This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.60 release. There are 109 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 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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-6.18.60-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 6.18.60-rc1

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: scan: Avoid registering platform devices with resource overlaps

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org pid_namespace: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting the reaper

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org exit: hang up the tty before closing the files

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org fork: release the files of a failed fork after sched_cancel_fork()

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org ptrace: refuse to change the signal mask of a user worker

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: don't retarget shared signals in a dying thread group

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: only SIGKILL and the freezers interrupt a coredumping task

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org coredump: hold RCU while releasing parked threads

Aaron Ahmed aarnahmd@amazon.com ftrace: Initialize modname and offset in print_rec()

Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com asymmetric_keys: reject trust keys without IDs

Srish Srinivasan ssrish@linux.ibm.com keys/trusted_keys: return immediately after TPM unseal failure

Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com KEYS: trusted: Fix blob allocation size in tpm2_key_decode()

Adrian Martinez adrimg3196@gmail.com KEYS: Fix key_reject_and_link() race with keyring restriction

Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Protect the read method check against type removal

Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com keys: make keyring indexes independent of kernel addresses

Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Protect the type name while describing a key

Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Check the authorization payload in process keyring searches

Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring: keep the drain active when a deferred drain request is started

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring: end the drain when the drain request completes

Junyeong Lee jylee5498@gmail.com io_uring/waitid: prevent cancel reference wrap

Austin Schuh austin.linux@gmail.com io_uring/wait: wake real-time waiters from hard interrupt context

Tamaki Yanagawa ty@000ty.net io_uring/net: keep recv buffer select length within MAX_RW_COUNT

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/poll: don't loop on HUP with multiple references

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/timeout: don't lose a cancel as io-wq arms a timeout

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/timeout: don't flush with the sequence behind the last flush

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/timeout: don't put a sequence target behind the last flush

Juanlu Herrero juanlu@fastmail.com io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: look up the file before queueing to io-wq

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/timeout: don't end a linked timeout with 1

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/timeout: no ABS update of multishot timeouts

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/net: don't retry recv on uncommitted buffers

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: don't pass restart error codes to userspace

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/openclose: keep the lock in io_pipe_fixed()

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/sqpoll: let the thread sleep on disabled rings

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/kbuf: handle index wrap in last buffer check

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/zcrx: fix buffer offsets in areas above 4GB

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/napi: don't busy poll past an expired timeout

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/wait: no early -ETIME if min_wait finds work

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/timeout: keep repeat count on multishot update

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/timeout: don't skip over reached sequences

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/fdinfo: fix CQE dump of CQE32 rings

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/register: handle index wrap when resizing

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/register: don't wrap 32b CQEs when resizing

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: drop the CQE cache if a refill fails

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/futex: allocate private hash before waiting

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/poll: drop stale double poll entry on rearm

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/wait: look at all CQ waiters on wake up

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: wake ring pollers for local task_work

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/cancel: let CANCEL_ALL find parked requests

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/cancel: recognize "no timeout" on 32-bit

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/cancel: don't forget that the work was running

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: don't lose a cancel as io-wq parks a request

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/poll: don't lose a cancel as io-wq arms poll

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: let cancel find picked up hashed work

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't exit with a creation pending

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't strand work when a worker exits

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't go to sleep on pending work

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: don't flood a cancelling task with task_work

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't hide a link from cancellations

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't lose the signal that ends work

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/wait: don't spin on a stuck overflow list

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/cmd: don't leave list poison in ->hash_node

Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/waitid: own the request before clearing ->head

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org io-wq: order the exit bit against worker creation task work

Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai net: gso: limit recursive IP-in-IP segmentation

Lee Jones lee@kernel.org tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount

Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Fix 64-bit and signed histogram fields on 32-bit kernels

Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Unregister field variable histograms when the command fails

Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Save the event file instead of the compatible histogram

Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com tracing: Reject incomplete event filter expressions

David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers

David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when updating modules in persistent instances

Pauli Virtanen pav@iki.fi Bluetooth: L2CAP: refuse __l2cap_chan_add if chan already has conn

Jonas Köppeler j.koeppeler@tu-berlin.de net_sched: codel: fix stale state for empty flows in fq_codel

SJ Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/core: error damos_commit_quota_goal() for zero target_value

Damien Le Moal dlemoal@kernel.org block: avoid potential deadlock on zone revalidation failure

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: don't free an incoming SABM skb left on the listener's queue

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com rose: bring up the link of the preferred route passed over by a connect request

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: send unacknowledged I frames again when a link is re-established

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com rose: clear the circuits of a neighbour that restarts the link

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: send a private copy of each I frame

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: don't accept frames on a device that is going down

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: wait for ax25_send_frame() before detaching the connections of a device

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: read the connection's ax25_dev only once when walking ax25_list

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: don't create two connections for the same link in ax25_send_frame()

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com rose: process received frames and send with the socket locked

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: serialise the transmission of I frames on a connection

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com rose: restart the link of a neighbour created over a live AX.25 connection

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com rose: clear through routes when a neighbour is removed from the tables

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com netrom: fix nr_node leak when nr_del_node() removes the last route

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com netrom: clear nr_neigh->ax25 under the routing lock in nr_link_failed()

Junjie Cao junjie.cao@intel.com netrom: fix reference count leak in nr_rt_device_down

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com netrom: look up and update routes in one critical section

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com netrom: use a single lock for the node and neighbour lists

Mashiro Chen mashiro.chen@mailbox.org net: ax25: fix integer overflow in ax25_rx_fragment()

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com ax25: check frame length in ax25_decode() and ax25_rx_iframe()

Ashutosh Desai ashutoshdesai993@gmail.com ax25: fix OOB read after address header strip in ax25_rcv()

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com netrom: bound fragment reassembly in nr_queue_rx_frame()

Mashiro Chen mashiro.chen@mailbox.org net: netrom: validate source address in nr_find_socket()

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org netrom: require full NET/ROM headers in nr_route_frame()

Stanislav Fort disclosure@aisle.com netrom: linearize and validate lengths in nr_rx_frame()

Bernard Pidoux bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com rose: clear stale N(R)/N(S) before (re)transmitting a data frame

Larysa Zaremba larysa.zaremba@intel.com ice: change XDP RxQ frag_size from DMA write length to xdp.frame_sz

Larysa Zaremba larysa.zaremba@intel.com ice: fix rxq info registering in mbuf packets

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: scan: Register platform devices for fixed event buttons

Joseph Qi joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com eventfs: fix SRCU read lock leak in eventfs_iterate()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- block/blk-zoned.c | 37 +- block/blk.h | 4 +- block/genhd.c | 2 +- crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c | 8 +- drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c | 75 +++- drivers/acpi/scan.c | 4 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c | 33 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_xsk.c | 3 + fs/coredump.c | 16 +- fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 6 +- include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 5 + include/linux/key-type.h | 1 + include/linux/key.h | 5 + include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched/signal.h | 27 +- include/net/ax25.h | 6 + include/net/codel_impl.h | 1 + include/net/gso.h | 8 + include/net/netrom.h | 18 +- include/net/rose.h | 5 + io_uring/cancel.c | 29 +- io_uring/cancel.h | 2 + io_uring/fdinfo.c | 14 +- io_uring/futex.c | 32 +- io_uring/io-wq.c | 126 ++++++- io_uring/io_uring.c | 231 ++++++++++--- io_uring/io_uring.h | 44 ++- io_uring/kbuf.c | 2 +- io_uring/napi.c | 4 +- io_uring/net.c | 26 +- io_uring/openclose.c | 11 +- io_uring/poll.c | 38 +- io_uring/register.c | 20 +- io_uring/rw.c | 18 - io_uring/sqpoll.c | 7 + io_uring/timeout.c | 91 +++-- io_uring/uring_cmd.c | 2 +- io_uring/waitid.c | 19 +- io_uring/zcrx.c | 2 +- kernel/exit.c | 5 +- kernel/fork.c | 9 +- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 3 +- kernel/ptrace.c | 6 + kernel/signal.c | 4 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 21 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 6 + kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 33 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 10 + kernel/trace/trace_synth.h | 1 + mm/damon/core.c | 22 +- mm/damon/sysfs.c | 19 + net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 81 ++++- net/ax25/ax25_ds_in.c | 2 + net/ax25/ax25_in.c | 55 ++- net/ax25/ax25_out.c | 121 +++++-- net/ax25/ax25_std_in.c | 8 + net/ax25/ax25_subr.c | 44 ++- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 7 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 2 + net/core/gso.c | 1 + net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 3 + net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 4 + net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 33 +- net/netrom/nr_in.c | 26 ++ net/netrom/nr_route.c | 383 +++++++++++---------- net/rose/af_rose.c | 5 + net/rose/rose_in.c | 31 ++ net/rose/rose_link.c | 42 +++ net/rose/rose_loopback.c | 2 +- net/rose/rose_out.c | 1 + net/rose/rose_route.c | 119 ++++++- security/keys/key.c | 13 +- security/keys/keyctl.c | 15 +- security/keys/keyring.c | 150 ++++---- security/keys/process_keys.c | 5 +- security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm1.c | 4 +- security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c | 2 +- .../test.d/filter/event-filter-incomplete.tc | 24 ++ 82 files changed, 1722 insertions(+), 597 deletions(-)