This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 Wed, 06 May 2026 13:50:54 +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-6.18.27-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 6.18.27-rc1
Kai Ma k4729.23098@gmail.com netfilter: reject zero shift in nft_bitwise
Andrea Mayer andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it net: ipv6: fix NOREF dst use in seg6 and rpl lwtunnels
Harry Yoo (Oracle) harry@kernel.org mm/slab: return NULL early from kmalloc_nolock() in NMI on UP
Harry Yoo (Oracle) harry@kernel.org mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP
Marco Elver elver@google.com vmalloc: fix buffer overflow in vrealloc_node_align()
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: aloop: Fix peer runtime UAF during format-change stop
Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com ALSA: caiaq: fix usb_dev refcount leak on probe failure
Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com drm/amdgpu: fix zero-size GDS range init on RDNA4
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org ipv6: rpl: reserve mac_len headroom when recompressed SRH grows
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: caiaq: Don't abort when no input device is available
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: caiaq: Fix potentially leftover ep1_in_urb at error path
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org driver core: Add kernel-doc for DEV_FLAG_COUNT enum value
Yucheng Lu kanolyc@gmail.com crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation
Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com net: qrtr: ns: Limit the total number of nodes
Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com net: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum number of lookups
Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com net: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum server registration per node
Antoniu Miclaus antoniu.miclaus@analog.com iio: frequency: admv1013: fix NULL pointer dereference on str
Antoniu Miclaus antoniu.miclaus@analog.com iio: frequency: admv1013: add dev variable
Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com media: rc: igorplugusb: heed coherency rules
Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com media: rc: ttusbir: respect DMA coherency rules
Sean Wang sean.wang@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt792x: fix mt7925u USB WFSYS reset handling
Sean Wang sean.wang@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt792x: describe USB WFSYS reset with a descriptor
Elson Serrao elson.serrao@oss.qualcomm.com phy: qcom: m31-eusb2: clear PLL_EN during init
Ronak Raheja ronak.raheja@oss.qualcomm.com phy: qcom: m31-eusb2: Update init sequence to set PHY_ENABLE
Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: me: add nova lake point H DID
Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: me: use PCI_DEVICE_DATA macro
Alistair Popple apopple@nvidia.com lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free
Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com arm64: mm: Fix rodata=full block mapping support for realm guests
Kevin Brodsky kevin.brodsky@arm.com arm64: mm: Simplify check in arch_kfence_init_pool()
Anthony Yznaga anthony.yznaga@oracle.com mm: prevent droppable mappings from being locked
Andrea Mayer andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it seg6: fix seg6 lwtunnel output redirect for L2 reduced encap mode
Yang Xiuwei yangxiuwei@kylinos.cn scsi: sd: fix missing put_disk() when device_add(&disk_dev) fails
Andrea Righi arighi@nvidia.com sched_ext: Documentation: Clarify ops.dispatch() role in task lifecycle
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxgk: Fix potential integer overflow in length check
Keenan Dong keenanat2000@gmail.com rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
Tobias Gaertner tob.gaertner@me.com ntfs3: fix integer overflow in run_unpack() volume boundary check
Tobias Gaertner tob.gaertner@me.com ntfs3: add buffer boundary checks to run_unpack()
Tushar Sariya tushar.97@hotmail.com NFSv4.1: Apply session size limits on clone path
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org ktest: Fix the month in the name of the failure directory
Chen Zhao chezhao@nvidia.com IB/core: Fix zero dmac race in neighbor resolution
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com gtp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
Max Kellermann max.kellermann@ionos.com ceph: only d_add() negative dentries when they are unhashed
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com dm mirror: fix integer overflow in create_dirty_log()
Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavoars@kernel.org crypto: nx - Fix packed layout in struct nx842_crypto_header
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: nx - fix context leak in nx842_crypto_free_ctx
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: nx - fix bounce buffer leaks in nx842_crypto_{alloc,free}_ctx
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-sha204a - Fix uninitialized data access on OTP read error
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-sha204a - Fix potential UAF and memory leak in remove path
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-sha204a - Fix error codes in OTP reads
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-tdes - fix DMA sync direction
Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn crypto: ccree - fix a memory leak in cc_mac_digest()
Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com crypto: hisilicon - Fix dma_unmap_single() direction
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-ecc - Release client on allocation failure
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-aes - Fix 3-page memory leak in atmel_aes_buff_cleanup
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: arm64/aes - Fix 32-bit aes_mac_update() arg treated as 64-bit
Giovanni Cabiddu giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com crypto: acomp - fix wrong pointer stored by acomp_save_req()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org can: ucan: fix devres lifetime
Qiang Yu qiang.yu@oss.qualcomm.com bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Switch to async power up to avoid boot delays
Shuvam Pandey shuvampandey1@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_event: fix potential UAF in SSP passkey handlers
Cengiz Can cengiz.can@canonical.com apparmor: use target task's context in apparmor_getprocattr()
Brian Mak makb@juniper.net mfd: core: Preserve OF node when ACPI handle is present
Gang Yan yangang@kylinos.cn mptcp: sync the msk->sndbuf at accept() time
Yiyang Chen cyyzero16@gmail.com taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications
Zhenzhong Wu jt26wzz@gmail.com tcp: call sk_data_ready() after listener migration
Yi Cong yicong@kylinos.cn wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix potential use of uninitialized value
Rick Edgecombe rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com x86/shstk: Prevent deadlock during shstk sigreturn
Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com x86/cpu: Disable FRED when PTI is forced on
Chia-Ming Chang chiamingc@synology.com inotify: fix watch count leak when fsnotify_add_inode_mark_locked() fails
Aditya Garg gargaditya08@live.com HID: apple: ensure the keyboard backlight is off if suspending
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de check-uapi: link into shared objects
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com md/raid5: validate payload size before accessing journal metadata
Chia-Ming Chang chiamingc@synology.com md/raid5: fix soft lockup in retry_aligned_read()
Yu Kuai yukuai@fnnas.com md/md-llbitmap: raise barrier before state machine transition
Yu Kuai yukuai@fnnas.com md/md-llbitmap: skip reading rdevs that are not in_sync
David (Ming Qiang) Wu David.Wu3@amd.com amdgpu/jpeg: fix deepsleep register for jpeg 5_0_0 and 5_0_2
Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal@bootlin.com mtd: spinand: winbond: Declare the QE bit on W25NxxJW
Sanjaikumar V S sanjaikumar.vs@dicortech.com mtd: spi-nor: sst: Fix write enable before AAI sequence
Sohei Koyama skoyama@ddn.com ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()
Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com ext4: fix bounds check in check_xattrs() to prevent out-of-bounds access
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org ring-buffer: Do not double count the reader_page
Brian Ruley brian.ruley@gehealthcare.com ARM: 9472/1: fix race condition on PG_dcache_clean in __sync_icache_dcache()
Rong Bao rong.bao@csmantle.top perf annotate: Use jump__delete when freeing LoongArch jumps
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: nSVM: Always intercept VMMCALL when L2 is active
Kevin Cheng chengkev@google.com KVM: nSVM: Raise #UD if unhandled VMMCALL isn't intercepted by L1
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for nCR3 validity
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Drop the non-architectural consistency check for NP_ENABLE
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for EFER, CR0, CR4, and CS
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Clear tracking of L1->L2 NMI and soft IRQ on nested #VMEXIT
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Clear EVENTINJ fields in vmcb12 on nested #VMEXIT
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Clear GIF on nested #VMEXIT(INVALID)
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if mapping VMCB12 fails on nested #VMEXIT
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Refactor writing vmcb12 on nested #VMEXIT as a helper
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Refactor checking LBRV enablement in vmcb12 into a helper
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Always inject a #GP if mapping VMCB12 fails on nested VMRUN
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: SVM: Add missing save/restore handling of LBR MSRs
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: SVM: Switch svm_copy_lbrs() to a macro
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: nSVM: Delay setting soft IRQ RIP tracking fields until vCPU run
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Avoid clearing VMCB_LBR in vmcb12
Yosry Ahmed yosry.ahmed@linux.dev KVM: nSVM: Use vcpu->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12 on nested #VMEXIT
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Delay stuffing L2's current RIP into NextRIP until vCPU run
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Always use NextRIP as vmcb02's NextRIP after first L2 VMRUN
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Ensure AVIC is inhibited when restoring a vCPU to guest mode
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SVM: Explicitly mark vmcb01 dirty after modifying VMCB intercepts
Kevin Cheng chengkev@google.com KVM: SVM: Inject #UD for INVLPGA if EFER.SVME=0
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Sync interrupt shadow to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN of L2
Yosry Ahmed yosry@kernel.org KVM: nSVM: Sync NextRIP to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN of L2
Yosry Ahmed yosry.ahmed@linux.dev KVM: nSVM: Mark all of vmcb02 dirty when restoring nested state
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: x86: Defer non-architectural deliver of exception payload to userspace read
Tao Cui cuitao@kylinos.cn LoongArch: KVM: Use CSR_CRMD_PLV in kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel()
Denis M. Karpov komlomal@gmail.com userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/core: use time_in_range_open() for damos quota window start
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid for node_mem_{used,free}_bp
Jackie Liu liuyun01@kylinos.cn mm/damon/stat: fix memory leak on damon_start() failure in damon_stat_start()
Jackie Liu liuyun01@kylinos.cn mm/mempolicy: fix memory leaks in weighted_interleave_auto_store()
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) urezki@gmail.com mm/vmalloc: take vmap_purge_lock in shrinker
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org rtc: ntxec: fix OF node reference imbalance
Jacqueline Wong jacqwong@google.com tpm: tpm_tis: stop transmit if retries are exhausted
Jacqueline Wong jacqwong@google.com tpm: tpm_tis: add error logging for data transfer
Gunnar Kudrjavets gunnarku@amazon.com tpm: Use kfree_sensitive() to free auth session in tpm_dev_release()
Gunnar Kudrjavets gunnarku@amazon.com tpm: Fix auth session leak in tpm2_get_random() error path
Gunnar Kudrjavets gunnarku@amazon.com tpm2-sessions: Fix missing tpm_buf_destroy() in tpm2_read_public()
Viorel Suman (OSS) viorel.suman@oss.nxp.com pwm: imx-tpm: Count the number of enabled channels in probe
Paul Louvel paul.louvel@bootlin.com crypto: talitos - rename first/last to first_desc/last_desc
Paul Louvel paul.louvel@bootlin.com crypto: talitos - fix SEC1 32k ahash request limitation
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de firmware: google: framebuffer: Do not unregister platform device
Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn xfs: fix a resource leak in xfs_alloc_buftarg()
Hans Holmberg hans.holmberg@wdc.com xfs: start gc on zonegc_low_space attribute updates
Giovanni Cabiddu giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com crypto: qat - fix IRQ cleanup on 6xxx probe failure
Francesco Dolcini francesco.dolcini@toradex.com arm64: dts: ti: am62-verdin: Enable pullup for eMMC data pins
Shawn Lin shawn.lin@rock-chips.com mmc: sdhci-of-dwcmshc: Disable clock before DLL configuration
Bin Liu b-liu@ti.com mmc: block: use single block write in retry
Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (pt5161l) Fix bugs in pt5161l_read_block_data()
Brahmajit Das listout@listout.xyz ASoC: Intel: avs: replace strcmp with sysfs_streq
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn drm/amd: Fix set but not used warnings
Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com fs: prepare for adding LSM blob to backing_file
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (isl28022) Fix integer overflow in power calculation on 32-bit
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com power: supply: axp288_charger: Do not cancel work before initializing it
Huacai Chen chenhuacai@kernel.org LoongArch: Show CPU vulnerabilites correctly
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de tpm: avoid -Wunused-but-set-variable
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org extract-cert: Wrap key_pass with '#ifdef USE_PKCS11_ENGINE'
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: fix resource leaks on device setup failure
Raphael Zimmer raphael.zimmer@tu-ilmenau.de libceph: Prevent potential null-ptr-deref in ceph_handle_auth_reply()
Ruide Cao caoruide123@gmail.com ipv4: icmp: validate reply type before using icmp_pointers
hkbinbin hkbinbinbin@gmail.com RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org tracing/fprobe: Reject registration of a registered fprobe before init
Marco Elver elver@google.com slub: fix data loss and overflow in krealloc()
Luca Ceresoli luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com drm/arcpgu: fix device node leak
Marek Vasut marex@nabladev.com net: ks8851: Avoid excess softirq scheduling
Yuan Zhaoming yuanzm2@lenovo.com net: mctp: fix don't require received header reserved bits to be zero
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org netconsole: avoid out-of-bounds access on empty string in trim_newline()
Zhengchuan Liang zcliangcn@gmail.com net: bridge: use a stable FDB dst snapshot in RCU readers
Marek Vasut marex@nabladev.com net: ks8851: Reinstate disabling of BHs around IRQ handler
Ruijie Li ruijieli51@gmail.com net/smc: avoid early lgr access in smc_clc_wait_msg
Jiawen Wu jiawenwu@trustnetic.com net: txgbe: fix firmware version check
Ao Zhou draw51280@163.com net: rds: fix MR cleanup on copy error
Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com net: qrtr: ns: Free the node during ctrl_cmd_bye()
Robert Marko robert.marko@sartura.hr arm64: dts: marvell: uDPU: add ethernet aliases
Jiawen Wu jiawenwu@trustnetic.com net: txgbe: fix RTNL assertion warning when remove module
Yiyang Chen cyyzero16@gmail.com tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages
Prasanna Kumar T S M ptsm@linux.microsoft.com EDAC/versalnet: Fix memory leak in remove and probe error paths
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_input_call_event() to only unshare DATA packets
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix re-decryption of RESPONSE packets
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix error handling in rxgk_extract_token()
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix memory leaks in rxkad_verify_response()
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure
Jonathan Santos Jonathan.Santos@analog.com iio: adc: ad7768-1: remove switch to one-shot mode
Jonathan Santos Jonathan.Santos@analog.com iio: adc: ad7768-1: fix one-shot mode data acquisition
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: pcmtest: Fix resource leaks in module init error paths
Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244@gmail.com ALSA: pcmtest: fix reference leak on failed device registration
Spencer Payton spayton681@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Add mute LED support for HP Victus 15-fa2xxx
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: 6fire: Fix input volume change detection
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: caiaq: Handle probe errors properly
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: caiaq: Fix control_put() result and cache rollback
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: core: Fix potential data race at fasync handling
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/poll: ensure EPOLL_ONESHOT is propagated for EPOLL_URING_WAKE
Longxuan Yu ylong030@ucr.edu io_uring/poll: fix signed comparison in io_poll_get_ownership()
David Lechner dlechner@baylibre.com iio: adc: ti-ads7950: use iio_push_to_buffers_with_ts_unaligned()
Naman Jain namjain@linux.microsoft.com block: relax pgmap check in bio_add_page for compatible zone device pages
Pavel Begunkov asml.silence@gmail.com io_uring/timeout: check unused sqe fields
Damien Le Moal dlemoal@kernel.org block: fix zone write plugs refcount handling in disk_zone_wplug_schedule_bio_work()
Dawei Feng dawei.feng@seu.edu.cn rbd: fix null-ptr-deref when device_add_disk() fails
Mickaël Salaün mic@digikod.net selftests/landlock: Skip stale records in audit_match_record()
Mickaël Salaün mic@digikod.net selftests/landlock: Fix snprintf truncation checks in audit helpers
Mickaël Salaün mic@digikod.net selftests/landlock: Fix format warning for __u64 in net_test
Mickaël Salaün mic@digikod.net selftests/landlock: Drain stale audit records on init
Mickaël Salaün mic@digikod.net landlock: Fix LOG_SUBDOMAINS_OFF inheritance across fork()
Simon Liebold simonlie@amazon.de selftests/mqueue: Fix incorrectly named file
Joseph Salisbury joseph.salisbury@oracle.com sched: Use u64 for bandwidth ratio calculations
Tommaso Merciai tommaso.merciai.xr@bp.renesas.com reset: rzv2h-usb2phy: Keep PHY clock enabled for entire device lifetime
Ben Levinsky ben.levinsky@amd.com remoteproc: xlnx: Only access buffer information if IPI is buffered
Long Li longli@microsoft.com RDMA/mana_ib: Disable RX steering on RSS QP destroy
Aksh Garg a-garg7@ti.com PCI: cadence: Use cdns_pcie_read_sz() for byte or word read access
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Drop ip_fast_csum() inline assembly implementation
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: _llseek syscall is only available for 32-bit userspace
Robert Beckett bob.beckett@collabora.com nvme: respect NVME_QUIRK_DISABLE_WRITE_ZEROES when wzsl is set
Robert Beckett bob.beckett@collabora.com nvme-pci: add NVME_QUIRK_DISABLE_WRITE_ZEROES for Kingston OM3SGP4
James Kim james010kim@gmail.com mtd: docg3: fix use-after-free in docg3_release()
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/core: fix damon_call() vs kdamond_fn() exit race
Hao Ge hao.ge@linux.dev mm/alloc_tag: clear codetag for pages allocated before page_ext initialization
Marek Vasut marex@nabladev.com mfd: stpmic1: Attempt system shutdown twice in case PMIC is confused
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/register: fix ring resizing with mixed/large SQEs/CQEs
Josh Hunt johunt@akamai.com md/raid10: fix deadlock with check operation and nowait requests
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: selftests: Fix reserved value WRMSR testcase for multi-feature MSRs
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com jbd2: fix deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke()
Corey Minyard corey@minyard.net ipmi:ssif: Clean up kthread on errors
Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org erofs: fix the out-of-bounds nameoff handling for trailing dirents
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: seq_oss: return full count for successful SEQ_FULLSIZE writes
Harin Lee me@harin.net ALSA: ctxfi: Add fallback to default RSR for S/PDIF
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev ALSA: aoa: Skip devices with no codecs in i2sbus_resume()
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: fix OF node lifetime handling
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: aoa: i2sbus: clear stale prepared state
Shigeru Yoshida syoshida@redhat.com mm/zsmalloc: copy KMSAN metadata in zs_page_migrate()
Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org ext2: reject inodes with zero i_nlink and valid mode in ext2_iget()
Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com net: qrtr: ns: Fix use-after-free in driver remove()
Chen Ni nichen@iscas.ac.cn media: i2c: imx219: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in imx219_probe()
Josh Law objecting@objecting.org lib/ts_kmp: fix integer overflow in pattern length calculation
Daniel Hodges git@danielhodges.dev PCI: epf-mhi: Return 0, not remaining timeout, when eDMA ops complete
Rong Zhang i@rong.moe Revert "ALSA: usb: Increase volume range that triggers a warning"
Koichiro Den den@valinux.co.jp PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-ntb: Remove duplicate resource teardown
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-sha204a - Fix OTP sysfs read and error handling
Fan Wu fanwu01@zju.edu.cn media: mtk-jpeg: fix use-after-free in release path due to uncancelled work
Luxiao Xu rakukuip@gmail.com net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
Zhengchuan Liang zcliangcn@gmail.com net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
Ziqing Chen chenziqing@xiaomi.com ALSA: control: Validate buf_len before strnlen() in snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names()
Ming Qian ming.qian@oss.nxp.com media: amphion: Fix race between m2m job_abort and device_run
Richard Zhu hongxing.zhu@nxp.com PCI: imx6: Skip waiting for L2/L3 Ready on i.MX6SX
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com EDAC/versalnet: Fix device_node leak in mc_probe()
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (powerz) Fix missing usb_kill_urb() on signal interrupt
Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn of: unittest: fix use-after-free in testdrv_probe()
Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn of: unittest: fix use-after-free in of_unittest_changeset()
Swamil Jain s-jain1@ti.com dt-bindings: display: ti, am65x-dss: Fix AM62L DSS reg and clock constraints
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests
Douya Le ldy3087146292@gmail.com crypto: algif_aead - snapshot IV for async AEAD requests
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org mm: call ->free_folio() directly in folio_unmap_invalidate()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: ch341: fix memory leaks on probe failures
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: imx: fix use-after-free on unbind
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com um: drivers: call kernel_strrchr() explicitly in cow_user.c
Prasanna Kumar T S M ptsm@linux.microsoft.com vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path
Alex Williamson alex.williamson@nvidia.com vfio/cdx: Serialize VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS with a per-device mutex
Alex Williamson alex.williamson@nvidia.com vfio/virtio: Convert list_lock from spinlock to mutex
Manish Honap mhonap@nvidia.com vfio: selftests: Fix VLA initialisation in vfio_pci_irq_set()
Daniel Hodges git@danielhodges.dev wifi: mwifiex: fix use-after-free in mwifiex_adapter_cleanup()
Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru wifi: rtw88: check for PCI upstream bridge existence
Sergey Senozhatsky senozhatsky@chromium.org zram: do not forget to endio for partial discard requests
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: edt-ft5x06 - fix use-after-free in debugfs teardown
Heming Zhao heming.zhao@suse.com ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion
Usama Arif usama.arif@linux.dev mm: migrate: requeue destination folio on deferred split queue
Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual@arm.com arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de firmware: google: framebuffer: Do not mark framebuffer as busy
Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) ljs@kernel.org fs: afs: revert mmap_prepare() change
Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org kbuild: rust: allow `clippy::uninlined_format_args`
Danilo Krummrich dakr@kernel.org rust: dma: remove DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING from public attrs
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com drm/nouveau: fix nvkm_device leak on aperture removal failure
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org driver core: Don't let a device probe until it's ready
Tyllis Xu livelycarpet87@gmail.com ibmasm: fix heap over-read in ibmasm_send_i2o_message()
Tyllis Xu livelycarpet87@gmail.com ibmasm: fix OOB reads in command_file_write due to missing size checks
Tyllis Xu livelycarpet87@gmail.com misc: ibmasm: fix OOB MMIO read in ibmasm_handle_mouse_interrupt()
Weigang He geoffreyhe2@gmail.com greybus: gb-beagleplay: fix sleep in atomic context in hdlc_tx_frames()
Pengpeng Hou pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn greybus: gb-beagleplay: bound bootloader receive buffering
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org leds: qcom-lpg: Check for array overflow when selecting the high resolution
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org drm/nouveau: fix u32 overflow in pushbuf reloc bounds check
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org LoongArch: Add spectre boundry for syscall dispatch table
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Evaluate packsize caps at the right place
Xu Yang xu.yang_2@nxp.com usb: chipidea: core: allow ci_irq_handler() handle both ID and VBUS change
Xu Yang xu.yang_2@nxp.com usb: chipidea: otg: not wait vbus drop if use role_switch
Michal Pecio michal.pecio@gmail.com usb: xhci: Make usb_host_endpoint.hcpriv survive endpoint_disable()
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix Audio Advantage Micro II SPDIF switch
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Avoid false E-MU sample-rate notifications
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: stop parsing UAC2 rates at MAX_NR_RATES
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Diffstat:
.../bindings/display/ti/ti,am65x-dss.yaml | 70 +++-- Documentation/scheduler/sched-ext.rst | 14 +- Makefile | 5 +- arch/arm/mm/flush.c | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-uDPU.dtsi | 5 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62-verdin.dtsi | 20 +- arch/arm64/crypto/aes-modes.S | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h | 2 + arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 9 +- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 92 +++--- arch/loongarch/kernel/cpu-probe.c | 7 + arch/loongarch/kernel/syscall.c | 3 +- arch/loongarch/kvm/vcpu.c | 2 +- arch/parisc/Kconfig | 3 + arch/parisc/include/asm/checksum.h | 89 +----- arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 2 +- arch/parisc/lib/Makefile | 2 +- arch/parisc/lib/checksum.c | 99 ------ arch/um/drivers/cow_user.c | 8 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/shstk.c | 42 +-- arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.h | 8 - arch/x86/kvm/svm/hyperv.h | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 195 +++++++----- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 139 +++++++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 11 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 65 ++-- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 5 + block/bio-integrity.c | 6 +- block/bio.c | 6 +- block/blk-zoned.c | 12 +- block/blk.h | 19 ++ certs/extract-cert.c | 6 +- crypto/acompress.c | 8 +- crypto/algif_aead.c | 10 +- crypto/authencesn.c | 5 + crypto/pcrypt.c | 7 +- drivers/base/core.c | 39 ++- drivers/base/dd.c | 20 ++ drivers/block/rbd.c | 6 +- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 3 +- drivers/bus/imx-weim.c | 2 +- drivers/bus/mhi/host/pci_generic.c | 2 +- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 13 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 2 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 6 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-sessions.c | 5 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 11 +- drivers/crypto/atmel-aes.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/atmel-ecc.c | 1 + drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c | 37 ++- drivers/crypto/atmel-tdes.c | 8 +- drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_hash.c | 1 + drivers/crypto/hisilicon/sec/sec_algs.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_6xxx/adf_drv.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.c | 10 +- drivers/crypto/nx/nx-842.h | 4 +- drivers/crypto/talitos.c | 340 +++++++++++++-------- drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c | 6 +- drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c | 12 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gart.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vcn.h | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/jpeg_v4_0_3.c | 52 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dc_dmub_srv.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/arcpgu.c | 3 +- drivers/greybus/gb-beagleplay.c | 112 ++++++- drivers/hid/hid-apple.c | 2 + drivers/hwmon/isl28022.c | 5 +- drivers/hwmon/powerz.c | 11 +- drivers/hwmon/pt5161l.c | 4 +- drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 2 +- drivers/iio/adc/ad7768-1.c | 16 +- drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c | 11 +- drivers/iio/frequency/admv1013.c | 90 +++--- drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 3 + drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/qp.c | 15 + drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_recv.c | 3 +- drivers/input/touchscreen/edt-ft5x06.c | 3 + drivers/leds/rgb/leds-qcom-lpg.c | 7 +- drivers/md/dm-raid1.c | 6 +- drivers/md/md-llbitmap.c | 11 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 4 +- drivers/md/raid5-cache.c | 48 ++- drivers/md/raid5.c | 8 +- drivers/media/i2c/imx219.c | 3 + drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_v4l2.c | 9 +- .../media/platform/mediatek/jpeg/mtk_jpeg_core.c | 1 + drivers/media/rc/igorplugusb.c | 16 +- drivers/media/rc/ttusbir.c | 13 +- drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c | 12 +- drivers/mfd/stpmic1.c | 20 +- drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c | 7 + drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.c | 12 +- drivers/misc/ibmasm/remote.c | 5 + drivers/misc/mei/bus-fixup.c | 6 +- drivers/misc/mei/hw-me-regs.h | 163 +++++----- drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.h | 6 - drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 163 +++++----- drivers/mmc/core/block.c | 12 +- drivers/mmc/core/queue.h | 3 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-dwcmshc.c | 19 +- drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c | 3 +- drivers/mtd/nand/spi/winbond.c | 4 +- drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sst.c | 13 + drivers/net/can/usb/ucan.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851.h | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_common.c | 69 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_par.c | 15 +- drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_spi.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_main.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_phy.c | 2 + drivers/net/gtp.c | 2 + drivers/net/netconsole.c | 2 + drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus_provider.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/init.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt792x_regs.h | 4 + drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt792x_usb.c | 51 +++- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 28 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/pci.c | 3 +- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 + drivers/of/base.c | 2 +- drivers/of/dynamic.c | 2 +- drivers/of/platform.c | 2 +- drivers/of/unittest.c | 4 +- drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence.h | 56 ++-- drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c | 1 + drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-mhi.c | 4 + drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-ntb.c | 56 +--- drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-m31-eusb2.c | 4 +- drivers/power/supply/axp288_charger.c | 19 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-imx-tpm.c | 9 +- drivers/remoteproc/xlnx_r5_remoteproc.c | 20 +- drivers/reset/reset-rzv2h-usb2phy.c | 64 ++-- drivers/rtc/rtc-ntxec.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 1 + drivers/spi/spi-ch341.c | 36 ++- drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 4 + drivers/spi/spi.c | 63 ++-- drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/chipidea/core.c | 45 +-- drivers/usb/chipidea/otg.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 1 - drivers/vfio/cdx/intr.c | 13 +- drivers/vfio/cdx/main.c | 19 ++ drivers/vfio/cdx/private.h | 3 + drivers/vfio/pci/virtio/common.h | 2 +- drivers/vfio/pci/virtio/migrate.c | 33 +- fs/afs/file.c | 12 +- fs/ceph/dir.c | 6 +- fs/erofs/dir.c | 28 +- fs/ext2/inode.c | 14 +- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 6 +- fs/file_table.c | 22 +- fs/jbd2/revoke.c | 8 +- fs/nfs/internal.h | 2 + fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 3 + fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 1 + fs/ntfs3/run.c | 18 +- fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 74 +++-- fs/userfaultfd.c | 2 - fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 1 + fs/xfs/xfs_sysfs.c | 7 +- fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.h | 4 + fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c | 17 ++ include/linux/alloc_tag.h | 2 + include/linux/damon.h | 1 + include/linux/device.h | 45 +++ include/linux/fwnode.h | 44 ++- include/linux/hugetlb_inline.h | 4 +- include/linux/pgalloc_tag.h | 2 +- include/linux/randomize_kstack.h | 26 +- include/linux/sched.h | 4 + include/linux/tpm_eventlog.h | 9 +- include/linux/usb.h | 3 +- include/net/mana/mana.h | 1 + include/net/mctp.h | 3 + include/trace/events/rxrpc.h | 6 +- init/main.c | 1 - io_uring/poll.c | 6 +- io_uring/register.c | 32 +- io_uring/timeout.c | 4 + kernel/fork.c | 2 + kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 13 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/rt.c | 2 +- kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +- kernel/taskstats.c | 1 + kernel/trace/fprobe.c | 21 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 13 +- lib/alloc_tag.c | 109 +++++++ lib/test_hmm.c | 86 +++--- lib/ts_kmp.c | 18 +- mm/damon/core.c | 60 ++-- mm/damon/stat.c | 5 +- mm/filemap.c | 3 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 3 + mm/internal.h | 11 +- mm/mempolicy.c | 23 +- mm/migrate.c | 17 ++ mm/mlock.c | 10 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 15 +- mm/slub.c | 29 +- mm/truncate.c | 6 +- mm/vma.c | 4 +- mm/vmalloc.c | 3 +- mm/zsmalloc.c | 1 + net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 18 +- net/bridge/br_arp_nd_proxy.c | 8 +- net/bridge/br_fdb.c | 28 +- net/caif/cfsrvl.c | 14 +- net/ceph/auth.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 5 +- net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 3 + net/ipv6/exthdrs.c | 9 +- net/ipv6/rpl_iptunnel.c | 9 + net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 12 +- net/mctp/route.c | 8 +- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nft_bitwise.c | 3 +- net/qrtr/ns.c | 86 +++++- net/rds/rdma.c | 4 - net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h | 1 - net/rxrpc/call_event.c | 20 +- net/rxrpc/conn_event.c | 43 ++- net/rxrpc/io_thread.c | 24 +- net/rxrpc/rxgk_app.c | 3 +- net/rxrpc/rxgk_common.h | 1 + net/rxrpc/rxkad.c | 112 +++---- net/rxrpc/skbuff.c | 9 - net/smc/smc_clc.c | 4 +- net/strparser/strparser.c | 8 + rust/kernel/dma.rs | 3 - scripts/check-uapi.sh | 7 +- security/apparmor/lsm.c | 16 +- security/landlock/cred.c | 6 +- sound/aoa/soundbus/i2sbus/core.c | 12 +- sound/aoa/soundbus/i2sbus/pcm.c | 71 +++-- sound/core/control.c | 4 + sound/core/misc.c | 13 +- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_rw.c | 6 +- sound/drivers/aloop.c | 43 ++- sound/drivers/pcmtest.c | 19 +- sound/hda/codecs/realtek/alc269.c | 1 + sound/pci/ctxfi/ctatc.c | 3 +- sound/soc/intel/avs/path.c | 2 +- sound/usb/6fire/control.c | 10 +- sound/usb/caiaq/control.c | 52 +++- sound/usb/caiaq/device.c | 35 ++- sound/usb/caiaq/input.c | 2 +- sound/usb/endpoint.c | 6 +- sound/usb/format.c | 2 +- sound/usb/mixer.c | 7 +- sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 12 +- tools/accounting/getdelays.c | 41 ++- tools/accounting/procacct.c | 40 ++- tools/perf/arch/loongarch/annotate/instructions.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/disasm.c | 1 + tools/testing/ktest/ktest.pl | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/msrs_test.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit.h | 105 +++++-- tools/testing/selftests/landlock/audit_test.c | 124 ++++++-- tools/testing/selftests/landlock/net_test.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/landlock/ptrace_test.c | 1 - .../selftests/landlock/scoped_abstract_unix_test.c | 1 - .../testing/selftests/mqueue/{setting => settings} | 0 tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/vfio_pci_device.c | 4 +- tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h | 7 +- 274 files changed, 3267 insertions(+), 1877 deletions(-)
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.18.27-rc1-gbc63ee3bfa32 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 4 14:40:59 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
Am 04.05.2026 um 15:49 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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
Build tested in our x86,arm64,loongarch,riscv config successfully without error.
Tested-by: Wentao Guan guanwentao@uniontech.com
BRs Wentao Guan
defconfigs: https://gist.github.com/opsiff/a840ae9e3d6857f5b7bacb9cdc49f8e9
Log: strings vmlinux-* | grep "Linux version 6.18.27-rc1" Linux version 6.18.27-rc1-gbc63ee3bfa32 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) # SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Linux version 6.18.27-rc1-gbc63ee3bfa32 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 4 23:35:30 CST 2026 Linux version 6.18.27-rc1-gbc63ee3bfa32 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (loongarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) # SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Linux version 6.18.27-rc1-gbc63ee3bfa32 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (loongarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #3 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 4 23:51:50 CST 2026 Linux version 6.18.27-rc1+ (guanwentao@uos-PC) (riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) # SMP PREEMPT Linux version 6.18.27-rc1+ (guanwentao@uos-PC) (riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #4 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 5 00:07:43 CST 2026 Linux version 6.18.27-rc1-gbc63ee3bfa32 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (gcc (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin15) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) # SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Linux version 6.18.27-rc1-gbc63ee3bfa32 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (gcc (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin15) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 4 23:17:29 CST 2026
On 5/4/26 06:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 Wed, 06 May 2026 13:50:54 +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-6.18.27-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
On 5/4/26 06:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 Wed, 06 May 2026 13:50:54 +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-6.18.27-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 Mon, 04 May 2026 15:49:00 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 Wed, 06 May 2026 13:50:54 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested for loongarch64:
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org
Thanks!
Cheers, Miguel
On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 03:49:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 Mon, May 04, 2026 at 03:49:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 5/4/26 07:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 Wed, 06 May 2026 13:50:54 +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-6.18.27-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 Mon, May 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.27 release. There are 275 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 Wed, 06 May 2026 13:50:54 +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-6.18.27-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
The kernel was built successfully and booted without any issues in the virtual environment. No dmesg regressions were observed during testing.
kernel version: 6.18.27-rc1 Configurations: x86_64_defconfig, defconfig Architectures: arm64, x86_64 Kernel Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git Commit: bc63ee3bfa3240cc8657ef3302d0f3923f8b4bd6
Tested-by: Dileep Malepu dileep.debian@gmail.com
Regards, Dileep Malepu.