From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4C273596F9; Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767959108; cv=none; b=NFx0fAbySajbbcedFCytG0TYIJ5DLIR+TbE8gwygxTNPJ19Gftk8dUQHeWO+Vp6/haYwHHb6hS2egvVrL+NPUZe20Q3MYxrBpf964ak3Cr2gvvT9lWQMuVhwX5Q6G1n5hbZsfNQBM0twgnIwqHuB8RHuSpGGfEl4m2RBk/9HRRk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767959108; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Q2pvO5VZBfKY8Lsb8CgnM9zNbRX+1jq/sOynErnWHfI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=gQ9KyQkXmm3oLh38YjVEaK3TnZQvTtxXem9mTrxxh9dfeFTINkDBCgawktnxV0R2lt/ruB4eqvb96wFATtmhyDHfFvfii3ZYqAszFwrPHWazTHiuMoRc3k+qAeCsbJw2G/oyoNCotQ870QHmty1f4xXkADkVP60lj+WLOKduXHA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=uAVMZ8Hq; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="uAVMZ8Hq" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A657C4CEF1; Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:45:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1767959108; bh=Q2pvO5VZBfKY8Lsb8CgnM9zNbRX+1jq/sOynErnWHfI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=uAVMZ8Hq7VfTdoFl+wb/vBvRU2w88KNX1UlO4sMk1rqvxbCdWlAgf/rtd15WD9Vus Zj82MXy3KRzBDIswtTAKgyEm9o3X21lGn6eVccdclJXnere71hkRA06EYTKBPA9K8W 6nRxBHKOUpPeja0sW3WTzNusApsZppjpO3QpSr4E= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, pavel@denx.de, jonathanh@nvidia.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, rwarsow@gmx.de, conor@kernel.org, hargar@microsoft.com, broonie@kernel.org, achill@achill.org, sr@sladewatkins.com Subject: [PATCH 6.18 0/5] 6.18.5-rc1 review Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:44:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20260109111950.344681501@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore X-KernelTest-Patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.18.5-rc1.gz X-KernelTest-Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git X-KernelTest-Branch: linux-6.18.y X-KernelTest-Patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git X-KernelTest-Version: 6.18.5-rc1 X-KernelTest-Deadline: 2026-01-11T11:19+00:00 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.5 release. There are 5 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 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:19:41 +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-6.18.5-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 ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 6.18.5-rc1 Mike Snitzer nfs/localio: fix regression due to out-of-order __put_cred Peter Zijlstra sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance Peter Zijlstra sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost() Peter Zijlstra sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle() Paolo Abeni mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect() ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +-- fs/nfs/localio.c | 12 ++++---- include/linux/sched/topology.h | 3 ++ kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- kernel/sched/features.h | 5 ++++ kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 +++++ kernel/sched/topology.c | 6 ++++ net/mptcp/protocol.c | 8 ++++-- net/mptcp/protocol.h | 3 +- 10 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)