[PATCH 3.18 00/24] 3.18.98-stable review

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

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.98 release.
There are 24 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 Mar  4 08:42:22 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-3.18.98-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 3.18.98-rc1

Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
    net: gianfar_ptp: move set_fipers() to spinlock protecting area

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
    sctp: make use of pre-calculated len

Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
    xen/gntdev: Fix partial gntdev_mmap() cleanup

Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
    xen/gntdev: Fix off-by-one error when unmapping with holes

Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
    SolutionEngine771x: fix Ether platform data

Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
    mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak

Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com>
    xen-netfront: enable device after manual module load

Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@gmail.com>
    drm/ttm: check the return value of kzalloc

Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@oracle.com>
    e1000: fix disabling already-disabled warning

Aliaksei Karaliou <akaraliou.dev@gmail.com>
    xfs: quota: check result of register_shrinker()

Aliaksei Karaliou <akaraliou.dev@gmail.com>
    xfs: quota: fix missed destroy of qi_tree_lock

Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    s390/dasd: fix wrongly assigned configuration data

Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
    led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0

Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    bnx2x: Improve reliability in case of nested PCI errors

Siva Reddy Kallam <siva.kallam@broadcom.com>
    tg3: Enable PHY reset in MTU change path for 5720

Siva Reddy Kallam <siva.kallam@broadcom.com>
    tg3: Add workaround to restrict 5762 MRRS to 2048

Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com>
    scsi: storvsc: Fix scsi_cmd error assignments in storvsc_handle_error

Alexander Kochetkov <al.kochet@gmail.com>
    net: arc_emac: fix arc_emac_rx() error paths

Radu Pirea <radu.pirea@microchip.com>
    spi: atmel: fixed spin_lock usage inside atmel_spi_remove

Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()

Brendan McGrath <redmcg@redmandi.dyndns.org>
    ipv6: icmp6: Allow icmp messages to be looped back

Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
    mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM

Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
    hrtimer: Ensure POSIX compliance (relative CLOCK_REALTIME hrtimers)

Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@redhat.com>
    ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                         |  4 +-
 arch/sh/boards/mach-se/770x/setup.c              | 10 ++++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c             |  2 +
 drivers/leds/led-core.c                          |  2 +-
 drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c           |  6 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c             | 53 ++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c  |  4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 14 ++++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c              | 13 +++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.h              |  4 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ptp.c     |  3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.h         |  3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c    | 27 +++++++++---
 drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c                     |  6 ++-
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c                       |  1 +
 drivers/s390/block/dasd_3990_erp.c               | 10 +++++
 drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c                       |  3 +-
 drivers/spi/spi-atmel.c                          |  2 +-
 drivers/xen/gntdev.c                             |  8 ++--
 fs/super.c                                       |  6 ++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c                                  | 46 +++++++++++++-------
 kernel/time/hrtimer.c                            |  7 +++-
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c                            | 11 ++---
 net/ipv6/route.c                                 |  1 +
 net/sctp/socket.c                                | 16 ++++---
 25 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)