Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/757] 6.18.16-rc2 review

From: Justin Forbes

Date: Mon Mar 02 2026 - 17:28:31 EST


On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 11:08:53AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.16 release.
> There are 757 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 Mar 4 04:08:47 PM UTC 2026.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-6.18.y&id2=v6.18.15
> 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,
> Sasha

Tested rc2 against the Fedora build system (aarch64, ppc64le, s390x,
x86_64), and boot tested x86_64. No regressions noted.

Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>