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6.18.5-rc1 review

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#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/5mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()net/mptcp/protocol.c net/mptcp/protocol.h+7 -40 replies
2/5sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()kernel/sched/fair.c+6 -40 replies
3/5sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()kernel/sched/fair.c+7 -40 replies
4/5sched/fair: Proportional newidle balanceinclude/linux/sched/topology.h kernel/sched/core.c kernel/sched/fair.c +3 more+64 -40 replies
5/5nfs/localio: fix regression due to out-of-order __put_credfs/nfs/localio.c+6 -60 replies

Reviews trailers per patch

All 5 patches have a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchDietmar EggemannChris MasonTrond MyklebustChristian BraunerMatthieu Baerts (NGI0)Ronald WarsowSlade WatkinsAchill GilgenastJon HunterBrett A C SheffieldBrett MastbergenFlorian FainelliShuah KhanPeter SchneiderTakeshi OgasawaraRon EconomosJeffrin Jose TMark BrownMiguel Ojeda
SeriesT-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b
1/5R-b
2/5R-b T-b T-b
3/5R-b T-b T-b
4/5R-b T-b T-b
5/5A-b R-b

Trailers given in replies are filled; those carried in the patches from earlier versions are outlined with dashes. Scroll the table sideways for all 19 reviewers.

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Cover letter [PATCH 6.18 0/5] 6.18.5-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.5 release. There are 5 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, 11 Jan 2026 11:19:41 +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-6.18.5-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 6.18.5-rc1

Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
nfs/localio: fix regression due to out-of-order __put_cred

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()

Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                       |  4 +--
 fs/nfs/localio.c               | 12 ++++----
 include/linux/sched/topology.h |  3 ++
 kernel/sched/core.c            |  3 ++
 kernel/sched/fair.c            | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 kernel/sched/features.h        |  5 ++++
 kernel/sched/sched.h           |  7 +++++
 kernel/sched/topology.c        |  6 ++++
 net/mptcp/protocol.c           |  8 ++++--
 net/mptcp/protocol.h           |  3 +-
 10 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)