This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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

-------------
Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 6.18.1-rc1

Navaneeth K <knavaneeth786@gmail.com>
    staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in OnBeacon ESR IE parsing

Navaneeth K <knavaneeth786@gmail.com>
    staging: rtl8723bs: fix stack buffer overflow in OnAssocReq IE parsing

Navaneeth K <knavaneeth786@gmail.com>
    staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in rtw_get_ie() parser

Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru>
    comedi: check device's attached status in compat ioctls

Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru>
    comedi: multiq3: sanitize config options in multiq3_attach()

Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
    comedi: c6xdigio: Fix invalid PNP driver unregistration

Antoniu Miclaus <antoniu.miclaus@analog.com>
    iio: adc: ad4080: fix chip identification

Zenm Chen <zenmchen@gmail.com>
    wifi: rtw88: Add USB ID 2001:3329 for D-Link AC13U rev. A1

Zenm Chen <zenmchen@gmail.com>
    wifi: rtl8xxxu: Add USB ID 2001:3328 for D-Link AN3U rev. A1

Gopi Krishna Menon <krishnagopi487@gmail.com>
    Documentation/rtla: rename common_xxx.rst files to common_xxx.txt

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    USB: serial: kobil_sct: fix TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    USB: serial: belkin_sa: fix TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC

Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>
    serial: sh-sci: Fix deadlock during RSCI FIFO overrun error

Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>
    dt-bindings: serial: rsci: Drop "uart-has-rtscts: false"

Magne Bruno <magne.bruno@addi-data.com>
    serial: add support of CPCI cards

Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    USB: serial: ftdi_sio: match on interface number for jtag

Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
    USB: serial: option: move Telit 0x10c7 composition in the right place

Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@gmail.com>
    USB: serial: option: add Telit Cinterion FE910C04 new compositions

Slark Xiao <slark_xiao@163.com>
    USB: serial: option: add Foxconn T99W760

Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
    KVM: SVM: Don't skip unrelated instruction if INT3/INTO is replaced

Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru>
    comedi: pcl818: fix null-ptr-deref in pcl818_ai_cancel()

Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
    rust_binder: fix race condition on death_list

Alexey Nepomnyashih <sdl@nppct.ru>
    ext4: add i_data_sem protection in ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock()

Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
    crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup

Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>
    locking/spinlock/debug: Fix data-race in do_raw_write_lock

Qianchang Zhao <pioooooooooip@gmail.com>
    ksmbd: ipc: fix use-after-free in ipc_msg_send_request

Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
    ext4: refresh inline data size before write operations

Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
    jbd2: avoid bug_on in jbd2_journal_get_create_access() when file system corrupted

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
    Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer


-------------

Diffstat:

 .../devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,rsci.yaml   |  2 -
 Documentation/process/2.Process.rst                |  6 +-
 .../{common_appendix.rst => common_appendix.txt}   |  0
 ...on_hist_options.rst => common_hist_options.txt} |  0
 .../{common_options.rst => common_options.txt}     |  0
 ...cription.rst => common_osnoise_description.txt} |  0
 ...oise_options.rst => common_osnoise_options.txt} |  0
 ...mmon_timerlat_aa.rst => common_timerlat_aa.txt} |  0
 ...ription.rst => common_timerlat_description.txt} |  0
 ...lat_options.rst => common_timerlat_options.txt} |  0
 ...mmon_top_options.rst => common_top_options.txt} |  0
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-hwnoise.rst          |  8 +--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise-hist.rst     | 10 +--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise-top.rst      | 10 +--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise.rst          |  4 +-
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-hist.rst    | 12 ++--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-top.rst     | 12 ++--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat.rst         |  4 +-
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla.rst                  |  2 +-
 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h                    |  9 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c                             | 24 ++++----
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                                 | 21 +++++++
 crypto/zstd.c                                      |  7 +--
 drivers/android/binder/node.rs                     |  6 +-
 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c                       | 42 +++++++++++--
 drivers/comedi/drivers/c6xdigio.c                  | 46 ++++++++++----
 drivers/comedi/drivers/multiq3.c                   |  9 +++
 drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c                    |  5 +-
 drivers/iio/adc/ad4080.c                           |  9 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c       |  3 +
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822cu.c     |  2 +
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c     | 14 +++--
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c      | 13 ++--
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c                 | 37 +++++++++++
 drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c                        | 12 +++-
 drivers/usb/serial/belkin_sa.c                     | 28 +++++----
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c                      | 72 ++++++++--------------
 drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c                     | 18 +++---
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        | 22 ++++++-
 fs/ext4/inline.c                                   | 14 ++++-
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c                              | 19 ++++--
 fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c                      |  7 ++-
 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c                    |  4 +-
 44 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)

On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:30:10 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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

All tests passing for Tegra ...

Test results for stable-v6.18:
    10 builds:	10 pass, 0 fail
    28 boots:	28 pass, 0 fail
    113 tests:	113 pass, 0 fail

Linux version:	6.18.1-rc1-g7d4c06f4000f
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 Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 04:30:10PM +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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, 10 Dec 2025 at 13:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

## Build
* kernel: 6.18.1-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git commit: 7d4c06f4000feb509a90ba5eeb00be9839decb91
* git describe: v6.18-30-g7d4c06f4000f
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.18.y/build/v6.18-30-g7d4c06f4000f

## Test Regressions (compared to v6.18-30-g7d4c06f4000f)

## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.18-30-g7d4c06f4000f)

## Test Fixes (compared to v6.18-30-g7d4c06f4000f)

## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.18-30-g7d4c06f4000f)

## Test result summary
total: 105808, pass: 88879, fail: 3320, skip: 13609, xfail: 0

## Build Summary
* arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed
* arm: 139 total, 139 passed, 0 failed
* arm64: 57 total, 54 passed, 3 failed
* i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed
* mips: 34 total, 33 passed, 1 failed
* parisc: 4 total, 4 passed, 0 failed
* powerpc: 40 total, 39 passed, 1 failed
* riscv: 25 total, 25 passed, 0 failed
* s390: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed
* sh: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 4 total, 3 passed, 1 failed
* x86_64: 49 total, 48 passed, 1 failed

## Test suites summary
* boot
* commands
* kselftest-arm64
* kselftest-breakpoints
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-exec
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-ftrace
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-gpio
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-ipc
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-kvm
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-memfd
* kselftest-mincore
* kselftest-mm
* kselftest-mqueue
* kselftest-net
* kselftest-net-mptcp
* kselftest-openat2
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-rust
* kselftest-seccomp
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-tc-testing
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user_events
* kselftest-vDSO
* kselftest-x86
* kunit
* kvm-unit-tests
* lava
* libgpiod
* libhugetlbfs
* log-parser-boot
* log-parser-build-clang
* log-parser-build-gcc
* log-parser-test
* ltp-capability
* ltp-commands
* ltp-containers
* ltp-controllers
* ltp-cpuhotplug
* ltp-crypto
* ltp-cve
* ltp-dio
* ltp-fcntl-locktests
* ltp-fs
* ltp-fs_bind
* ltp-fs_perms_simple
* ltp-hugetlb
* ltp-math
* ltp-mm
* ltp-nptl
* ltp-pty
* ltp-sched
* ltp-smoke
* ltp-syscalls
* ltp-tracing
* perf
* rcutorture
* rt-tests-cyclicdeadline
* rt-tests-pmqtest
* rt-tests-rt-migrate-test
* rt-tests-signaltest

--
Linaro LKFT
https://lkft.linaro.org

On 12/9/25 23:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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

Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).

Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz.net>

The kernel, bpf tool, perf tool, and kselftest builds fine for v6.18.1-rc1 on x86 and arm64 Azure VM.


Tested-by: Hardik Garg <hargar@linux.microsoft.com>


Thanks,
Hardik

On 12/9/25 23:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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

On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on 
BMIPS_GENERIC:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
-- 
Florian

Hi

no regressions here on x86_64 (RKL, Intel 11th Gen. CPU)

Thanks

Tested-by: Ronald Warsow <rwarsow@gmx.de>

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/9/25 23:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> > There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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

Build and Boot Report for 6.18.1-rc1

The kernel version 6.18.1 was built and boot-tested using qemu-x86_64
and qemu-arm64 with the default configuration (defconfig). The build and boot
processes completed successfully, and the kernel operated as expected
in the virtualized environments without any issues.
No dmesg regressions found.

Build Details :
Builds : arm64, x86_64
Kernel Version: 6.18.1
Configuration : defconfig
Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
Commit : 7d4c06f4000feb509a90ba5eeb00be9839decb91

Tested-by: Dileep Malepu <dileep.debian@gmail.com>

Best regards,
Dileep Malepu

Am 10.12.2025 um 08:30 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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

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enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world,
not so the world can see you.                    -- David McCullough Jr.

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On Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM CET, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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

Thanks! Build tested on all Alpine architectures & boot tested on
x86_64.

Tested-By: Achill Gilgenast <achill@achill.org>

 compiled and booted  6.18.1-rc1+
Version: AMD A4-4000 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
NO typical dmesg regressions

Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T <jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in>

--
software engineer
rajagiri school of engineering and technology

Hi Greg

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release.
> There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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
>

6.18.1-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 6.18.1-rc1rv-g7d4c06f4000f
(takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20251112, GNU ld (GNU
Binutils) 2.45.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Dec 10 20:19:12 JST 2025

Thanks

Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara <takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com>

# Librecast Test Results

020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq
010/010 [ OK ] libmld
120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.18.1-rc1-g7d4c06f4000f #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Dec 10 10:11:19 -00 2025 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net>