This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.87 release. There are 26 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 Dec 9 12:46:34 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-3.18.87-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 3.18.87-rc1

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com usb: host: fix incorrect updating of offset

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com USB: usbfs: Filter flags passed in from user space

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com USB: devio: Prevent integer overflow in proc_do_submiturb()

Mateusz Berezecki mateuszb@fastmail.fm USB: Increase usbfs transfer limit

Mike Looijmans mike.looijmans@topic.nl usb: hub: Cycle HUB power when initialization fails

Matt Wilson msw@amazon.com serial: 8250_pci: Add Amazon PCI serial device ID

Kai-Heng Feng kai.heng.feng@canonical.com usb: quirks: Add no-lpm quirk for KY-688 USB 3.1 Type-C Hub

Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com uas: Always apply US_FL_NO_ATA_1X quirk to Seagate devices

Boshi Wang wangboshi@huawei.com ima: fix hash algorithm initialization

Rui Sousa rui.sousa@nxp.com net: fec: fix multicast filtering hardware setup

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz mm: avoid returning VM_FAULT_RETRY from ->page_mkwrite handlers

Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com tipc: fix cleanup at module unload

Colin Ian King colin.king@canonical.com net: sctp: fix array overrun read on sctp_timer_tbl

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com NFSv4: Fix client recovery when server reboots multiple times

Benjamin Coddington bcodding@redhat.com nfs: Don't take a reference on fl->fl_file for LOCK operation

Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure

David Forster dforster@brocade.com vti6: fix device register to report IFLA_INFO_KIND

Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@ti.com ARM: OMAP1: DMA: Correct the number of logical channels

Thomas Richter tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com perf test attr: Fix ignored test case result

Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk usbip: tools: Install all headers needed for libusbip development

Jibin Xu jibin.xu@windriver.com sysrq : fix Show Regs call trace on ARM

Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com EDAC, sb_edac: Fix missing break in switch

Hiromitsu Yamasaki hiromitsu.yamasaki.ym@renesas.com spi: sh-msiof: Fix DMA transfer size check

Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de serial: 8250_fintek: Fix rs485 disablement on invalid ioctl()

Rui Hua huarui.dev@gmail.com bcache: recover data from backing when data is clean

Coly Li colyli@suse.de bcache: only permit to recovery read error when cache device is clean

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mach-omap1/dma.c | 16 +++---- drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 1 + drivers/md/bcache/request.c | 9 +++- drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 23 ++++------ drivers/spi/spi-sh-msiof.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_mmap.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_fintek.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 3 ++ drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 9 +++- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 56 ++++++++++++------------ drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 9 ++++ drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 ++ drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/storage/uas-detect.h | 4 ++ fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 3 -- fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 1 - include/linux/buffer_head.h | 4 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 2 +- net/sctp/debug.c | 2 +- net/tipc/server.c | 4 +- security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 4 ++ tools/perf/tests/attr.c | 2 +- tools/usb/usbip/Makefile.am | 3 +- 25 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)