Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/198] 6.18.24-rc1 review

From: Greg KH

Date: Tue Apr 21 2026 - 11:14:07 EST


On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 11:55:49AM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:39:39 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.24 release.
> > There are 198 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, 22 Apr 2026 15:38:57 +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:
>
> Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For UML (x86_64) I am seeing:
>
> In file included from arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.c:3:
> In file included from ./arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/kernel-offsets.h:5:
> In file included from ./include/linux/crypto.h:18:
> In file included from ./include/linux/slab.h:16:
> In file included from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7:
> In file included from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:1538:
> In file included from ./include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:7:
> In file included from ./include/linux/notifier.h:16:
> In file included from ./include/linux/srcu.h:59:
> ./include/linux/srcutiny.h:14:10: fatal error: 'linux/irq_work_types.h' file not found
> 14 | #include <linux/irq_work_types.h>
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 1 error generated.
>
> Caused by commit 95721c9fb3a1 ("srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny
> SRCU"). The header seems to simply not be there, i.e. either the
> `#include` is changed or commit c809f081fe40 ("irqwork: Move data struct
> to a types header") is backported.
>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: rcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-um@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks, I'll just drop this commit from 6.18 and older trees for now.

greg k-h