From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9ED3121C173; Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771258685; cv=none; b=ABMpn7fwhfeuZAsqR1OE0jhjvIqWgww1wqlakKnZVkBYjTXWg7ntlrk/FeE1hw1qDifWQdyynIUheETDUvOtZj68JAUxE7b9u/h7vP6VnZ12/tXU2+KYdcHOR3uBt7n1X4b1FtO3yWoAE1El7ycStSem6+4xBmt9WLHdQvIoMXg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771258685; c=relaxed/simple; bh=bYATJG/bK2VnzzDt25VHIBQfiMo/nb8scE6RhcLaOpE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=kSHUqsv0OpGsmaj+0xl9Id5JV/17YrPHh64/T6DXA8bzR3iPIJH0gr4U3cWBbCjTr5WeuE8AQtDnDqg+g9GnHnt9jKrWb34xQpmBW7eaNhdQ9wDrPHdnJoazggaZNWrI2P97epyCjzIS/VlMELpDEYmr6TcxhcyneYyU9MWwwyc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=A8sdV15t; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="A8sdV15t" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6DEEC116C6; Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:18:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1771258685; bh=bYATJG/bK2VnzzDt25VHIBQfiMo/nb8scE6RhcLaOpE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=A8sdV15trGilMhuZeCNzYtBfNIghqtrFsYhjQ2t/YkMTnXXg9hNzZShJ0AQPed8zc z252noCW9kM4BG3qd1nFRX22YlNeLTpw+Fwf1pUx2M92cXPztR3KqYrWwS6a4JojIU yfMj/rE+TYWUe04aw9sER/9yKaF716NDhleaKym0= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: lwn@lwn.net, jslaby@suse.cz, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Linux 6.18.12 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:18:00 +0100 Message-ID: <2026021637-amused-crimson-13af@gregkh> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm announcing the release of the 6.18.12 kernel. If your system did not boot in 6.18.11, then you should upgrade, this reverts one problematic commit. If the last stable release worked just fine, no need to upgrade. The updated 6.18.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.18.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Makefile | 2 +- drivers/base/base.h | 9 --------- drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/base/dd.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Greg Kroah-Hartman (2): Revert "driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()" Linux 6.18.12