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.... 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
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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
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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(-)