This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +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-6.18.8-rc1.... 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 gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.18.8-rc1
Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com mm/vma: enforce VMA fork limit on unfaulted,faulted mremap merge too
Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com mm/vma: fix anon_vma UAF on mremap() faulted, unfaulted merge
Biju Das biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com irqchip/renesas-rzv2h: Prevent TINT spurious interrupt during resume
Pradeep P V K pradeep.pragallapati@oss.qualcomm.com arm64: dts: qcom: talos: Correct UFS clocks ordering
Rasmus Villemoes ravi@prevas.dk iio: core: add separate lockdep class for info_exist_lock
Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com iio: core: Replace lockdep_set_class() + mutex_init() by combined call
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david@kernel.org mm/hugetlb: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare()
jianyun.gao jianyungao89@gmail.com mm: fix some typos in mm module
Ravindra ravindra@intel.com Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Support for S4 (Hibernate)
Tzung-Bi Shih tzungbi@kernel.org gpio: cdev: Fix resource leaks on errors in gpiolib_cdev_register()
Tzung-Bi Shih tzungbi@kernel.org gpio: cdev: Fix resource leaks on errors in lineinfo_changed_notify()
Tzung-Bi Shih tzungbi@kernel.org gpio: cdev: Correct return code on memory allocation failure
Marco Crivellari marco.crivellari@suse.com drm/xe: fix WQ_MEM_RECLAIM passed as max_active to alloc_workqueue()
Matthew Brost matthew.brost@intel.com drm/xe: Adjust page count tracepoints in shrinker
Osama Abdelkader osama.abdelkader@gmail.com drm/bridge: synopsys: dw-dp: fix error paths of dw_dp_bind
Likun Gao Likun.Gao@amd.com drm/amdgpu: remove frame cntl for gfx v12
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: usb_8dev: usb_8dev_read_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: mcba_usb: mcba_usb_read_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: kvaser_usb: kvaser_usb_read_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: esd_usb: esd_usb_read_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: ems_usb: ems_usb_read_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak
Jiawen Wu jiawenwu@trustnetic.com net: txgbe: remove the redundant data return in SW-FW mailbox
Hamza Mahfooz someguy@effective-light.com net: sfp: add potron quirk to the H-COM SPP425H-GAB4 SFP+ Stick
Clemens Gruber mail@clemensgruber.at net: fec: account for VLAN header in frame length calculations
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de irqchip/gic-v3-its: Avoid truncating memory addresses
Fernand Sieber sieberf@amazon.com perf/x86/intel: Do not enable BTS for guests
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix data-race warning and potential load/store tearing
Alexandre Courbot acourbot@nvidia.com rust: irq: always inline functions using build_assert with arguments
Alexandre Courbot acourbot@nvidia.com rust: io: always inline functions using build_assert with arguments
Frank Zhang rmxpzlb@gmail.com pmdomain:rockchip: Fix init genpd as GENPD_STATE_ON before regulator ready
Ming Qian ming.qian@oss.nxp.com pmdomain: imx8m-blk-ctrl: Remove separate rst and clk mask for 8mq vpu
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix automatic module loading
Jeongjun Park aha310510@gmail.com netrom: fix double-free in nr_route_frame()
Chenghai Huang huangchenghai2@huawei.com uacce: ensure safe queue release with state management
Yang Shen shenyang39@huawei.com uacce: implement mremap in uacce_vm_ops to return -EPERM
Chenghai Huang huangchenghai2@huawei.com uacce: fix isolate sysfs check condition
Wenkai Lin linwenkai6@hisilicon.com uacce: fix cdev handling in the cleanup path
Alexander Egorenkov egorenar@linux.ibm.com s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with SecureBoot trailer
Harald Freudenberger freude@linux.ibm.com s390/ap: Fix wrong APQN fill calculation
Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: trace: treat reg parameter as string
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org intel_th: fix device leak on output open()
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix crash on synthetic stacktrace field usage
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org slimbus: core: fix device reference leak on report present
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org slimbus: core: fix runtime PM imbalance on report present
Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com octeontx2: Fix otx2_dma_map_page() error return code
Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com ksmbd: smbd: fix dma_unmap_sg() nents
Zhaoyang Huang zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com arm64: Set __nocfi on swsusp_arch_resume()
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64/fpsimd: signal: Fix restoration of SVE context
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64/fpsimd: signal: Allocate SSVE storage when restoring ZA
Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: Fix SVE writes on !SME systems
Marek Vasut marex@nabladev.com wifi: rsi: Fix memory corruption due to not set vif driver data size
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org wifi: mwifiex: Fix a loop in mwifiex_update_ampdu_rxwinsize()
Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com wifi: ath12k: fix dma_free_coherent() pointer
Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com wifi: ath10k: fix dma_free_coherent() pointer
Lyude Paul lyude@redhat.com drm/nouveau/disp: Set drm_mode_config_funcs.atomic_(check|commit)
Chaitanya Kulkarni ckulkarnilinux@gmail.com iommu/io-pgtable-arm: fix size_t signedness bug in unmap path
Shawn Lin shawn.lin@rock-chips.com mmc: sdhci-of-dwcmshc: Prevent illegal clock reduction in HS200/HS400 mode
Matthew Schwartz matthew.schwartz@linux.dev mmc: rtsx_pci_sdmmc: implement sdmmc_card_busy function
Berk Cem Goksel berkcgoksel@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix use-after-free in snd_usb_mixer_free()
Samasth Norway Ananda samasth.norway.ananda@oracle.com ALSA: scarlett2: Fix buffer overflow in config retrieval
Zhang Heng zhangheng@kylinos.cn ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Samsung 730QED to fix headphone
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: ctxfi: Fix potential OOB access in audio mixer handling
Kübrich, Andreas andreas.kuebrich@spektra-dresden.de iio: dac: ad5686: add AD5695R to ad5686_chip_info_tbl
Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com iio: dac: ad3552r-hs: fix out-of-bound write in ad3552r_hs_write_data_source
Fiona Klute fiona.klute@gmx.de iio: chemical: scd4x: fix reported channel endianness
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev iio: adc: pac1934: Fix clamped value in pac1934_reg_snapshot
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org iio: adc: exynos_adc: fix OF populate on driver rebind
Pei Xiao xiaopei01@kylinos.cn iio: adc: at91-sama5d2_adc: Fix potential use-after-free in sama5d2_adc driver
Tomas Melin tomas.melin@vaisala.com iio: adc: ad9467: fix ad9434 vref mask
Markus Koeniger markus.koeniger@liebherr.com iio: accel: iis328dq: fix gain values
Francesco Lavra flavra@baylibre.com iio: accel: adxl380: fix handling of unavailable "INT1" interrupt
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org migrate: correct lock ordering for hugetlb file folios
Rob Herring (Arm) robh@kernel.org of: platform: Use default match table for /firmware
Weigang He geoffreyhe2@gmail.com of: fix reference count leak in of_alias_scan()
Gal Pressman gal@nvidia.com panic: only warn about deprecated panic_print on write access
Hans de Goede johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com leds: led-class: Only Add LED to leds_list when it is fully ready
Srish Srinivasan ssrish@linux.ibm.com keys/trusted_keys: fix handle passed to tpm_buf_append_name during unseal
Cedric Xing cedric.xing@intel.com x86: make page fault handling disable interrupts properly
Hariprasad Kelam hkelam@marvell.com Octeontx2-af: Add proper checks for fwdata
Ivan Vecera ivecera@redhat.com dpll: Prevent duplicate registrations
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref
Fan Gong gongfan1@huawei.com hinic3: Fix netif_queue_set_napi queue_index input parameter error
Melbin K Mathew mlbnkm1@gmail.com vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size
Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vsock/test: fix seqpacket message bounds test
Melbin K Mathew mlbnkm1@gmail.com vsock/virtio: fix potential underflow in virtio_transport_get_credit()
David Yang mmyangfl@gmail.com net: openvswitch: fix data race in ovs_vport_get_upcall_stats
Ratheesh Kannoth rkannoth@marvell.com octeontx2-af: Fix error handling
Daniel Golle daniel@makrotopia.org net: pcs: pcs-mtk-lynxi: report in-band capability for 2500Base-X
Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com net: dsa: fix off-by-one in maximum bridge ID determination
Justin Chen justin.chen@broadcom.com net: bcmasp: Fix network filter wake for asp-3.0
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bonding: provide a net pointer to __skb_flow_dissect()
Taehee Yoo ap420073@gmail.com selftests: net: amt: wait longer for connection before sending packets
Andrey Vatoropin a.vatoropin@crpt.ru be2net: Fix NULL pointer dereference in be_cmd_get_mac_from_list
Alex Ramírez lxrmrz732@rocketmail.com drm/nouveau: implement missing DCB connector types; gracefully handle unknown connectors
Alex Ramírez lxrmrz732@rocketmail.com drm/nouveau: add missing DCB connector types
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu: fix type for wptr in ring backup
Timur Kristóf timur.kristof@gmail.com drm/amd/pm: Workaround SI powertune issue on Radeon 430 (v2)
Timur Kristóf timur.kristof@gmail.com drm/amd/pm: Don't clear SI SMC table when setting power limit
Timur Kristóf timur.kristof@gmail.com drm/amd/pm: Fix si_dpm mmCG_THERMAL_INT setting
Vincent Guittot vincent.guittot@linaro.org sched/fair: Fix pelt clock sync when entering idle
Will Rosenberg whrosenb@asu.edu perf: Fix refcount warning on event->mmap_count increment
Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com selftests/ublk: fix garbage output in foreground mode
Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com selftests/ublk: fix error handling for starting device
Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com selftests/ublk: fix IO thread idle check
Seamus Connor sconnor@purestorage.com ublk: fix ublksrv pid handling for pid namespaces
Lukasz Laguna lukasz.laguna@intel.com drm/xe: Update wedged.mode only after successful reset policy change
Matt Roper matthew.d.roper@intel.com drm/xe/pm: Add scope-based cleanup helper for runtime PM
Matthew Auld matthew.auld@intel.com drm/xe/migrate: fix job lock assert
Matthew Auld matthew.auld@intel.com drm/xe/uapi: disallow bind queue sharing
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de clocksource: Reduce watchdog readout delay limit to prevent false positives
Hariprasad Kelam hkelam@marvell.com Octeontx2-pf: Update xdp features
Laurent Vivier lvivier@redhat.com usbnet: limit max_mtu based on device's hard_mtu
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv6: annotate data-race in ndisc_router_discovery()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com mISDN: annotate data-race around dev->work
Jijie Shao shaojijie@huawei.com net: hns3: fix the HCLGE_FD_AD_NXT_KEY error setting issue
Jijie Shao shaojijie@huawei.com net: hns3: fix wrong GENMASK() for HCLGE_FD_AD_COUNTER_NUM_M
David Yang mmyangfl@gmail.com be2net: fix data race in be_get_new_eqd
David Yang mmyangfl@gmail.com idpf: Fix data race in idpf_net_dim
David Yang mmyangfl@gmail.com net: hns3: fix data race in hns3_fetch_stats
Daniel Golle daniel@makrotopia.org net: phy: intel-xway: fix OF node refcount leakage
Mina Almasry almasrymina@google.com idpf: read lower clock bits inside the time sandwich
Paul Greenwalt paul.greenwalt@intel.com ice: fix devlink reload call trace
Paul Greenwalt paul.greenwalt@intel.com ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path
Cody Haas chaas@riotgames.com ice: Fix persistent failure in ice_get_rxfh
Yun Lu luyun@kylinos.cn netdevsim: fix a race issue related to the operation on bpf_bound_progs list
Michal Luczaj mhal@rbox.co vsock/test: Do not filter kallsyms by symbol type
Brajesh Gupta brajesh.gupta@imgtec.com drm/imagination: Wait for FW trace update command completion
Chen-Yu Tsai wenst@chromium.org drm/mediatek: dpi: Find next bridge during probe
Matthew Brost matthew.brost@intel.com drm/xe: Disable timestamp WA on VFs
Jani Nikula jani.nikula@intel.com drm/xe/vm: fix xe_vm_validation_exec() kernel-doc
Jani Nikula jani.nikula@intel.com drm/xe/xe_late_bind_fw: fix enum xe_late_bind_fw_id kernel-doc
Vasant Hegde vasant.hegde@amd.com iommu/amd: Fix error path in amd_iommu_probe_device()
Dave Jiang dave.jiang@intel.com ntb: transport: Fix uninitialized mutex
Arun Raghavan arunr@valvesoftware.com ALSA: usb: Increase volume range that triggers a warning
Jiasheng Jiang jiashengjiangcool@gmail.com scsi: qla2xxx: Sanitize payload size to prevent member overflow
David Jeffery djeffery@redhat.com scsi: core: Wake up the error handler when final completions race against each other
Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn platform/x86/amd: Fix memory leak in wbrf_record()
Oleksandr Shamray oleksandrs@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: Fix SN5640/SN5610 LED platform data
Naohiko Shimizu naohiko.shimizu@gmail.com riscv: suspend: Fix stimecmp update hazard on RV32
Naohiko Shimizu naohiko.shimizu@gmail.com riscv: clocksource: Fix stimecmp update hazard on RV32
Arkadiusz Kozdra floss@arusekk.pl kconfig: fix static linking of nconf
Cheng-Yu Lee cylee12@realtek.com regmap: Fix race condition in hwspinlock irqsave routine
Felix Gu gu_0233@qq.com spi: spi-sprd-adi: Fix double free in probe error path
Georgi Djakov djakov@kernel.org interconnect: debugfs: initialize src_node and dst_node to empty strings
Haotian Zhang vulab@iscas.ac.cn iio: adc: ad7606: Fix incorrect type for error return variable
Pavel Zhigulin Pavel.Zhigulin@kaspersky.com iio: adc: ad7280a: handle spi_setup() errors in probe()
Francesco Lavra flavra@baylibre.com iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix iio_chan_spec for sensors without event detection
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/io-wq: check IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT inside work run loop
Thomas Weißschuh thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de timekeeping: Adjust the leap state for the correct auxiliary timekeeper
Yosry Ahmed yosry.ahmed@linux.dev mm: restore per-memcg proactive reclaim with !CONFIG_NUMA
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david@kernel.org mm/rmap: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare()
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david@kernel.org mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared()
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kernel panic in GET_INSTANCE_ID macro
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names
Thomas Hellström thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com drm, drm/xe: Fix xe userptr in the absence of CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE
Joanne Koong joannelkoong@gmail.com fs/writeback: skip AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mappings in wait_sb_inodes()
Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk comedi: Fix getting range information for subdevices 16 to 255
Andrew Cooper andrew.cooper3@citrix.com x86/kfence: avoid writing L1TF-vulnerable PTEs
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue
Swaraj Gaikwad swarajgaikwad1925@gmail.com slab: fix kmalloc_nolock() context check for PREEMPT_RT
Alexey Charkov alchark@gmail.com arm64: dts: rockchip: Configure MCLK for analog sound on NanoPi M5
Alexey Charkov alchark@gmail.com arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix headphones widget name on NanoPi M5
Quentin Schulz quentin.schulz@cherry.de arm64: dts: rockchip: fix unit-address for RK3588 NPU's core1 and core2's IOMMU
Ondrej Jirman megi@xff.cz arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix voltage threshold for volume keys for Pinephone Pro
Geraldo Nascimento geraldogabriel@gmail.com arm64: dts: rockchip: remove dangerous max-link-speed from helios64
Geraldo Nascimento geraldogabriel@gmail.com arm64: dts: rockchip: remove redundant max-link-speed from nanopi-r4s
Nicolas Ferre nicolas.ferre@microchip.com ARM: dts: microchip: sama7d65: fix size-cells property for i2c3
Hari Prasath Gujulan Elango hari.prasathge@microchip.com ARM: dts: microchip: sama7d65: fix the ranges property for flx9
Yixun Lan dlan@kernel.org i2c: spacemit: drop IRQF_ONESHOT flag from IRQ request
Abdun Nihaal nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in scsi: xen: scsiback: Fix potential memory leak in scsiback_remove()
Long Li longli@microsoft.com scsi: storvsc: Process unsupported MODE_SENSE_10
feng alec.jiang@gmail.com Input: i8042 - add quirk for ASUS Zenbook UX425QA_UM425QA
gongqi 550230171hxy@gmail.com Input: i8042 - add quirks for MECHREVO Wujie 15X Pro
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@igalia.com Revert "nfc/nci: Add the inconsistency check between the input data length and count"
Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn w1: fix redundant counter decrement in w1_attach_slave_device()
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev w1: therm: Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in alarms_store
Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk comedi: dmm32at: serialize use of paged registers
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com serial: Fix not set tty->port race condition
Marnix Rijnart marnix.rijnart@iwell.eu serial: 8250_pci: Fix broken RS485 for F81504/508/512
Lachlan Hodges lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com wifi: mac80211: don't perform DA check on S1G beacon
Taeyang Lee 0wn@theori.io crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec
Jamal Hadi Salim jhs@mojatatu.com net/sched: qfq: Use cl_is_active to determine whether class is active in qfq_rm_from_ag
Jamal Hadi Salim jhs@mojatatu.com net/sched: Enforce that teql can only be used as root qdisc
Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com octeontx2: cn10k: fix RX flowid TCAM mask handling
Dmitry Skorodumov dskr99@gmail.com ipvlan: Make the addrs_lock be per port
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com l2tp: avoid one data-race in l2tp_tunnel_del_work()
Richard Genoud richard.genoud@bootlin.com pwm: max7360: Populate missing .sizeof_wfhw in max7360_pwm_ops
Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com pwm: Ensure ioctl() returns a negative errno on error
David Yang mmyangfl@gmail.com veth: fix data race in veth_get_ethtool_stats
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO.
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com tools: ynl: Specify --no-line-number in ynl-regen.sh.
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com gue: Fix skb memleak with inner IP protocol 0.
Raju Rangoju Raju.Rangoju@amd.com amd-xgbe: avoid misleading per-packet error log
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: gs_usb: gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback(): unanchor URL on usb_submit_urb() error
Maxime Chevallier maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com net: freescale: ucc_geth: Return early when TBI PHY can't be found
Ricardo B. Marlière rbm@suse.com selftests: net: fib-onlink-tests: Convert to use namespaces by default
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com l2tp: Fix memleak in l2tp_udp_encap_recv().
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bonding: limit BOND_MODE_8023AD to Ethernet devices
Ethan Nelson-Moore enelsonmoore@gmail.com net: usb: dm9601: remove broken SR9700 support
Michal Luczaj mhal@rbox.co vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb
Chwee-Lin Choong chwee.lin.choong@intel.com igc: Reduce TSN TX packet buffer from 7KB to 5KB per queue
Chwee-Lin Choong chwee.lin.choong@intel.com igc: fix race condition in TX timestamp read for register 0
Kurt Kanzenbach kurt@linutronix.de igc: Restore default Qbv schedule when changing channels
Ding Hui dinghui@sangfor.com.cn ice: Fix incorrect timeout ice_release_res()
Dave Ertman david.m.ertman@intel.com ice: Avoid detrimental cleanup for bond during interface stop
Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com ice: initialize ring_stats->syncp
Yingying Tang yingying.tang@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: ath12k: Fix wrong P2P device link id issue
Baochen Qiang baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: ath12k: fix dead lock while flushing management frames
Yingying Tang yingying.tang@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: ath12k: Fix scan state stuck in ABORTING after cancel_remain_on_channel
Manish Dharanenthiran manish.dharanenthiran@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: ath12k: cancel scan only on active scan vdev
Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org ata: libata: Print features also for ATAPI devices
Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org ata: libata: Add DIPM and HIPM to ata_dev_print_features() early return
Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org ata: libata: Add cpr_log to ata_dev_print_features() early return
Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org ata: libata-sata: Improve link_power_management_supported sysfs attribute
Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org ata: libata: Call ata_dev_config_lpm() for ATAPI devices
Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org ata: ahci: Do not read the per port area for unimplemented ports
Baochen Qiang baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: ath12k: don't force radio frequency check in freq_to_idx()
Konrad Dybcio konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com pmdomain: qcom: rpmhpd: Add MXC to SC8280XP
Konrad Dybcio konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com dt-bindings: power: qcom,rpmpd: Add SC8280XP_MXC_AO
Mark Harmstone mark@harmstone.com btrfs: fix missing fields in superblock backup with BLOCK_GROUP_TREE
Michael Kelley mhklinux@outlook.com Drivers: hv: Always do Hyper-V panic notification in hv_kmsg_dump()
Faisal Bukhari faisalbukhari523@gmail.com perf parse-events: Fix evsel allocation failure
Chaoyi Chen chaoyi.chen@rock-chips.com arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix wrong register range of rk3576 gpu
Krishna Kurapati krishna.kurapati@oss.qualcomm.com arm64: dts: qcom: sm8650: Fix compile warnings in USB controller node
Krishna Kurapati krishna.kurapati@oss.qualcomm.com arm64: dts: qcom: sm8550: Fix compile warnings in USB controller node
Konrad Dybcio konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp: Add missing VDD_MXC links
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Documentation/netlink/specs/fou.yaml | 2 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/microchip/sama7d65.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sc8280xp.dtsi | 16 +++- arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm6150.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8550.dtsi | 2 - arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8650.dtsi | 3 - .../boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dts | 1 - .../arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-nanopi-r4s.dtsi | 1 - .../boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-pinephone-pro.dts | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3576-nanopi-m5.dts | 12 ++- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3576.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3588-base.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 26 +++--- arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 26 ++++-- arch/riscv/kernel/suspend.c | 3 +- arch/s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S | 17 ++-- arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 13 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h | 29 +++++- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 15 +-- crypto/authencesn.c | 6 ++ drivers/ata/ahci.c | 10 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 8 +- drivers/ata/libata-sata.c | 2 +- drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c | 4 +- drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 39 +++++++- drivers/bluetooth/btintel_pcie.c | 41 +++++++++ drivers/bluetooth/btintel_pcie.h | 2 + drivers/clocksource/timer-riscv.c | 3 +- drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 2 +- drivers/comedi/drivers/dmm32at.c | 32 ++++++- drivers/comedi/range.c | 2 +- drivers/dpll/dpll_core.c | 12 +-- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 12 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_fence.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v12_0.c | 12 --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/si_dpm.c | 31 ++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-dp.c | 20 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_fw_trace.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dpi.c | 23 ++--- .../drm/nouveau/include/nvkm/subdev/bios/conn.h | 95 ++++++++++++++----- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_display.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/disp/uconn.c | 73 +++++++++++---- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_debugfs.c | 72 ++++++++++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_device_types.h | 18 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c | 32 ++++++- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue_types.h | 6 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ggtt.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_ads.c | 14 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_ads.h | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_late_bind_fw_types.h | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_migrate.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pm.c | 21 +++++ drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pm.h | 17 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_sriov_vf_ccs.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.h | 2 +- drivers/hv/hv_common.c | 12 ++- drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c | 19 +++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-k1.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/accel/adxl380.c | 6 +- drivers/iio/accel/st_accel_core.c | 72 ++++++++++++++- drivers/iio/adc/ad7280a.c | 4 +- drivers/iio/adc/ad7606_par.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/adc/ad9467.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/adc/at91-sama5d2_adc.c | 1 + drivers/iio/adc/exynos_adc.c | 15 +-- drivers/iio/adc/pac1934.c | 6 +- drivers/iio/chemical/scd4x.c | 6 +- drivers/iio/dac/ad3552r-hs.c | 5 +- drivers/iio/dac/ad5686.c | 6 ++ drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c | 15 ++- drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 7 +- drivers/input/serio/i8042-acpipnpio.h | 18 ++++ drivers/interconnect/debugfs-client.c | 5 + drivers/iommu/amd/iommu.c | 3 +- drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c | 2 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 8 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-rzv2h.c | 11 ++- drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c | 13 ++- drivers/leds/led-class.c | 10 +- drivers/misc/mei/mei-trace.h | 18 ++-- drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c | 48 ++++++++-- drivers/mmc/host/rtsx_pci_sdmmc.c | 41 +++++++++ drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-dwcmshc.c | 7 ++ drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 ++- drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c | 8 +- drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb.c | 9 +- drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 7 ++ drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c | 9 +- drivers/net/can/usb/mcba_usb.c | 8 +- drivers/net/can/usb/usb_8dev.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 13 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c | 69 +++++++------- .../net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_cmd.h | 2 +- .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic3/hinic3_irq.c | 22 +++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/devlink/devlink.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lib.c | 29 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 31 ++++++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_ptp.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c | 16 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_defines.h | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ethtool.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 5 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ptp.c | 43 +++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c | 86 ++++++++++++----- .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_cgx.c | 3 + .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_sdp.c | 2 +- .../ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/cn10k_macsec.c | 2 +- .../ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_common.h | 7 +- .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_aml.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 16 ++-- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c | 49 ++++++---- drivers/net/netdevsim/bpf.c | 6 ++ drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c | 2 + drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h | 1 + drivers/net/pcs/pcs-mtk-lynxi.c | 4 +- drivers/net/phy/intel-xway.c | 7 +- drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 2 + drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c | 4 - drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 9 +- drivers/net/veth.c | 8 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ce.c | 16 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ce.c | 12 +-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 16 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c | 9 +- .../net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/11n_rxreorder.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c | 1 + drivers/nfc/virtual_ncidev.c | 4 - drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 1 + drivers/of/base.c | 8 +- drivers/of/platform.c | 2 +- drivers/platform/mellanox/mlx-platform.c | 2 +- drivers/platform/x86/amd/wbrf.c | 4 +- drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 8 ++ drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.h | 12 ++- drivers/pmdomain/imx/imx8m-blk-ctrl.c | 11 ++- drivers/pmdomain/qcom/rpmhpd.c | 4 + drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c | 10 ++ drivers/pwm/core.c | 10 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-max7360.c | 1 + drivers/s390/crypto/ap_card.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/crypto/ap_queue.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 7 ++ drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 11 ++- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 8 ++ drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/slimbus/core.c | 19 ++-- drivers/spi/spi-sprd-adi.c | 33 ++----- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 6 ++ drivers/w1/slaves/w1_therm.c | 60 ++++-------- drivers/w1/w1.c | 2 - drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 7 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 4 +- fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c | 15 ++- include/drm/drm_pagemap.h | 19 +++- include/dt-bindings/power/qcom,rpmhpd.h | 1 + include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +- include/linux/iio/iio-opaque.h | 2 + include/linux/pagemap.h | 11 +++ include/trace/events/rxrpc.h | 4 + include/uapi/linux/comedi.h | 2 +- io_uring/io-wq.c | 2 +- kernel/events/core.c | 9 ++ kernel/panic.c | 4 +- kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 -- kernel/sched/idle.c | 6 ++ kernel/time/clocksource.c | 2 +- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 9 ++ kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 8 +- mm/damon/sysfs.c | 2 +- mm/gup.c | 2 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 28 ++---- mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 6 +- mm/internal.h | 8 -- mm/kmsan/core.c | 2 +- mm/ksm.c | 2 +- mm/memory-tiers.c | 2 +- mm/memory.c | 4 +- mm/migrate.c | 12 +-- mm/rmap.c | 20 +--- mm/secretmem.c | 2 +- mm/slab_common.c | 2 +- mm/slub.c | 10 +- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- mm/userfaultfd.c | 2 +- mm/vma.c | 102 ++++++++++++++------- mm/vma.h | 3 + mm/vmscan.c | 13 ++- net/dsa/dsa.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/fou_core.c | 3 + net/ipv4/fou_nl.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 4 +- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 8 +- net/mac80211/scan.c | 9 +- net/netrom/nr_route.c | 13 ++- net/openvswitch/vport.c | 11 ++- net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h | 9 +- net/rxrpc/conn_event.c | 2 +- net/rxrpc/output.c | 14 +-- net/rxrpc/peer_event.c | 17 +++- net/rxrpc/proc.c | 4 +- net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c | 19 +++- net/rxrpc/rxgk.c | 2 +- net/rxrpc/rxkad.c | 2 +- net/sched/act_ife.c | 6 +- net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 2 +- net/sched/sch_teql.c | 5 + net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 10 +- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 36 +++++--- rust/kernel/io.rs | 9 +- rust/kernel/io/resource.rs | 2 + rust/kernel/irq/flags.rs | 2 + scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh | 11 ++- security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c | 4 +- sound/hda/codecs/realtek/alc269.c | 1 + sound/pci/ctxfi/ctamixer.c | 2 + sound/usb/mixer.c | 22 ++++- sound/usb/mixer_scarlett2.c | 6 +- tools/net/ynl/ynl-regen.sh | 2 +- tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 7 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/amt.sh | 7 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/fib-onlink-tests.sh | 71 ++++++-------- tools/testing/selftests/ublk/kublk.c | 11 ++- tools/testing/vsock/util.h | 2 +- tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c | 11 +++ 249 files changed, 1889 insertions(+), 875 deletions(-)
Hi
no regressions here on x86_64 (Intel 11th Gen. CPU)
Thanks
Tested-by: Ronald Warsow rwarsow@gmx.de
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.18.8-rc1-gc0a52e9c6618 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jan 28 18:37:03 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
On 1/28/26 07:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +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-6.18.8-rc1.... 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
On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 04:20:45PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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.
test_progs, test_progs-no_alu32, test_progs-cpuv4, test_maps, test_verifier in BPF selftests all passes[1] on x86_64.
Tested-by: Shung-Hsi Yu shung-hsi.yu@suse.com
1: https://github.com/shunghsiyu/libbpf/actions/runs/21450963930/job/6177934764...
Hi Greg
On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 1:18 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +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-6.18.8-rc1.... 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
6.18.8-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 6.18.8-rc1rv-gc0a52e9c6618 (takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260103, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.45.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 29 11:35:00 JST 2026
Thanks
Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com
Am 28.01.2026 um 16:20 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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
On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 10:52 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
6.18.8-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
On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:45 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +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-6.18.8-rc1.... 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 133 tests: 133 pass, 0 fail
Linux version: 6.18.8-rc1-gc0a52e9c6618 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
On 1/28/26 07:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +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-6.18.8-rc1.... 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
On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 04:20:45PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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
On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 11:18 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +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-6.18.8-rc1.... 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
The kernel, bpf tool, perf tool, and kselftest builds fine for v6.18.8-rc1 on x86 and arm64 Azure VM.
Tested-by: Hardik Garg hargar@linux.microsoft.com
Thanks, Hardik
On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:45 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.8 release. There are 227 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 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +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