diff --git a/nixos/modules/security/default.nix b/nixos/modules/security/default.nix
index 5170383d6f5e..c1a4f7cf34a1 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/security/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/security/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
+{
+  config,
+  lib,
+  ...
+}:
 let
   cfg = config.security;
 in
@@ -16,10 +20,16 @@ in
   config = lib.mkMerge [
     {
       # We set the default LSM's here due to them not being present if set when enabling AppArmor.
-      security.lsm = [
-        "landlock"
-        "yama"
-        "bpf"
+      security.lsm = lib.mkMerge [
+        [
+          "landlock"
+          "yama"
+        ]
+        # Load BPF last unconditionally. See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/533428.
+        # Apparmor (and potentially other modules) will load incorrectly if they are not before BPF.
+        # It is believed that there was a regression between kernel 6.12 and 6.18 which caused the
+        # passthrough stub or LSM stacking of the BPF module to interact with other modules incorrectly.
+        (lib.mkAfter [ "bpf" ])
       ];
     }
     (lib.mkIf (lib.lists.length cfg.lsm > 0) {
diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/incus.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/incus.nix
index 83a5a731ccb7..466e359c3147 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/incus.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/incus.nix
@@ -363,21 +363,27 @@ in
           include ${cfg.lxcPackage}/etc/apparmor.d/lxc-containers
         '';
         "incusd".profile = ''
-          # This profile allows everything and only exists to give the
-          # application a name instead of having the label "unconfined"
+          # incusd is deliberatly left unconfined, with NO named profile attached to the binary.
+          # Incus checks its own confinement at startup by reading /proc/self/attr/current
+          # (https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/92b0cbbc5728ed45578fdeeec634606af8826404/internal/server/sys/apparmor.go).
+          # Anything other than "unconfined" makes Incus believe that the host process is
+          # itself confined, which sends every container down the "reuse my own profile" branch in
+          # https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/92b0cbbc5728ed45578fdeeec634606af8826404/internal/server/instance/drivers/driver_lxc.go
+          # instead of generating a "proper" per-container profile. Furthermore,
+          # that branch only strips " (enforce)" suffix before handing the string to lxc.apparmor.profile
+          # (https://github.com/lxc/incus/blob/92b0cbbc5728ed45578fdeeec634606af8826404/internal/server/instance/drivers/driver_lxc.go#L96),
+          # so the named profile with flags=(unconfined) produces a literal string
+          # "incusd (unconfined)", which the kernel rejects at change_profile() time
+          # with "label not found", failing every `incus start` when AppArmor is enabled.
+          # This was not caught before as AppArmor was stifled by bpf.
+
+          # We keep this policy to pull in the per-container /
+          # per-archive profiles incusd generates at runtime so
+          # apparmor_parser loads them.
 
           abi <abi/4.0>,
           include <tunables/global>
 
-          profile incusd ${lib.getExe' config.virtualisation.incus.package "incusd"} flags=(unconfined) {
-            userns,
-
-            include "/var/lib/incus/security/apparmor/cache"
-
-            # Site-specific additions and overrides. See local/README for details.
-            include if exists <local/incusd>
-          }
-
           include "/var/lib/incus/security/apparmor/profiles"
         '';
       };