3.18.86-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.86 release. There are 12 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 Wed Dec 6 15:59:06 UTC 2017. 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.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.86-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 <[email protected]>

    Linux 3.18.86-rc1

Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Prevent zero length "index" write

Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
drm/i915: Don't try indexed reads to alternate slave addresses

NeilBrown <[email protected]>
NFS: revalidate "." etc correctly on "open".

Jonathan Liu <[email protected]>
drm/panel: simple: Add missing panel_simple_unprepare() calls

Heiner Kallweit <[email protected]>
eeprom: at24: check at24_read/write arguments

Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
KVM: x86: inject exceptions produced by x86_decode_insn

Liran Alon <[email protected]>
KVM: x86: Exit to user-mode on #UD intercept when emulator requires

Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
btrfs: clear space cache inode generation always

chenjie <[email protected]>
mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances

Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()

Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash

Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                             |  4 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c                   |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c                   |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   |  2 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c     |  4 +++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c |  2 ++
 drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c           |  6 ++++++
 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c               | 14 +++++++-------
 fs/nfs/dir.c                         |  3 ++-
 include/linux/netlink.h              |  2 ++
 include/net/genetlink.h              |  2 ++
 mm/huge_memory.c                     | 14 ++++----------
 mm/madvise.c                         |  3 +--
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c             |  4 ++++
 net/netlink/genetlink.c              | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c                 | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
 16 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)