +-- net/core/skbuff.c | 1 + net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c | 1 + net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 ++ net/rfkill/rfkill-gpio.c | 7 +++- sound/core/pcm_compat.c | 2 ++ sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c | 4 +-- sound/drivers/aloop.c | 29 +++++++++++++--- tools/perf/util/session.c | 1 + 24 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)