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 C4C6E2E54BD; Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:39:27 +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=1771234767; cv=none; b=sR12H+2qmttLbRB+qWqzUGHUXF3yPzqVApLsWV3MGROkrhYEu99y6t/MPG1BGxpcTC9vElfAH8cD3+q1DdhOEwfdR6kSYt8qfzshgatM2gU/ccvXmKMbEGJl7wt9Zo5h2qifj6wErnH8KiRj1aaOxLIvc70BpkVJLxkPL0/s5wQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771234767; c=relaxed/simple; bh=9PF8IPfRLsmSt/Om1pxqZu6/yirSXEh9/dgHIIaiWOI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=ZVMYz0MK6v0v6zmC6mGPSH2zCEqwl+yVn/A1Ek4xALckhqxg2df+Z6uKHG/a7W3VfgAjETqmR4SmCyhEIYivX7VmTIbiNU7uiIvQHIavY/kyiuoYGT048Lzc4rigHK5qPO97Da9EUOviURLxp/zIPHHuid08op1rwbL/ktGBi8Y= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=EU/gpfQj; 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="EU/gpfQj" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 065C2C116C6; Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:39:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1771234767; bh=9PF8IPfRLsmSt/Om1pxqZu6/yirSXEh9/dgHIIaiWOI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=EU/gpfQjpEpSlcklKOIYtCkG6AhOQIG9qZ5HlV95++aNdhSoXFRIUKTapiTf7BC3W bX3It3g/6D2I8nJGG21g4Hpl2OL9QWWN6CrTf14RnAZHqn3Y43sg1DfcdkPDxGveJi Miupmgv+Y9ZQZdX3m756jmqP8RBcftlA1X5xbHNs= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: lwn@lwn.net, jslaby@suse.cz, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Linux 6.18.11 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:39:20 +0100 Message-ID: <2026021621-dicing-rudder-7078@gregkh> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm announcing the release of the 6.18.11 kernel. All users of the 6.18 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.18.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.18.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Makefile | 2 drivers/base/base.h | 9 drivers/base/bus.c | 2 drivers/base/dd.c | 2 drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 2 drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 6 drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_main.c | 12 drivers/crypto/marvell/octeontx/otx_cptpf_ucode.c | 2 drivers/crypto/omap-crypto.c | 2 drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c | 5 drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_skcipher_algs.c | 2 drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c | 22 drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_vidi.c | 38 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 1 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c | 4 drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c | 15 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 41 - drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 28 - drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 19 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 3 fs/erofs/fileio.c | 7 fs/hfs/mdb.c | 35 - fs/hfs/super.c | 10 fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 4 fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h | 8 fs/smb/client/smbdirect.c | 523 +++++++++++++++----- fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h | 18 fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_session.c | 5 fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_session.h | 1 fs/smb/server/server.c | 6 fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 12 fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c | 147 +++++ fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c | 3 fs/xfs/scrub/btree.c | 7 io_uring/io-wq.c | 27 - io_uring/io-wq.h | 1 io_uring/tctx.c | 11 sound/hda/codecs/conexant.c | 1 38 files changed, 798 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-) Ali Tariq (1): wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add Anil Gurumurthy (4): scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash scsi: qla2xxx: Query FW again before proceeding with login Bibo Mao (2): crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification crypto: virtio - Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req Bitterblue Smith (1): wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon() Chao Yu (1): erofs: fix UAF issue for file-backed mounts w/ directio option Danilo Krummrich (1): gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe() Darrick J. Wong (1): xfs: fix UAF in xchk_btree_check_block_owner Edward Adam Davis (1): nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 6.18.11 Gui-Dong Han (2): driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device() bus: fsl-mc: fix use-after-free in driver_override_show() Henrique Carvalho (2): smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection() Jeongjun Park (1): drm/exynos: vidi: use ctx->lock to protect struct vidi_context member variables related to memory alloc/free Kees Cook (1): crypto: omap - Allocate OMAP_CRYPTO_FORCE_COPY scatterlists correctly Li Chen (2): io_uring/io-wq: add exit-on-idle state io_uring: allow io-wq workers to exit when unused Liu Song (1): PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa (1): hfs: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up Namjae Jeon (2): ksmbd: fix infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off reset in error paths ksmbd: add chann_lock to protect ksmbd_chann_list xarray Shreyas Deodhar (1): scsi: qla2xxx: Allow recovery for tape devices Stefan Metzmacher (20): smb: smbdirect: introduce smbdirect_socket.recv_io.credits.available smb: smbdirect: introduce smbdirect_socket.send_io.bcredits.* smb: server: make use of smbdirect_socket.recv_io.credits.available smb: server: let recv_done() queue a refill when the peer is low on credits smb: server: make use of smbdirect_socket.send_io.bcredits smb: server: fix last send credit problem causing disconnects smb: server: let send_done handle a completion without IB_SEND_SIGNALED smb: client: make use of smbdirect_socket.recv_io.credits.available smb: client: let recv_done() queue a refill when the peer is low on credits smb: client: let smbd_post_send() make use of request->wr smb: client: remove pointless sc->recv_io.credits.count rollback smb: client: remove pointless sc->send_io.pending handling in smbd_post_send_iter() smb: client: port and use the wait_for_credits logic used by server smb: client: split out smbd_ib_post_send() smb: client: introduce and use smbd_{alloc, free}_send_io() smb: client: use smbdirect_send_batch processing smb: client: make use of smbdirect_socket.send_io.bcredits smb: client: fix last send credit problem causing disconnects smb: client: let smbd_post_send_negotiate_req() use smbd_post_send() smb: client: let send_done handle a completion without IB_SEND_SIGNALED Takashi Iwai (1): ALSA: hda/conexant: Add quirk for HP ZBook Studio G4 Thorsten Blum (2): crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode crypto: octeontx - Fix length check to avoid truncation in ucode_load_store Zenm Chen (1): Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB