[PATCH 6.18 0/5] 6.18.5-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Fri Jan 09 2026 - 06:48:13 EST


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 <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 6.18.5-rc1

Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
nfs/localio: fix regression due to out-of-order __put_cred

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
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(-)