This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.108 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 Wed May 2 18:39:02 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-3.18.108-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 3.18.108-rc1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Revert "perf tests: Decompress kernel module before objdump" Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> libceph: validate con->state at the top of try_write() Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@xxxxxxxxx> ASoC: fsl_esai: Fix divisor calculation failure at lower ratio Mahesh Rajashekhara <mahesh.rajashekhara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sd: Defer spinning up drive while SANITIZE is in progress Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> kobject: don't use WARN for registration failures Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: cfi: cmdset_0002: Do not allow read/write to suspend erase block. Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: cfi: cmdset_0001: Workaround Micron Erase suspend bug. Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: cfi: cmdset_0001: Do not allow read/write to suspend erase block. Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: seq: oss: Fix unbalanced use lock for synth MIDI device David Henningsson <diwic@xxxxxxxxxx> ALSA: core: Report audio_tstamp in snd_pcm_sync_ptr Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tty: Use __GFP_NOFAIL for tty_ldisc_get() Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> tty: n_gsm: Fix DLCI handling for ADM mode if debug & 2 is not set Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> tty: n_gsm: Fix long delays with control frame timeouts in ADM mode Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio_console: free buffers after reset Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio: add ability to iterate over vqs Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> ALSA: usb-audio: Skip broken EU on Dell dock USB-audio Ravi Chandra Sadineni <ravisadineni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> USB: Increment wakeup count on remote wakeup. Kamil Lulko <kamilx.lulko@xxxxxxxxx> usb: core: Add quirk for HP v222w 16GB Mini Kyle Roeschley <kyle.roeschley@xxxxxx> USB: serial: cp210x: add ID for NI USB serial console Vasyl Vavrychuk <vvavrychuk@xxxxxxxxx> USB: serial: ftdi_sio: use jtag quirk for Arrow USB Blaster Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usbip: vhci_hcd: Fix usb device and sockfd leaks Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> usbip: usbip_host: fix to hold parent lock for device_attach() calls Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix bitmap position validation Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: add validity checks for bitmap block numbers Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: set h_journal if there is a failure starting a reserved handle ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 9 ++++--- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 2 ++ drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 11 ++++----- drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 1 + drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 10 +++++++- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 +++ drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 ++- drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c | 5 ++++ drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.h | 2 +- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 17 +++++++++++-- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 8 +++++- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 1 + include/linux/mtd/flashchip.h | 1 + include/linux/virtio.h | 3 +++ lib/kobject.c | 12 ++++----- net/ceph/messenger.c | 7 ++++++ sound/core/pcm_native.c | 1 + sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c | 12 ++++++--- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_esai.c | 7 ++++++ sound/usb/mixer_maps.c | 3 +++ tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c | 20 +-------------- 26 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)