[PATCH 3.18 00/20] 3.18.8-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-25T02:19:43Z

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(-)