This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.12.7 release. There are 17 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 13 22:00:26 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.12.7-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-4.12.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.12.7-rc1 Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> btrfs: Remove false alert when fiemap range is smaller than on-disk extent Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> scsi: sg: only check for dxfer_len greater than 256M Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: fix tp_reserve race in packet_set_ring Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> udp: consistently apply ufo or fragmentation Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> igmp: Fix regression caused by igmp sysctl namespace code. Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> net: avoid skb_warn_bad_offload false positives on UFO Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> qmi_wwan: fix NULL deref on disconnect Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: fastopen: tcp_connect() must refresh the route Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> net: sched: set xt_tgchk_param par.nft_compat as 0 in ipt_init_target Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> net: sched: set xt_tgchk_param par.net properly in ipt_init_target Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_en: don't set CHECKSUM_COMPLETE on SCTP packets Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf, s390: fix jit branch offset related to ldimm64 Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: set rt6i_protocol properly in the route when it is installed Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: fix keepalive code vs TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: avoid setting cwnd to invalid ssthresh after cwnd reduction states Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ppp: fix xmit recursion detection on ppp channels Gao Feng <gfree.wind@xxxxxxxxxxx> ppp: Fix false xmit recursion detect with two ppp devices ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 29 ++++++++++++-------- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 6 +++- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 25 +---------------- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 28 ++++++++----------- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 7 +++++ net/ipv4/igmp.c | 6 ---- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 8 ++++-- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 4 +-- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 3 ++ net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 7 +++-- net/ipv6/route.c | 11 ++------ net/ipv6/udp_offload.c | 2 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 13 ++++++--- net/sched/act_ipt.c | 22 +++++++-------- 21 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)