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.... 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 6.18.6-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 +++++---- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c | 6 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_smi_events.c | 2 +- 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 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/ga102.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/priv.h | 23 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/tu102.c | 15 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/tu116.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/pl111_drv.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/pptable.h | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/tidss/tidss_kms.c | 30 ++- drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c | 9 + .../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 + drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v5-its.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-exception-store.h | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 73 +++-- drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.h | 3 - 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Hi
no regressions here on x86_64 (RKL, 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 6.18.6-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
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
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.... 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
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.... 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
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.... 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
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.... 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 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.... 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
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
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
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
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.... 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