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Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review

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On 17 April 2017 at 12:26, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 04:30:32PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 04/16/2017 03:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.49 release.
>> > There are 145 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.
>> >
>> > ---------
>> > Wait, what?  3.18?  Wasn't that kernel dead and forgotten and left to
>> > rot on the side of the road?  Yes, it was, but unfortunately, there's a
>> > few million or so devices out there in the wild that still rely on this
>> > kernel.  Now, some of their manufacturers and SoC vendors might not be
>> > keeping their kernels up to date very well, but some do actually care
>> > about security and their users, so this release is for them.  If you
>> > happen to have a vendor that does not care about their users, go
>> > complain, as odds are, your device is very insecure right now...
>> >
>> > Because of this strange situation, and thanks to some vendors backing
>> > the effort[1], I'll keep 3.18-stable alive in a semi-active mode, doing
>> > releases every once in a while to keep it up to date and working well
>> > based on what is happening in other more well-maintained stable kernels
>> > (hint, use 4.4 or 4.9 or newer PLEASE, if your vendor refuses to do so,
>> > switch vendors, it's the only way they will learn...)  I don't know how
>> > long I'll keep doing this, so if you care about 3.18, please contact me
>> > to let me know the expected lifespan of your device.
>> >
>> > And finally, due to the delay from the last 3.18-stable kernel release,
>> > there is a large backlog of patches, this is about 1/2 of the pending
>> > ones so far.  I'll be working on catching up to the rest of them over
>> > the next few weeks, and then the updates should be smaller than this
>> > one.
>> >
>> > ok, back to your normal form-letter stable -rc release notice:
>> > ---------
>> >
>> > Responses should be made by Tue Apr 18 08:01:19 UTC 2017.
>> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
>> >
>>
>> Build results:
>>       total: 140 pass: 139 fail: 1
>> Failed builds:
>>       parisc:allmodconfig
>>
>> Qemu test results:
>>       total: 111 pass: 111 fail: 0
>>
>> Fixing the build failure requires commit 6c8afa88adce ("Input: gscps2 - fix
>> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE invocation").
>
> Ah, nice!  I'm pretty amazed that there was only one failure, thanks for
> testing all of these and letting me know.  I've also queued up this last
> patch for 3.18.

Can you please pick this one
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg166162.html as well. It fixes
ARCH=arm + CONFIG_SMP=n + CONFIG_ARM_PSCI=y builds.

Regards,
Amit Pundir

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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[PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 099/145] drm/ast: Fix AST2400 POST failure without BMC FW or VBIOS Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 032/145] selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 140/145] tcp: fix various issues for sockets morphing to listen state Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 041/145] [PATCH 087/760] net: pktgen: remove rcu locking in pktgen_change_name() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 084/145] usb: dwc3: gadget: make Set Endpoint Configuration macros safe Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 143/145] uapi: fix linux/packet_diag.h userspace compilation error Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 125/145] KVM: s390: Fix guest migration for huge guests resulting in panic Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 104/145] vxlan: correctly validate VXLAN ID against VXLAN_N_VID Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 095/145] padata: avoid race in reordering Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 083/145] usb: gadget: dummy_hcd: clear usb_gadget region before registration Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 129/145] USB: uss720: fix NULL-deref at probe Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 132/145] USB: wusbcore: fix NULL-deref at probe Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 109/145] dccp: Unlock sock before calling sk_free() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 141/145] net: fix socket refcounting in skb_complete_wifi_ack() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 101/145] cpmac: remove hopeless #warning Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 110/145] net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 117/145] crypto: cryptd - Assign statesize properly Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 098/145] drm/ast: Call open_key before enable_mmio in POST code Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 078/145] libceph: use BUG() instead of BUG_ON(1) Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 123/145] s390: make setup_randomness work Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 075/145] nlm: Ensure callback code also checks that the files match Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 130/145] USB: lvtest: fix NULL-deref at probe Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 137/145] MIPS: DEC: Avoid la pseudo-instruction in delay slots Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 139/145] libceph: dont set weight to IN when OSD is destroyed Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 111/145] usb: hub: Wait for connection to be reestablished after port reset Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 094/145] dm: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 082/145] mtd: pmcmsp: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpy Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 135/145] MIPS: ip27: Disable qlge driver in defconfig Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 091/145] USB: serial: io_ti: fix NULL-deref in interrupt callback Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 118/145] crypto: mcryptd - Fix load failure Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 122/145] s390: TASK_SIZE for kernel threads Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 115/145] futex: Fix potential use-after-free in FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 106/145] ipv4: mask tos for input route Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 134/145] USB: fix linked-list corruption in rh_call_control() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 102/145] tracing: Add #undef to fix compile error Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 136/145] MIPS: ip22: Fix ip28 build for modern gcc Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 052/145] drivers: staging: nvec: remove bogus reset command for PS/2 interface Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 042/145] [PATCH 091/760] ipv4: disable BH in set_ping_group_range() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 090/145] USB: iowarrior: fix NULL-deref in write Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 035/145] [PATCH 074/760] tcp: fix a compile error in DBGUNDO() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 060/145] lib/vsprintf.c: improve sanity check in vsnprintf() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 030/145] pwm: Unexport children before chip removal Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 068/145] staging: android: ashmem: lseek failed due to no FMODE_LSEEK. Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 071/145] Bluetooth: Add another AR3012 04ca:3018 device Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 057/145] net/llc: avoid BUG_ON() in skb_orphan() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 087/145] USB: serial: safe_serial: fix information leak in completion handler Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 070/145] KVM: s390: Disable dirty log retrieval for UCONTROL guests Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 089/145] USB: iowarrior: fix NULL-deref at probe Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 046/145] [PATCH 083/760] netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 065/145] xfrm: policy: init locks early Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 074/145] USB: serial: digi_acceleport: fix OOB-event processing Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 076/145] xtensa: move parse_tag_fdt out of #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 007/145] ipv4: keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 050/145] coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 043/145] [PATCH 093/760] net: sctp, forbid negative length Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 072/145] IB/ipoib: Fix deadlock between rmmod and set_mode Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 069/145] serial: 8250_pci: Add MKS Tenta SCOM-0800 and SCOM-0801 cards Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 047/145] ASoC: cs4270: fix DAPM stream name mismatch Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 054/145] USB: cdc-acm: fix TIOCMIWAIT Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 036/145] [PATCH 075/760] ip6_gre: fix flowi6_proto value in ip6gre_xmit_other() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 005/145] tcp: fix 0 divide in __tcp_select_window() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 085/145] usb: gadget: function: f_fs: pass companion descriptor along Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 063/145] cancel the setfilesize transation when io error happen Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 051/145] staging: iio: ad5933: avoid uninitialized variable in error case Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 064/145] raid10: increment write counter after bio is split Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 059/145] net: socket: fix recvmmsg not returning error from sock_error Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 037/145] [PATCH 076/760] ipmr, ip6mr: fix scheduling while atomic and a deadlock with ipmr_get_route Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 049/145] swapfile: fix memory corruption via malformed swapfile Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 062/145] tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 028/145] smc91x: avoid self-comparison warning Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 015/145] [PATCH 084/760] ipv6: tcp: restore IP6CB for pktoptions skbs Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 012/145] ping: fix a null pointer dereference Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 020/145] tcp: fix overflow in __tcp_retransmit_skb() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 019/145] usb: chipidea: move the lock initialization to core file Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 002/145] can: Fix kernel panic at security_sock_rcv_skb Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 031/145] HID: usbhid: add ATEN CS962 to list of quirky devices Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 027/145] drm/exynos: fix error handling in exynos_drm_subdrv_open Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 033/145] fbdev: color map copying bounds checking Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3.18 023/145] ALSA: usb-audio: Add quirk for Syntek STK1160 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-16 13:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-04-17 01:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-17 09:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> - 2017-04-17 10:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-17 10:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> - 2017-04-17 20:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3.18 000/145] 3.18.49-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-18 07:00 +0200

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