This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.108 release. There are 25 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 2 18:39:02 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-3.18.108-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 3.18.108-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "perf tests: Decompress kernel module before objdump"

Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: validate con->state at the top of try_write()

Nicolin Chen nicoleotsuka@gmail.com ASoC: fsl_esai: Fix divisor calculation failure at lower ratio

Mahesh Rajashekhara mahesh.rajashekhara@microsemi.com scsi: sd: Defer spinning up drive while SANITIZE is in progress

Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com mtd: cfi: cmdset_0002: Do not allow read/write to suspend erase block.

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se mtd: cfi: cmdset_0001: Workaround Micron Erase suspend bug.

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se mtd: cfi: cmdset_0001: Do not allow read/write to suspend erase block.

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: seq: oss: Fix unbalanced use lock for synth MIDI device

David Henningsson diwic@ubuntu.com ALSA: core: Report audio_tstamp in snd_pcm_sync_ptr

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp tty: Use __GFP_NOFAIL for tty_ldisc_get()

Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com tty: n_gsm: Fix DLCI handling for ADM mode if debug & 2 is not set

Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com tty: n_gsm: Fix long delays with control frame timeouts in ADM mode

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio_console: free buffers after reset

Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com virtio: add ability to iterate over vqs

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Skip broken EU on Dell dock USB-audio

Ravi Chandra Sadineni ravisadineni@chromium.org USB: Increment wakeup count on remote wakeup.

Kamil Lulko kamilx.lulko@intel.com usb: core: Add quirk for HP v222w 16GB Mini

Kyle Roeschley kyle.roeschley@ni.com USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for NI USB serial console

Vasyl Vavrychuk vvavrychuk@gmail.com USB: serial: ftdi_sio: use jtag quirk for Arrow USB Blaster

Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: vhci_hcd: Fix usb device and sockfd leaks

Shuah Khan shuahkh@osg.samsung.com usbip: usbip_host: fix to hold parent lock for device_attach() calls

Lukas Czerner lczerner@redhat.com ext4: fix bitmap position validation

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: add validity checks for bitmap block numbers

Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu ext4: set h_journal if there is a failure starting a reserved handle

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 9 ++++--- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 2 ++ drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 11 ++++----- drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 10 +++++++- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 +++ drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 ++- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c | 5 ++++ drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.h | 2 +- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 17 +++++++++++-- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 8 +++++- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 1 + include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio.h | 3 +++ lib/kobject.c | 12 ++++----- net/ceph/messenger.c | 7 ++++++ sound/core/pcm_native.c | 1 + sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 12 ++++++--- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_esai.c | 7 ++++++ sound/usb/mixer_maps.c | 3 +++ tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c | 20 +-------------- 26 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)