[PATCH 3.18 00/23] 3.18.115-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.115 release.
There are 23 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 Jul 12 18:22:59 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-3.18.115-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Linux 3.18.115-rc1

Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: nf_log: don't hold nf_log_mutex during user access

Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to check chip good only

Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change erase functions to retry for error

Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change definition naming to retry write operation

Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
    mtd: rawnand: mxc: set spare area size register explicitly

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
    dm bufio: drop the lock when doing GFP_NOIO allocation

Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    dm bufio: avoid sleeping while holding the dm_bufio lock

Brad Love <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    media: cx25840: Use subdev host data for PLL override

Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx>
    HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user()

Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx>
    HID: i2c-hid: Fix "incomplete report" noise

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
    ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
    ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
    ext4: make sure bitmaps and the inode table don't overlap with bg descriptors

Paulo Alcantara <paulo@xxxxxxxx>
    cifs: Fix infinite loop when using hard mount option

Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
    scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse

Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    net/sonic: Use dma_mapping_error()

Josh Hill <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    net: qmi_wwan: Add Netgear Aircard 779S

Ivan Bornyakov <brnkv.i1@xxxxxxxxx>
    atm: zatm: fix memcmp casting

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: ebtables: handle string from userspace with care

Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
    ubi: fastmap: Correctly handle interrupted erasures in EBA

Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/boot: Fix early command-line parsing when matching at end

Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
    staging: android: ion: Return an ERR_PTR in ion_map_kernel

Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    n_tty: Fix stall at n_tty_receive_char_special().


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                 |  4 +-
 arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c                   | 34 ++++++++----
 drivers/atm/zatm.c                       |  4 +-
 drivers/hid/hid-debug.c                  |  8 ++-
 drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c                    | 15 +++++-
 drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c | 28 +++++++---
 drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c      | 30 +++++++----
 drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c              |  5 +-
 drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c                    | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/sonic.c     |  2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c               |  1 +
 drivers/scsi/sg.c                        | 42 ++++++++++++++-
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/tty/n_tty.c                      | 13 +++--
 fs/cifs/cifssmb.c                        | 10 +++-
 fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c                        | 18 ++++---
 fs/ext4/inline.c                         |  1 +
 fs/ext4/super.c                          | 62 +++++++++++++++++----
 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c          |  3 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_log.c                   |  9 ++--
 21 files changed, 318 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)