This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.76 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 Wed Oct 18 16:09:03 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-3.18.76-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 3.18.76-rc1 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Fix missing NULL check at remove_events ioctl Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free after failed setup Shrirang Bagul <shrirang.bagul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: qcserial: add Dell DW5818, DW5819 Henryk Heisig <hyniu@xxxxx> USB: serial: option: add support for TP-Link LTE module Andreas Engel <anen-nospam@xxxxxxx> USB: serial: cp210x: add support for ELV TFD500 Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@xxxxxxxxx> fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> direct-io: Prevent NULL pointer access in submit_page_section Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@xxxxxxxxxx> usb: gadget: composite: Fix use-after-free in usb_composite_overwrite_options Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: caiaq: Fix stray URB at probe error path Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Fix copy_from_user() call inside lock Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Fix use-after-free at creating a port Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Kill stray URB at exiting Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> iommu/amd: Finish TLB flush in amd_iommu_unmap() Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@xxxxxxxxxxx> usb: renesas_usbhs: Fix DMAC sequence for receiving zero-length packet Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> KVM: nVMX: fix guest CR4 loading when emulating L2 to L1 exit Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: shash - Fix zero-length shash ahash digest crash Jaejoong Kim <climbbb.kim@xxxxxxxxx> HID: usbhid: fix out-of-bounds bug Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CIFS: Reconnect expired SMB sessions Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: in ext4_seek_{hole,data}, return -ENXIO for negative offsets ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- block/bio.c | 8 ++++++++ crypto/shash.c | 8 +++++--- drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 12 +++++++++++- drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c | 1 + drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c | 5 +++++ drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/console.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 2 ++ drivers/usb/serial/qcserial.c | 4 ++++ fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 2 ++ fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 7 +++++++ fs/cifs/connect.c | 7 +++++++ fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ fs/direct-io.c | 3 ++- fs/ext4/file.c | 4 ++-- include/sound/seq_virmidi.h | 1 + sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 8 ++++++-- sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c | 7 +++++-- sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++-------- sound/usb/caiaq/device.c | 12 +++++++++--- sound/usb/mixer.c | 12 ++++++++++-- sound/usb/mixer.h | 2 ++ 25 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)