This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.59 release. There are 16 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 Thu Jun 29 12:44:17 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-3.18.59-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 3.18.59-rc1 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> mac80211/wpa: use constant time memory comparison for MACs Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: phy: fix marvell phy status reading William Wu <william.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: gadget: f_fs: avoid out of bounds access on comp_desc Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/slb: Force a full SLB flush when we insert for a bad EA Joël Esponde <joel.esponde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: spi-nor: fix spansion quad enable Tobias Wolf <dev-NTEO@xxxxxxxxx> of: Add check to of_scan_flat_dt() before accessing initial_boot_params David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> target: Fix kref->refcount underflow in transport_cmd_finish_abort Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu Lifebook AH544 to notimeout list Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/kprobes: Pause function_graph tracing during jprobes handling Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Improve readdir verbosity Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Preserve userspace HTM state properly Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@xxxxxxxxx> lib/cmdline.c: fix get_options() overflow while parsing ranges NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> autofs: sanity check status reported with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_FAIL Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> fs/exec.c: account for argv/envp pointers ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 11 ++++++ arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 21 +++++++++++ arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S | 10 ++++++ drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h | 7 ++++ drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 7 ++++ drivers/net/phy/marvell.c | 2 -- drivers/of/fdt.c | 9 +++-- drivers/target/target_core_internal.h | 2 +- drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c | 16 ++++----- drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 9 +++-- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 10 +++--- fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb1ops.c | 9 +++-- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 4 +-- fs/exec.c | 28 ++++++++++++--- kernel/signal.c | 20 +++++++---- lib/cmdline.c | 6 ++-- net/mac80211/wpa.c | 5 +-- net/rxrpc/ar-key.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++---------------- 20 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)