This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.64 release. There are 50 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 Aug 6 23:15:34 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-3.18.64-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 3.18.64-rc1 Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> xfrm: Don't use sk_family for socket policy lookups Mike Manning <mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> vlan: Propagate MAC address to VLANs Phil Reid <preid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spi: dw: Make debugfs name unique between instances Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx> ASoC: tlv320aic3x: Mark the RESET register as volatile Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> vfio-pci: use 32-bit comparisons for register address for gcc-4.5 Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/msm: Verify that MSM_SUBMIT_BO_FLAGS are set Jordan Crouse <jcrouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm/msm: Ensure that the hardware write pointer is valid Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4: Remove BUG_ON from ICM allocation routine Zheng Li <james.z.li@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: Should use consistent conditional judgement for ip6 fragment between __ip6_append_data and ip6_finish_output Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> ARM: dts: n900: Mark eMMC slot with no-sdio and no-sd flags Chun-Hao Lin <hau@xxxxxxxxxxx> r8169: add support for RTL8168 series add-on card. Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/mce/AMD: Make the init code more robust Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tpm: fix a kernel memory leak in tpm-sysfs.c Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: skb_needs_check() accepts CHECKSUM_NONE for tx Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> pstore: Use dynamic spinlock initializer Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> pstore: Correctly initialize spinlock and flags Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> pstore: Allow prz to control need for locking Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx> v4l: s5c73m3: fix negation operator Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dentry name snapshots Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic@xxxxxxxxx> ipmi/watchdog: fix watchdog timeout set on reboot Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> net, sched: fix soft lockup in tc_classify Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sh_eth: Fix ethtool operation crash when net device is down Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> net: sctp: fix race for one-to-many sockets in sendmsg's auto associate Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: fix possible deadlock in ip6_fl_purge / ip6_fl_gc Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> kaweth: fix oops upon failed memory allocation Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> kaweth: fix firmware download Calvin Owens <calvinowens@xxxxxx> mpt3sas: Don't overreach ioc->reply_post[] during initialization Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> mailbox: handle empty message in tx_tick Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> mailbox: skip complete wait event if timer expired Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> mailbox: always wait in mbox_send_message for blocking Tx mode Lior David <qca_liord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wil6210: fix deadlock when using fw_no_recovery option Annie Cherkaev <annie.cherk@xxxxxxxxx> isdn/i4l: fix buffer overflow Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> strscpy: zero any trailing garbage bytes in the destination Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> string: provide strscpy() Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> isdn: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: cmtp: cmtp_add_connection() should verify that it's dealing with l2cap socket Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: Fix potential NULL dereference Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: bnep: bnep_add_connection() should verify that it's dealing with l2cap socket Cheah Kok Cheong <thrust73@xxxxxxxxx> Staging: comedi: comedi_fops: Avoid orphaned proc entry Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "powerpc/numa: Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware" Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore host values of debug registers Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Reload HTM registers explicitly Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Restore critical SPRs to host values on guest exit Sinclair Yeh <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx> drm/vmwgfx: Fix gcc-7.1.1 warning Ofer Heifetz <oferh@xxxxxxxxxxx> md/raid5: add thread_group worker async_tx_issue_pending_all Laurent Vivier <lvivier@xxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/pseries: Fix of_node_put() underflow during reconfig remove Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: reduce skb_warn_bad_offload() noise Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> pstore: Make spinlock per zone instead of global Yuejie Shi <syjcnss@xxxxxxxxx> af_key: Add lock to key dump ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts | 2 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h | 14 ----- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 4 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 29 ++++++++-- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 37 +++++++++++-- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c | 1 - arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 3 ++ drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 7 +-- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c | 9 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_ringbuffer.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c | 2 +- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c | 1 + drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c | 5 +- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c | 2 +- drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 13 +++-- drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 + drivers/media/i2c/s5c73m3/s5c73m3-ctrls.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/icm.c | 7 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 10 ++++ drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c | 10 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/main.c | 15 +++--- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c | 33 ++++++------ drivers/spi/spi-dw.c | 5 +- drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 6 +-- drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_rdwr.c | 5 +- fs/dcache.c | 27 ++++++++++ fs/debugfs/inode.c | 10 ++-- fs/namei.c | 8 +-- fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 8 ++- fs/pstore/ram.c | 5 +- fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 25 +++++---- include/linux/dcache.h | 7 +++ include/linux/fsnotify.h | 31 ----------- include/linux/phy.h | 4 ++ include/linux/pstore_ram.h | 11 +++- include/linux/string.h | 3 ++ lib/string.c | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/8021q/vlan.c | 5 ++ net/8021q/vlan.h | 2 + net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 20 +++++-- net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c | 10 ++-- net/bluetooth/cmtp/core.c | 3 ++ net/core/dev.c | 19 ++++--- net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +- net/key/af_key.c | 46 +++++++++++++--- net/sched/cls_api.c | 4 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 8 ++- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 9 ++-- sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic3x.c | 13 +++++ 55 files changed, 449 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-)