This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.79 release. There are 11 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 Nov 2 09:53:17 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-3.18.79-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 3.18.79-rc1 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> ecryptfs: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload Jimmy Assarsson <jimmyassarsson@xxxxxxxxx> can: kvaser_usb: Correct return value in printout Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sg: Re-fix off by one in sg_fill_request_table() Steffen Maier <maier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: zfcp: fix erp_action use-before-initialize in REC action trace David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> assoc_array: Fix a buggy node-splitting case Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Input: gtco - fix potential out-of-bound access Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fix READDIRPLUS skipping an entry Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx> spi: uapi: spidev: add missing ioctl header Mayank Rana <mrana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: xhci: Handle error condition in xhci_stop_device() Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> ceph: unlock dangling spinlock in try_flush_caps() Hui Wang <hui.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: hda - fix headset mic problem for Dell machines with alc236 ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c | 17 ++++++++------ drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c | 3 ++- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_aux.c | 5 ++++ drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c | 18 ++++++++------ drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_scsi.c | 5 ++++ drivers/scsi/sg.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c | 22 +++++++++++++---- fs/ceph/caps.c | 5 +++- fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 25 +++++++++++++------- fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c | 9 ++++++- fs/fuse/dir.c | 3 ++- include/uapi/linux/spi/spidev.h | 1 + lib/assoc_array.c | 51 ++++++++++++++-------------------------- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 8 +++++++ 15 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)