4.17.1-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.17.1 release. There are 15 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 Mon Jun 11 14:59:48 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.17.1-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-4.17.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 4.17.1-rc1

Dexuan Cui <[email protected]>
PCI: hv: Do not wait forever on a device that has disappeared

Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>
ipmr: fix error path when ipmr_new_table fails

Arun Parameswaran <[email protected]>
net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC

Stephen Suryaputra <[email protected]>
vrf: check the original netdevice for generating redirect

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
team: use netdev_features_t instead of u32

Xin Long <[email protected]>
sctp: not allow transport timeout value less than HZ/5 for hb_timer

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink()

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net/packet: refine check for priv area size

Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
net: metrics: add proper netlink validation

Cong Wang <[email protected]>
netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports

Guillaume Nault <[email protected]>
l2tp: fix refcount leakage on PPPoL2TP sockets

Michal Kubecek <[email protected]>
ipv6: omit traffic class when calculating flow hash

Sabrina Dubroca <[email protected]>
ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds

Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
bnx2x: use the right constant

Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>
netfilter: nf_flow_table: attach dst to skbs

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Diffstat:

 Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt          |  9 +++++
 Makefile                                         |  4 +--
 drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c                 | 15 +++++++-
 drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_priv.h                   |  2 ++
 drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_srab.c                   |  4 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c |  2 +-
 drivers/net/team/team.c                          |  3 +-
 drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c                    | 46 +++++++++++++++++-------
 include/linux/mroute_base.h                      | 10 ------
 include/net/ipv6.h                               |  5 +++
 net/core/flow_dissector.c                        |  2 +-
 net/core/rtnetlink.c                             |  8 ++---
 net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c                         |  4 +++
 net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c                             |  8 +++--
 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv4.c          |  5 +--
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c                            |  3 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c                                 | 21 +++++++----
 net/ipv6/ndisc.c                                 |  6 ++++
 net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ipv6.c          |  1 +
 net/ipv6/route.c                                 |  4 +--
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c                              | 35 +++++++++---------
 net/packet/af_packet.c                           |  2 +-
 net/sctp/transport.c                             |  2 +-
 23 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)