[PATCH 3.18 00/20] 3.18.8-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.8 release.
There are 20 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 Fri Feb 27 02:08:41 UTC 2015.
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.18.8-rc1.gz
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 3.18.8-rc1

Austin Lund <austin.lund@gmail.com>
    media/rc: Send sync space information on the lirc device

Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    ext4: ignore journal checksum on remount; don't fail

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    net: sched: fix panic in rate estimators

Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
    hyperv: Fix the error processing in netvsc_send()

Saran Maruti Ramanara <saran.neti@telus.com>
    net: sctp: fix passing wrong parameter header to param_type2af in sctp_process_param

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    ppp: deflate: never return len larger than output buffer

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    ipv4: tcp: get rid of ugly unicast_sock

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate

Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
    bridge: dont send notification when skb->len == 0 in rtnl_bridge_notify

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    net: don't OOPS on socket aio

Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com>
    bnx2x: fix napi poll return value for repoll

Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    ipv6: replacing a rt6_info needs to purge possible propagated rt6_infos too

subashab@codeaurora.org <subashab@codeaurora.org>
    ping: Fix race in free in receive path

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    udp_diag: Fix socket skipping within chain

Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    ipv4: try to cache dst_entries which would cause a redirect

Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
    net: sctp: fix slab corruption from use after free on INIT collisions

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    netxen: fix netxen_nic_poll() logic

Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
    ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    net: rps: fix cpu unplug

Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    ip: zero sockaddr returned on error queue


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.c                   | 12 ++++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c    |  2 +-
 .../net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c   |  5 ++-
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c                        | 11 ++++--
 drivers/net/ppp/ppp_deflate.c                      |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/super.c                                    |  5 +--
 include/net/ip.h                                   | 13 ++++---
 include/net/netns/ipv4.h                           |  1 +
 include/net/sch_generic.h                          | 13 +++----
 net/core/dev.c                                     | 20 +++++++---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c                               |  6 ++-
 net/ipv4/ip_forward.c                              |  3 +-
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c                               | 29 ++------------
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c                             |  8 +---
 net/ipv4/ping.c                                    |  5 ++-
 net/ipv4/route.c                                   |  9 +++--
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c                                | 37 +++++++++++++++---
 net/ipv4/udp_diag.c                                |  4 +-
 net/ipv6/datagram.c                                | 10 ++---
 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c                                 | 45 +++++++++++++---------
 net/ipv6/route.c                                   |  7 +---
 net/sctp/associola.c                               |  1 -
 net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c                           |  2 +-
 net/socket.c                                       |  3 --
 25 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)