This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.98 release. There are 24 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 Sun Mar 4 08:42:22 UTC 2018. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.98-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 3.18.98-rc1 Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@xxxxxxx> net: gianfar_ptp: move set_fipers() to spinlock protecting area Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: make use of pre-calculated len Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/gntdev: Fix partial gntdev_mmap() cleanup Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx> xen/gntdev: Fix off-by-one error when unmapping with holes Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SolutionEngine771x: fix Ether platform data Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak Eduardo Otubo <otubo@xxxxxxxxxx> xen-netfront: enable device after manual module load Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx> drm/ttm: check the return value of kzalloc Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@xxxxxxxxxx> e1000: fix disabling already-disabled warning Aliaksei Karaliou <akaraliou.dev@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: quota: check result of register_shrinker() Aliaksei Karaliou <akaraliou.dev@xxxxxxxxx> xfs: quota: fix missed destroy of qi_tree_lock Stefan Haberland <sth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> s390/dasd: fix wrongly assigned configuration data Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@xxxxxxxxxx> led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0 Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> bnx2x: Improve reliability in case of nested PCI errors Siva Reddy Kallam <siva.kallam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tg3: Enable PHY reset in MTU change path for 5720 Siva Reddy Kallam <siva.kallam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> tg3: Add workaround to restrict 5762 MRRS to 2048 Cathy Avery <cavery@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: storvsc: Fix scsi_cmd error assignments in storvsc_handle_error Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@xxxxxxxxx> net: arc_emac: fix arc_emac_rx() error paths Radu Pirea <radu.pirea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> spi: atmel: fixed spin_lock usage inside atmel_spi_remove Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker() Brendan McGrath <redmcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: icmp6: Allow icmp messages to be looped back Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hrtimer: Ensure POSIX compliance (relative CLOCK_REALTIME hrtimers) Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/sh/boards/mach-se/770x/setup.c | 10 ++++- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 2 + drivers/leds/led-core.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c | 53 ++++++++++++++---------- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 14 ++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 13 +++++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h | 4 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ptp.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.h | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 27 +++++++++--- drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c | 6 ++- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 + drivers/s390/block/dasd_3990_erp.c | 10 +++++ drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c | 2 +- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 8 ++-- fs/super.c | 6 ++- fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c | 46 +++++++++++++------- kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 7 +++- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 11 ++--- net/ipv6/route.c | 1 + net/sctp/socket.c | 16 ++++--- 25 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)