linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/198] 6.18.7-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <930ac4d6-eb13-49d4-80a0-645c4cf19767@lucifer.local>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:23:25 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/198] 6.18.7-rc1 review

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 06:15:12PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 07:13:48PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.7 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.
>
> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
>
> However:
>
> > Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> >     tools/testing/selftests: add forked (un)/faulted VMA merge tests
>
> These are failing for me on arm64 and I think arm (something literally
> exploded in my lab so the arm bisect didn't complete yet due to the
> half of the lab with that board being powered off until I get that
> fixed), that in turn causes a new top level failure of the merge
> selftest program but the actual failure is purely newly added tests not
> working so I don't think the kernel itself is any worse than it was
> before.  The tests are OK in Linus' tree so we are I guess missing a
> backport?

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend running these tests as they repro the the bug that
the backport fixes :)

You may experience instability as a result of that.

I'm fixing the failed backport to 6.18.y literally right now, should have it out
soon.

I guess maybe I should have put a 'please do not take this until previous patch
was taken' note in there, but ther we go.

Cheers, Lorenzo