This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.62 release. There are 28 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 Fri Jul 21 11:13:09 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-3.18.62-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 3.18.62-rc1 Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> PM / QoS: return -EINVAL for bogus strings Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sched/topology: Fix overlapping sched_group_mask Lauro Ramos Venancio <lvenanci@xxxxxxxxxx> sched/topology: Optimize build_group_mask() Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> crypto: caam - fix signals handling Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: sha1-ssse3 - Disable avx2 Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: atmel - only treat EBUSY as transient if backlog Martin Hicks <mort@xxxxxxxx> crypto: talitos - Extend max key length for SHA384/512-HMAC and AEAD Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards() Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> vt: fix unchecked __put_user() in tioclinux ioctls Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of _STK_LIM Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@xxxxxxxxx> checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings Sahitya Tummala <stummala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx> kernel/extable.c: mark core_kernel_text notrace Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tools/lib/lockdep: Reduce MAX_LOCK_DEPTH to avoid overflowing lock_chain/: Depth Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm() Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> parisc: DMA API: return error instead of BUG_ON for dma ops on non dma devs Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> parisc: use compat_sys_keyctl() Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> parisc: Report SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS when running out of stack Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> irqchip/gic-v3: Fix out-of-bound access in gic_set_affinity Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cfg80211: Check if PMKID attribute is of expected size Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cfg80211: Validate frequencies nested in NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FREQUENCIES Srinivas Dasari <dasaris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cfg80211: Define nla_policy for NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> brcmfmac: fix possible buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx() Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: dad: don't remove dynamic addresses if link is down Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: prevent sign extension in dev_get_stats() WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> tcp: reset sk_rx_dst in tcp_disconnect() WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: avoid unregistering inet6_dev for loopback ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/parisc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 11 ++++++---- arch/parisc/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 15 +++++++++++-- arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table.S | 2 +- arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c | 2 +- drivers/base/power/sysfs.c | 2 ++ drivers/crypto/atmel-sha.c | 4 +++- drivers/crypto/caam/caamhash.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/caam/key_gen.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 7 +++++- drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 3 +++ .../net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c | 5 +++++ drivers/parisc/ccio-dma.c | 12 +++++++++++ drivers/parisc/dino.c | 5 ++++- drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c | 14 ++++++++++++ drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 6 +++--- fs/dcache.c | 5 +++-- fs/exec.c | 11 +++++----- kernel/extable.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++--- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- net/core/dev.c | 4 ++-- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 ++ net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 25 +++++++++++----------- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 8 +++++-- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++--- tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h | 2 +- 30 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)