Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/333] 6.18.19-rc1 review

Peter Schneider
2026-03-17T21:03:43Z

Am 17.03.2026 um 17:30 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.19 release.
> There are 333 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.

Same build failure as in 6.19.9-rc1 on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697 v2 server:

LD      vmlinux.unstripped
BTFIDS  vmlinux.unstripped
WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol kthread_exit

and git revert 0507972c8244d6454cbfd242157e86bb01971bf2 (kthread: consolidate kthread exit paths to prevent
use-after-free) makes the build error go away, but may keep the original bug the patch intended to fix?! Wentao Guan
wrote in [1] that an additional backport is needed to make this patch work, but I didn't test this...

Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20260317175812.707723-1-guanwentao@uniontech.com/

Beste Grüße,
Peter Schneider

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