This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.122 release. There are 29 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 Sep 9 21:08:52 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-3.18.122-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 3.18.122-rc1 Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxx> bcache: release dc->writeback_lock properly in bch_writeback_thread() Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> getxattr: use correct xattr length Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> udlfb: set optimal write delay Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> fb: fix lost console when the user unplugs a USB adapter Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx> pwm: tiehrpwm: Fix disabling of output of PWMs Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> ubifs: Fix synced_i_size calculation for xattr inodes Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Revert "UBIFS: Fix potential integer overflow in allocation" Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> ubifs: Fix memory leak in lprobs self-check Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> userns: move user access out of the mutex Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> userns; Correct the comment in map_write Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> osf_getdomainname(): use copy_to_user() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm/tlb: Remove tlb_remove_table() non-concurrent condition Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> ARM: tegra: Fix Tegra30 Cardhu PCA954x reset Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> pnfs/blocklayout: off by one in bl_map_stripe() Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@xxxxxxxxx> 9p: fix multiple NULL-pointer-dereferences Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched() Snild Dolkow <snild@xxxxxxxx> kthread, tracing: Don't expose half-written comm when creating kthreads Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing/blktrace: Fix to allow setting same value Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> iio: ad9523: Fix return value for ad952x_store() Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> iio: ad9523: Fix displayed phase Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> dm cache metadata: save in-core policy_hint_size to on-disk superblock Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@xxxxxxxxx> net/9p/trans_fd.c: fix race-condition by flushing workqueue before the kfree() Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@xxxxxxxxx> net/9p/client.c: version pointer uninitialized jiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@xxxxxxxxxx> 9p/virtio: fix off-by-one error in sg list bounds check Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/pseries: Fix endianness while restoring of r3 in MCE handler. Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> powerpc/fadump: handle crash memory ranges array index overflow Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> spi: davinci: fix a NULL pointer dereference ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 64 +++++++++++------------ arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra30-cardhu.dtsi | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/fadump.h | 3 -- arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_32.c | 22 ++++---- arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c | 20 +++++--- drivers/iio/frequency/ad9523.c | 4 +- drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c | 3 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-tiehrpwm.c | 2 + drivers/spi/spi-davinci.c | 2 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 38 +++++++++++--- fs/nfs/blocklayout/dev.c | 2 +- fs/ubifs/journal.c | 7 ++- fs/ubifs/lprops.c | 8 +-- fs/xattr.c | 2 +- include/video/udlfb.h | 2 +- kernel/kthread.c | 8 ++- kernel/sys.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++------------------ kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 ++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +- kernel/user_namespace.c | 22 ++++---- kernel/utsname_sysctl.c | 41 +++++++++------ mm/memory.c | 9 ---- net/9p/client.c | 2 +- net/9p/trans_fd.c | 7 ++- net/9p/trans_rdma.c | 3 ++ net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 6 ++- 31 files changed, 299 insertions(+), 185 deletions(-)
