This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.119 release. There are 15 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 Sat Aug 18 17:16:20 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-3.18.119-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 3.18.119-rc1

Mark Salyzyn salyzyn@android.com Bluetooth: hidp: buffer overflow in hidp_process_report

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: ablkcipher - fix crash flushing dcache in error path

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: blkcipher - fix crash flushing dcache in error path

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: vmac - separate tfm and request context

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: vmac - require a block cipher with 128-bit block size

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed

Liwei Song liwei.song@windriver.com i2c: ismt: fix wrong device address when unmap the data buffer

Andrey Ryabinin a.ryabinin@samsung.com mm: slub: fix format mismatches in slab_err() callers

Erick Reyes erickreyes@google.com ALSA: info: Check for integer overflow in snd_info_entry_write()

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org kprobes/x86: Fix %p uses in error messages

Oleksij Rempel o.rempel@pengutronix.de ARM: dts: imx6sx: fix irq for pcie bridge

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk fix __legitimize_mnt()/mntput() race

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk fix mntput/mntput race

Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk root dentries need RCU-delayed freeing

Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com xen/netfront: don't cache skb_shinfo()

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Diffstat:

Documentation/Changes | 17 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sx.dtsi | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 4 +- crypto/ablkcipher.c | 57 +++--- crypto/blkcipher.c | 54 +++--- crypto/vmac.c | 412 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c | 2 +- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 8 +- fs/dcache.c | 6 +- fs/namespace.c | 28 ++- include/crypto/vmac.h | 63 ------- mm/slub.c | 6 +- net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c | 4 +- scripts/depmod.sh | 8 +- sound/core/info.c | 4 +- 16 files changed, 297 insertions(+), 382 deletions(-)