This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.117 release. There are 27 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 Sun Jul 29 10:26:38 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-3.18.117-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 3.18.117-rc1

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de turn off -Wattribute-alias

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de ARM: fix put_user() for gcc-8

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix RX overflow interrupt not being enabled

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: keep only 1-2 frames in TX FIFO to fix TX accounting

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix device dropping off bus on RX overrun

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi can: xilinx_can: fix RX loop if RXNEMP is asserted without RXOK

Jerry Zhang zhangjerry@google.com usb: gadget: f_fs: Only return delayed status when len is 0

Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com usb: core: handle hub C_PORT_OVER_CURRENT condition

Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk usb: cdc_acm: Add quirk for Castles VEGA3000

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: detect malicious patterns in tcp_collapse_ofo_queue()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: avoid collapses in tcp_prune_queue() if possible

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: do not delay ACK in DCTCP upon CE status change

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: do not cancel delay-AcK on DCTCP special ACK

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: helpers to send special DCTCP ack

Yuchung Cheng ycheng@google.com tcp: fix dctcp delayed ACK schedule

Roopa Prabhu roopa@cumulusnetworks.com rtnetlink: add rtnl_link_state check in rtnl_configure_link

Jack Morgenstein jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il net/mlx4_core: Save the qpn from the input modifier in RST2INIT wrapper

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com ip: hash fragments consistently

Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com skbuff: Unconditionally copy pfmemalloc in __skb_clone()

Stefano Brivio sbrivio@redhat.com net: Don't copy pfmemalloc flag in __copy_skb_header()

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com ptp: fix missing break in switch

Tyler Hicks tyhicks@canonical.com ipv4: Return EINVAL when ping_group_range sysctl doesn't map to user ns

Vineet Gupta vgupta@synopsys.com ARC: mm: allow mprotect to make stack mappings executable

Alexey Brodkin abrodkin@synopsys.com ARC: Fix CONFIG_SWAP

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: rawmidi: Change resized buffers atomically

OGAWA Hirofumi hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp fat: fix memory allocation failure handling of match_strdup()

Dewet Thibaut thibaut.dewet@nokia.com x86/MCE: Remove min interval polling limitation

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 5 +- arch/arc/include/asm/page.h | 2 +- arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +- arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 3 - drivers/net/can/xilinx_can.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++------ .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 2 +- drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c | 1 + drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 3 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 8 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- fs/fat/inode.c | 20 +++-- include/linux/skbuff.h | 12 +-- include/net/tcp.h | 2 + net/core/rtnetlink.c | 9 +- net/core/skbuff.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 2 + net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c | 5 +- net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c | 50 ++++------- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 21 ++++- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 33 ++++++-- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 + sound/core/rawmidi.c | 20 +++-- 23 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)