This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.100 release. There are 25 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 18 15:22:18 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-3.18.100-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 3.18.100-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> fixup: sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk() Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@xxxxxxxxxxx> serial: 8250_pci: Add Brainboxes UC-260 4 port serial device Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: usbmon: Read text within supplied buffer size Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> USB: usbmon: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument Danilo Krummrich <danilokrummrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> usb: quirks: add control message delay for 1b1c:1b20 Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> staging: android: ashmem: Fix lockdep issue during llseek Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> uas: fix comparison for error code Jonas Danielsson <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tty/serial: atmel: add new version check for usart Ulrich Hecht <ulrich.hecht+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> serial: sh-sci: prevent lockup on full TTY buffers H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks Clay McClure <clay@xxxxxxxxxxx> ubi: Fix race condition between ubi volume creation and udev Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: ipv6: fix use-after-free Write in nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: bridge: ebt_among: add missing match size checks Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: ebtables: CONFIG_COMPAT: don't trust userland offsets Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: IDLETIMER: be syzkaller friendly Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: nat: cope with negative port range Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: x_tables: fix missing timer initialization in xt_LED Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: More protection for concurrent write and ioctl races Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: Don't allow resizing pool in use Seunghun Han <kkamagui@xxxxxxxxx> x86/MCE: Serialize sysfs changes Zhang Bo <zbsdta@xxxxxxx> Input: matrix_keypad - fix race when disabling interrupts Justin Chen <justinpopo6@xxxxxxxxx> MIPS: BMIPS: Do not mask IPIs during suspend himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NULL pointer crash due to active timer for ABTS ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c | 8 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 22 +++++- arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 14 ++++ arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 3 + drivers/input/keyboard/matrix_keypad.c | 4 +- drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c | 15 ++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 1 + drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 15 ++-- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 11 +++ drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 1 + drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 2 + drivers/usb/core/message.c | 4 + drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c | 124 +++++++++++++++++++------------ drivers/usb/storage/uas.c | 2 +- include/linux/usb/quirks.h | 3 + net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_among.c | 21 +++++- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 13 +++- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_nat_l3proto_ipv6.c | 4 + net/netfilter/nf_nat_proto_common.c | 7 +- net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c | 9 ++- net/netfilter/xt_LED.c | 12 +-- net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 2 +- scripts/recordmcount.c | 14 ++++ sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 21 ++++-- sound/core/seq/seq_fifo.c | 2 +- sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c | 14 +++- sound/core/seq/seq_memory.h | 3 +- 30 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)