This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.84 release. There are 12 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 Nov 24 10:10:45 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-3.18.84-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 ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 3.18.84-rc1 Jan Harkes <jahar...@cs.cmu.edu> coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync Corey Minyard <cminy...@mvista.com> ipmi: fix unsigned long underflow alex chen <alex.c...@huawei.com> ocfs2: should wait dio before inode lock in ocfs2_setattr() Roberto Sassu <roberto.sa...@huawei.com> ima: do not update security.ima if appraisal status is not INTEGRITY_PASS Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> vlan: fix a use-after-free in vlan_device_event() Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> af_netlink: ensure that NLMSG_DONE never fails in dumps Huacai Chen <che...@lemote.com> fealnx: Fix building error on MIPS Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com> sctp: do not peel off an assoc from one netns to another one Ye Yin <hust...@gmail.com> netfilter/ipvs: clear ipvs_property flag when SKB net namespace changed Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> tcp: do not mangle skb->cb[] in tcp_make_synack() Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 ++-- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 10 ++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/fealnx.c | 6 +++--- fs/coda/upcall.c | 3 +-- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 9 +++++++-- include/linux/skbuff.h | 7 +++++++ net/8021q/vlan.c | 6 +++--- net/core/skbuff.c | 1 + net/dccp/ipv6.c | 7 +++++++ net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 9 ++------- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 ++ net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 17 +++++++++++------ net/netlink/af_netlink.h | 1 + net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2 ++ net/sctp/socket.c | 4 ++++ security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c | 3 +++ 16 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)