This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.115 release. There are 23 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 Jul 12 18:22:59 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-3.18.115-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 3.18.115-rc1 Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: nf_log: don't hold nf_log_mutex during user access Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to check chip good only Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to retry for error Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change definition naming to retry write operation Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx> mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spare area size register explicitly Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> dm bufio: drop the lock when doing GFP_NOIO allocation Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> dm bufio: avoid sleeping while holding the dm_bufio lock Brad Love <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> media: cx25840: Use subdev host data for PLL override Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx> HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user() Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx> HID: i2c-hid: Fix "incomplete report" noise Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg descriptors Paulo Alcantara <paulo@xxxxxxxx> cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net/sonic: Use dma_mapping_error() Josh Hill <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> net: qmi_wwan: Add Netgear Aircard 779S Ivan Bornyakov <brnkv.i1@xxxxxxxxx> atm: zatm: fix memcmp casting Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> netfilter: ebtables: handle string from userspace with care Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> staging: android: ion: Return an ERR_PTR in ion_map_kernel Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> n_tty: Fix stall at n_tty_receive_char_special(). ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c | 34 ++++++++---- drivers/atm/zatm.c | 4 +- drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 8 ++- drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 15 +++++- drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c | 28 +++++++--- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 30 +++++++---- drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c | 5 +- drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/sonic.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c | 1 + drivers/scsi/sg.c | 42 ++++++++++++++- drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 13 +++-- fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 10 +++- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 18 ++++--- fs/ext4/inline.c | 1 + fs/ext4/super.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++---- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 3 +- net/netfilter/nf_log.c | 9 ++-- 21 files changed, 318 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)