This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.7 release. There are 35 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-6.17.7-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 6.17.7-rc1
Menglong Dong menglong8.dong@gmail.com arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checks
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixup
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()
Naohiro Aota naohiro.aota@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callback
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log tree
Chen Ridong chenridong@huawei.com cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition
Avadhut Naik avadhut.naik@amd.com EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16
David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline
Aaron Lu ziqianlu@bytedance.com sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for VMSCAPE
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Keep bypass on between enable failure and scx_disable_workfn()
Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
Kuan-Wei Chiu visitorckw@gmail.com EDAC: Fix wrong executable file modes for C source files
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
Dapeng Mi dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
Kyle Manna kyle@kylemanna.com EDAC/ie31200: Add two more Intel Alder Lake-S SoCs for EDAC support
Richard Guy Briggs rgb@redhat.com audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to enable_irq()
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to __disable_irq_nosync()
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com genirq/chip: Add buslock back in to irq_set_handler()
David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Qualify RETBLEED_INTEL_MSG
David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status
Haofeng Li lihaofeng@kylinos.cn timekeeping: Fix aux clocks sysfs initialization loop bound
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Sync error_irq_work before freeing scx_sched
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Put event_stats_cpu in struct scx_sched_pcpu
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Move internal type and accessor definitions to ext_internal.h
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Diffstat:
.../admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst | 1 + 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/events/intel/core.c | 10 +- arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 27 +- arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 2 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + drivers/edac/ecs.c | 0 drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 24 + drivers/edac/ie31200_edac.c | 4 + drivers/edac/mem_repair.c | 0 drivers/edac/scrub.c | 0 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-checker.c | 37 + fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 64 +- fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 8 +- fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 9 +- include/linux/audit.h | 2 +- kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 6 +- kernel/events/callchain.c | 16 +- kernel/events/core.c | 7 +- kernel/irq/chip.c | 2 +- kernel/irq/manage.c | 4 +- kernel/sched/build_policy.c | 1 + kernel/sched/ext.c | 1056 +------------------ kernel/sched/ext.h | 23 - kernel/sched/ext_internal.h | 1064 ++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 - kernel/seccomp.c | 32 +- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c | 18 +- 54 files changed, 1326 insertions(+), 1150 deletions(-)