This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release.
There are 32 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.6.116-rc…
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 6.6.116-rc1
William Breathitt Gray <wbg(a)kernel.org>
gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei(a)nxp.com>
gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter
Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand(a)bootlin.com>
gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent(a)wanadoo.fr>
bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent(a)wanadoo.fr>
bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman(a)linux.intel.com>
xhci: dbc: fix bogus 1024 byte prefix if ttyDBC read races with stall event
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman(a)linux.intel.com>
xhci: dbc: Avoid event polling busyloop if pending rx transfers are inactive.
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman(a)linux.intel.com>
xhci: dbc: Improve performance by removing delay in transfer event polling.
Uday M Bhat <uday.m.bhat(a)intel.com>
xhci: dbc: Allow users to modify DbC poll interval via sysfs
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman(a)linux.intel.com>
xhci: dbc: poll at different rate depending on data transfer activity
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve(a)dimonoff.com>
serial: sc16is7xx: remove useless enable of enhanced features
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve(a)dimonoff.com>
serial: sc16is7xx: refactor EFR lock
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve(a)dimonoff.com>
serial: sc16is7xx: reorder code to remove prototype declarations
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve(a)dimonoff.com>
serial: sc16is7xx: remove unused to_sc16is7xx_port macro
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe(a)kernel.org>
selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported
Geliang Tang <tanggeliang(a)kylinos.cn>
selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe(a)kernel.org>
mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR
Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong(a)gmail.com>
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum(a)linux.dev>
btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()
Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota(a)wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection
Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn(a)wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()
Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik(a)amd.com>
EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16
David Kaplan <david.kaplan(a)amd.com>
x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline
David Kaplan <david.kaplan(a)amd.com>
x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe(a)kernel.org>
perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe(a)kernel.org>
perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org>
perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com>
audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
Xiang Mei <xmei5(a)asu.edu>
net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue
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Diffstat:
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-drivers-xhci_hcd | 10 ++
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/csky/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/hexagon/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/loongarch/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/m68k/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/microblaze/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/nios2/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/sh/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/sparc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 9 +-
arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 24 +++
drivers/gpio/gpio-idio-16.c | 5 +
drivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c | 53 +++++-
drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 185 ++++++++++-----------
drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.c | 70 +++++++-
drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.h | 7 +-
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 6 +-
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 7 +-
fs/btrfs/scrub.c | 3 +-
fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 9 +-
fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 8 +-
fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 9 +-
include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
include/linux/bitops.h | 1 -
include/linux/bits.h | 38 ++++-
include/linux/gpio/regmap.h | 16 ++
include/net/pkt_sched.h | 25 ++-
kernel/events/callchain.c | 16 +-
kernel/events/core.c | 7 +-
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 6 +
net/sched/sch_api.c | 10 --
net/sched/sch_hfsc.c | 16 --
net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh | 3 +-
49 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
Total jobs: 180
Total errors: 67 (37.22%)
LAVA errors: 0 (0.00%)
Test errors: 60 (33.33%)
Job errors: 2 (1.11%)
Infra errors: 5 (2.78%)
Canceled jobs: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: dragonboard-845c
Total jobs: 71
Total errors: 17 (23.94%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 17 (23.94%)
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[a6622a22]'
Count: 4 (5.63%)
IDs:
db845c-09:
8520701 8520774 8520807 8522968
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'Device NOT found after DUT booted up! adb wait-for-device timed out after 300s'
Count: 6 (8.45%)
IDs:
db845c-03:
8520967
db845c-04:
8521133 8522925
db845c-06:
8520789
db845c-09:
8520918 8521102
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[f3a58ae3]'
Count: 2 (2.82%)
IDs:
db845c-04:
8520961 8520966
Error: Device NOT found!
Count: 1 (1.41%)
IDs:
db845c-09:
8520960
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'The network seems not available, as the ping command failed'
Count: 2 (2.82%)
IDs:
db845c-02:
8520915
db845c-04:
8520917
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[476f370a]'
Count: 2 (2.82%)
IDs:
db845c-10:
8520741 8520776
Device type: qrb5165-rb5
Total jobs: 51
Total errors: 13 (25.49%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 10 (19.61%)
Error: Device NOT found!
Count: 1 (1.96%)
IDs:
rb5-01:
8522984
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'Device NOT found after DUT booted up! adb wait-for-device timed out after 300s'
Count: 8 (15.69%)
IDs:
rb5-07:
8520712 8520713 8521107 8521526 8522862
8522906 8522934 8522981
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[93dcfd96]'
Count: 1 (1.96%)
IDs:
rb5-01:
8520871
Error type: Infrastructure
Error count: 3 (5.88%)
Error: Connection closed
Count: 3 (5.88%)
IDs:
rb5-01:
8521108 8522858 8522905
Device type: hi960-hikey
Total jobs: 25
Total errors: 12 (48.00%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 9 (36.00%)
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'Device NOT found after DUT booted up! adb wait-for-device timed out after 300s'
Count: 7 (28.00%)
IDs:
hi960-hikey-01:
8520929 8522782 8522810 8522832
hi960-hikey-02:
8521165
hi960-hikey-04:
8520947 8522830
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[7A25756801BA7C0B]'
Count: 1 (4.00%)
IDs:
hi960-hikey-02:
8522779
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'lava-docker-test-shell timed out after 292 seconds'
Count: 1 (4.00%)
IDs:
hi960-hikey-01:
8520944
Error type: Infrastructure
Error count: 2 (8.00%)
Error: fastboot-flash-action timed out
Count: 1 (4.00%)
IDs:
hi960-hikey-01:
8521101
Error: Reboot failed
Count: 1 (4.00%)
IDs:
hi960-hikey-02:
8520922
Error type: Job
Error count: 1 (4.00%)
Error: No match for error type 'Job', message 'download-postprocess-docker timed out after 4187 seconds'
Count: 1 (4.00%)
IDs:
hi960-hikey-01:
8520920
Device type: hi6220-hikey-r2
Total jobs: 29
Total errors: 25 (86.21%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 24 (82.76%)
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[7B1579B5003E507A]'
Count: 1 (3.45%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-05:
8522825
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'Device NOT found after DUT booted up! adb wait-for-device timed out after 300s'
Count: 8 (27.59%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-03:
8521542 8522771
hikey-6220-r2-04:
8521304 8521543
hikey-6220-r2-05:
8521531 8521541 8522809
hikey-6220-r2-06:
8521303
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[235D989C003B0752]'
Count: 3 (10.34%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-03:
8521527 8522690 8522783
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'The network seems not available, as the ping command failed'
Count: 7 (24.14%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-01:
8521308 8521529 8521534 8521544
hikey-6220-r2-05:
8520976 8521305 8522693
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[4595FE84003F72FC]'
Count: 3 (10.34%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-04:
8521310 8521528 8522692
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[8D6E5F00030E051]'
Count: 1 (3.45%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-02:
8521533
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'lava-docker-test-shell timed out after 28798 seconds'
Count: 1 (3.45%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-06:
8521491
Error type: Job
Error count: 1 (3.45%)
Error: No match for error type 'Job', message 'login-action timed out after 876 seconds'
Count: 1 (3.45%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-03:
8520978
Device type: rk3399-rock-pi-4b
Total jobs: 4
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)
Total jobs: 146
Total errors: 61 (41.78%)
LAVA errors: 0 (0.00%)
Test errors: 0 (0.00%)
Job errors: 20 (13.70%)
Infra errors: 41 (28.08%)
Canceled jobs: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: hi6220-hikey-r2
Total jobs: 1
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: dragonboard-410c
Total jobs: 7
Total errors: 6 (85.71%)
Error type: Job
Error count: 6 (85.71%)
Error: No match for error type 'Job', message 'Unable to update image rootfs: 'mount: mount exited with status 32: mount: /sysroot: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.\n dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.''
Count: 6 (85.71%)
IDs:
dragonboard-410c-01:
4241613 4241657 4241691 4241735 4241741
4241764
Device type: dragonboard-845c
Total jobs: 8
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: bcm2837-rpi-3-b-32
Total jobs: 114
Total errors: 55 (48.25%)
Error type: Infrastructure
Error count: 41 (35.96%)
Error: No match for error type 'Infrastructure', message 'bootloader-commands timed out after 35 seconds'
Count: 40 (35.09%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4241623 4241625 4241627 4241631 4241634
4241636 4241640 4241652 4241665 4241667
4241669 4241673 4241675 4241679 4241681
4241701 4241704 4241707 4241709 4241712
4241716 4241718 4241720 4241734 4241743
4241746 4241748 4241750 4241752 4241754
4241758 4241773 4241777 4241779 4241781
4241783 4241787 4241789 4241791 4241793
Error: No match for error type 'Infrastructure', message 'No time left for remaining 1 retries. You should either increase block timeout or decrease named action timeout. 4 retries out of 5 failed for uboot-action'
Count: 1 (0.88%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4241714
Error type: Job
Error count: 14 (12.28%)
Error: wait for prompt timed out
Count: 14 (12.28%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4241621 4241630 4241639 4241642 4241663
4241672 4241677 4241706 4241722 4241745
4241756 4241757 4241785 4241786
Device type: x15
Total jobs: 16
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)
