This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +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-6.18.20-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 6.18.20-rc1
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (max6639) Fix pulses-per-revolution implementation
Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com arm64: realm: Fix PTE_NS_SHARED for 52bit PA support
Josh Law objecting@objecting.org tools/bootconfig: fix fd leak in load_xbc_file() on fstat failure
Josh Law objecting@objecting.org lib/bootconfig: check xbc_init_node() return in override path
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org fs/tests: exec: Remove bad test vector
Rahul Bukte rahul.bukte@sony.com drm/i915/gt: Check set_default_submission() before deferencing
Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com ksmbd: fix use-after-free in durable v2 replay of active file handles
Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com ksmbd: fix use-after-free of share_conf in compound request
Jonas Karlman jonas@kwiboo.se drm/bridge: dw-hdmi-qp: fix multi-channel audio output
Andy Nguyen theofficialflow1996@gmail.com drm/amd: fix dcn 2.01 check
Srinivasan Shanmugam srinivasan.shanmugam@amd.com drm/amd/display: Fix DisplayID not-found handling in parse_edid_displayid_vrr()
Lizhi Hou lizhi.hou@amd.com iommu/sva: Fix crash in iommu_sva_unbind_device()
Ian Forbes ian.forbes@broadcom.com drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com spi: amlogic-spisg: Fix memory leak in aml_spisg_probe()
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com spi: amlogic: spifc-a4: Remove redundant clock cleanup
Kamal Dasu kamal.dasu@broadcom.com mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: skip DMA during panic write
Kamal Dasu kamal.dasu@broadcom.com mtd: rawnand: serialize lock/unlock against other NAND operations
Andrei Vagin avagin@google.com binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix AUXV size calculation for ELF_HWCAP3 and ELF_HWCAP4
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix trace_marker copy link list updates
Kyle Meyer kyle.meyer@hpe.com x86/platform/uv: Handle deconfigured sockets
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix failure to read user space from system call trace events
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of persistent ring buffer
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org perf/x86: Move event pointer setup earlier in x86_pmu_enable()
Dapeng Mi dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel: Add missing branch counters constraint apply
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com irqchip/riscv-rpmi-sysmsi: Fix mailbox channel leak in rpmi_sysmsi_probe()
Gabor Juhos j4g8y7@gmail.com i2c: pxa: defer reset on Armada 3700 when recovery is used
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr i2c: fsi: Fix a potential leak in fsi_i2c_probe()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org i2c: cp2615: fix serial string NULL-deref at probe
Ji-Ze Hong (Peter Hong) peter_hong@fintek.com.tw USB: serial: f81232: fix incomplete serial port generation
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (pmbus/isl68137) Fix unchecked return value and use sysfs_emit()
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (pmbus/mp2869) Check pmbus_read_byte_data() before using its return value
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (pmbus/mp2975) Add error check for pmbus_read_word_data() return value
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (pmbus/ina233) Add error check for pmbus_read_word_data() return value
Li Xiasong lixiasong1@huawei.com MPTCP: fix lock class name family in pm_nl_create_listen_socket
Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com icmp: fix NULL pointer dereference in icmp_tag_validation()
Anas Iqbal mohd.abd.6602@gmail.com net: dsa: bcm_sf2: fix missing clk_disable_unprepare() in error paths
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: shaper: protect from late creation of hierarchy
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: shaper: protect late read accesses to the hierarchy
Muhammad Hammad Ijaz mhijaz@amazon.com net: mvpp2: guard flow control update with global_tx_fc in buffer switching
Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com nfnetlink_osf: validate individual option lengths in fingerprints
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nf_tables: release flowtable after rcu grace period on error
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de netfilter: bpf: defer hook memory release until rcu readers are done
Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu net: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show
Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu udp_tunnel: fix NULL deref caused by udp_sock_create6 when CONFIG_IPV6=n
Jianbo Liu jianbol@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Fix race condition during IPSec ESN update
Jianbo Liu jianbol@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Prevent concurrent access to IPSec ASO context
Cosmin Ratiu cratiu@nvidia.com net/mlx5: qos: Restrict RTNL area to avoid a lock cycle
Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru net: macb: fix uninitialized rx_fs_lock
Wesley Atwell atwellwea@gmail.com netdevsim: drop PSP ext ref on forward failure
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: processor: Fix previous acpi_processor_errata_piix4() fix
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net wifi: wlcore: Return -ENOMEM instead of -EAGAIN if there is not enough headroom
Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu wifi: mac80211: fix NULL deref in mesh_matches_local()
Michal Swiatkowski michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com libie: prevent memleak in fwlog code
Petr Oros poros@redhat.com iavf: fix VLAN filter lost on add/delete race
Zdenek Bouska zdenek.bouska@siemens.com igc: fix page fault in XDP TX timestamps handling
Kohei Enju kohei@enjuk.jp igc: fix missing update of skb->tail in igc_xmit_frame()
Saket Dumbre saket.dumbre@intel.com ACPICA: Update the format of Arg3 of _DSM
Nikola Z. Ivanov zlatistiv@gmail.com net: usb: aqc111: Do not perform PM inside suspend callback
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net clsact: Fix use-after-free in init/destroy rollback asymmetry
Tobi Gaertner tob.gaertner@me.com net: usb: cdc_ncm: add ndpoffset to NDP32 nframes bounds check
Tobi Gaertner tob.gaertner@me.com net: usb: cdc_ncm: add ndpoffset to NDP16 nframes bounds check
Lorenzo Bianconi lorenzo@kernel.org net: airoha: Remove airoha_dev_stop() in airoha_remove()
Jamal Hadi Salim jhs@mojatatu.com net/sched: teql: Fix double-free in teql_master_xmit
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@shopee.com net/smc: fix NULL dereference and UAF in smc_tcp_syn_recv_sock()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org PM: runtime: Fix a race condition related to device removal
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com sched: idle: Consolidate the handling of two special cases
Dipayaan Roy dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown
Justin Chen justin.chen@broadcom.com net: bcmgenet: increase WoL poll timeout
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net crypto: ccp - Fix leaking the same page twice
Jenny Guanni Qu qguanni@gmail.com netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: check for zero length in DecodeQ931()
Jenny Guanni Qu qguanni@gmail.com netfilter: xt_time: use unsigned int for monthday bit shift
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: xt_CT: drop pending enqueued packets on template removal
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_ct: drop pending enqueued packets on removal
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org nf_tables: nft_dynset: fix possible stateful expression memleak in error path
Jenny Guanni Qu qguanni@gmail.com netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_int() CONS case
Lukas Johannes Möller research@johannes-moeller.dev netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix Content-Length u32 truncation in sip_help_tcp()
Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com netfilter: ctnetlink: fix use-after-free in ctnetlink_dump_exp_ct()
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net mpls: add missing unregister_netdevice_notifier to mpls_init
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@shopee.com net/rose: fix NULL pointer dereference in rose_transmit_link on reconnect
Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com bridge: cfm: Fix race condition in peer_mep deletion
Dmitry Baryshkov dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com Bluetooth: qca: fix ROM version reading on WCN3998 chips
Shaurya Rane ssrane_b23@ee.vjti.ac.in Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user
Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: HIDP: Fix possible UAF
Wang Tao wangtao554@huawei.com Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix list corruption and UAF in command complete handlers
Michael Grzeschik m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix hci_le_create_conn_sync
Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: ISO: Fix defer tests being unstable
Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de Bluetooth: SMP: make SM/PER/KDU/BI-04-C happy
Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de Bluetooth: LE L2CAP: Disconnect if sum of payload sizes exceed SDU
Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de Bluetooth: LE L2CAP: Disconnect if received packet's SDU exceeds IMTU
Cristian Marussi cristian.marussi@arm.com firmware: arm_scmi: Fix NULL dereference on notify error path
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com firmware: arm_scpi: Fix device_node reference leak in probe path
Yeoreum Yun yeoreum.yun@arm.com firmware: arm_ffa: Remove vm_id argument in ffa_rxtx_unmap()
Claudiu Beznea claudiu.beznea.uj@bp.renesas.com arm64: dts: renesas: rzg3s-smarc-som: Set bypass for Versa3 PLL2
Lad Prabhakar prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com arm64: dts: renesas: r9a09g087: Fix CPG register region sizes
Lad Prabhakar prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com arm64: dts: renesas: r9a09g077: Fix CPG register region sizes
Fabrizio Castro fabrizio.castro.jz@renesas.com arm64: dts: renesas: r9a09g057: Remove wdt{0,2,3} nodes
Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.rb@renesas.com arm64: dts: renesas: r9a09g057: Add RTC node
Lad Prabhakar prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com arm64: dts: renesas: rzv2-evk-cn15-sd: Add ramp delay for SD0 regulator
Lad Prabhakar prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com arm64: dts: renesas: rzt2h-n2h-evk: Add ramp delay for SD0 card regulator
Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy peddolla.reddy@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: cfg80211: cancel pmsr_free_wk in cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com wifi: mac80211: Fix static_branch_dec() underflow for aql_disable.
Nicolas Cavallari nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr wifi: mac80211: use jiffies_delta_to_msecs() for sta_info inactive times
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: mac80211: remove keys after disabling beaconing
Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org tee: shm: Remove refcounting of kernel pages
Chen Ni nichen@iscas.ac.cn soc: fsl: cpm1: qmc: Fix error check for devm_ioremap_resource() in qmc_qe_init_resources()
Richard Genoud richard.genoud@bootlin.com soc: fsl: qbman: fix race condition in qman_destroy_fq
Shawn Lin shawn.lin@rock-chips.com soc: rockchip: grf: Add missing of_node_put() when returning
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com cache: ax45mp: Fix device node reference leak in ax45mp_cache_init()
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com cache: starfive: fix device node leak in starlink_cache_init()
Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn soc: microchip: mpfs: Fix memory leak in mpfs_sys_controller_probe()
ZhengYuan Huang gality369@gmail.com btrfs: tree-checker: fix misleading root drop_level error message
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: log new dentries when logging parent dir of a conflicting inode
Jouni Högander jouni.hogander@intel.com drm/i915/psr: Compute PSR entry_setup_frames into intel_crtc_state
Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix accepting multiple L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ
Matthew Brost matthew.brost@intel.com drm/xe: Open-code GGTT MMIO access protection
Ashutosh Dixit ashutosh.dixit@intel.com drm/xe/oa: Allow reading after disabling OA stream
Zhanjun Dong zhanjun.dong@intel.com drm/xe/guc: Ensure CT state transitions via STOP before DISABLED
Imre Deak imre.deak@intel.com drm/i915/dmc: Fix an unlikely NULL pointer deference at probe
Jesse.Zhang Jesse.Zhang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Limit BO list entry count to prevent resource exhaustion
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu: apply state adjust rules to some additional HAINAN vairants
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/radeon: apply state adjust rules to some additional HAINAN vairants
Alessio Belle alessio.belle@imgtec.com drm/imagination: Synchronize interrupts before suspending the GPU
Alessio Belle alessio.belle@imgtec.com drm/imagination: Fix deadlock in soft reset sequence
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/mmhub4.1.0: add bounds checking for cid
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/mmhub3.0: add bounds checking for cid
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/mmhub3.0.2: add bounds checking for cid
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/mmhub3.0.1: add bounds checking for cid
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/mmhub2.3: add bounds checking for cid
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/mmhub2.0: add bounds checking for cid
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu/gmc9.0: add bounds checking for cid
Xi Ruoyao xry111@xry111.site drm/amd/display: Wrap dcn32_override_min_req_memclk() in DC_FP_{START, END}
Maarten Lankhorst dev@lankhorst.se drm: Fix use-after-free on framebuffers and property blobs when calling drm_dev_unplug
Maciej Andrzejewski ICEYE maciej.andrzejewski@m-works.net serial: uartlite: fix PM runtime usage count underflow on probe
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@shopee.com serial: core: fix infinite loop in handle_tx() for PORT_UNKNOWN
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com serial: 8250_dw: Ensure BUSY is deasserted
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com serial: 8250: Add late synchronize_irq() to shutdown to handle DW UART BUSY
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com serial: 8250_dw: Rework IIR_NO_INT handling to stop interrupt storm
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com serial: 8250_dw: Rework dw8250_handle_irq() locking and IIR handling
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com serial: 8250: Add serial8250_handle_irq_locked()
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com serial: 8250_dw: Avoid unnecessary LCR writes
Ilpo Järvinen ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com serial: 8250: Protect LCR write in shutdown
Peng Zhang zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com serial: 8250: always disable IRQ during THRE test
Raul E Rangel rrangel@chromium.org serial: 8250: Fix TX deadlock when using DMA
Martin Roukala (né Peres) martin.roukala@mupuf.org serial: 8250_pci: add support for the AX99100
Nicolas Pitre npitre@baylibre.com vt: save/restore unicode screen buffer for alternate screen
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/kbuf: propagate BUF_MORE through early buffer commit path
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/kbuf: fix missing BUF_MORE for incremental buffers at EOF
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/poll: fix multishot recv missing EOF on wakeup race
Lu Baolu baolu.lu@linux.intel.com iommu/vt-d: Only handle IOPF for SVA when PRI is supported
Guanghui Feng guanghuifeng@linux.alibaba.com iommu/vt-d: Fix intel iommu iotlb sync hardlockup and retry
Finn Thain fthain@linux-m68k.org mtd: Avoid boot crash in RedBoot partition table parser
Chen Ni nichen@iscas.ac.cn mtd: rawnand: cadence: Fix error check for dma_alloc_coherent() in cadence_nand_init()
Olivier Sobrie olivier@sobrie.be mtd: rawnand: pl353: make sure optimal timings are applied
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: fix statistics allocation
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: fix use-after-free on controller registration failure
Maíra Canal mcanal@igalia.com pmdomain: bcm: bcm2835-power: Increase ASB control timeout
Luke Wang ziniu.wang_1@nxp.com mmc: sdhci: fix timing selection for 1-bit bus width
Matthew Schwartz matthew.schwartz@linux.dev mmc: sdhci-pci-gli: fix GL9750 DMA write corruption
Damien Le Moal dlemoal@kernel.org ata: libata-scsi: report correct sense field pointer in ata_scsiop_maint_in()
Damien Le Moal dlemoal@kernel.org ata: libata-core: disable LPM on ADATA SU680 SSD
Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com mm/huge_memory: fix a folio_split() race condition with folio_try_get()
Corey Minyard corey@minyard.net ipmi:msghandler: Handle error returns from the SMI sender
Corey Minyard corey@minyard.net ipmi: Consolidate the run to completion checking for xmit msgs lock
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Disable preemption between scx_claim_exit() and kicking helper work
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Simplify breather mechanism with scx_aborting flag
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Fix starvation of scx_enable() under fair-class saturation
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org nsfs: tighten permission checks for ns iteration ioctls
Shuicheng Lin shuicheng.lin@intel.com drm/xe/sync: Fix user fence leak on alloc failure
Shengming Hu hu.shengming@zte.com.cn fgraph: Fix thresh_return nosleeptime double-adjust
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev ksmbd: Don't log keys in SMB3 signing and encryption key generation
Kevin Hao haokexin@gmail.com net: macb: Shuffle the tx ring before enabling tx
Théo Lebrun theo.lebrun@bootlin.com net: macb: sort #includes
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915/vrr: Configure VRR timings after enabling TRANS_DDI_FUNC_CTL
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915/vrr: Move HAS_VRR() check into intel_vrr_set_transcoder_timings()
Varun Gupta varun.gupta@intel.com drm/xe: Fix memory leak in xe_vm_madvise_ioctl
Shyam Prasad N sprasad@microsoft.com cifs: open files should not hold ref on superblock
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-sha204a - Fix OOM ->tfm_count leak
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org netconsole: fix sysdata_release_enabled_show checking wrong flag
Mehul Rao mehulrao@gmail.com ublk: fix NULL pointer dereference in ublk_ctrl_set_size()
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Check return values for set_memory_{rw,rox}
Kevin Hao haokexin@gmail.com net: macb: Reinitialize tx/rx queue pointer registers and rx ring during resume
Kevin Hao haokexin@gmail.com net: macb: Introduce gem_init_rx_ring()
Jouni Högander jouni.hogander@intel.com drm/i915/psr: Write DSC parameters on Selective Update in ET mode
Jouni Högander jouni.hogander@intel.com drm/i915/dsc: Add helper for writing DSC Selective Update ET parameters
Jouni Högander jouni.hogander@intel.com drm/i915/dsc: Add Selective Update register definitions
Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org ksmbd: use volume UUID in FS_OBJECT_ID_INFORMATION
Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org ksmbd: unset conn->binding on failed binding request
Paulo Alcantara pc@manguebit.org smb: client: fix krb5 mount with username option
Lukas Johannes Möller research@johannes-moeller.dev Bluetooth: L2CAP: Validate L2CAP_INFO_RSP payload length before access
Lukas Johannes Möller research@johannes-moeller.dev Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix type confusion in l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp()
AlanSong-oc AlanSong-oc@zhaoxin.com crypto: padlock-sha - Disable for Zhaoxin processor
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: fix crash in ieee80211_chan_bw_change for AP_VLAN stations
Yang Yang n05ec@lzu.edu.cn batman-adv: avoid OGM aggregation when skb tailroom is insufficient
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de parisc: Flush correct cache in cacheflush() syscall
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com bnxt_en: fix OOB access in DBG_BUF_PRODUCER async event handler
Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru net: macb: fix use-after-free access to PTP clock
Ian Ray ian.ray@gehealthcare.com NFC: nxp-nci: allow GPIOs to sleep
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: No need to flush icache if text copy failed
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Give more information if kmem access failed
Wei Yang richard.weiyang@gmail.com mm/huge_memory: fix early failure try_to_migrate() when split huge pmd for shared THP
Chris Down chris@chrisdown.name mm/huge_memory: fix use of NULL folio in move_pages_huge_pmd()
Dev Jain dev.jain@arm.com mm/rmap: fix incorrect pte restoration for lazyfree folios
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crash_dump: don't log dm-crypt key bytes in read_key_from_user_keying
Ira Weiny ira.weiny@intel.com nvdimm/bus: Fix potential use after free in asynchronous initialization
Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org sunrpc: fix cache_request leak in cache_release
Benjamin Tissoires bentiss@kernel.org HID: bpf: prevent buffer overflow in hid_hw_request
Benjamin Tissoires bentiss@kernel.org selftests/hid: fix compilation when bpf_wq and hid_device are not exported
Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org nfsd: fix heap overflow in NFSv4.0 LOCK replay cache
Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd
Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com NFSD: Defer sub-object cleanup in export put callbacks
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Documentation/netlink/specs/net_shaper.yaml | 12 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a09g057.dtsi | 37 +-- arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a09g077.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a09g087.dtsi | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/rzg3s-smarc-som.dtsi | 2 +- .../boot/dts/renesas/rzt2h-n2h-evk-common.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/rzv2-evk-cn15-sd.dtso | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/rsi.c | 3 +- arch/loongarch/include/asm/uaccess.h | 14 +- arch/loongarch/kernel/inst.c | 21 +- arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 4 +- arch/x86/events/core.c | 3 +- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 31 ++- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c | 18 +- drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c | 15 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/acpredef.h | 2 +- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 3 + drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 2 +- drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 1 + drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 12 +- drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c | 2 + drivers/cache/ax45mp_cache.c | 4 +- drivers/cache/starfive_starlink_cache.c | 4 +- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 144 ++++++---- drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c | 5 +- drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.c | 7 + drivers/firewire/net.c | 5 +- drivers/firmware/arm_ffa/driver.c | 8 +- drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/notify.c | 4 +- drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_bo_list.c | 4 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v9_0.c | 21 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mmhub_v2_0.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mmhub_v2_3.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mmhub_v3_0.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mmhub_v3_0_1.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mmhub_v3_0_2.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mmhub_v4_1_0.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/clk_mgr/clk_mgr.c | 8 +- .../amd/display/dc/resource/dcn32/dcn32_resource.c | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/si_dpm.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi-qp.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c | 9 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 2 - .../drm/i915/display/intel_display_power_well.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_types.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_psr.c | 16 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vdsc.c | 23 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vdsc.h | 3 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vdsc_regs.h | 12 + drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vrr.c | 17 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_device.c | 17 -- drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_power.c | 22 +- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/si_dpm.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ggtt.c | 10 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ggtt_types.h | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_ct.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_oa.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_sync.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm_madvise.c | 3 +- drivers/hid/bpf/hid_bpf_dispatch.c | 2 + drivers/hwmon/max6639.c | 10 +- drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ina233.c | 2 + drivers/hwmon/pmbus/isl68137.c | 7 +- drivers/hwmon/pmbus/mp2869.c | 35 ++- drivers/hwmon/pmbus/mp2975.c | 2 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cp2615.c | 3 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-fsi.c | 1 + drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-pxa.c | 17 +- drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c | 3 +- drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c | 12 +- drivers/iommu/iommu-sva.c | 12 +- drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-rpmi-sysmsi.c | 1 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci-gli.c | 9 + drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 9 +- drivers/mtd/nand/raw/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 6 +- drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c | 14 +- drivers/mtd/nand/raw/pl35x-nand-controller.c | 3 + drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c | 6 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_debugfs.c | 16 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 8 +- drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet_wol.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 161 +++++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_ptp.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc.h | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 14 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ptp.c | 33 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/libie/fwlog.c | 49 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c | 4 +- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.h | 1 + .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_offload.c | 52 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/qos.c | 23 +- drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c | 6 +- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 2 +- drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c | 5 +- drivers/net/usb/aqc111.c | 12 +- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 10 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/channel.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/scan.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/tx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c | 1 - drivers/nfc/nxp-nci/i2c.c | 4 +- drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 5 +- drivers/pmdomain/bcm/bcm2835-power.c | 12 +- drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c | 24 +- drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qmc.c | 4 +- drivers/soc/microchip/mpfs-sys-controller.c | 13 +- drivers/soc/rockchip/grf.c | 1 + drivers/spi/spi-amlogic-spifc-a4.c | 46 +--- drivers/spi/spi-amlogic-spisg.c | 12 +- drivers/spi/spi.c | 25 +- drivers/tee/tee_shm.c | 27 -- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h | 25 ++ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c | 15 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 304 ++++++++++++++++----- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 17 ++ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 75 +++-- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c | 1 + drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 8 + drivers/usb/serial/f81232.c | 77 ++++-- fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | 6 + fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 6 + fs/nfsd/export.c | 63 ++++- fs/nfsd/export.h | 7 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 9 +- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 22 +- fs/nfsd/state.h | 17 +- fs/nsfs.c | 13 + fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c | 7 +- fs/smb/client/cifsproto.h | 1 + fs/smb/client/connect.c | 4 + fs/smb/client/file.c | 11 - fs/smb/client/misc.c | 42 +++ fs/smb/client/trace.h | 2 + fs/smb/server/auth.c | 22 +- fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 17 +- fs/tests/exec_kunit.c | 3 - include/linux/auxvec.h | 2 +- include/linux/console_struct.h | 1 + include/linux/etherdevice.h | 3 +- include/linux/if_ether.h | 3 +- include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 3 + include/linux/netdevice.h | 6 +- include/linux/ns_common.h | 2 + include/linux/serial_8250.h | 1 + include/net/mac80211.h | 4 +- include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 2 + include/net/sch_generic.h | 33 +++ include/net/udp_tunnel.h | 2 +- io_uring/kbuf.c | 14 +- io_uring/poll.c | 9 +- kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c | 4 +- kernel/nscommon.c | 6 + kernel/sched/ext.c | 132 ++++++--- kernel/sched/idle.c | 30 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 36 ++- kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 15 +- lib/bootconfig.c | 3 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 12 +- mm/rmap.c | 21 +- net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 3 + net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c | 4 +- net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 2 +- net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c | 16 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 51 ++-- net/bluetooth/mgmt.c | 7 +- net/bluetooth/smp.c | 2 +- net/bridge/br_cfm.c | 4 +- net/ethernet/eth.c | 9 +- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 3 +- net/mac80211/cfg.c | 12 +- net/mac80211/chan.c | 6 +- net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 14 +- net/mac80211/mesh.c | 3 + net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 7 +- net/mac80211/tx.c | 4 +- net/mac802154/iface.c | 4 +- net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 1 + net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c | 4 + net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 26 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c | 6 +- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 5 +- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c | 13 + net/netfilter/nft_ct.c | 4 + net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c | 10 +- net/netfilter/xt_CT.c | 4 + net/netfilter/xt_time.c | 4 +- net/phonet/af_phonet.c | 5 +- net/rose/af_rose.c | 5 + net/sched/sch_generic.c | 27 -- net/sched/sch_ingress.c | 14 +- net/sched/sch_teql.c | 7 +- net/shaper/shaper.c | 160 ++++++----- net/shaper/shaper_nl_gen.c | 12 +- net/shaper/shaper_nl_gen.h | 5 + net/smc/af_smc.c | 23 +- net/smc/smc.h | 5 + net/smc/smc_close.c | 2 +- net/sunrpc/cache.c | 26 +- net/wireless/pmsr.c | 1 + tools/bootconfig/main.c | 7 +- .../testing/selftests/hid/progs/hid_bpf_helpers.h | 12 + 221 files changed, 2109 insertions(+), 963 deletions(-)
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.18.20-rc1-g81b464548274 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Mar 23 15:03:57 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
Am 23.03.2026 um 14:43 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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 3/23/26 06:43, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +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-6.18.20-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 3/23/26 07:43, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +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-6.18.20-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
hello,
Compiled and booted 6.18.20-rc1+ No new typical dmesg regressions .
Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in
-- software engineer rajagiri school of engineering and technology-
On 3/23/26 06:43, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +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-6.18.20-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, 23 Mar 2026 14:43:41 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +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-6.18.20-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: 11 builds: 11 pass, 0 fail 28 boots: 28 pass, 0 fail 133 tests: 133 pass, 0 fail
Linux version: 6.18.20-rc1-g81b464548274 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, tegra234-p3737-0000+p3701-0000, tegra234-p3768-0000+p3767-0005, tegra30-cardhu-a04
Tested-by: Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com
Jon
Build tested in our x86,arm64,loongarch config without error.
Tested-by: Wentao Guan guanwentao@uniontech.com
BRs Wentao Guan
defconfigs: https://gist.github.com/opsiff/1768e5fc7f76e59c7c97a4b0f56f4adc
Log: strings vmlinux-* | grep "Linux version 6.18.20-rc1" Linux version 6.18.20-rc1-g81b464548274 (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 6.18.20-rc1-g81b464548274 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar 24 16:11:27 CST 2026 Linux version 6.18.20-rc1-loong64-desktop-hwe-g81b464548274 (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 6.18.20-rc1-loong64-desktop-hwe-g81b464548274 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (loongarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar 24 16:36:27 CST 2026 Linux version 6.18.20-rc1-g81b464548274-dirty (guanwentao@uos-PC) (gcc (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin14) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) # SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Linux version 6.18.20-rc1-g81b464548274-dirty (guanwentao@uos-PC) (gcc (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin14) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) # SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Mar 24 11:42:37 CST 2026
On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 02:43:41PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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, Mar 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.20 release. There are 212 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, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:33 +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-6.18.20-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
Build and Boot Report for 6.18.20-rc1
Build and boot testing was performed on version 6.18.20-rc1 using the default configuration on both x86_64 and arm64 architectures in a virtual environment. The kernel built and booted successfully, and no dmesg regressions were observed.
kernel version: 6.18.29-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: 81b464548274640c3c68993f4bc8d17369263096
Tested-by: Dileep Malepu dileep.debian@gmail.com
Best regards, Dileep Malepu