[PATCH 3.18 00/25] 3.18.100-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.100 release.
There are 25 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 18 15:22:18 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-3.18.100-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 3.18.100-rc1

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    fixup: sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk()

Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    serial: 8250_pci: Add Brainboxes UC-260 4 port serial device

Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    usb: usbmon: Read text within supplied buffer size

Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
    USB: usbmon: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument

Danilo Krummrich <danilokrummrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    usb: quirks: add control message delay for 1b1c:1b20

Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
    staging: android: ashmem: Fix lockdep issue during llseek

Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
    uas: fix comparison for error code

Jonas Danielsson <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    tty/serial: atmel: add new version check for usart

Ulrich Hecht <ulrich.hecht+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
    serial: sh-sci: prevent lockup on full TTY buffers

H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
    x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
    x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations

Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks

Clay McClure <clay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    ubi: Fix race condition between ubi volume creation and udev

Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: ipv6: fix use-after-free Write in nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt

Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: bridge: ebt_among: add missing match size checks

Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: ebtables: CONFIG_COMPAT: don't trust userland offsets

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: IDLETIMER: be syzkaller friendly

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: nat: cope with negative port range

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
    netfilter: x_tables: fix missing timer initialization in xt_LED

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
    ALSA: seq: More protection for concurrent write and ioctl races

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
    ALSA: seq: Don't allow resizing pool in use

Seunghun Han <kkamagui@xxxxxxxxx>
    x86/MCE: Serialize sysfs changes

Zhang Bo <zbsdta@xxxxxxx>
    Input: matrix_keypad - fix race when disabling interrupts

Justin Chen <justinpopo6@xxxxxxxxx>
    MIPS: BMIPS: Do not mask IPIs during suspend

himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NULL pointer crash due to active timer for ABTS


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                 |   4 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c             |   8 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c         |  22 +++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c       |   1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/module.c                 |  14 ++++
 arch/x86/tools/relocs.c                  |   3 +
 drivers/input/keyboard/matrix_keypad.c   |   4 +-
 drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c                    |  15 ++--
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c          |   1 +
 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c         |  15 ++--
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c       |  11 +++
 drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c        |   1 +
 drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c              |   2 +
 drivers/usb/core/message.c               |   4 +
 drivers/usb/core/quirks.c                |   3 +-
 drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c               | 124 +++++++++++++++++++------------
 drivers/usb/storage/uas.c                |   2 +-
 include/linux/usb/quirks.h               |   3 +
 net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_among.c         |  21 +++++-
 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c          |  13 +++-
 net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_nat_l3proto_ipv6.c |   4 +
 net/netfilter/nf_nat_proto_common.c      |   7 +-
 net/netfilter/xt_IDLETIMER.c             |   9 ++-
 net/netfilter/xt_LED.c                   |  12 +--
 net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c                 |   2 +-
 scripts/recordmcount.c                   |  14 ++++
 sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c           |  21 ++++--
 sound/core/seq/seq_fifo.c                |   2 +-
 sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c              |  14 +++-
 sound/core/seq/seq_memory.h              |   3 +-
 30 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)