This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.70 release. There are 9 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 Thu Sep 7 07:08:47 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-3.18.70-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 3.18.70-rc1 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> epoll: fix race between ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) and ep_free()/ep_remove() Xiangliang.Yu <Xiangliang.Yu@xxxxxxx> drm/ttm: Fix accounting error when fail to get pages for pool Vladis Dronov <vdronov@xxxxxxxxxx> xfrm: policy: check policy direction value Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init() Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> CIFS: remove endian related sparse warning Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Fix maximum SMB2 header size Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> cpumask: fix spurious cpumask_of_node() on non-NUMA multi-node configs Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: ismt: Return EMSGSIZE for block reads with bogus length Stephen Douthit <stephend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i2c: ismt: Don't duplicate the receive length for block reads ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ismt.c | 6 ++++-- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/main.c | 1 + fs/cifs/dir.c | 2 +- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.h | 4 ++-- fs/eventpoll.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------ include/asm-generic/topology.h | 6 +++++- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 6 ++++++ 9 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)