Linux 3.18.38

[Levin, Alexander]

I'm announcing the release of the 3.18.38 kernel.

All users of the 3.18 kernel series must upgrade.

The updated 3.18.y git tree can be found at:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
linux-3.18.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary


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Linux 3.18.38

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Borislav Petkov (1):
      x86/amd_nb: Fix boot crash on non-AMD systems

Brian King (1):
      ipr: Clear interrupt on croc/crocodile when running with LSI

Christophe JAILLET (1):
      ALSA: echoaudio: Fix memory allocation

David Daney (1):
      MIPS: Fix page table corruption on THP permission changes.

Jan Beulich (3):
      xenbus: don't BUG() on user mode induced condition
      xenbus: don't bail early from xenbus_dev_request_and_reply()
      xen/acpi: allow xen-acpi-processor driver to load on Xen 4.7

Jeff Mahoney (2):
      Revert "ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler"
      ecryptfs: don't allow mmap when the lower fs doesn't support it

Jennifer Herbert (1):
      xenbus: Add proper handling of XS_ERROR from Xenbus for transactions.

Michael Ellerman (1):
      powerpc: Fix build break due to missing PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC

Omar Sandoval (1):
      block: fix use-after-free in sys_ioprio_get()

Sasha Levin (1):
      Linux 3.18.38

Steven Rostedt (1):
      4.1.28 Fix bad backport of 8f182270dfec "mm/swap.c: flush lru
pvecs on compound page arrival"

Takashi Iwai (2):
      ALSA: au88x0: Fix calculation in vortex_wtdma_bufshift()
      ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses

Ursula Braun (1):
      qeth: delete napi struct when removing a qeth device

 Makefile                                 |  2 +-
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h          |  3 ++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c               |  3 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/amd_nb.c                 |  4 ++--
 block/ioprio.c                           |  2 ++
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c          |  1 +
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c          |  1 +
 drivers/scsi/ipr.c                       |  1 +
 drivers/xen/xen-acpi-processor.c         | 35
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 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 25 ++++++++++++++---------
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c           |  3 ---
 fs/ecryptfs/file.c                       | 15 +++++++++++++-
 fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c                    | 13 ++----------
 mm/swap.c                                |  2 +-
 sound/core/timer.c                       |  2 +-
 sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c           |  5 ++---
 sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c          |  4 ++--
 17 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

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