[PATCH 6.18 0/5] 6.18.5-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 6.18.5-rc1

Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
    nfs/localio: fix regression due to out-of-order __put_cred

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
    mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()


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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(-)