[PATCH 6.18 00/43] 6.18.13-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17T20:51:54Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.13 release.
There are 43 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 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:59:50 +0000.
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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.18.13-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-6.18.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 6.18.13-rc1

Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on node footer in {read,write}_end_io

Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on node footer in __write_node_folio()

Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
USB: serial: option: add Telit FN920C04 RNDIS compositions

Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: do not register driver in probe()

Yeongjin Gil <youngjin.gil@samsung.com>
f2fs: optimize f2fs_overwrite_io() for f2fs_iomap_begin

Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
f2fs: fix to avoid mapping wrong physical block for swapfile

Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>
f2fs: support non-4KB block size without packed_ssa feature

Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()

Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
f2fs: fix out-of-bounds access in sysfs attribute read/write

Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
f2fs: fix IS_CHECKPOINTED flag inconsistency issue caused by concurrent atomic commit and checkpoint writes

Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
f2fs: fix to check sysfs filename w/ gc_pin_file_thresh correctly

Zhiguo Niu <zhiguo.niu@unisoc.com>
f2fs: fix to add gc count stat in f2fs_gc_range

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fbdev: smscufx: properly copy ioctl memory to kernelspace

Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()

Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
cpuset: Fix missing adaptation for cpuset_is_populated

Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
LoongArch: Rework KASAN initialization for PTW-enabled systems

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather

Otto Pflüger <otto.pflueger@abscue.de>
arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8183: Add missing endpoint IDs to display graph

Alban Bedel <alban.bedel@lht.dlh.de>
gpiolib: acpi: Fix gpio count with string references

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
io_uring/fdinfo: be a bit nicer when looping a lot of SQEs/CQEs

Ziyi Guo <n7l8m4@u.northwestern.edu>
ASoC: fsl_xcvr: fix missing lock in fsl_xcvr_mode_put()

Melissa Wen <mwen@igalia.com>
drm/amd/display: remove assert around dpp_base replacement

Melissa Wen <mwen@igalia.com>
drm/amd/display: extend delta clamping logic to CM3 LUT helper

Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
tracing/dma: Cap dma_map_sg tracepoint arrays to prevent buffer overflow

Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
ASoC: cs42l43: Correct handling of 3-pole jack load detection

Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Fix sysfs group leak in error path

Maciej Strozek <mstrozek@opensource.cirrus.com>
ASoC: sof_sdw: Add a quirk for Lenovo laptop using sidecar amps with cs42l43

gongqi <550230171hxy@gmail.com>
platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add quirk for MECHREVO Wujie 15X Pro

Breno Baptista <brenomb07@gmail.com>
ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable headset mic for Acer Nitro 5

Dirk Su <dirk.su@canonical.com>
ASoC: amd: yc: Add quirk for HP 200 G2a 16

Tagir Garaev <tgaraev653@gmail.com>
ASoC: Intel: sof_es8336: Add DMI quirk for Huawei BOD-WXX9

Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
platform/x86: classmate-laptop: Add missing NULL pointer checks

Brahmajit Das <listout@listout.xyz>
drm/tegra: hdmi: sor: Fix error: variable ‘j’ set but not used

Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value

Kailang Yang <kailang@realtek.com>
ALSA: hda/realtek - fixed speaker no sound

Ricardo Rivera-Matos <rriveram@opensource.cirrus.com>
ASoC: cs35l45: Corrects ASP_TX5 DAPM widget channel

Zhang Heng <zhangheng@kylinos.cn>
ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Inspur S14-G1

Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
gpio: sprd: Change sprd_gpio lock to raw_spin_lock

Anatolii Shirykalov <pipocavsobake@gmail.com>
ASoC: amd: yc: Add ASUS ExpertBook PM1503CDA to quirks list

Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
rust: driver: fix broken intra-doc links to example driver types

FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
rust: dma: fix broken intra-doc links

FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
rust: device: fix broken intra-doc links

Anil Gurumurthy <agurumurthy@marvell.com>
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix bsg_done() causing double free

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt8183.dtsi | 37 ++++++-
arch/loongarch/mm/kasan_init.c | 80 +++++++-------
drivers/gpio/gpio-sprd.c | 8 +-
drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c | 1 +
.../gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn30/dcn30_cm_common.c | 30 ++++-
.../drm/amd/display/dc/dwb/dcn30/dcn30_cm_common.h | 2 +-
.../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn30/dcn30_hwseq.c | 9 +-
.../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn32/dcn32_hwseq.c | 18 +--
.../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn401/dcn401_hwseq.c | 16 +--
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hdmi.c | 4 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c | 4 +-
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu-impl.c | 14 +++
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu-qcom.c | 14 ++-
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c | 24 +++-
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.h | 5 +
drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmc/pmc-quirks.c | 7 ++
drivers/platform/x86/classmate-laptop.c | 32 ++++++
drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c | 4 +-
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_bsg.c | 28 +++--
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 +
drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c | 3 +
drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c | 8 +-
fs/f2fs/data.c | 51 ++++++---
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 64 ++++++++---
fs/f2fs/gc.c | 24 ++--
fs/f2fs/node.c | 50 +++++----
fs/f2fs/node.h | 8 --
fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 6 +-
fs/f2fs/segment.c | 86 +++++++-------
fs/f2fs/segment.h | 9 +-
fs/f2fs/super.c | 26 ++---
fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 62 +++++++++--
fs/romfs/super.c | 5 +-
include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 77 ++++++++++++-
include/linux/f2fs_fs.h | 73 +++++++-----
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 15 ++-
include/linux/mm_types.h | 1 +
include/trace/events/dma.h | 25 ++++-
io_uring/fdinfo.c | 11 +-
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 2 +-
mm/hugetlb.c | 123 ++++++++++++---------
mm/mmu_gather.c | 33 ++++++
mm/rmap.c | 25 +++--
rust/kernel/device.rs | 6 +-
rust/kernel/dma.rs | 5 +-
rust/kernel/driver.rs | 12 +-
sound/hda/codecs/realtek/alc269.c | 13 +++
sound/soc/amd/yc/acp6x-mach.c | 14 +++
sound/soc/codecs/cs35l45.c | 2 +-
sound/soc/codecs/cs42l43-jack.c | 37 ++++++-
sound/soc/fsl/fsl_xcvr.c | 3 +
sound/soc/intel/boards/sof_es8336.c | 9 ++
sound/soc/intel/boards/sof_sdw.c | 1 +
54 files changed, 877 insertions(+), 359 deletions(-)