This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.8 release. There are 20 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 Feb 27 02:08:41 UTC 2015. 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/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.18.8-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Linux 3.18.8-rc1 Austin Lund <austin.l...@gmail.com> media/rc: Send sync space information on the lirc device Eric Sandeen <sand...@redhat.com> ext4: ignore journal checksum on remount; don't fail Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> net: sched: fix panic in rate estimators Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com> hyperv: Fix the error processing in netvsc_send() Saran Maruti Ramanara <saran.n...@telus.com> net: sctp: fix passing wrong parameter header to param_type2af in sctp_process_param Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> ppp: deflate: never return len larger than output buffer Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> ipv4: tcp: get rid of ugly unicast_sock Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> tcp: ipv4: initialize unicast_sock sk_pacing_rate Roopa Prabhu <ro...@cumulusnetworks.com> bridge: dont send notification when skb->len == 0 in rtnl_bridge_notify Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> net: don't OOPS on socket aio Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_gov...@gmx.com> bnx2x: fix napi poll return value for repoll Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> ipv6: replacing a rt6_info needs to purge possible propagated rt6_infos too subas...@codeaurora.org <subas...@codeaurora.org> ping: Fix race in free in receive path Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> udp_diag: Fix socket skipping within chain Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> ipv4: try to cache dst_entries which would cause a redirect Daniel Borkmann <dbork...@redhat.com> net: sctp: fix slab corruption from use after free on INIT collisions Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> netxen: fix netxen_nic_poll() logic Hagen Paul Pfeifer <ha...@jauu.net> ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280 Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> net: rps: fix cpu unplug Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com> ip: zero sockaddr returned on error queue ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- drivers/media/rc/ir-lirc-codec.c | 12 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 2 +- .../net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c | 5 ++- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 11 ++++-- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_deflate.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 5 +-- include/net/ip.h | 13 ++++--- include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 + include/net/sch_generic.h | 13 +++---- net/core/dev.c | 20 +++++++--- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 6 ++- net/ipv4/ip_forward.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 29 ++------------ net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 8 +--- net/ipv4/ping.c | 5 ++- net/ipv4/route.c | 9 +++-- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 37 +++++++++++++++--- net/ipv4/udp_diag.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/datagram.c | 10 ++--- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 45 +++++++++++++--------- net/ipv6/route.c | 7 +--- net/sctp/associola.c | 1 - net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 2 +- net/socket.c | 3 -- 25 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/