6.18.1-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.1 release. There are 29 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, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:36 +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-6.18.1-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 <[email protected]>

    Linux 6.18.1-rc1

Navaneeth K <[email protected]>
staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in OnBeacon ESR IE parsing

Navaneeth K <[email protected]>
staging: rtl8723bs: fix stack buffer overflow in OnAssocReq IE parsing

Navaneeth K <[email protected]>
staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in rtw_get_ie() parser

Nikita Zhandarovich <[email protected]>
comedi: check device's attached status in compat ioctls

Nikita Zhandarovich <[email protected]>
comedi: multiq3: sanitize config options in multiq3_attach()

Ian Abbott <[email protected]>
comedi: c6xdigio: Fix invalid PNP driver unregistration

Antoniu Miclaus <[email protected]>
iio: adc: ad4080: fix chip identification

Zenm Chen <[email protected]>

    wifi: rtw88: Add USB ID 2001:3329 for D-Link AC13U rev. A1

Zenm Chen <[email protected]>

    wifi: rtl8xxxu: Add USB ID 2001:3328 for D-Link AN3U rev. A1

Gopi Krishna Menon <[email protected]>
Documentation/rtla: rename common_xxx.rst files to common_xxx.txt

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: kobil_sct: fix TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: belkin_sa: fix TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC

Biju Das <[email protected]>
serial: sh-sci: Fix deadlock during RSCI FIFO overrun error

Biju Das <[email protected]>
dt-bindings: serial: rsci: Drop "uart-has-rtscts: false"

Magne Bruno <[email protected]>
serial: add support of CPCI cards

Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
USB: serial: ftdi_sio: match on interface number for jtag

Fabio Porcedda <[email protected]>

    USB: serial: option: move Telit 0x10c7 composition in the right place

Fabio Porcedda <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Telit Cinterion FE910C04 new compositions

Slark Xiao <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add Foxconn T99W760

Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
KVM: SVM: Don't skip unrelated instruction if INT3/INTO is replaced

Nikita Zhandarovich <[email protected]>
comedi: pcl818: fix null-ptr-deref in pcl818_ai_cancel()

Alice Ryhl <[email protected]>
rust_binder: fix race condition on death_list

Alexey Nepomnyashih <[email protected]>
ext4: add i_data_sem protection in ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock()

Giovanni Cabiddu <[email protected]>
crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup

Alexander Sverdlin <[email protected]>
locking/spinlock/debug: Fix data-race in do_raw_write_lock

Qianchang Zhao <[email protected]>
ksmbd: ipc: fix use-after-free in ipc_msg_send_request

Deepanshu Kartikey <[email protected]>
ext4: refresh inline data size before write operations

Ye Bin <[email protected]>
jbd2: avoid bug_on in jbd2_journal_get_create_access() when file system corrupted

Bagas Sanjaya <[email protected]>
Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

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Diffstat:

 .../devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,rsci.yaml   |  2 -
 Documentation/process/2.Process.rst                |  6 +-
 .../{common_appendix.rst => common_appendix.txt}   |  0
 ...on_hist_options.rst => common_hist_options.txt} |  0
 .../{common_options.rst => common_options.txt}     |  0
 ...cription.rst => common_osnoise_description.txt} |  0
 ...oise_options.rst => common_osnoise_options.txt} |  0
 ...mmon_timerlat_aa.rst => common_timerlat_aa.txt} |  0
 ...ription.rst => common_timerlat_description.txt} |  0
 ...lat_options.rst => common_timerlat_options.txt} |  0
 ...mmon_top_options.rst => common_top_options.txt} |  0
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-hwnoise.rst          |  8 +--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise-hist.rst     | 10 +--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise-top.rst      | 10 +--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-osnoise.rst          |  4 +-
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-hist.rst    | 12 ++--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-top.rst     | 12 ++--
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat.rst         |  4 +-
 Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla.rst                  |  2 +-
 Makefile                                           |  4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h                    |  9 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c                             | 24 ++++----
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                                 | 21 +++++++
 crypto/zstd.c                                      |  7 +--
 drivers/android/binder/node.rs                     |  6 +-
 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c                       | 42 +++++++++++--
 drivers/comedi/drivers/c6xdigio.c                  | 46 ++++++++++----
 drivers/comedi/drivers/multiq3.c                   |  9 +++
 drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c                    |  5 +-
 drivers/iio/adc/ad4080.c                           |  9 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c       |  3 +
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822cu.c     |  2 +
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c     | 14 +++--
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c      | 13 ++--
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c                 | 37 +++++++++++
 drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c                        | 12 +++-
 drivers/usb/serial/belkin_sa.c                     | 28 +++++----
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c                      | 72 ++++++++--------------
 drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c                     | 18 +++---
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        | 22 ++++++-
 fs/ext4/inline.c                                   | 14 ++++-
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c                              | 19 ++++--
 fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c                      |  7 ++-
 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c                    |  4 +-
 44 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)