This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.30 release. There are 268 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, 15 May 2026 15:37:20 +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-6.18.30-rc2... 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 6.18.30-rc2
Prathyushi Nangia prathyushi.nangia@amd.com x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent improper isolation of shared resources in Zen2's op cache
Gary Guo gary@garyguo.net rust: pin-init: fix incorrect accessor reference lifetime
Sam Edwards cfsworks@gmail.com net: stmmac: Prevent NULL deref when RX memory exhausted
Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk net: stmmac: rename STMMAC_GET_ENTRY() -> STMMAC_NEXT_ENTRY()
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: caam - guard HMAC key hex dumps in hash_digest_key
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev printk: add print_hex_dump_devel()
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com erofs: fix unsigned underflow in z_erofs_lz4_handle_overlap()
Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org erofs: tidy up z_erofs_lz4_handle_overlap()
Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn hfsplus: fix held lock freed on hfsplus_fill_super()
Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com hfsplus: fix uninit-value by validating catalog record size
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com firmware: exynos-acpm: Drop fake 'const' on handle pointer
Kairui Song kasong@tencent.com mm, swap: speed up hibernation allocation and writeout
Suman Kumar Chakraborty suman.kumar.chakraborty@intel.com crypto: qat - fix firmware loading failure for GEN6 devices
Suman Kumar Chakraborty suman.kumar.chakraborty@intel.com crypto: qat - fix indentation of macros in qat_hal.c
Luke Wang ziniu.wang_1@nxp.com mmc: core: Optimize time for secure erase/trim for some Kingston eMMCs
Avri Altman avri.altman@sandisk.com mmc: core: Add quirk for incorrect manufacturing date
Avri Altman avri.altman@sandisk.com mmc: core: Adjust MDT beyond 2025
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com octeon_ep_vf: add NULL check for napi_build_skb()
Thomas Weißschuh linux@weissschuh.net hwmon: (powerz) Avoid cacheline sharing for DMA buffer
Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com dma-mapping: add __dma_from_device_group_begin()/end()
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de fbdev: defio: Disconnect deferred I/O from the lifetime of struct fb_info
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/core: disallow non-power of two min_region_sz on damon_start()
Alexei Starovoitov ast@kernel.org bpf: Fix use-after-free in arena_vm_close on fork
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/tw: serialize ctx->retry_llist with ->uring_lock
Martin Michaelis code@mgjm.de io_uring/kbuf: support min length left for incremental buffers
Huacai Chen chenhuacai@kernel.org LoongArch: Use per-root-bridge PCIH flag to skip mem resource fixup
Tao Cui cuitao@kylinos.cn LoongArch: KVM: Use kvm_set_pte() in kvm_flush_pte()
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Move unconditional delay into timer clear scenery
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Fix HW timer interrupt lost when inject interrupt by software
Xianglai Li lixianglai@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Fix "unreliable stack" for kvm_exc_entry
Qiang Ma maqianga@uniontech.com LoongArch: KVM: Cap KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS by KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS
Wentao Guan guanwentao@uniontech.com LoongArch: Fix potential ADE in loongson_gpu_fixup_dma_hang()
Fuad Tabba tabba@google.com KVM: arm64: Fix pin leak and publication ordering in __pkvm_init_vcpu()
Fuad Tabba tabba@google.com KVM: arm64: Fix FEAT_Debugv8p9 to check DebugVer, not PMUVer
Fuad Tabba tabba@google.com KVM: arm64: Fix FEAT_SPE_FnE to use PMSIDR_EL1.FnE, not PMSVer
Quentin Perret qperret@google.com KVM: arm64: Fix initialisation order in __pkvm_init_finalise()
David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk KVM: arm64: vgic: Fix IIDR revision field extracted from wrong value
Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org KVM: arm64: Wake-up from WFI when iqrchip is in userspace
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix fsck inconsistency caused by FGGC of node block
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix inline data not being written to disk in writeback path
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: refactor f2fs_move_node_folio function
Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244@gmail.com f2fs: fix uninitialized kobject put in f2fs_init_sysfs()
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix node_cnt race between extent node destroy and writeback
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix incorrect multidevice info in trace_f2fs_map_blocks()
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix incorrect file address mapping when inline inode is unwritten
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix fsck inconsistency caused by incorrect nat_entry flag usage
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix fiemap boundary handling when read extent cache is incomplete
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com f2fs: add READ_ONCE() for i_blocks in f2fs_update_inode()
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: return early if no retrans
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: resched blocked ADD_ADDR quicker
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: free sk if last
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: always decrease sk refcount
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: fix potential data-race
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: allow ID 0
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: kernel: correctly retransmit ADD_ADDR ID 0
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: prio: skip closed subflows
Gang Yan yangang@kylinos.cn mptcp: fix scheduling with atomic in timestamp sockopt
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com mptcp: fix rx timestamp corruption on fastopen
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: sockopt: increase seq in mptcp_setsockopt_all_sf
Gang Yan yangang@kylinos.cn mptcp: sockopt: set timestamp flags on subflow socket, not msk
Shardul Bankar shardul.b@mpiricsoftware.com mptcp: use MPTCP_RST_EMPTCP for ACK HMAC validation failure
Shardul Bankar shardul.b@mpiricsoftware.com mptcp: use MPJoinSynAckHMacFailure for SynAck HMAC failure
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: fastclose msk when linger time is 0
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: pm: restrict 'unknown' check to pm_nl_ctl
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: check output: catch cmd errors
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com sched_ext: idle: Recheck prev_cpu after narrowing allowed mask
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/vmw_pvrdma: Fix double free on pvrdma_alloc_ucontext() error path
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com RDMA/rxe: Reject unknown opcodes before ICRC processing
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com RDMA/rxe: Reject non-8-byte ATOMIC_WRITE payloads
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/ocrdma: Don't NULL deref uctx on errors in ocrdma_copy_pd_uresp()
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix error path fall-through in mlx5_ib_dev_res_srq_init()
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/mlx4: Fix resource leak on error in mlx4_ib_create_srq()
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/mlx4: Fix mis-use of RCU in mlx4_srq_event()
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/mana: Validate rx_hash_key_len
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/mana: Remove user triggerable WARN_ON() in mana_ib_create_qp_rss()
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/mana: Fix mana_destroy_wq_obj() cleanup in mana_ib_create_qp_rss()
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/mana: Fix error unwind in mana_ib_create_qp_rss()
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/ionic: Fix typo in format string
Kai Zen kai.aizen.dev@gmail.com RDMA/ionic: bound node_desc sysfs read with %.64s
Dapeng Mi dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel: Always reprogram ACR events to prevent stale masks
Nilay Shroff nilay@linux.ibm.com powerpc/xive: fix kmemleak caused by incorrect chip_data lookup
André Draszik andre.draszik@linaro.org power: supply: max17042: avoid overflow when determining health
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de PCI/ASPM: Fix pci_clear_and_set_config_dword() usage
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de PCI/AER: Stop ruling out unbound devices as error source
Shuai Xue xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com PCI/AER: Clear only error bits in PCIe Device Status
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de PCI: Update saved_config_space upon resource assignment
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: protect memcg_path kfree() with damon_sysfs_lock
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/stat: detect and use fresh enabled value
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: Do IRR scan in __kvm_apic_update_irr even if PIR is empty
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: x86: check for nEPT/nNPT in slow flush hypercalls
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com smb: client: validate dacloffset before building DACL pointers
Bjoern Doebel doebel@amazon.de smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer
Zisen Ye zisenye@stu.xidian.edu.cn smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in symlink_data()
Zisen Ye zisenye@stu.xidian.edu.cn smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in smb2_compound_op()
Ranjan Kumar ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com scsi: mpt3sas: Limit NVMe request size to 2 MiB
Pengpeng Hou pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn s390/debug: Reject zero-length input before trimming a newline
Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com s390/debug: Reject zero-length input in debug_input_flush_fn()
Osama Abdelkader osama.abdelkader@gmail.com riscv: kvm: fix vector context allocation leak
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca RDMA/hns: Fix unlocked call to hns_roce_qp_remove()
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com psp: strip variable-length PSP header in psp_dev_rcv()
Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson@linaro.org pmdomain: core: Fix detach procedure for virtual devices in genpd
Ilya Maximets i.maximets@ovn.org openvswitch: vport: fix self-deadlock on release of tunnel ports
Chaitanya Kulkarni kch@nvidia.com nvmet: avoid recursive nvmet-wq flush in nvmet_ctrl_free
Chaitanya Kulkarni kch@nvidia.com nvmet-tcp: fix race between ICReq handling and queue teardown
Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru nvme-apple: drop invalid put of admin queue reference count
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com md/raid10: fix divide-by-zero in setup_geo() with zero far_copies
Raphael Zimmer raphael.zimmer@tu-ilmenau.de libceph: Fix slab-out-of-bounds access in auth message processing
Christian A. Ehrhardt lk@c--e.de lib/scatterlist: fix temp buffer in extract_user_to_sg()
Christian A. Ehrhardt lk@c--e.de lib/scatterlist: fix length calculations in extract_kvec_to_sg
Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl()
Nicolin Chen nicolinc@nvidia.com iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add a missing dma_wmb() for hitless STE update
Zhenzhong Duan zhenzhong.duan@intel.com iommu/vt-d: Block PASID attachment to nested domain with dirty tracking
Zhenzhong Duan zhenzhong.duan@intel.com iommufd: Fix return value of iommufd_fault_fops_write()
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com isofs: validate block number from NFS file handle in isofs_export_iget
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com isofs: validate Rock Ridge CE continuation extent against volume size
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org dm-verity-fec: correctly reject too-small hash devices
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org dm-verity-fec: correctly reject too-small FEC devices
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex and SRCU when remount walks events
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm: fix a buffer overflow in ioctl processing
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm: don't report warning when doing deferred remove
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-thin: fix metadata refcount underflow
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix missing last_unlink_trans update when removing a directory
Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244@gmail.com btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info() error path
Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com ASoC: qcom: q6apm: remove child devices when apm is removed
Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com ASoC: qcom: q6apm-lpass-dai: Fix multiple graph opens
Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com ASoC: qcom: q6apm-dai: reset queue ptr on trigger stop
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ASoC: Intel: bytcr_wm5102: Fix MCLK leak on platform_clock_control error
Joseph Salisbury joseph.salisbury@oracle.com ASoC: fsl_easrc: fix comment typo
Li Jian lazycat-xiao@foxmail.com ASoC: ES8389: convert to devm_clk_get_optional() to get clock
Tommaso Soncin soncintommaso@gmail.com ASoC: amd: yc: Add HP OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap0xxx product line in quirk table
Shrikanth Hegde sshegde@linux.ibm.com cpuidle: powerpc: avoid double clear when breaking snooze
Conor Dooley conor.dooley@microchip.com clk: microchip: mpfs-ccc: fix out of bounds access during output registration
Stefan Eichenberger stefan.eichenberger@toradex.com clk: imx: imx8-acm: fix flags for acm clocks
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing/probes: Limit size of event probe to 3K
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: topcliff-pch: fix use-after-free on unbind
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: topcliff-pch: fix controller deregistration
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev thermal/drivers/sprd: Fix raw temperature clamping in sprd_thm_rawdata_to_temp
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev thermal/drivers/sprd: Fix temperature clamping in sprd_thm_temp_to_rawdata
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com thermal: core: Free thermal zone ID later during removal
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com udf: reject descriptors with oversized CRC length
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com tracefs: Fix default permissions not being applied on initial mount
Conor Dooley conor.dooley@microchip.com spi: microchip-core-qspi: control built-in cs manually
Conor Dooley conor.dooley@microchip.com spi: microchip-core-qspi: don't attempt to transmit during emulated read-only dual/quad operations
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: microchip-core-qspi: fix controller deregistration
Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244@gmail.com ice: fix double free in ice_sf_eth_activate() error path
Mingming Cao mmc@linux.ibm.com ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com hv_sock: Return -EIO for malformed/short packets
Dexuan Cui decui@microsoft.com hv_sock: Report EOF instead of -EIO for FIN
Hamza Mahfooz hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com hv_sock: fix ARM64 support
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de hv: Select CONFIG_SYSFB only for CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS
Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com gpio: of: clear OF_POPULATED on hog nodes in remove path
Xu Yang xu.yang_2@nxp.com extcon: ptn5150: handle pending IRQ events during system resume
Shyam Prasad N sprasad@microsoft.com cifs: change_conf needs to be called for session setup
Shyam Prasad N sprasad@microsoft.com cifs: abort open_cached_dir if we don't request leases
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk block: only read from sqe on initial invocation of blkdev_uring_cmd()
Naman Jain namjain@linux.microsoft.com block: add pgmap check to biovec_phys_mergeable
Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn pmdomain: mediatek: fix use-after-free in scpsys_get_bus_protection_legacy()
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org arm64/fpsimd: ptrace: zero target's fpsimd_state, not the tracer's
Jiexun Wang wangjiexun2025@gmail.com af_unix: Reject SIOCATMARK on non-stream sockets
Myeonghun Pak mhun512@gmail.com hwmon: (corsair-psu) Close HID device on probe errors
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org clk: rk808: fix OF node reference imbalance
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (ltc2992) Fix u32 overflow in power read path
Sanman Pradhan psanman@juniper.net hwmon: (ltc2992) Clamp threshold writes to hardware range
Ivan Hu ivan.hu@canonical.com x86/efi: Fix graceful fault handling after FPU softirq changes
Hongling Zeng zenghongling@kylinos.cn parisc: Fix IRQ leak in LASI driver
Tzung-Bi Shih tzungbi@kernel.org platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: Init mutex in Thunderbolt registration
Pavitra Jha jhapavitra98@gmail.com net: wwan: t7xx: validate port_count against message length in t7xx_port_enum_msg_handler
Nan Li tonanli66@gmail.com net/rds: handle zerocopy send cleanup before the message is queued
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org netpoll: pass buffer size to egress_dev() to avoid MAC truncation
Jiawen Wu jiawenwu@trustnetic.com net: libwx: use request_irq for VF misc interrupt
Maoyi Xie maoyixie.tju@gmail.com ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink().
Jiawen Wu jiawenwu@trustnetic.com net: libwx: fix VF illegal register access
Ritesh Harjani (IBM) ritesh.list@gmail.com pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix the usage of copy_to_user()
Ritesh Harjani (IBM) ritesh.list@gmail.com pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix & simplify error handling in papr_hvpipe_init()
Ritesh Harjani (IBM) ritesh.list@gmail.com pseries/papr-hvpipe: Prevent kernel stack memory leak to userspace
SeungJu Cheon suunj1331@gmail.com sound: ua101: fix division by zero at probe
Dapeng Mi dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel: Improve validation and configuration of ACR masks
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: skip inactive subflows
Kai Zen kai.aizen.dev@gmail.com net: rtnetlink: zero ifla_vf_broadcast to avoid stack infoleak in rtnl_fill_vfinfo
Huacai Chen chenhuacai@kernel.org LoongArch: Fix SYM_SIGFUNC_START definition for 32BIT
Sang-Heon Jeon ekffu200098@gmail.com mm/hugetlb_cma: round up per_node before logging it
Kevin Brodsky kevin.brodsky@arm.com arm64: signal: Preserve POR_EL0 if poe_context is missing
Tudor Ambarus tudor.ambarus@linaro.org mtd: spi-nor: debugfs: fix out-of-bounds read in spi_nor_params_show()
Fuad Tabba tabba@google.com KVM: arm64: Fix kvm_vcpu_initialized() macro parameter
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fanotify: fix false positive on permission events
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org staging: vme_user: fix root device leak on init failure
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: s3c64xx: fix NULL-deref on driver unbind
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: zynqmp-gqspi: fix controller deregistration
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: sun6i: fix controller deregistration
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: ti-qspi: fix controller deregistration
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: sun4i: fix controller deregistration
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: syncuacer: fix controller deregistration
Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org rust: allow `clippy::collapsible_if` globally
Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org rust: allow `clippy::collapsible_match` globally
Eliot Courtney ecourtney@nvidia.com rust: drm: gem: clean up GEM state in init failure case
Siwei Zhang oss@fourdim.xyz Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_get_sndtimeo_cb()
Siwei Zhang oss@fourdim.xyz Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_state_change_cb()
Siwei Zhang oss@fourdim.xyz Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb()
Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix OOB read and infinite loop in hci_le_create_big_complete_evt
Tristan Madani tristan@talencesecurity.com Bluetooth: btmtk: validate WMT event SKB length before struct access
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com Bluetooth: virtio_bt: validate rx pkt_type header length
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com Bluetooth: virtio_bt: clamp rx length before skb_put
Tao Cui cuitao@kylinos.cn LoongArch: KVM: Fix missing EMULATE_FAIL in kvm_emu_mmio_read()
Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: prune /sys/fs/selinux/user
Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: prune /sys/fs/selinux/disable
Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: prune /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot
Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: shrink critical section in sel_write_load()
David Windsor dwindsor@gmail.com selinux: don't reserve xattr slot when we won't fill it
Zongyao Chen ZongYao.Chen@linux.alibaba.com selinux: use sk blob accessor in socket permission helpers
Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: fix avdcache auditing
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com xfrm: ah: account for ESN high bits in async callbacks
Yilin Zhu zylzyl2333@gmail.com ipv6: xfrm6: release dst on error in xfrm6_rcv_encap()
Michal Kosiorek mkosiorek121@gmail.com xfrm: defensively unhash xfrm_state lists in __xfrm_state_delete
Ruijie Li ruijieli51@gmail.com xfrm: provide message size for XFRM_MSG_MAPPING
Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org x86/efi: Restore IRQ state in EFI page fault handler
Sourabh Jain sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com powerpc/kdump: fix KASAN sanitization flag for core_$(BITS).o
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: seq: Fix UMP group 16 filtering
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: core: Serialize deferred fasync state checks
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: firewire-tascam: Do not drop unread control events
Yuriy Padlyak yuriypadlyak@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix speaker silence after S3 resume on Xiaomi Mi Laptop Pro 15
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix data race at accessing runtime.oss.trigger
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: hda: cs35l56: Propagate ASP TX source control errors
Xu Yang xu.yang_2@nxp.com usb: typec: tcpm: fix debug accessory mode detection for sink ports
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com usb: ulpi: fix memory leak on ulpi_register() error paths
Fabio Porcedda fabio.porcedda@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit Cinterion LE910Cx compositions
Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen@iki.fi USB: omap_udc: DMA: Don't enable burst 4 mode
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix UAC3 cluster descriptor size check
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Avoid potential endless loop in convert_chmap_v3()
Cássio Gabriel cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: midi2: Restart output URBs on resume
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org usb: usblp: fix uninitialized heap leak via LPGETSTATUS ioctl
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org usb: usblp: fix heap leak in IEEE 1284 device ID via short response
Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential use-after-free issue when stopping watchdog task
Tristan Madani tristan@talencesecurity.com wifi: b43: enforce bounds check on firmware key index in b43_rx()
Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails
Jiri Slaby (SUSE) jirislaby@kernel.org wifi: ath5k: do not access array OOB
Benjamin Berg benjamin.berg@intel.com wifi: mac80211: use safe list iteration in radar detect work
Jeongjun Park aha310510@gmail.com wifi: rsi: fix kthread lifetime race between self-exit and external-stop
Catherine enderaoelyther@gmail.com wifi: mac80211: drop stray 'static' from fast-RX rx_result
Tristan Madani tristan@talencesecurity.com wifi: b43legacy: enforce bounds check on firmware key index in RX path
Quan Zhou quan.zhou@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt7921: fix ROC abort flow interruption in mt7921_roc_work
Leon Yen leon.yen@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt7921: fix a potential clc buffer length underflow
Ming Yen Hsieh mingyen.hsieh@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix incorrect length field in txpower command
Quan Zhou quan.zhou@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix AMPDU state handling in mt7925_tx_check_aggr
Jann Horn jannh@google.com exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task
Jamal Hadi Salim jhs@mojatatu.com net/sched: sch_red: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked
Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.rb@renesas.com net: stmmac: Disable EEE RX clock stop when VLAN is enabled
Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com KVM: SVM: check validity of VMCB controls when returning from SMM
Zhengchuan Liang zcliangcn@gmail.com net: af_key: zero aligned sockaddr tail in PF_KEY exports
Yi Kuo yi@yikuo.dev smb: client/smbdirect: fix MR registration for coalesced SG lists
Gang Yan yangang@kylinos.cn mptcp: sync the msk->sndbuf at accept() time
Qingfang Deng qingfang.deng@linux.dev flow_dissector: do not dissect PPPoE PFC frames
Sam Edwards cfsworks@gmail.com ceph: fix num_ops off-by-one when crypto allocation fails
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected GFN
DaeMyung Kang charsyam@gmail.com ksmbd: rewrite stop_sessions() with restartable iteration
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org spi: rockchip: fix controller deregistration
Quan Zhou quan.zhou@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix incorrect TLV length in CLC command
Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org ASoC: SOF: Don't allow pointer operations on unconfigured streams
Sina Hassani sina@openai.com iommufd: Fix a race with concurrent allocation and unmap
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func()
Shivam Kalra shivamkalra98@zohomail.in ACPI: video: force native backlight on HP OMEN 16 (8A44)
Jinjie Ruan ruanjinjie@huawei.com ACPI: CPPC: Fix related_cpus inconsistency during CPU hotplug
Jan Schär jan@jschaer.ch ACPI: video: Add backlight=native quirk for Dell OptiPlex 7770 AIO
Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244@gmail.com ACPI: scan: Use acpi_dev_put() in object add error paths
Rajat Gupta rajgupt@qti.qualcomm.com fbdev: udlfb: add vm_ops to dlfb_ops_mmap to prevent use-after-free
Corey Minyard corey@minyard.net ipmi:si: Return state to normal if message allocation fails
Corey Minyard corey@minyard.net ipmi: Check event message buffer response for bad data
Corey Minyard corey@minyard.net ipmi: Add limits to event and receive message requests
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org scsi: target: configfs: Bound snprintf() return in tg_pt_gp_members_show()
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Diffstat:
.../ABI/{obsolete => removed}/sysfs-selinux-user | 0 Makefile | 6 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +- arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 54 +++++-- arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 4 + arch/arm64/kvm/config.c | 17 +- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 38 +++-- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c | 8 +- arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 2 +- arch/loongarch/include/asm/linkage.h | 2 +- arch/loongarch/kvm/exit.c | 1 + arch/loongarch/kvm/interrupt.c | 14 ++ arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- arch/loongarch/kvm/switch.S | 2 +- arch/loongarch/kvm/timer.c | 10 +- arch/loongarch/kvm/vm.c | 2 +- arch/loongarch/pci/acpi.c | 5 + arch/loongarch/pci/pci.c | 3 + arch/powerpc/kexec/Makefile | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr-hvpipe.c | 53 +++--- arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 16 +- arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c | 5 +- arch/s390/kernel/debug.c | 8 + arch/x86/events/core.c | 13 +- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 32 +++- arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 3 + arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 8 +- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 35 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 12 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 4 + arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 1 + arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 13 +- block/blk.h | 2 + block/ioctl.c | 24 +-- drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 6 +- drivers/acpi/power.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/scan.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 16 ++ drivers/android/binder/range_alloc/array.rs | 1 - drivers/bluetooth/btmtk.c | 15 +- drivers/bluetooth/virtio_bt.c | 39 ++++- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 70 ++++++-- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 23 ++- drivers/clk/clk-rk808.c | 2 +- drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8-acm.c | 3 +- drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c | 6 +- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 5 +- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 5 +- drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg_qi2.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/caam/caamhash.c | 4 +- .../crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_accel_engine.c | 7 + .../qat/qat_common/icp_qat_fw_loader_handle.h | 1 + drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/qat_hal.c | 27 ++-- drivers/extcon/extcon-ptn5150.c | 14 ++ drivers/firmware/samsung/exynos-acpm-pmic.c | 10 +- drivers/firmware/samsung/exynos-acpm-pmic.h | 10 +- drivers/firmware/samsung/exynos-acpm.c | 16 +- drivers/firmware/samsung/exynos-acpm.h | 2 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 9 +- drivers/hv/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/corsair-psu.c | 4 +- drivers/hwmon/ltc2992.c | 41 +++-- drivers/hwmon/powerz.c | 5 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_qp.c | 7 + drivers/infiniband/hw/ionic/ionic_ibdev.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/cq.c | 5 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/qp.c | 16 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/srq.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 1 + drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/vmw_pvrdma/pvrdma_verbs.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_recv.c | 11 ++ drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c | 14 +- drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 7 + drivers/iommu/intel/nested.c | 6 +- drivers/iommu/iommufd/eventq.c | 5 +- drivers/iommu/iommufd/io_pagetable.c | 10 ++ drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 6 +- drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c | 8 +- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree-remove.c | 8 + drivers/md/raid10.c | 2 + drivers/mfd/sec-acpm.c | 10 +- drivers/mmc/core/card.h | 11 ++ drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c | 12 ++ drivers/mmc/core/queue.c | 9 +- drivers/mmc/core/quirks.h | 12 ++ drivers/mtd/spi-nor/debugfs.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c | 22 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sf_eth.c | 2 + .../ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep_vf/octep_vf_rx.c | 36 ++++- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/srq.c | 13 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/chain_mode.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/ring_mode.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 47 +++--- drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/libwx/wx_hw.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/libwx/wx_vf_common.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/xmit.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/xmit.c | 3 +- .../wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/main.c | 7 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/mcu.c | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mac.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_common.h | 5 +- drivers/net/wwan/t7xx/t7xx_modem_ops.c | 20 ++- drivers/net/wwan/t7xx/t7xx_port_ctrl_msg.c | 18 ++- drivers/net/wwan/t7xx/t7xx_port_proxy.h | 2 +- drivers/nvme/host/apple.c | 6 +- drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 26 +++ drivers/parisc/lasi.c | 12 +- drivers/pci/pci.c | 7 +- drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 2 - drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c | 17 +- drivers/pci/setup-res.c | 2 + drivers/platform/chrome/cros_typec_altmode.c | 1 + drivers/pmdomain/core.c | 10 +- drivers/pmdomain/mediatek/mtk-pm-domains.c | 10 +- drivers/power/supply/max17042_battery.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 14 +- drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core-qspi.c | 103 +++++++++--- drivers/spi/spi-rockchip.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c | 5 - drivers/spi/spi-sun4i.c | 10 +- drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c | 8 +- drivers/spi/spi-synquacer.c | 8 +- drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c | 14 +- drivers/spi/spi-topcliff-pch.c | 11 +- drivers/spi/spi-zynqmp-gqspi.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_fake.c | 2 + drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 2 +- drivers/thermal/sprd_thermal.c | 4 +- drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 6 +- drivers/usb/class/usblp.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/common/ulpi.c | 5 +- drivers/usb/gadget/udc/omap_udc.c | 4 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 4 + drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpm.c | 25 +-- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c | 178 ++++++++++++++++----- drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c | 31 +++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 + fs/btrfs/space-info.c | 2 +- fs/ceph/addr.c | 4 + fs/erofs/decompressor.c | 86 +++++----- fs/f2fs/data.c | 28 +++- fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c | 17 +- fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 + fs/f2fs/inline.c | 22 ++- fs/f2fs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/f2fs/node.c | 95 +++++------ fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 10 +- fs/hfsplus/bfind.c | 51 ++++++ fs/hfsplus/catalog.c | 4 +- fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 2 +- fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 9 ++ fs/hfsplus/super.c | 6 +- fs/isofs/export.c | 2 +- fs/isofs/rock.c | 9 ++ fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 2 +- fs/notify/mark.c | 18 ++- fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c | 8 + fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c | 37 ++++- fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c | 12 +- fs/smb/client/smb2misc.c | 3 +- fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 11 ++ fs/smb/client/smbdirect.c | 21 +-- fs/smb/server/connection.c | 48 ++++-- fs/smb/server/connection.h | 1 + fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 14 ++ fs/tracefs/inode.c | 6 +- fs/tracefs/internal.h | 3 + fs/udf/misc.c | 8 +- include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 13 ++ include/linux/fb.h | 4 +- .../linux/firmware/samsung/exynos-acpm-protocol.h | 29 ++-- include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 1 + include/linux/mmc/card.h | 2 + include/linux/printk.h | 13 ++ include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h | 3 +- include/video/udlfb.h | 1 + io_uring/io_uring.c | 12 +- io_uring/kbuf.c | 12 +- io_uring/kbuf.h | 7 + kernel/bpf/arena.c | 19 ++- kernel/exit.c | 1 + kernel/sched/ext_idle.c | 12 +- kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 6 + kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 4 +- kernel/tracepoint.c | 2 + lib/crypto/mpi/mpicoder.c | 2 +- lib/scatterlist.c | 8 +- mm/damon/core.c | 5 + mm/damon/stat.c | 30 ++-- mm/damon/sysfs-schemes.c | 12 +- mm/hugetlb_cma.c | 1 + mm/swapfile.c | 21 ++- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 29 +++- net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 9 ++ net/ceph/auth.c | 2 +- net/ceph/mon_client.c | 2 + net/core/flow_dissector.c | 13 +- net/core/netpoll.c | 23 +-- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 + net/ipv4/ah4.c | 14 +- net/ipv6/ah6.c | 14 +- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 5 +- net/ipv6/xfrm6_protocol.c | 4 +- net/key/af_key.c | 52 +++--- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 9 +- net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/util.c | 4 +- net/mptcp/fastopen.c | 4 +- net/mptcp/pm.c | 62 ++++--- net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c | 13 +- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 6 +- net/mptcp/sockopt.c | 16 +- net/mptcp/subflow.c | 4 +- net/openvswitch/vport-netdev.c | 6 +- net/psp/psp_main.c | 42 +++-- net/rds/message.c | 20 ++- net/sched/sch_red.c | 2 +- net/unix/af_unix.c | 3 + net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c | 33 +++- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 12 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 1 + rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs | 13 +- rust/pin-init/src/__internal.rs | 28 ++-- rust/pin-init/src/macros.rs | 91 ++++++----- security/selinux/hooks.c | 38 ++--- security/selinux/include/objsec.h | 4 +- security/selinux/include/security.h | 2 - security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 169 ++++--------------- security/selinux/ss/services.c | 125 --------------- sound/core/misc.c | 8 +- sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 29 +++- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 2 +- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.h | 5 +- sound/core/seq/seq_ump_client.c | 2 +- sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-hwdep.c | 1 + sound/hda/codecs/realtek/alc269.c | 19 +++ sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/cs35l56_hda.c | 19 ++- sound/soc/amd/yc/acp6x-mach.c | 14 ++ sound/soc/codecs/es8389.c | 2 +- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c | 2 +- sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_wm5102.c | 1 + sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-dai.c | 1 + sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-lpass-dais.c | 2 +- sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm.c | 3 + sound/soc/sof/compress.c | 3 + sound/usb/midi2.c | 9 +- sound/usb/misc/ua101.c | 7 + sound/usb/stream.c | 4 +- tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_lib.sh | 16 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.sh | 20 ++- 264 files changed, 2397 insertions(+), 1123 deletions(-)
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.18.30-rc2-gf83e9543dfa5 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed May 13 16:54:46 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
On 5/13/2026 9:17 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.30 release. There are 268 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, 15 May 2026 15:37:20 +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-6.18.30-rc2... 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