Linux 6.18.49
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 08:55:11 EST
I'm announcing the release of the 6.18.49 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/fscrypt.rst | 4
Makefile | 2
arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c | 24 +
arch/riscv/kernel/compat_signal.c | 2
arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 4
arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 1
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 1
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 32 ++
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 76 +++--
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 8
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 13 -
crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c | 8
drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c | 1
drivers/crypto/Kconfig | 1
drivers/crypto/atmel-tdes.c | 5
drivers/crypto/mxs-dcp.c | 2
drivers/crypto/qce/aead.c | 58 ----
drivers/crypto/qce/common.c | 55 ----
drivers/crypto/qce/common.h | 16 -
drivers/crypto/qce/regs-v5.h | 4
drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c | 30 --
drivers/crypto/qce/sha.h | 1
drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c | 97 -------
drivers/crypto/qcom-rng.c | 156 +-----------
drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c | 3
drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c | 2
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_bo.h | 14 +
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_ads.c | 92 ++++---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_ads_types.h | 5
drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 52 +---
drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c | 41 ++-
drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 25 +
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 18 +
drivers/net/gtp.c | 21 +
drivers/net/veth.c | 3
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 9
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mac.c | 4
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 8
drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 8
drivers/usb/c67x00/c67x00-sched.c | 4
drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2
drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 7
drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 2
drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgtty.c | 15 -
drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 20 +
drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 1
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 20 +
drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c | 13 -
fs/fuse/dir.c | 9
fs/fuse/file.c | 4
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 6
fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.c | 179 ++++++++++++--
fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.h | 4
include/kunit/run-in-irq-context.h | 10
include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 8
include/linux/skbuff.h | 24 +
include/target/target_core_fabric.h | 2
io_uring/eventfd.c | 8
io_uring/eventfd.h | 2
io_uring/futex.c | 21 +
io_uring/io_uring.c | 7
io_uring/poll.c | 23 -
io_uring/rsrc.c | 31 --
io_uring/waitid.c | 2
kernel/bpf/offload.c | 10
mm/swapfile.c | 7
net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 5
net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4
net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c | 19 +
net/ipv6/ah6.c | 29 +-
net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 7
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 36 +-
net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo_avx2.c | 17 -
net/tls/tls_device.c | 3
net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 9
net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c | 53 +++-
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2
security/selinux/include/security.h | 1
security/selinux/ss/avtab.c | 35 ++
security/selinux/ss/avtab.h | 13 +
security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 25 -
security/selinux/ss/constraint.h | 1
security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 254 ++++++++++++++++----
security/selinux/ss/policydb.h | 31 +-
security/selinux/ss/services.c | 8
sound/soc/codecs/nau8821.c | 13 +
sound/usb/card.c | 14 -
sound/usb/midi.c | 2
88 files changed, 1154 insertions(+), 774 deletions(-)
Aboorva Devarajan (1):
powerpc/hv-gpci: fix preempt count leak in sysfs show paths
Aleksandr Nogikh (1):
usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support
Antheas Kapenekakis (1):
HID: asus: simplify RGB init sequence
Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada (1):
xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left
Baokun Li (2):
fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
Bartosz Golaszewski (1):
crypto: qce - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms
Bryam Vargas (3):
selinux: reject a permission value exceeding the class permission count
selinux: require a class's permission values to cover its permission count
crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length
Caleb Sander Mateos (1):
io_uring: simplify IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN && !SQPOLL check
Christian Borntraeger (1):
KVM: s390: vsie: zero stale crypto bits
Christian Göttsche (2):
selinux: use u16 for security classes
selinux: more strict policy parsing
Cristian Ciocaltea (2):
ASoC: nau8821: Cancel delayed work on component remove
ASoC: nau8821: Cancel pending work before suspend
DaeMyung Kang (1):
ksmbd: harden file lifetime during session teardown
Devin Wittmayer (1):
wifi: mt76: mt7925: ensure tx headroom in usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb
Dmitry Bogdanov (1):
nvme-tcp: fix usage of page_frag_cache
Eric Biggers (6):
netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: add missing vzeroupper
mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files
kunit: irq: Continue increasing hrtimer interval for longer
crypto: qcom-rng - Enable clock in hwrng case
crypto: qcom-rng - Remove crypto_rng interface
crypto: qcom-rng - Allow zero as a random number
Fourie Zhang (1):
netfilter: nf_tables: don't queue packet path object notifications
Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
Linux 6.18.49
Griffin Kroah-Hartman (3):
fpga: dfl: fme: add error handling
usb: core: Add lock to usb_wakeup_notification()
usb: core: Strengthen error handling in hub_hub_status()
Haoxiang Li (1):
accessibility: speakup: unregister tty ldisc on later init failures
Hyunwoo Kim (1):
net/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of current_key on reconnect to another peer
Ibrahim Hashimov (1):
RDMA/rxe: Fix responder UAF on IB_QP_MAX_DEST_RD_ATOMIC modify_qp
Jan Sebastian Götte (1):
crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers
Jann Horn (1):
HID: asus: fix missing hid_is_usb() check
Jens Axboe (2):
io_uring/futex: only mark private futex waits as inflight
io_uring: defer eventfd signaling when queued from a wakeup handler
Jesper Dangaard Brouer (1):
veth: fix OOB txq access in veth_poll() with asymmetric queue counts
Jia Yao (3):
drm/xe/guc_ads: allocate UM queues in a separate BO
drm/xe/guc_ads: allocate UM queues in VRAM on dGFX
drm/xe/guc_ads: use uncached mapping for UM queue BO
Jiale Yao (1):
USB: serial: option: fix slab OOB read in interrupt URB callback
Jiayuan Chen (2):
bpf: Fix use-after-free in offloaded map/prog info fill
tls: device: fix out-of-bounds write in tls_append_frag()
Jinu Kim (1):
KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces
Johan Hovold (1):
USB: serial: spcp8x5: drop broken carrier detect support
Jose Villaseñor Montfort (1):
HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()
Kyle Zeng (3):
ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation
batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets
vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush
Lucas De Marchi (2):
xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_register_driver() failure
xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_alloc_driver() failure
Marouane El Moufid (1):
ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()
Md Sadre Alam (1):
crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation
Michael Neuling (1):
riscv: Fix register corruption from uninitialized cregs on error
Michael Zaidman (1):
HID: ft260: validate i2c input report length
Michal Pecio (1):
usb: xhci: Handle bogus TRB pointers in Missed Service Error events
Miguel Peñaranda (1):
usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
Norbert Szetei (1):
net: bridge: mcast: fix use-after-free of a master VLAN's multicast context
Pankaj Gupta (1):
KVM: SEV: Drop FOLL_WRITE for encrypted region registration
Pavel Begunkov (1):
io_uring/rsrc: improve regbuf iov validation
Peiyang He (1):
RDMA/rxe: Fix OOB in free_rd_atomic_resources()
Pratik Vishwakarma (1):
x86/CPU/AMD: Carve out a Zen5 models range
Qing Ming (2):
gtp: serialize PDP context updates
tcp: fix AO info use-after-free in tcp_ao_connect_init()
Raman Varabets (1):
HID: ft260: fix stack-use-after-return write in I2C read race
Rastislav Szabo (1):
net/tcp: fix TCP-AO key deletion in VRFs
Sabrina Dubroca (1):
xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close
Sean Christopherson (4):
KVM: SEV: Track the GPA of the guest-controlled VMSA used for SNP guests
KVM: SEV: Extract loading of guest-provided VMSA to a separate helper
KVM: SEV: Mark vCPU RUNNABLE after AP_CREATE, even if VMSA is unusable
KVM: SEV: Wire up kvm_x86_ops.gmem_xxx() if and only if CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
Semih Baskan (1):
usb: xhci: Handle USB3 port events when there is one roothub
Shuangpeng Bai (2):
usb: gadget: f_tcm: keep port count until LUN teardown completes
USB: c67x00: fix use-after-free in c67x00_add_iso_urb()
Stephen Smalley (1):
selinux: switch two allocations to use kzalloc_objs()
Thorsten Blum (2):
crypto: atmel-tdes - use scatterlist length before DMA mapping
crypto: mxs-dcp - fix source scatterlist length access
Wentao Guan (1):
Revert "selinux: reject a permission value exceeding the class permission count"
Will Porter (1):
ALSA: usb-audio: Complete cleanup after system-resume errors
Zhiling Zou (1):
xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device
Zihan Xi (3):
xfrm: avoid lock inversion in nat keepalive work
xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak
xfrm: bound nat keepalive state collection