This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.69 release. There are 24 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 Sat Sep 2 15:40:49 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-3.18.69-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 3.18.69-rc1 Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx> f2fs: do more integrity verification for superblock Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> scsi: sg: reset 'res_in_use' after unlinking reserved array Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> scsi: sg: protect accesses to 'reserved' page array Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> clk: si5351: Constify clock names and struct regmap_config Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/tools: Fix gcc-7 warning in relocs.c Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> x86-64: Handle PC-relative relocations on per-CPU data Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> arm64: flush FP/SIMD state correctly after execve() Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> x86/io: Add "memory" clobber to insb/insw/insl/outsb/outsw/outsl Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: cma: fix incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> mm: cma: constify and use correct signness in mm/cma.c Danesh Petigara <dpetigara@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: cma: fix CMA aligned offset calculation George G. Davis <ggdavisiv@xxxxxxxxx> mm: cma: fix totalcma_pages to include DT defined CMA regions Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@xxxxxxxxxxx> mm: cma: split cma-reserved in dmesg log Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx> mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@xxxxxxxxx> mm: cma: align to physical address, not CMA region position Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx> lib: bitmap: add alignment offset for bitmap_find_next_zero_area() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> p54: memset(0) whole array Martin Liska <mliska@xxxxxxx> gcov: support GCC 7.1 Florian Meier <Florian.Meier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gcov: add support for gcc version >= 6 Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> gcov: add support for GCC 5.1 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: au88x0: Fix zero clear of stream->resources Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> scsi: isci: avoid array subscript warning ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 3 + arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 5 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 14 ++++- arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 4 +- arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 39 +++++++++---- drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c | 2 +- drivers/clk/clk-si5351.c | 10 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/p54/fwio.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/isci/remote_node_context.c | 3 + drivers/scsi/sg.c | 49 ++++++++++------- fs/f2fs/super.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/bitmap.h | 36 ++++++++++-- include/linux/cma.h | 13 +++-- include/linux/dma-contiguous.h | 4 +- kernel/gcov/base.c | 12 ++++ kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c | 6 +- lib/bitmap.c | 24 ++++---- mm/cma.c | 52 ++++++++++++----- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +- sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c | 14 ++--- 21 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)