[PATCH 3.18 00/16] 3.18.59-stable review

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

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.59 release.
There are 16 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 Jun 29 12:44:17 UTC 2017.
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.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.59-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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 3.18.59-rc1

Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
    mac80211/wpa: use constant time memory comparison for MACs

Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
    net: phy: fix marvell phy status reading

William Wu <william.wu@rock-chips.com>
    usb: gadget: f_fs: avoid out of bounds access on comp_desc

Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    powerpc/slb: Force a full SLB flush when we insert for a bad EA

Joël Esponde <joel.esponde@honeywell.com>
    mtd: spi-nor: fix spansion quad enable

Tobias Wolf <dev-NTEO@vplace.de>
    of: Add check to of_scan_flat_dt() before accessing initial_boot_params

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode

Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
    target: Fix kref->refcount underflow in transport_cmd_finish_abort

Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
    Input: i8042 - add Fujitsu Lifebook AH544 to notimeout list

Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    powerpc/kprobes: Pause function_graph tracing during jprobes handling

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent

Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
    CIFS: Improve readdir verbosity

Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Preserve userspace HTM state properly

Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@gmail.com>
    lib/cmdline.c: fix get_options() overflow while parsing ranges

NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
    autofs: sanity check status reported with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_FAIL

Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    fs/exec.c: account for argv/envp pointers


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                               |  4 +--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c          | 11 ++++++
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c           | 21 +++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S              | 10 ++++++
 drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h  |  7 ++++
 drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c          |  7 ++++
 drivers/net/phy/marvell.c              |  2 --
 drivers/of/fdt.c                       |  9 +++--
 drivers/target/target_core_internal.h  |  2 +-
 drivers/target/target_core_tmr.c       | 16 ++++-----
 drivers/target/target_core_transport.c |  9 +++--
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c     | 10 +++---
 fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c                 |  2 +-
 fs/cifs/smb1ops.c                      |  9 +++--
 fs/cifs/smb2ops.c                      |  4 +--
 fs/exec.c                              | 28 ++++++++++++---
 kernel/signal.c                        | 20 +++++++----
 lib/cmdline.c                          |  6 ++--
 net/mac80211/wpa.c                     |  5 +--
 net/rxrpc/ar-key.c                     | 64 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
 20 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)