This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.77 release. There are 27 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 Oct 21 13:48:28 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-3.18.77-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 3.18.77-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "tty: goldfish: Fix a parameter of a call to free_irq" Varun Prakash <varun@xxxxxxxxxxx> target/iscsi: Fix unsolicited data seq_end_offset calculation Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> uapi: fix linux/mroute6.h userspace compilation errors Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> uapi: fix linux/rds.h userspace compilation errors Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: scsi_dh_emc: return success in clariion_std_inquiry() Eric Ren <zren@xxxxxxxx> ocfs2/dlmglue: prepare tracking logic to avoid recursive cluster lock Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency Majd Dibbiny <majd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4_core: Fix VF overwrite of module param which disables DMFS on new probed PFs Robbie Ko <robbieko@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Btrfs: send, fix failure to rename top level inode due to name collision Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> iio: adc: xilinx: Fix error handling Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@xxxxxxx> netfilter: nf_ct_expect: Change __nf_ct_expect_check() return value. Franck Demathieu <fdemathieu@xxxxxxxxx> irqchip/crossbar: Fix incorrect type of local variables Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> watchdog: kempld: fix gcc-4.3 build Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> locking/lockdep: Add nest_lock integrity test Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "bsg-lib: don't free job in bsg_prepare_job" Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@xxxxxxxxx> net: Set sk_prot_creator when cloning sockets to the right proto Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: in packet_do_bind, test fanout with bind_lock held Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: fix race condition in l2tp_tunnel_delete Ridge Kennedy <ridge.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: Avoid schedule while atomic in exit_net Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> vti: fix use after free in vti_tunnel_xmit/vti6_tnl_xmit Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@xxxxxxxxx> isdn/i4l: fetch the ppp_write buffer in one shot Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: hold bind lock when rebinding to fanout hook Edward Cree <ecree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> bpf/verifier: reject BPF_ALU64|BPF_END Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> sctp: potential read out of bounds in sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled() Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ext4: avoid deadlock when expanding inode size Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx> drm/dp/mst: save vcpi with payloads Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/mm: Disable preemption during CR3 read+write ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 7 ++ block/bsg-lib.c | 1 + crypto/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 2 + drivers/iio/adc/xilinx-xadc-core.c | 6 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c | 3 +- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c | 37 +++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c | 2 - drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c | 2 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_erl0.c | 6 +- drivers/tty/goldfish.c | 2 +- drivers/watchdog/kempld_wdt.c | 9 ++- fs/btrfs/send.c | 5 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 - fs/ext4/xattr.c | 19 ++++-- fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.h | 18 +++++ fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h | 1 + include/net/sctp/ulpevent.h | 6 +- include/uapi/linux/mroute6.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/rds.h | 3 +- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 3 +- kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 11 +++- net/core/sock.c | 2 + net/ipv4/ip_vti.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 3 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 14 ++-- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.h | 5 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c | 4 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 23 +++++-- 31 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)