This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.71 release. There are 19 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 14 16:49:56 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-3.18.71-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 3.18.71-rc1 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> ARM: 8692/1: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal Ben Seri <ben@xxxxxxxxx> Bluetooth: Properly check L2CAP config option output buffer length Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test Aleksa Sarai <asarai@xxxxxxx> btrfs: resume qgroup rescan on rw remount Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sg: recheck MMAP_IO request length with lock held Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sg: protect against races between mmap() and SG_SET_RESERVED_SIZE Andrey Korolyov <andrey@xxxxxxx> cs5536: add support for IDE controller variant Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> workqueue: Fix flag collision Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> cma: fix calculation of aligned offset Edwin Török <edvin.torok@xxxxxxxxxx> dlm: avoid double-free on error path in dlm_device_{register,unregister} Oscar Campos <oscar.campos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Input: trackpoint - assume 3 buttons when buttons detection fails Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> driver core: bus: Fix a potential double free Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> staging/rts5208: fix incorrect shift to extract upper nybble Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: core: Avoid race of async_completed() w/ usbdev_release() Sandeep Singh <sandeep.singh@xxxxxxx> usb:xhci:Fix regression when ATI chipsets detected Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@xxxxxxxxxx> usb: Add device quirk for Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920-C Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: option: add support for D-Link DWM-157 C1 Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: quirks: add delay init quirk for Corsair Strafe RGB keyboard ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 5 ++- drivers/ata/pata_amd.c | 1 + drivers/ata/pata_cs5536.c | 1 + drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/input/mouse/trackpoint.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 19 ++++++--- drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_scsi.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 6 ++- drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c | 35 ++++++++-------- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/super.c | 2 + fs/dlm/user.c | 4 ++ include/linux/pci_ids.h | 1 + include/linux/workqueue.h | 2 +- kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 4 ++ mm/cma.c | 15 +++---- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------- sound/isa/msnd/msnd_midi.c | 30 +++++++------- sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c | 23 ++++++----- 21 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)