From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: [PATCH 6.18 00/83] 6.18.49-rc1 review
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:33:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831133359.207714926@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.49 release.
There are 83 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, 02 Sep 2026 13:32:19 +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-6.18.49-rc1.gz
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 6.18.49-rc1
Miguel Peñaranda <mig.penaranda07@gmail.com>
usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
Devin Wittmayer <lucid_duck@justthetip.ca>
wifi: mt76: mt7925: ensure tx headroom in usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb
Shuangpeng Bai <shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com>
USB: c67x00: fix use-after-free in c67x00_add_iso_urb()
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
USB: serial: spcp8x5: drop broken carrier detect support
Jiale Yao <yaojiale02@163.com>
USB: serial: option: fix slab OOB read in interrupt URB callback
Will Porter <mrwillporter@gmail.com>
ALSA: usb-audio: Complete cleanup after system-resume errors
Marouane El Moufid <eun0us@espilon.net>
ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman <griffin@kroah.com>
usb: core: Strengthen error handling in hub_hub_status()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman <griffin@kroah.com>
usb: core: Add lock to usb_wakeup_notification()
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
KVM: s390: vsie: zero stale crypto bits
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
crypto: qce - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
crypto: mxs-dcp - fix source scatterlist length access
Md Sadre Alam <md.alam@oss.qualcomm.com>
crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation
Jan Sebastian Götte <linux@jaseg.de>
crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
crypto: atmel-tdes - use scatterlist length before DMA mapping
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
crypto: qcom-rng - Allow zero as a random number
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
crypto: qcom-rng - Remove crypto_rng interface
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
crypto: qcom-rng - Enable clock in hwrng case
Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
kunit: irq: Continue increasing hrtimer interval for longer
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files
Fourie Zhang <littleddfu@gmail.com>
netfilter: nf_tables: don't queue packet path object notifications
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: add missing vzeroupper
Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush
Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets
Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation
Norbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>
net: bridge: mcast: fix use-after-free of a master VLAN's multicast context
Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>
xfrm: bound nat keepalive state collection
Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>
xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak
Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada <manizada@pm.me>
xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left
Zihan Xi <xizh2024@lzu.edu.cn>
xfrm: avoid lock inversion in nat keepalive work
Zhiling Zou <roxy520tt@gmail.com>
xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device
Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close
Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
net/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of current_key on reconnect to another peer
Qing Ming <a0yami@mailbox.org>
tcp: fix AO info use-after-free in tcp_ao_connect_init()
Rastislav Szabo <rastislav.szabo@isovalent.com>
net/tcp: fix TCP-AO key deletion in VRFs
Pratik Vishwakarma <Pratik.Vishwakarma@amd.com>
x86/CPU/AMD: Carve out a Zen5 models range
Qing Ming <a0yami@mailbox.org>
gtp: serialize PDP context updates
Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
tls: device: fix out-of-bounds write in tls_append_frag()
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM: SEV: Wire up kvm_x86_ops.gmem_xxx() if and only if CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM: SEV: Mark vCPU RUNNABLE after AP_CREATE, even if VMSA is unusable
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM: SEV: Extract loading of guest-provided VMSA to a separate helper
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM: SEV: Track the GPA of the guest-controlled VMSA used for SNP guests
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>
KVM: SEV: Drop FOLL_WRITE for encrypted region registration
Shuangpeng Bai <shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com>
usb: gadget: f_tcm: keep port count until LUN teardown completes
Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support
Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
Lucas De Marchi <ldemarchi@nvidia.com>
xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_alloc_driver() failure
Lucas De Marchi <ldemarchi@nvidia.com>
xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_register_driver() failure
Semih Baskan <strst.gs@gmail.com>
usb: xhci: Handle USB3 port events when there is one roothub
Michal Pecio <michal.pecio@gmail.com>
usb: xhci: Handle bogus TRB pointers in Missed Service Error events
Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
accessibility: speakup: unregister tty ldisc on later init failures
Griffin Kroah-Hartman <griffin@kroah.com>
fpga: dfl: fme: add error handling
DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
ksmbd: harden file lifetime during session teardown
Raman Varabets <kernel-linux-20260610-80b7ab08@raman.v1.sg>
HID: ft260: fix stack-use-after-return write in I2C read race
Michael Zaidman <michael.zaidman@gmail.com>
HID: ft260: validate i2c input report length
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
HID: asus: fix missing hid_is_usb() check
Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
HID: asus: simplify RGB init sequence
Jose Villaseñor Montfort <pepemontfort@gmail.com>
HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
io_uring: defer eventfd signaling when queued from a wakeup handler
Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
io_uring/rsrc: improve regbuf iov validation
Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
io_uring: simplify IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN && !SQPOLL check
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
io_uring/futex: only mark private futex waits as inflight
Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
powerpc/hv-gpci: fix preempt count leak in sysfs show paths
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
veth: fix OOB txq access in veth_poll() with asymmetric queue counts
Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
selinux: switch two allocations to use kzalloc_objs()
Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com>
ASoC: nau8821: Cancel pending work before suspend
Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
riscv: Fix register corruption from uninitialized cregs on error
Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
bpf: Fix use-after-free in offloaded map/prog info fill
Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com>
ASoC: nau8821: Cancel delayed work on component remove
Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
selinux: require a class's permission values to cover its permission count
Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
selinux: reject a permission value exceeding the class permission count
Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
selinux: more strict policy parsing
Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
selinux: use u16 for security classes
Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>
Revert "selinux: reject a permission value exceeding the class permission count"
Dmitry Bogdanov <d.bogdanov@yadro.com>
nvme-tcp: fix usage of page_frag_cache
Jinu Kim <kimjw04271234@gmail.com>
KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces
Jia Yao <jia.yao@intel.com>
drm/xe/guc_ads: use uncached mapping for UM queue BO
Jia Yao <jia.yao@intel.com>
drm/xe/guc_ads: allocate UM queues in VRAM on dGFX
Jia Yao <jia.yao@intel.com>
drm/xe/guc_ads: allocate UM queues in a separate BO
Peiyang He <peiyang_he@smail.nju.edu.cn>
RDMA/rxe: Fix OOB in free_rd_atomic_resources()
Ibrahim Hashimov <security@auditcode.ai>
RDMA/rxe: Fix responder UAF on IB_QP_MAX_DEST_RD_ATOMIC modify_qp
-------------
Diffstat:
Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 4 +
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c | 24 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/compat_signal.c | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +-
arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 32 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 76 +++---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 8 +-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 13 +-
crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c | 8 +-
drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c | 1 +
drivers/crypto/Kconfig | 1 -
drivers/crypto/atmel-tdes.c | 5 +-
drivers/crypto/mxs-dcp.c | 2 +-
drivers/crypto/qce/aead.c | 58 +----
drivers/crypto/qce/common.c | 55 +----
drivers/crypto/qce/common.h | 16 +-
drivers/crypto/qce/regs-v5.h | 4 -
drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c | 30 +--
drivers/crypto/qce/sha.h | 1 -
drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c | 97 +-------
drivers/crypto/qcom-rng.c | 156 ++-----------
.../crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c | 3 +-
drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c | 2 +
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.h | 14 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_ads.c | 92 +++++---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_ads_types.h | 5 +
drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 52 ++---
drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c | 41 +++-
drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 25 +-
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 18 +-
drivers/net/gtp.c | 21 +-
drivers/net/veth.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 11 +-
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mac.c | 4 +
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 8 +
drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 8 +
drivers/usb/c67x00/c67x00-sched.c | 4 +-
drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 +-
drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 7 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 2 +-
drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgtty.c | 15 +-
drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 20 +-
drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 20 +-
drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c | 13 --
fs/fuse/dir.c | 9 +-
fs/fuse/file.c | 4 +-
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 6 +-
fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.c | 179 +++++++++++++--
fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.h | 4 +-
include/kunit/run-in-irq-context.h | 10 +-
include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 8 +
include/linux/skbuff.h | 24 ++
include/target/target_core_fabric.h | 2 +
io_uring/eventfd.c | 8 +-
io_uring/eventfd.h | 2 +-
io_uring/futex.c | 21 +-
io_uring/io_uring.c | 7 +-
io_uring/poll.c | 23 +-
io_uring/rsrc.c | 31 +--
io_uring/waitid.c | 2 +-
kernel/bpf/offload.c | 10 +-
mm/swapfile.c | 7 +
net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 5 +-
net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 +-
net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c | 19 +-
net/ipv6/ah6.c | 29 ++-
net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 7 +
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 36 +--
net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo_avx2.c | 17 +-
net/tls/tls_device.c | 3 +-
net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 9 +-
net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c | 53 ++++-
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +-
security/selinux/include/security.h | 1 +
security/selinux/ss/avtab.c | 35 ++-
security/selinux/ss/avtab.h | 13 ++
security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 25 +-
security/selinux/ss/constraint.h | 1 +
security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 254 +++++++++++++++++----
security/selinux/ss/policydb.h | 31 ++-
security/selinux/ss/services.c | 8 +-
sound/soc/codecs/nau8821.c | 13 ++
sound/usb/card.c | 14 +-
sound/usb/midi.c | 2 +
88 files changed, 1156 insertions(+), 776 deletions(-)
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 13:33 Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-08-31 17:02 ` Wentao Guan
2026-08-31 19:12 ` Brett A C Sheffield
2026-08-31 23:03 ` Peter Schneider
2026-09-01 0:15 ` Florian Fainelli
2026-09-01 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2026-09-01 16:44 ` Shuah Khan
2026-09-01 22:33 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-09-01 23:05 ` Ron Economos
2026-09-02 7:44 ` Barry K. Nathan
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