Re: [PATCH 6.18 0000/1611] 6.18.40-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Wed Jul 22 2026 - 08:17:16 EST


On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 10:48:11AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 7/21/26 08:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.40 release.
> > There are 1611 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 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:23:00 +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-6.18.40-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
>
> perf fails to build with:
>
> util/arm-spe.c: In function 'arm_spe__inject_event':
> util/arm-spe.c:472:37: error: 'struct perf_sample' has no member named
> 'evsel'
> 472 | struct evsel *evsel = sample->evsel;
> | ^~
>
> due to commit ca625699a8d5ddea7213231f090dab1e0ec0380c ("perf event: Fix
> size of synthesized sample with branch stacks"), it looks like we need to
> backport aeae075a0352eb6ab363fb1910f209eaa296a175 ("perf sample: Add evsel
> to struct perf_sample")

That commit doesn't apply, so I'll just try to drop the offending perf
commit instead.

thanks,

greg k-h