Linux 6.18.37
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Jun 27 2026 - 06:21:55 EST
I'm announcing the release of the 6.18.37 kernel.
All users of the 6.18 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.18.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.18.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
thanks,
greg k-h
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 5
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 1
Makefile | 2
drivers/acpi/scan.c | 41 -
drivers/base/memory.c | 3
drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c | 2
drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_cfg.c | 10
drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_cfg.h | 1
drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_cfg_common.h | 32 -
drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_cfg_user.h | 38 -
drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h | 3
drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c | 404 -------------------
drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_dev_mgr.c | 70 ---
drivers/firmware/samsung/exynos-acpm.c | 14
drivers/hv/hv_kvp.c | 25 -
drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 29 +
drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c | 5
drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads1298.c | 7
drivers/iio/light/veml6075.c | 8
drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c | 2
drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c | 8
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c | 8
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.h | 1
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 3
drivers/net/net_failover.c | 12
drivers/regulator/core.c | 10
drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 9
drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 2
fs/fuse/dev.c | 19
fs/fuse/file.c | 8
fs/nfsd/export.c | 63 --
fs/nfsd/export.h | 7
fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 8
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 1
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 5
include/linux/mm.h | 104 ++++
include/net/rose.h | 12
include/trace/events/mmflags.h | 1
io_uring/net.c | 36 -
io_uring/opdef.c | 4
lib/debugobjects.c | 58 ++
mm/khugepaged.c | 71 ++-
mm/madvise.c | 24 -
mm/memory.c | 16
mm/mlock.c | 2
mm/mprotect.c | 2
mm/mseal.c | 7
mm/vma.c | 81 ++-
mm/vma.h | 138 ++++--
net/core/dev.c | 1
net/core/failover.c | 6
net/rose/af_rose.c | 49 +-
net/rose/rose_in.c | 6
net/rose/rose_loopback.c | 61 ++
net/rose/rose_timer.c | 83 +++
net/sctp/ipv6.c | 2
net/sctp/protocol.c | 2
tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c | 127 +++++
tools/testing/vma/vma.c | 3
tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h | 49 ++
60 files changed, 912 insertions(+), 899 deletions(-)
André Draszik (1):
regulator: core: fix locking in regulator_resolve_supply() error path
Bernard Pidoux (15):
rose: fix dev_put() leak in rose_loopback_timer()
rose: hold loopback neighbour reference across timer callback
rose: fix race between loopback timer and module removal
rose: clear neighbour pointer after rose_neigh_put() in state machines
rose: guard rose_neigh_put() against NULL in timer expiry
rose: fix netdev double-hold in rose_rx_call_request()
rose: fix notifier unregistered too early in rose_exit()
rose: set SOCK_DESTROY in rose_kill_by_device() for prompt cleanup
rose: disconnect orphaned STATE_2 sockets when device is gone
rose: fix netdev double-hold in rose_make_new()
rose: release netdev ref and destroy orphaned incoming sockets
rose: drop CALL_REQUEST in loopback timer when device is not running
rose: cancel neighbour timers in rose_neigh_put() before freeing
rose: clear neighbour pointer in rose_kill_by_device()
rose: don't free fd-owned sockets when reaping in the heartbeat
Dexuan Cui (1):
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Improve the logic of reserving fb_mmio on Gen2 VMs
Faicker Mo (1):
net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in slave register
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi (1):
io_uring/net: Avoid msghdr on op_connect/op_bind async data
Georgi Djakov (1):
drivers/base/memory: set mem->altmap after successful device registration
Gil Portnoy (1):
ksmbd: reject non-VALID session in compound request branch
Giovanni Cabiddu (1):
crypto: qat - remove unused character device and IOCTLs
Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
Linux 6.18.37
Helen Koike (1):
debugobjects: Do not fill_pool() if pi_blocked_on
Joanne Koong (1):
fuse: re-lock request before replacing page cache folio
Lord Ulf Henrik Holmberg (1):
RDMA/bnxt_re: zero shared page before exposing to userspace
Lorenzo Stoakes (9):
mm: introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make visible in /proc/$pid/smaps
mm: add atomic VMA flags and set VM_MAYBE_GUARD as such
mm: update vma_modify_flags() to handle residual flags, document
mm: implement sticky VMA flags
mm: introduce copy-on-fork VMAs and make VM_MAYBE_GUARD one
mm: set the VM_MAYBE_GUARD flag on guard region install
mm: propagate VM_SOFTDIRTY on merge
testing/selftests/mm: add soft-dirty merge self-test
mm: do not copy page tables unnecessarily for VM_UFFD_WP
Mike Marciniszyn (Meta) (1):
net: export netif_open for self_test usage
Miklos Szeredi (1):
virtiofs: fix UAF on submount umount
Mingyu Wang (1):
agp/amd64: Fix broken error propagation in agp_amd64_probe()
Ruslan Valiyev (1):
media: vidtv: fix NULL pointer dereference in vidtv_mux_push_si
Russell King (Oracle) (1):
net: stmmac: fix stm32 (and potentially others) resume regression
Sam Daly (2):
iio: light: veml6075: add bounds check to veml6075_it_ms index
iio: adc: ti-ads1298: add bounds check to pga_settings index
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (2):
debugobjects: Allow to refill the pool before SYSTEM_SCHEDULING
debugobjects: Use LD_WAIT_CONFIG instead of LD_WAIT_SLEEP
Thorsten Blum (1):
hv: utils: handle and propagate errors in kvp_register
Tudor Ambarus (1):
firmware: samsung: acpm: Fix cross-thread RX length corruption
Viken Dadhaniya (1):
serial: qcom_geni: Fix RX DMA stall when SE_DMA_RX_LEN_IN is zero
Waiman Long (1):
debugobjects: Dont call fill_pool() in early boot hardirq context
Weiming Shi (2):
i2c: stub: Reject I2C block transfers with invalid length
net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix endpoint use-after-free in rmnet_dellink()
Xin Long (1):
sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
Yang Erkun (1):
Revert "NFSD: Defer sub-object cleanup in export put callbacks"
Yi Yang (1):
vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write
Yicong Yang (1):
ACPI: scan: Use async schedule function in acpi_scan_clear_dep_fn()