This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.15 release. There are 48 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 Mon Jun 11 14:59:28 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-4.16.15-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 4.16.15-rc1 Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> PCI: hv: Do not wait forever on a device that has disappeared Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> vhost_net: flush batched heads before trying to busy polling Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> net: netsec: reduce DMA mask to 40 bits Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> ip_tunnel: restore binding to ifaces with a large mtu Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio-net: correctly redirect linearized packet Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net : sched: cls_api: deal with egdev path only if needed Arun Parameswaran <arun.parameswaran@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio-net: correctly check num_buf during err path Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> tun: Fix NULL pointer dereference in XDP redirect Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx5e: When RXFCS is set, add FCS data into checksum calculation Jack Morgenstein <jackm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/mlx4: Fix irq-unsafe spinlock usage Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio-net: fix leaking page for gso packet during mergeable XDP Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> virtio-net: correctly transmit XDP buff after linearizing Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in XPS configuration Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: phy: broadcom: Fix auxiliary control register reads Mathieu Xhonneux <m.xhonneux@xxxxxxxxx> ipv6: sr: fix memory OOB access in seg6_do_srh_encap/inline Stephen Suryaputra <ssuryaextr@xxxxxxxxx> vrf: check the original netdevice for generating redirect Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> vhost: synchronize IOTLB message with dev cleanup Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> team: use netdev_features_t instead of u32 Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: not allow transport timeout value less than HZ/5 for hb_timer Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink() Shahed Shaikh <shahed.shaikh@xxxxxxxxxx> qed: Fix mask for physical address in ILT entry Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> packet: fix reserve calculation Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@xxxxxxxxx> net: usb: cdc_mbim: add flag FLAG_SEND_ZLP Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> net: phy: broadcom: Fix bcm_write_exp() Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net/packet: refine check for priv area size Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> net: metrics: add proper netlink validation Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: ipv4: add missing RTA_TABLE to rtm_ipv4_policy Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> net: ethernet: davinci_emac: fix error handling in probe() Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports Petr Machata <petrm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid creation of VLAN 1 over port/LAG Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> l2tp: fix refcount leakage on PPPoL2TP sockets Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kcm: Fix use-after-free caused by clonned sockets Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx> isdn: eicon: fix a missing-check bug Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx> ipv6: omit traffic class when calculating flow hash Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> ipv4: remove warning in ip_recv_error Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> ipmr: properly check rhltable_init() return value Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> ip6_tunnel: remove magic mtu value 0xFFF8 Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds Govindarajulu Varadarajan <gvaradar@xxxxxxxxx> enic: set DMA mask to 47 bit Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> dccp: don't free ccid2_hc_tx_sock struct in dccp_disconnect() Paul Blakey <paulb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cls_flower: Fix incorrect idr release when failing to modify rule Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> bnx2x: use the right constant Suresh Reddy <suresh.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> be2net: Fix error detection logic for BE3 Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> netfilter: nf_flow_table: attach dst to skbs Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mmap: relax file size limit for regular files Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt | 9 +++++ Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.c | 22 ++++++++---- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva.h | 5 +-- drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/divasmain.c | 18 ++++++---- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 15 +++++++- drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_priv.h | 2 ++ drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 8 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 4 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/qp.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 5 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_cxt.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/netsec.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/davinci_emac.c | 22 ++++++------ drivers/net/phy/bcm-cygnus.c | 6 ++-- drivers/net/phy/bcm-phy-lib.c | 2 +- drivers/net/phy/bcm-phy-lib.h | 7 ++++ drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.c | 4 +-- drivers/net/team/team.c | 3 +- drivers/net/tun.c | 15 ++++---- drivers/net/usb/cdc_mbim.c | 2 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 21 ++++++----- drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++------- drivers/vhost/net.c | 37 ++++++++++++------- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 ++ include/net/ipv6.h | 5 +++ mm/mmap.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++ net/core/flow_dissector.c | 2 +- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 6 ++-- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 ++--- net/dccp/proto.c | 2 -- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 1 + net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 4 +++ net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 -- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 8 ++--- net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 7 +++- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv4.c | 5 +-- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 11 ++++-- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 3 +- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 6 ++++ net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv6.c | 1 + net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 4 +-- net/ipv6/sit.c | 5 +-- net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 2 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 35 +++++++++--------- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +-- net/sched/cls_api.c | 2 +- net/sched/cls_flower.c | 2 +- net/sctp/transport.c | 2 +- scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 +- 55 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)