This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.2 release. There are 18 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 Apr 12 21:27:41 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.16.2-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-4.16.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.16.2-rc1 Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> nfp: use full 40 bits of the NSP buffer address Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> net_sched: fix a missing idr_remove() in u32_delete_key() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> vti6: better validate user provided tunnel names Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ip6_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ip6_gre: better validate user provided tunnel names Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv6: sit: better validate user provided tunnel names Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ip_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: fool proof dev_valid_name() Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> vlan: also check phy_driver ts_info for vlan's real device Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> sky2: Increase D3 delay to sky2 stops working after suspend Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> sctp: sctp_sockaddr_af must check minimal addr length for AF_INET6 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> sctp: do not leak kernel memory to user space Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> pptp: remove a buggy dst release in pptp_connect() Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> net/sched: fix NULL dereference in the error path of tcf_bpf_init() Jeff Barnhill <0xeffeff@xxxxxxxxx> net/ipv6: Increment OUTxxx counters after netfilter hook Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> net: dsa: Discard frames from unused ports Miguel Fadon Perlines <mfadon@xxxxxxxxxx> arp: fix arp_filter on l3slave devices Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> sparc64: Oracle DAX driver depends on SPARC64 ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c | 9 +++++---- drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c | 1 - drivers/sbus/char/Kconfig | 3 ++- net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 6 +++++- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- net/dsa/dsa_priv.h | 8 +++++++- net/ipv4/arp.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 11 ++++++----- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 8 +++++--- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 7 +++++-- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 11 +++++++---- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 7 +++++-- net/ipv6/sit.c | 8 +++++--- net/sched/act_bpf.c | 12 ++++++++---- net/sched/cls_u32.c | 1 + net/sctp/ipv6.c | 4 +++- net/sctp/socket.c | 13 ++++++++----- 19 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)