This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.1 release. There are 15 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 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:02:25 +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-6.17.1-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.17.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.17.1-rc1
Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com ASoC: qcom: audioreach: fix potential null pointer dereference
Chandra Mohan Sundar chandramohan.explore@gmail.com media: stm32-csi: Fix dereference before NULL check
Dikshita Agarwal quic_dikshita@quicinc.com media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer
Matvey Kovalev matvey.kovalev@ispras.ru wifi: ath11k: fix NULL dereference in ath11k_qmi_m3_load()
Charan Teja Kalla charan.kalla@oss.qualcomm.com mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@igalia.com media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID
Larshin Sergey Sergey.Larshin@kaspersky.com media: rc: fix races with imon_disconnect()
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn media: i2c: tc358743: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by orphan timer in probe
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn media: b2c2: Fix use-after-free causing by irq_check_work in flexcop_pci_remove
Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru wifi: rtw89: fix use-after-free in rtw89_core_tx_kick_off_and_wait()
Jeongjun Park aha310510@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: fix race condition to UAF in snd_usbmidi_free
Wang Haoran haoranwangsec@gmail.com scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
Yu Kuai yukuai3@huawei.com blk-mq: fix blk_mq_tags double free while nr_requests grown
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- block/blk-mq-tag.c | 1 + drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/b2c2/flexcop-pci.c | 2 +- drivers/media/platform/qcom/iris/iris_buffer.c | 10 ++++ drivers/media/platform/st/stm32/stm32-csi.c | 4 +- drivers/media/rc/imon.c | 27 +++++++--- drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++---------- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/qmi.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c | 30 ++++++++--- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h | 35 +++++++++++- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/pci.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/ser.c | 2 + drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 2 +- mm/swapfile.c | 3 ++ scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h | 7 +++ sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/topology.c | 4 +- sound/usb/midi.c | 9 ++-- 20 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)