[PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.59 release.
There are 193 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 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:36:50 +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-6.18.59-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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 6.18.59-rc1

Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
    smb: client: drain outstanding I/O before truncating on O_TRUNC open

Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
    ice: fix crash in ethtool offline loopback test

Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
    ice: fix broken Rx on VFs

Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
    ice: switch to Page Pool

Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
    ice: drop page splitting and recycling

Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
    ice: remove legacy Rx and construct SKB

Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
    smb: client: fix data corruption with concurrent writes and O_TRUNC

Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
    vsock/vmci: validate packet source for connected sockets

Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
    ipv4: udp: Create exceptions before socket matching

Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
    vsock/virtio: validate packet source for connected sockets

Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>
    virtio: set skb owner of virtio_transport_reset_no_sock() reply

Yao Kai <yaokai34@huawei.com>
    workqueue: Fix unbound pool lifetime for pending pwqs

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
    workqueue: release pwq pools by pool type

Cen Zhang (Microsoft Security FORGE Labs) <cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com>
    io_uring/cancel: don't spin on local work the task can't run

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    io_uring/cancel: move cancelation code from io_uring.c to cancel.c

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    io_uring/cancel: move __io_uring_cancel() into cancel.c

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    io_uring/cancel: move request/task cancelation logic into cancel.c

Frank Sorenson <sorenson@redhat.com>
    cifs: add revalidation on FSCTL failure in smb2_duplicate_extents()

Huiwen He <hehuiwen@kylinos.cn>
    smb/client: refresh allocation size after duplicate extents

Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
    tracing: Fix NULL dereference when copying keys for a field variable

Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
    tracing: Bound histogram expression strings with seq_buf

Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
    tracing: Use __free() for expr_str() buffer

Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
    tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    sched_ext: Fix stall when a task enqueued with SCX_ENQ_LAST lands back on its CPU's local DSQ

Jesse Zhang <Jesse.Zhang@amd.com>
    drm/amdgpu: free the userptr ranges when a CS fails after parser_bos

Taeyang Lee <0wn@theori.io>
    tracing: Keep the predicate limit separate from program capacity

Dmitry Kandybka <d.kandybka@gmail.com>
    tracing: Fix ignored return value of resize_buffer_duplicate_size()

Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
    sched_ext: idle: Respect task affinity in restricted CPU selection

Dibin Moolakadan Subrahmanian <dibin.moolakadan.subrahmanian@intel.com>
    drm/i915/dmc: Harden DMC firmware payload parsing

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    ntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period

Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
    fs/ntfs3: fix ntfs_mount_options leak in ntfs_fill_super()

YangWen <anmuxixixi@gmail.com>
    ntfs3: fix double free of sbi->options->nls and clarify ownership of fc->fs_private

YangWen <anmuxixixi@gmail.com>
    ntfs3: fix use-after-free of sbi->options in cmp_fnames

Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
    scsi: st: Fix use-after-free race between st_remove() and st_open()

Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
    smb: client: fix multiuser mount with krb5

Frank Sorenson <sorenson@redhat.com>
    smb: client: fix heap overflow in cifs_do_set_acl()

Aohan Mei <henrymei@tencent.com>
    net/sched: cls_flower: validate mask pointer after nla_next()

Aleksandr Khromov <haa@amicon.ru>
    ksmbd: zero the FS_OBJECT_ID_INFORMATION buffer before filling it in

Aleksandr Khromov <haa@amicon.ru>
    ksmbd: initialize FileSystemControlFlags in FS_CONTROL_INFORMATION

Aleksandr Khromov <haa@amicon.ru>
    ksmbd: fill in FileSysIdentifier in FS_POSIX_INFORMATION

Norbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>
    net: psp: do not inherit the Rx association on clone

Jun Yang <littleddfu@gmail.com>
    net: bridge: mcast: don't truncate the port group walk on teardown

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    ext4: free the sbi after a grace period

Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
    ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Fix shift-out-of-bounds for aggregated ALH capture

Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED

Jesse Zhang <Jesse.Zhang@amd.com>
    drm/amdgpu: keep the eviction fence until the last handle is closed

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    KVM: x86/mmu: Cope with the SS bit being set in #NPF exit codes

Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
    KVM: x86/mmu: Preserve nested TDP shadow page tables if they are used as roots

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    netfilter: nft_byteorder: remove multi-register support

Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    ACPI: tiny-power-button: Convert the driver to a platform one

David Rosca <david.rosca@amd.com>
    drm/amdgpu: Fix VCE 3 ring align_mask

Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
    KVM: SVM: Stop toggling virtual VMSAVE/VMLOAD on intercept recalc

Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>
    ipv4: avoid divide by zero in fib_rebalance

Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
    s390/pci: Fix leak of uninitialized kernel data in SCLP report

Aswin Karuvally <aswin@linux.ibm.com>
    s390/ctcm: Prevent XID null dereference

Florian Schauer <florian@schauer.to>
    page_pool: keep frag_offset aligned for odd-sized requests

Charles Vosburgh <theminershive@gmail.com>
    sctp: validate chunk length in the inqueue parser

Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@gmail.com>
    tipc: protect node reset trace dump with node lock

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    workqueue: Annotate cb_lock nesting when draining a dead BH pool

Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
    workqueue: Use raise_softirq() to trigger softirq in irq_work handler

Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
    netlink: specs: add missing mask attributes for conntrack dump

Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
    netlink: specs: fix the conntrack filter type

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    xfs: fix zoned write iomap flags assignments

Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
    xfs: fix capability check in xfs

Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
    xfs: don't hold buffer locks across sync transaction commit in xfs_sync_sb_buf

Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>
    net/iucv: fix the recvmsg window update

Kaiwen Shi <skwkevin@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
    mac802154: fix data race and NULL deref on local->assoc_dev

Chen Cheng <chencheng@fnnas.com>
    dm-integrity: require stable writes for internal hash modes

Ben Cressey <ben@cressey.dev>
    dm-integrity: fix infinite loop on discard with large tag size

Genjian Zhang <zhanggenjian@kylinos.cn>
    dm-ebs: fix incorrect device offset check in ebs_ctr()

Ben Cressey <ben@cressey.dev>
    dm-crypt: fix a tiny race condition in crypt_dec_pending

Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
    dm cache: fix issue with background work locking

Ming-Hung Tsai <mtsai@redhat.com>
    dm cache: fix demotion stats in passthrough mode

Frank Sorenson <sorenson@redhat.com>
    cifs: don't update i_size in cifs_do_truncate without a cached handle

Etienne Perot <eperot@google.com>
    cgroup: fix spurious SIGKILL of CLONE_INTO_CGROUP children

Cen Zhang (Microsoft Security FORGE Labs) <blbllhy@gmail.com>
    tcp: fix use-after-free in do_tcp_getsockopt(TCP_CC_INFO)

Cen Zhang (Microsoft Security FORGE Labs) <blbllhy@gmail.com>
    tcp: fix use-after-free in do_tcp_getsockopt(TCP_CONGESTION)

Heyang Tan <thy15333007817@163.com>
    wifi: p54: validate firmware record lengths

Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>
    tracing: Fix hist trigger timestamps for buffered events

Amit Machhiwal <amachhiw@linux.ibm.com>
    tracing: Do not initialize tracefs work if tracing is disabled

Taeyang Lee <0wn@theori.io>
    tracing: Check operator stack capacity before pushing

David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
    tracing: Take trace_types_lock when dropping the buffer_meta reference

Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
    tracing: Fix the shift out of bounds in the log2 histogram modifier

Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
    drm/xe: Bump LRU for external objects on exec and rebind

Dibin Moolakadan Subrahmanian <dibin.moolakadan.subrahmanian@intel.com>
    drm/i915/dmc: Add sanity check for DMC load address

Dnyaneshwar Bhadane <dnyaneshwar.bhadane@intel.com>
    drm/i915/cx0_phy: Fix ARL-S host bridge detection

Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>
    drm/exec: don't immediately add prelocked obj to array of locked objs

Jesse Zhang <Jesse.Zhang@amd.com>
    drm/amdgpu: report the BO alignment in bytes in GEM_LIST_HANDLES

Jesse Zhang <Jesse.Zhang@amd.com>
    drm/amdgpu: don't drop the runtime PM reference twice in amdgpu_gpr

Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com>
    drm/amdgpu/sdma3: Work around POLL_REGMEM / FENCE hang

Kenneth Feng <kenneth.feng@amd.com>
    drm/amd/pm: add zero fan stop temperature support on smu 14.0.2

Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
    scsi: libiscsi: Validate the task named by a management response

Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
    scsi: libiscsi: Validate the ITT reflected in a Reject PDU

Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
    scsi: libiscsi: Reject a negative task index from parse_pdu_itt

Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr>
    scsi: xen/scsifront: Check for a NULL shadow entry on a backend response

Stanley Jhu <stanleyjhu@google.com>
    scsi: bsg: Pass reply_len to bsg_setup_queue() to fit UFS ARPMB replies

Krystian Kaniewski <krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com>
    ring-buffer: Fix false warning in ring_buffer_map_get_reader()

Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
    ring-buffer: Fix the sub-buffer array base in rb_meta_subbuf_idx()

David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
    ring-buffer: Do not show buffer_meta for CPUs without a buffer

Antoine Huret <antoine.huret@bull.com>
    perf: Update cgroup time when rotating multiplexed events

Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
    perf: Track the perf mlock gift separately

Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
    i2c: viai2c-wmt: Fix clock leak in wmt_i2c_probe()

Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
    i2c: qcom-cci: Fix HALT_ACK reset request being dropped

Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
    tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fields

Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
    tools: gpio: fix building from the top level with O=

Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com>
    sctp: revalidate output stream after association connect wait

Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
    pinctrl: amd: Clear S4 wake bits when firmware has _AEI

Aohan Mei <henrymei@tencent.com>
    net: rds: fix uninitialized trans dereference in CM event handler

Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
    net/sched: fix use-after-free in __tcf_action_put()

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
    lib/crypto: poly1305: Use memzero_explicit() in poly1305_final()

Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
    lib/crypto: arm64: Fix lost Poly1305 carry when resuming NEON state

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    namei: test for a negative dentry the way traverse_mounts() does

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    eventfs: Free the eventfs_inode after an rcu grace period too

Aviv Vaknin <vaknins33@gmail.com>
    pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable

Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
    fsnotify: prevent mark additions during connector teardown

Amirmohammad Eftekhar <amirmohammadeftekhar@gmail.com>
    KVM: nVMX: Reset MMU back to the root MMU if loading L2 state fails for !VM-Entry

EJ Campbell <ejc3@meta.com>
    x86/kvm: Don't consume async #PF flags on a kernel #PF in NMI context

Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com>
    watch_queue: Fix note pool publication race in watch_queue_set_size()

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    unicode: free the map after a grace period

Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
    bootconfig: give the footer size static_assert a message

Sung Byeongchan <tjdqudcks0424@naver.com>
    autofs: ignore notification errors from a replaced pipe

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    afs: free the super info after a grace period

Igor Paunovic <royalnet026@gmail.com>
    accel/rocket: search every core slot when a core is removed

Alexander Gruhlke <gruhlke@mailbox.org>
    PCI: Don't treat ~0 as ready in pci_dev_wait() with RRS SV

John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
    printk: Postpone kthread startup

Haris Okanovic <harisokn@amazon.com>
    perf: Fix perf_pmu_migrate_context() leaving events behind

Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
    gpio: mxc: fix race between gpiochip registration and IRQ domain setup

Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
    gpio: mxc: fix wakeup_pads bit operations

Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
    gpio: mxc: use BIT() macro

Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
    gpio: mxc: fix both_edges bit operations

Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
    gpio: mxc: fix race between chained IRQ handler install and probe completion

Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
    gpiolib: fix memory leak in gpiod_set_array_value_complex() on error paths

Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
    calipso: keep BIG TCP payload_len in calipso_skbuff_setattr()

Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
    net/ipv6: Introduce payload_len helpers

Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
    net: bcmgenet: unshare the skb before writing the control block

Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
    netlink: avoid hashing the network namespace pointer

Xingui Yang <yangxingui@huawei.com>
    scsi: libsas: Fix SMP IO deadlock during HA resume

Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
    tracing: probes: error if BTF is required but unavailable

Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
    pipe: preserve existing fasync readers on writer setup failure

Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
    samples: pidfd: fix userprogs typo

Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@gmail.com>
    ocfs2/dlm: Protect the recovery list during debugfs reads

Erik Faye-Lund <erik.faye-lund@arm.com>
    drm/panthor: fix immortalis condition

Linfeng Sun <linfeng.sun.dev@gmail.com>
    scsi: target: iscsi: Fix race in discovery auth updates

Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
    scsi: st: Save the visited block for the partition the drive is in

Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
    nios2: fix __wsum type degradation in csum_fold()

Carlos Jones Jr <carlosjr.jones@analog.com>
    spi: tegra114: assert CS GPIO for every transfer in a message

Bommu Krishnaiah <krishnaiah.bommu@intel.com>
    drm/xe/oa: Zero OA buffer at allocation

Niranjana Vishwanathapura <niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com>
    drm/xe: skip eviction of a BO with no resource

Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
    ASoC: amd: yc: disable MSI on resume

Alexandre Cassen <acassen@corp.free.fr>
    net/mlx5: HWS, fix flow meter offset within its bulk

Alexandre Cassen <acassen@corp.free.fr>
    net/mlx5: HWS, release L2 to L3 tunnel reformats to their own pool

Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
    accel/rocket: clear rdev on device init failure

Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
    netlink: reset skb headers before unicast and multicast filtering

Michael Reeves <michael.reeves077@gmail.com>
    regmap: Drop map lock during cache init and exit

Francesco Lavra <flavra@baylibre.com>
    regcache: Do not overwrite error code when finalizing cache after error

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    regcache: Add ->populate() callback to separate from ->init()

HyeongJun An <sammiee5311@gmail.com>
    ASoC: nau8822: Fix the 128x oversampling switch bits

HyeongJun An <sammiee5311@gmail.com>
    ASoC: wm8978: Fix the 128x oversampling switch bits

HyeongJun An <sammiee5311@gmail.com>
    ASoC: max98371: Fix the Speaker DHT Min Volume bits

HyeongJun An <sammiee5311@gmail.com>
    ASoC: pcm3168a: Fix the DAC zero flag polarity bit

HyeongJun An <sammiee5311@gmail.com>
    ASoC: cs42l52: Fix the NG Type Switch bit

HyeongJun An <sammiee5311@gmail.com>
    ASoC: cs42l56: Put the Limiter Cushion control on the limiter register

Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@gmail.com>
    ASoC: stm32: spdifrx: fix synchronization state check

Sergey Tiraspolsky <stiraspo@gmail.com>
    ASoC: Intel: avs: Reset the stream unless it is already prepared

Allison Henderson <achender@kernel.org>
    net/rds: don't let the rdma_cm destroy an id RDS still owns on route failure

Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
    vsock: treat TCP_CLOSING as once-established

Ming Yu <a0282524688@gmail.com>
    gpio: nct6694: Mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson@raspberrypi.com>
    drm/vc4: hdmi: Move packet RAM enable to PM runtime

Pablo Mazzini <pmazzini@gmail.com>
    pinctrl: sunxi: dt: do not accumulate npins across probe attempts

Adriel Santos <adriel@adriel.eu>
    pinctrl: qcom: ipq5018: replace gcc_plltest with pwm2 on gpio12

Alexey Charkov <alchark@flipper.net>
    power: supply: core: prevent unregistering a power supply while a callback runs

Svyatoslav Ryhel <clamor95@gmail.com>
    power: supply: generic-adc-battery: Fix temperature IIO channel conversion

Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
    tools/power turbostat: Fix add_counter issue if > 24 counters.

Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
    tools/power turbostat: Fix PMT error path fd handling

Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
    tools/power turbostat: Fix CWF PMT off-by-one

Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
    tools/power turbostat: Fix fd_perf leak on reset

Gilberto Conde <gilbertorconde@gmail.com>
    pinctrl: qcom: ipq5018: add missing pwm3 function on gpio13

Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>
    pinctrl: qcom: qcs8300: Fix intr_target_width

Michael Kelley <mhkelley58@gmail.com>
    Drivers: hv: Don't reset VMBus connection state on error/exit paths

Michael Kelley <mhkelley58@gmail.com>
    x86/hyperv: Avoid using per-cpu output page in hv_apicid_to_vp_index()

Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
    Drivers: hv: Avoid infinite retry loop in init_vp_index()

Xueqin Luo <luoxueqin@kylinos.cn>
    power: supply: ds2780: Fix ds2780_get_capacity() returning raw value

Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
    power: supply: Fix maintenance charge table kernel-doc

David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
    ARM: dts: ti/omap: dra7: fix PCIe PHY clock divider definition

Jinhui Guo <guojinhui.liam@bytedance.com>
    soc/tegra: fuse: Add missing newline to APBMISC error message

Federico Parola <fparola@amazon.de>
    kho: free phys_bits bitmaps using free_page() in __kho_abort()

Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@oss.qualcomm.com>
    i2c: qcom-geni: Restore the source-clock selection policy

Bernard Pidoux <bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com>
    rose: purge rose_neigh->queue on final teardown

Bernard Pidoux <bernard.f6bvp@gmail.com>
    ax25: bound REJ-driven fast retransmits with the existing N2 counter

Harin Lee <me@harin.net>
    ALSA: ctxfi: Use correct DAIO type for da_desc

Harin Lee <me@harin.net>
    ALSA: ctxfi: Rename SPDIFI1 to SPDIFI_BAY

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    ALSA: ctxfi: Don't enumerate SPDIF1 at DAIO initialization

Vadim Nikitushkin <bub4z0r@gmail.com>
    drm/ttm: fix swapped-out resources never leaving their bulk_move range


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Diffstat:

 Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml         |  21 +-
 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/ti/omap/dra7xx-clocks.dtsi       |   2 +-
 arch/nios2/include/asm/checksum.h                  |   2 +-
 arch/s390/pci/pci_sysfs.c                          |   3 +
 arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c                          |   3 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                              |  32 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h                                 |  16 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c                             |   1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h                     |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c                             |  10 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c                          |   4 +-
 block/bsg-lib.c                                    |  13 +-
 drivers/accel/rocket/rocket_device.c               |   2 +
 drivers/accel/rocket/rocket_device.h               |   1 +
 drivers/accel/rocket/rocket_drv.c                  |   7 +-
 drivers/acpi/tiny-power-button.c                   |  27 +-
 drivers/base/regmap/internal.h                     |   1 +
 drivers/base/regmap/regcache-maple.c               |   9 +-
 drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c                     |  18 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-mxc.c                            |  36 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-nct6694.c                        |   2 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c                             |   9 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c             |   6 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c        |  23 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_gem.c            |  11 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v3_0.c             |  25 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vce_v3_0.c              |   2 +-
 .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/smu14/smu_v14_0_2_ppt.c   |  55 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c                         |  77 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_cx0_phy.c       |  12 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c           |  76 ++-
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Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Wentao Guan]

Build tested in our x86,arm64,loongarch,riscv config successfully without error.

Tested-by: Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>

Best Regards
Wentao Guan

Log:
Linux version 6.18.59-rc1-gbd77a04827b6 (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 Sat Oct 24 02:16:34 CST 2026
Linux version 6.18.59-rc1-gbd77a04827b6 (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 Sat Oct 24 02:36:59 CST 2026
Linux version 6.18.59-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 Sat Oct 24 02:55:47 CST 2026
Linux version 6.18.59-rc1-gbd77a04827b6 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (gcc (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin18) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Oct 24 01:55:04 CST 2026

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Nikola Ciprich]

retested intel ice and also KVM migration of Windows guests with VBS enabled
(ie nested virtualization), both seem to work correctly now.

thanks,

BR

nik

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Pavel Machek]

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Hi!

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.59 release.
> There are 193 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.

CIP testing did not find any problems here:

https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/tree/linux-6.18.y

Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@nabladev.com>

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel

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Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Florian Fainelli]

On 10/23/26 09:34, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.59 release.
> There are 193 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 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:36:50 +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-6.18.59-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

On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on 
BMIPS_GENERIC:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
-- 
Florian

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Peter Schneider]

Am 23.10.2026 um 18:34 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.59 release.
> There are 193 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 E5-2697v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.

Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>


Beste Grüße,
Peter Schneider

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enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world,
not so the world can see you.                    -- David McCullough Jr.

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Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Barry K. Nathan]

On 10/23/26 9:34 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.59 release.
> There are 193 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 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:36:50 +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-6.18.59-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

Tested on 3 amd64 systems and an arm64 virtual machine. Working well,
no regressions observed.

Tested-by: Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

-- 
-Barry K. Nathan  <barryn@pobox.com>

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Brett A C Sheffield]

# Librecast Test Results

044/044 [ OK ] liblcrq
010/010 [ OK ] libmld
120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.18.59-rc1-gbd77a04827b6 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Oct 24 09:18:13 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net>

Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/193] 6.18.59-rc1 review

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:34:37 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.59 release.
> There are 193 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 Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:36:50 +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 and arm32:

Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel