[PATCH 3.18 00/16] 3.18.59-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-27T12:50:04Z

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(-)