This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.5 release. There are 5 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 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:19:41 +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-6.18.5-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 6.18.5-rc1
Mike Snitzer snitzer@kernel.org nfs/localio: fix regression due to out-of-order __put_cred
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- fs/nfs/localio.c | 12 ++++---- include/linux/sched/topology.h | 3 ++ kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- kernel/sched/features.h | 5 ++++ kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 +++++ kernel/sched/topology.c | 6 ++++ net/mptcp/protocol.c | 8 ++++-- net/mptcp/protocol.h | 3 +- 10 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)