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Linux 6.18.25

From:  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org>
To:  linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org, torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org, stable-AT-vger.kernel.org
Subject:  Linux 6.18.25
Date:  Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:12:09 -0600
Message-ID:  <2026042710-sizzling-sadness-6237@gregkh>
Cc:  lwn-AT-lwn.net, jslaby-AT-suse.cz, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org>
Archive-link:  Article

I'm announcing the release of the 6.18.25 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-s...

thanks,

greg k-h

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 Documentation/arch/arm64/silicon-errata.rst  |    2 
 Makefile                                     |    2 
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                           |   12 ++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h             |    2 
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h             |    2 
 arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h              |   21 +++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbbatch.h            |   10 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h            |  143 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c               |   30 +++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c             |    3 
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c                   |   79 ++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c                  |   36 ++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/sys_compat.c               |    2 
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c                 |    2 
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c                |    8 -
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c                 |    2 
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/tlb.c                 |   10 -
 arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps                     |    1 
 crypto/authencesn.c                          |    6 -
 crypto/krb5enc.c                             |   51 +++++----
 drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c                 |   19 +++
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ids.c      |   39 +++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c  |   22 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.c      |   30 +++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_ppe.h      |    1 
 fs/f2fs/compress.c                           |   14 ++
 fs/f2fs/data.c                               |    7 -
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                               |    2 
 fs/f2fs/namei.c                              |    1 
 fs/f2fs/segment.c                            |    6 -
 fs/f2fs/super.c                              |   11 +-
 fs/fs-writeback.c                            |   36 +++---
 fs/fuse/control.c                            |    4 
 fs/fuse/dev.c                                |   30 +++--
 fs/fuse/fuse_i.h                             |    1 
 fs/fuse/inode.c                              |    1 
 fs/fuse/readdir.c                            |    4 
 fs/ntfs3/fslog.c                             |   12 ++
 fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c                      |    1 
 fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c                      |    6 +
 fs/smb/server/connection.c                   |    5 
 fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_config.c             |    6 -
 fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_session.c            |    7 -
 fs/smb/server/oplock.c                       |    7 +
 fs/smb/server/oplock.h                       |    1 
 fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c                      |    5 
 fs/smb/server/smbacl.c                       |   61 +++++++++--
 fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c                |   16 ++-
 fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c                |    4 
 fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.c                    |  128 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.h                    |   12 ++
 kernel/sched/debug.c                         |    4 
 lib/crc/.kunitconfig                         |    3 
 lib/crc/Kconfig                              |   17 ++-
 lib/crc/tests/crc_kunit.c                    |   28 ++++-
 lib/crypto/.kunitconfig                      |   11 ++
 lib/crypto/tests/Kconfig                     |   32 ++++--
 net/ipv6/exthdrs.c                           |    4 
 net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c                         |    2 
 net/packet/af_packet.c                       |   21 ++-
 net/rxrpc/key.c                              |    4 
 scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.l                      |    3 
 scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py            |   14 ++
 sound/hda/codecs/realtek/alc269.c            |    1 
 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c                     |    4 
 sound/usb/mixer.c                            |    7 +
 tools/testing/kunit/configs/all_tests.config |    4 
 67 files changed, 867 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-)

Anderson Nascimento (1):
      rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing

Berk Cem Goksel (1):
      ALSA: caiaq: take a reference on the USB device in create_card()

Bernd Schubert (1):
      fuse: Check for large folio with SPLICE_F_MOVE

Bingquan Chen (1):
      net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd()

Catalin Marinas (4):
      arm64: tlb: Introduce __tlbi_sync_s1ish_{kernel,batch}() for TLB maintenance
      arm64: tlb: Pass the corresponding mm to __tlbi_sync_s1ish()
      arm64: cputype: Add C1-Pro definitions
      arm64: errata: Work around early CME DVMSync acknowledgement

Chao Yu (3):
      f2fs: fix to do sanity check on dcc->discard_cmd_cnt conditionally
      f2fs: fix to avoid memory leak in f2fs_rename()
      f2fs: fix to avoid uninit-value access in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer

Cryolitia PukNgae (1):
      ALSA: usb-audio: apply quirk for MOONDROP JU Jiu

DaeMyung Kang (2):
      smb: server: fix max_connections off-by-one in tcp accept path
      ksmbd: reset rcount per connection in ksmbd_conn_wait_idle_sess_id()

Daniel Golle (1):
      net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: initialize PPE per-tag-layer MTU registers

Darrick J. Wong (1):
      fuse: quiet down complaints in fuse_conn_limit_write

Dudu Lu (1):
      crypto: krb5enc - fix async decrypt skipping hash verification

Eric Biggers (8):
      lib/crc: tests: Make crc_kunit test only the enabled CRC variants
      lib/crc: tests: Add CRC_ENABLE_ALL_FOR_KUNIT
      lib/crc: tests: Add a .kunitconfig file
      kunit: configs: Enable all CRC tests in all_tests.config
      lib/crypto: tests: Add a .kunitconfig file
      lib/crypto: tests: Introduce CRYPTO_LIB_ENABLE_ALL_FOR_KUNIT
      kunit: configs: Enable all crypto library tests in all_tests.config
      lib/crypto: tests: Drop the default to CRYPTO_SELFTESTS

Eric Naim (1):
      ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Legion S7 15IMH

George Saad (1):
      f2fs: fix use-after-free of sbi in f2fs_compress_write_end_io()

Greg Kroah-Hartman (2):
      fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file record check
      Linux 6.18.25

Herbert Xu (1):
      crypto: authencesn - Fix src offset when decrypting in-place

Jan Kara (1):
      writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()

Mark Rutland (2):
      arm64: tlb: Allow XZR argument to TLBI ops
      arm64: tlb: Optimize ARM64_WORKAROUND_REPEAT_TLBI

Michael Bommarito (6):
      ksmbd: require minimum ACE size in smb_check_perm_dacl()
      smb: server: fix active_num_conn leak on transport allocation failure
      smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits
      smb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path
      ksmbd: validate response sizes in ipc_validate_msg()
      ksmbd: validate num_aces and harden ACE walk in smb_inherit_dacl()

Mikhail Gavrilov (1):
      drm/amdgpu: replace PASID IDR with XArray

Miklos Szeredi (2):
      fuse: abort on fatal signal during sync init
      fuse: fuse_dev_ioctl_clone() should wait for device file to be initialized

Minhong He (1):
      ipv6: add NULL checks for idev in SRv6 paths

Namjae Jeon (2):
      ksmbd: fix use-after-free in __ksmbd_close_fd() via durable scavenger
      ksmbd: validate owner of durable handle on reconnect

Nathan Chancellor (1):
      scripts/dtc: Remove unused dts_version in dtc-lexer.l

Peter Zijlstra (1):
      sched/debug: Fix avg_vruntime() usage

Samuel Page (1):
      fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

Sean Christopherson (3):
      crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy CSR to userspace if PSP command failed
      crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy PDH cert to userspace if PSP command failed
      crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy ID to userspace if PSP command failed

Tamir Duberstein (1):
      scripts: generate_rust_analyzer.py: define scripts

Tristan Madani (2):
      ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds write in smb2_get_ea() EA alignment
      ksmbd: use check_add_overflow() to prevent u16 DACL size overflow

Wesley Atwell (1):
      crypto: krb5enc - fix sleepable flag handling in encrypt dispatch

Yongpeng Yang (1):
      f2fs: fix UAF caused by decrementing sbi->nr_pages[] in f2fs_write_end_io()



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