This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.68 release. There are 22 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 Wed Aug 30 08:04:22 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-3.18.68-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 3.18.68-rc1 James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> ACPI / APEI: Add missing synchronize_rcu() on NOTIFY_SCI removal Charles Milette <charlesmilette@xxxxxxxxx> staging: rtl8188eu: add RNX-N150NUB support Dragos Bogdan <dragos.bogdan@xxxxxxxxxx> iio: imu: adis16480: Fix acceleration scale factor for adis16480 Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: bnep: fix possible might sleep error in bnep_session Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: cmtp: fix possible might sleep error in cmtp_session Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: hidp: fix possible might sleep error in hidp_session_thread Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> perf/core: Fix group {cpu,task} validation Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> nfsd: Limit end of page list when decoding NFSv4 WRITE Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> cifs: return ENAMETOOLONG for overlong names in cifs_open()/cifs_lookup() Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx> cifs: Fix df output for users with quota limits Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Fix freeing of filter in create_filter() when set_str is false Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drm: Release driver tracking before making the object available again Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - Add stereo mic quirk for Lenovo G50-70 (17aa:3978) Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: core: Fix unexpected error at replacing user TLV Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: trackpoint - add new trackpoint firmware ID Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net_sched: fix order of queue length updates in qdisc_replace() Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> net: sched: fix NULL pointer dereference when action calls some targets Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: when rearming RTO, if RTO time is in past then fire RTO ASAP Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> sctp: fully initialize the IPv6 address in sctp_v6_to_addr() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> dccp: defer ccid_hc_tx_delete() at dismantle time Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> dccp: purge write queue in dccp_destroy_sock() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c | 6 ++--- drivers/iio/imu/adis16480.c | 2 +- drivers/input/mouse/trackpoint.c | 3 ++- drivers/input/mouse/trackpoint.h | 3 ++- drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c | 1 + fs/cifs/dir.c | 18 ++++++++----- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 4 +-- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 6 ++--- include/net/sch_generic.h | 5 +++- kernel/events/core.c | 39 ++++++++++++++--------------- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 +++ net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c | 11 ++++---- net/bluetooth/cmtp/core.c | 17 +++++++------ net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++-------- net/dccp/proto.c | 19 +++++++++----- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 +-- net/irda/af_irda.c | 2 +- net/sched/act_ipt.c | 2 ++ net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2 ++ sound/core/control.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c | 1 + 23 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)