This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.99 release.
There are 21 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 Mar 12 00:17:44 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-3.18.99-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.