[PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.18.6-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 6.18.6-rc1

Mateusz Litwin <mateusz.litwin@nokia.com>
    spi: cadence-quadspi: Prevent lost complete() call during indirect read

Michal Rábek <mrabek@redhat.com>
    scsi: sg: Fix occasional bogus elapsed time that exceeds timeout

Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
    ASoC: fsl_sai: Add missing registers to cache default

Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>
    ALSA: hda/realtek: enable woofer speakers on Medion NM14LNL

Andrew Elantsev <elantsew.andrew@gmail.com>
    ASoC: amd: yc: Add quirk for Honor MagicBook X16 2025

Jussi Laako <jussi@sonarnerd.net>
    ALSA: usb-audio: Update for native DSD support quirks

Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
    block: validate pi_offset integrity limit

Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
    can: j1939: make j1939_session_activate() fail if device is no longer registered

Brian Kocoloski <brian.kocoloski@amd.com>
    drm/amdkfd: Fix improper NULL termination of queue restore SMI event string

Fei Shao <fshao@chromium.org>
    spi: mt65xx: Use IRQF_ONESHOT with threaded IRQ

Charlene Liu <Charlene.Liu@amd.com>
    drm/amd/display: Fix DP no audio issue

Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
    accel/amdxdna: Block running under a hypervisor

Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
    ata: libata-core: Disable LPM on ST2000DM008-2FR102

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    netfilter: nf_tables: avoid chain re-validation if possible

Sumeet Pawnikar <sumeet4linux@gmail.com>
    powercap: fix sscanf() error return value handling

Sumeet Pawnikar <sumeet4linux@gmail.com>
    powercap: fix race condition in register_control_type()

Marcus Hughes <marcus.hughes@betterinternet.ltd>
    net: sfp: extend Potron XGSPON quirk to cover additional EEPROM variant

Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
    bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
    bpf, test_run: Subtract size of xdp_frame from allowed metadata size

Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in>
    gpio: mpsse: fix reference leak in gpio_mpsse_probe() error paths

Mary Strodl <mstrodl@csh.rit.edu>
    gpio: mpsse: add quirk support

Mary Strodl <mstrodl@csh.rit.edu>
    gpio: mpsse: ensure worker is torn down

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: fix beyond-EOF write handling

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: use variable for end offset in extent_writepage_io()

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: truncate ordered extent when skipping writeback past i_size

Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
    erofs: fix file-backed mounts no longer working on EROFS partitions

Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
    erofs: don't bother with s_stack_depth increasing for now

Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
    irqchip/gic-v5: Fix gicv5_its_map_event() ITTE read endianness

Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    ublk: fix use-after-free in ublk_partition_scan_work

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb->head

Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
    net: enetc: fix build warning when PAGE_SIZE is greater than 128K

Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
    net: usb: pegasus: fix memory leak in update_eth_regs_async()

Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
    net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix NULL deref when deactivating inactive aggregate in qfq_reset

Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
    wifi: mac80211_hwsim: fix typo in frequency notification

Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
    net: airoha: Fix schedule while atomic in airoha_ppe_deinit()

René Rebe <rene@exactco.de>
    HID: quirks: work around VID/PID conflict for appledisplay

Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
    sparc/PCI: Correct 64-bit non-pref -> pref BAR resources

Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
    trace: ftrace_dump_on_oops[] is not exported, make it static

Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
    block: don't merge bios with different app_tags

Yohei Kojima <yk@y-koj.net>
    net: netdevsim: fix inconsistent carrier state after link/unlink

Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
    selftests: drv-net: Bring back tool() to driver __init__s

Shivani Gupta <shivani07g@gmail.com>
    net/sched: act_api: avoid dereferencing ERR_PTR in tcf_idrinfo_destroy

Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
    net: sfp: return the number of written bytes for smbus single byte access

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    udp: call skb_orphan() before skb_attempt_defer_free()

Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    Revert "dsa: mv88e6xxx: make serdes SGMII/Fiber tx amplitude configurable"

Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
    idpf: fix aux device unplugging when rdma is not supported by vport

Joshua Hay <joshua.a.hay@intel.com>
    idpf: cap maximum Rx buffer size

Sreedevi Joshi <sreedevi.joshi@intel.com>
    idpf: Fix error handling in idpf_vport_open()

Sreedevi Joshi <sreedevi.joshi@intel.com>
    idpf: Fix RSS LUT NULL ptr issue after soft reset

Sreedevi Joshi <sreedevi.joshi@intel.com>
    idpf: Fix RSS LUT configuration on down interfaces

Sreedevi Joshi <sreedevi.joshi@intel.com>
    idpf: Fix RSS LUT NULL pointer crash on early ethtool operations

Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>
    idpf: fix issue with ethtool -n command display

Sreedevi Joshi <sreedevi.joshi@intel.com>
    idpf: fix memory leak of flow steer list on rmmod

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: fix error handling in the init_task on load

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: fix memory leak in idpf_vc_core_deinit()

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: fix memory leak in idpf_vport_rel()

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: detach and close netdevs while handling a reset

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: convert vport state to bitmap

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: keep the netdev when a reset fails

Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
    PCI/VGA: Don't assume the only VGA device on a system is `boot_vga`

Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com>
    net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets

Guo Ren (Alibaba DAMO Academy) <guoren@kernel.org>
    riscv: pgtable: Cleanup useless VA_USER_XXX definitions

Guodong Xu <guodong@riscstar.com>
    riscv: cpufeature: Fix Zk bundled extension missing Zknh

Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
    net: airoha: Fix npu rx DMA definitions

Suchit Karunakaran <suchitkarunakaran@gmail.com>
    btrfs: fix NULL pointer dereference in do_abort_log_replay()

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: only enforce free space tree if v1 cache is required for bs < ps cases

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: release path before initializing extent tree in btrfs_read_locked_inode()

Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
    vsock: Make accept()ed sockets use custom setsockopt()

Yang Wang <kevinyang.wang@amd.com>
    drm/amd/pm: force send pcie parmater on navi1x

Yang Wang <kevinyang.wang@amd.com>
    drm/amd/pm: fix wrong pcie parameter on navi1x

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    perf: Ensure swevent hrtimer is properly destroyed

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    inet: frags: drop fraglist conntrack references

Kommula Shiva Shankar <kshankar@marvell.com>
    virtio_net: fix device mismatch in devm_kzalloc/devm_kfree

Srijit Bose <srijit.bose@broadcom.com>
    bnxt_en: Fix potential data corruption with HW GRO/LRO

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
    net: wwan: iosm: Fix memory leak in ipc_mux_deinit()

Frank Liang <xiliang@redhat.com>
    net/ena: fix missing lock when update devlink params

Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
    net/mlx5e: Dealloc forgotten PSP RX modify header

Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
    net/mlx5e: Don't print error message due to invalid module

Alexei Lazar <alazar@nvidia.com>
    net/mlx5e: Don't gate FEC histograms on ppcnt_statistical_group

Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@nvidia.com>
    net/mlx5: Lag, multipath, give priority for routes with smaller network prefix

Di Zhu <zhud@hygon.cn>
    netdev: preserve NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL across TSO updates

Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
    net: sock: fix hardened usercopy panic in sock_recv_errqueue

Stefano Radaelli <stefano.r@variscite.com>
    net: phy: mxl-86110: Add power management and soft reset support

yuan.gao <yuan.gao@ucloud.cn>
    inet: ping: Fix icmp out counting

Jerry Wu <w.7erry@foxmail.com>
    net: mscc: ocelot: Fix crash when adding interface under a lag

Alexandre Knecht <knecht.alexandre@gmail.com>
    bridge: fix C-VLAN preservation in 802.1ad vlan_tunnel egress

Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
    net: marvell: prestera: fix NULL dereference on devlink_alloc() failure

Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
    netfilter: nf_conncount: update last_gc only when GC has been performed

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
    netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak in nf_tables_newrule()

Ernest Van Hoecke <ernest.vanhoecke@toradex.com>
    gpio: pca953x: handle short interrupt pulses on PCAL devices

Paweł Narewski <pawel.narewski@nokia.com>
    gpiolib: fix race condition for gdev->srcu

Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
    gpiolib: rename GPIO chip printk macros

Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
    gpiolib: remove unnecessary 'out of memory' messages

Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
    netfilter: nft_synproxy: avoid possible data-race on update operation

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: fix range overlap detection

Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
    arm64: dts: mba8mx: Fix Ethernet PHY IRQ support

Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
    arm64: dts: imx8qm-ss-dma: correct the dma channels of lpuart

Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@mailbox.org>
    arm64: dts: imx8mp: Fix LAN8740Ai PHY reference clock on DH electronics i.MX8M Plus DHCOM

Maud Spierings <maudspierings@gocontroll.com>
    arm64: dts: freescale: tx8p-ml81: fix eqos nvmem-cells

Maud Spierings <maudspierings@gocontroll.com>
    arm64: dts: freescale: moduline-display: fix compatible

Ian Ray <ian.ray@gehealthcare.com>
    ARM: dts: imx6q-ba16: fix RTC interrupt level

Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@nxp.com>
    arm64: dts: add off-on-delay-us for usdhc2 regulator

Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@nxp.com>
    arm64: dts: imx8qm-mek: correct the light sensor interrupt type to low level

Harshita Bhilwaria <harshita.bhilwaria@intel.com>
    crypto: qat - fix duplicate restarting msg during AER error

Louis-Alexis Eyraud <louisalexis.eyraud@collabora.com>
    pinctrl: mediatek: mt8189: restore previous register base name array order

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    netfs: Fix early read unlock of page with EOF in middle

Even Xu <even.xu@intel.com>
    HID: Intel-thc-hid: Intel-thc: Fix wrong register reading

Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@gmail.com>
    HID: Intel-thc-hid: Intel-thc: fix dma_unmap_sg() nents value

Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
    gpio: it87: balance superio enter/exit calls in error path

Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
    gpu: nova-core: select RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS

Wadim Egorov <w.egorov@phytec.de>
    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62-lp-sk-nand: Rename pinctrls to fix schema warnings

Wadim Egorov <w.egorov@phytec.de>
    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am642-phyboard-electra-x27-gpio1-spi1-uart3: Fix schema warnings

Wadim Egorov <w.egorov@phytec.de>
    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am642-phyboard-electra-peb-c-010: Fix icssg-prueth schema warning

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
    of: unittest: Fix memory leak in unittest_data_add()

Leo Martins <loemra.dev@gmail.com>
    btrfs: fix use-after-free warning in btrfs_get_or_create_delayed_node()

Miquel Sabaté Solà <mssola@mssola.com>
    btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: qgroup: update all parent qgroups when doing quick inherit

Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
    btrfs: fix qgroup_snapshot_quick_inherit() squota bug

Xingui Yang <yangxingui@huawei.com>
    scsi: Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed"

Brian Kao <powenkao@google.com>
    scsi: ufs: core: Fix EH failure after W-LUN resume error

Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.ibm.com>
    scsi: ipr: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset

Suganath Prabu S <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>
    scsi: mpi3mr: Prevent duplicate SAS/SATA device entries in channel 1

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
    smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_NO_DATA_DETECTED value

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
    smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_DEVICE_DOOR_OPEN value

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
    smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_UNABLE_TO_FREE_VM value

Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
    drm/amd/display: shrink struct members

Stefan Binding <sbinding@opensource.cirrus.com>
    ALSA: hda/realtek: Add support for ASUS UM3406GA

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
    NFS: Fix up the automount fs_context to use the correct cred

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
    ASoC: rockchip: Fix Wvoid-pointer-to-enum-cast warning (again)

Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
    NFSv4: ensure the open stateid seqid doesn't go backwards

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    dm-snapshot: fix 'scheduling while atomic' on real-time kernels

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    dm-verity: disable recursive forward error correction

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
    alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    ARM: 9461/1: Disable HIGHPTE on PREEMPT_RT kernels

Yang Li <yang.li85200@gmail.com>
    csky: fix csky_cmpxchg_fixup not working

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Prefer legacy driver as fallback

Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    ublk: reorder tag_set initialization before queue allocation

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
    libceph: make calc_target() set t->paused, not just clear it

Sam Edwards <cfsworks@gmail.com>
    libceph: reset sparse-read state in osd_fault()

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
    libceph: return the handler error from mon_handle_auth_done()

Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
    libceph: make free_choose_arg_map() resilient to partial allocation

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
    libceph: replace overzealous BUG_ON in osdmap_apply_incremental()

ziming zhang <ezrakiez@gmail.com>
    libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds reads in handle_auth_done()

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    wifi: mac80211: restore non-chanctx injection behaviour

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    wifi: avoid kernel-infoleak from struct iw_point

Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>
    Revert "drm/mediatek: dsi: Fix DSI host and panel bridge pre-enable order"

Malaya Kumar Rout <mrout@redhat.com>
    PM: hibernate: Fix crash when freeing invalid crypto compressor

Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
    pinctrl: qcom: lpass-lpi: mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    PCI: meson: Report that link is up while in ASPM L0s and L1 states

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    io_uring/io-wq: fix incorrect io_wq_for_each_worker() termination logic

Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
    gpio: rockchip: mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
    drm/radeon: Remove __counted_by from ClockInfoArray.clockInfo[]

Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>
    drm/tidss: Fix enable/disable order

Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
    drm/pl111: Fix error handling in pl111_amba_probe

Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
    drm/atomic-helper: Export and namespace some functions

Alan Liu <haoping.liu@amd.com>
    drm/amdgpu: Fix query for VPE block_type and ip_count

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    drm/amd/display: Apply e4479aecf658 to dml

Carlos Song <carlos.song@nxp.com>
    arm64: dts: imx95: correct I3C2 pclk to IMX95_CLK_BUSWAKEUP

August Wikerfors <git@augustwikerfors.se>
    ALSA: hda/tas2781: properly initialize speaker_id for TAS2563

Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
    ALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register()

Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>
    Revert "drm/atomic-helper: Re-order bridge chain pre-enable and post-disable"

Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
    nouveau: don't attempt fwsec on sb on newer platforms.

Vivian Wang <wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn>
    riscv: boot: Always make Image from vmlinux, not vmlinux.unstripped

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    tracing: Add recursion protection in kernel stack trace recording

Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>
    counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag

Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
    counter: 104-quad-8: Fix incorrect return value in IRQ handler

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
    lib/crypto: aes: Fix missing MMU protection for AES S-box

Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
    rust_binder: remove spin_lock() in rust_shrink_free_page()

Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
    mei: me: add nova lake point S DID

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
    bnxt_en: Fix NULL pointer crash in bnxt_ptp_enable during error cleanup

Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
    arm64: Fix cleared E0POE bit after cpu_suspend()/resume()

Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    net: do not write to msg_get_inq in callee

Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@gmail.com>
    net: 3com: 3c59x: fix possible null dereference in vortex_probe1()

Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@gmail.com>
    atm: Fix dma_free_coherent() size

Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    NFSD: Remove NFSERR_EAGAIN

Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
    NFSD: net ref data still needs to be freed even if net hasn't startup

Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>
    nfsd: check that server is running in unlock_filesystem

NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
    nfsd: use correct loop termination in nfsd4_revoke_states()

NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
    nfsd: provide locking for v4_end_grace

Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
    NFSD: Fix permission check for read access to executable-only files


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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h               |   8 +-
 arch/arm/Kconfig                                   |   2 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-ba16.dtsi          |   2 +-
 .../arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-dhcom-som.dtsi |   1 +
 .../imx8mp-tx8p-ml81-moduline-display-106.dts      |   2 +-
 .../arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-tx8p-ml81.dtsi |   5 +
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qm-mek.dts       |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qm-ss-dma.dtsi   |   8 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx95.dtsi           |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/mba8mx.dtsi          |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62-lp-sk-nand.dtso     |   2 +-
 .../ti/k3-am642-phyboard-electra-peb-c-010.dtso    |   7 +-
 ...m642-phyboard-electra-x27-gpio1-spi1-uart3.dtso |   8 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/suspend.h                   |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S                               |   8 +
 arch/csky/mm/fault.c                               |   4 +-
 arch/riscv/boot/Makefile                           |   4 -
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h                   |   4 -
 arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c                     |  23 +-
 arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c                            |  23 ++
 block/blk-integrity.c                              |  23 +-
 block/blk-settings.c                               |   7 +-
 drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.c                   |   6 +
 drivers/android/binder/page_range.rs               |   3 -
 drivers/ata/libata-core.c                          |   3 +
 drivers/atm/he.c                                   |   3 +-
 drivers/block/ublk_drv.c                           |  49 ++--
 drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c                       |  20 +-
 drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c                    |   3 +-
 drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_aer.c      |   2 -
 drivers/gpio/gpio-it87.c                           |  11 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-mpsse.c                          | 227 +++++++++++++++-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c                        |  25 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-rockchip.c                       |   1 +
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c                        |   2 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c                       |   2 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c                             | 128 +++++----
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 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c            |   6 +
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 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/Makefile        |   6 +-
 .../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dce110/dce110_hwseq.c  |  11 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/include/audio_types.h  |  14 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu11/navi10_ppt.c    |  33 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c                | 122 +++++++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dsi.c                 |   6 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/ad102.c    |   3 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/fwsec.c    |   8 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/ga100.c    |   3 +
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 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/priv.h     |  23 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/tu102.c    |  15 ++
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 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/pptable.h                   |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/tidss/tidss_kms.c                  |  30 ++-
 drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig                      |   2 +-
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 .../hid/intel-thc-hid/intel-thc/intel-thc-dev.c    |   4 +-
 .../hid/intel-thc-hid/intel-thc/intel-thc-dma.c    |   4 +-
 .../hid/intel-thc-hid/intel-thc/intel-thc-dma.h    |   2 +
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 .../net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_singleq_txrx.c    |   2 +-
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 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/xdp.c              |   2 +-
 .../ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_devlink.c   |   2 +
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/psp.c |  14 +-
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 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/port.c     |   3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot.c                 |   6 +-
 drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c                        |   8 +
 drivers/net/phy/mxl-86110.c                        |   3 +
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 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c                          |   2 +
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c                           |   6 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c      |   2 +-
 drivers/net/wwan/iosm/iosm_ipc_mux.c               |   6 +
 drivers/of/unittest.c                              |   8 +-
 drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-meson.c             |  37 +--
 drivers/pci/vgaarb.c                               |   7 -
 drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8189.c          |   2 +-
 drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-lpass-lpi.c           |   2 +-
 drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c                    |  22 +-
 drivers/scsi/ipr.c                                 |  28 +-
 drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_internal.h                 |  14 -
 drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr.h                       |   4 +-
 drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_os.c                    |   4 +-
 drivers/scsi/sg.c                                  |  20 +-
 drivers/spi/spi-cadence-quadspi.c                  |  10 +-
 drivers/spi/spi-mt65xx.c                           |   2 +-
 drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c                          |  40 ++-
 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c                           |  32 +--
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c                               |  31 ++-
 fs/btrfs/inode.c                                   |  19 +-
 fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c                            |   5 +-
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 fs/nfsd/state.h                                    |   6 +-
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 fs/smb/client/nterr.h                              |   6 +-
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 include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h                  |  34 ++-
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 net/netfilter/nft_synproxy.c                       |   6 +-
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Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Ronald Warsow]

Hi

no regressions here on x86_64 (RKL, Intel 11th Gen. CPU)

Thanks

Tested-by: Ronald Warsow <rwarsow@gmx.de>

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Brett A C Sheffield]

# Librecast Test Results

020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq
010/010 [ OK ] libmld
120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.18.6-rc1-g486e59ed73a6 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 15 17:58:53 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net>

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Slade Watkins]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 11:53 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

6.18.6-rc1 built and run on my x86_64 test system (AMD Ryzen 9 9900X,
System76 thelio-mira-r4-n3). No errors or regressions.

Tested-by: Slade Watkins <sr@sladewatkins.com>

Thanks,
Slade

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Shuah Khan]

On 1/15/26 09:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.18.6-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
> 

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Florian Fainelli]

On 1/15/26 08:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.18.6-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

On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on 
BMIPS_GENERIC:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
-- 
Florian

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Takeshi Ogasawara]

Hi Greg

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 1:54 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.18.6-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
>

6.18.6-rc1 tested.

Build successfully completed.
Boot successfully completed.
No dmesg regressions.
Video output normal.
Sound output normal.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen10(Intel i7-1260P(x86_64) arch linux)

[    0.000000] Linux version 6.18.6-rc1rv-g486e59ed73a6
(takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260103, GNU ld (GNU
Binutils) 2.45.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 16 12:22:57 JST 2026

Thanks

Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara <takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com>

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Ron Economos]

On 1/15/26 08:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.18.6-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

Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).

Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz.net>

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Jon Hunter]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:45:37 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.18.6-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

All tests passing for Tegra ...

Test results for stable-v6.18:
    10 builds:	10 pass, 0 fail
    28 boots:	28 pass, 0 fail
    120 tests:	120 pass, 0 fail

Linux version:	6.18.6-rc1-g486e59ed73a6
Boards tested:	tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra186-p2771-0000,
                tegra186-p3509-0000+p3636-0001, tegra194-p2972-0000,
                tegra194-p3509-0000+p3668-0000, tegra20-ventana,
                tegra210-p2371-2180, tegra210-p3450-0000,
                tegra30-cardhu-a04

Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>

Jon

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Peter Schneider]

Am 15.01.2026 um 17:45 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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.

Builds, boots and works on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697 v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.

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


Beste Grüße,
Peter Schneider

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enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world,
not so the world can see you.                    -- David McCullough Jr.

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Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Mark Brown]

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 05:45:37PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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.

Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Hardik Garg]

The kernel, bpf tool, perf tool, and kselftest builds fine for v6.18.6-rc1
on x86 and arm64 Azure VM.


Tested-by: Hardik Garg <hargar@linux.microsoft.com>


Thanks,
Hardik

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Brett Mastbergen]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 11:54 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.18.6-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
>

Builds successfully.  Boots and works on qemu and Intel Core i7-10810U

Tested-by: Brett Mastbergen <bmastbergen@ciq.com>

Thanks,
Brett

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:45:37 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.6 release.
> There are 181 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested
for loongarch64:

Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/181] 6.18.6-rc1 review

[Jeffrin Thalakkottoor]

hello

Compiled and booted  6.18.6-rc1+

No  typical new regressions   from dmesg.

As per dmidecode command.
Version: AMD Ryzen 3 3250U with Radeon Graphics

Processor Information
        Socket Designation: FP5
        Type: Central Processor
        Family: Zen
        Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
        ID: 81 0F 81 00 FF FB 8B 17
        Signature: Family 23, Model 24, Stepping 1

Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T <jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in>

--
software engineer
rajagiri school of engineering and technology