This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.3.1 release. There are 38 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.3.1-rc1.g... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.3.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 7.3.1-rc1
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org pid_namespace: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting the reaper
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org coredump: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting coredumps
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org exit: hang up the tty before closing the files
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org fork: release the files of a failed fork after sched_cancel_fork()
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org ptrace: refuse to change the signal mask of a user worker
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: don't retarget shared signals in a dying thread group
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org io-wq: order the exit bit against worker creation task work
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: only SIGKILL and the freezers interrupt a coredumping task
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org coredump: hold RCU while releasing parked threads
Aaron Ahmed aarnahmd@amazon.com ftrace: Initialize modname and offset in print_rec()
Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com asymmetric_keys: reject trust keys without IDs
Srish Srinivasan ssrish@linux.ibm.com keys/trusted_keys: return immediately after TPM unseal failure
Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com KEYS: trusted: Fix blob allocation size in tpm2_key_decode()
Adrian Martinez adrimg3196@gmail.com KEYS: Fix key_reject_and_link() race with keyring restriction
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Protect the read method check against type removal
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com keys: make keyring indexes independent of kernel addresses
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Protect the type name while describing a key
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Check the authorization payload in process keyring searches
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring: end the drain when the drain request completes
Junyeong Lee jylee5498@gmail.com io_uring/waitid: prevent cancel reference wrap
Tamaki Yanagawa ty@000ty.net io_uring/net: keep recv buffer select length within MAX_RW_COUNT
Austin Schuh austin.linux@gmail.com io_uring/wait: wake real-time waiters from hard interrupt context
Juanlu Herrero juanlu@fastmail.com io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership
Haoran Wang haoranwangsec@gmail.com tracing/syscalls: Use copy_from_user for the faultable syscall buffer
Lee Jones lee@kernel.org tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Fix 64-bit and signed histogram fields on 32-bit kernels
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Add the bucket size to expr_field_str()
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Unregister field variable histograms when the command fails
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Save the event file instead of the compatible histogram
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com tracing: Reject incomplete event filter expressions
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when updating modules in persistent instances
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org tools/dma: fix building with O=
Pauli Virtanen pav@iki.fi Bluetooth: L2CAP: refuse __l2cap_chan_add if chan already has conn
SJ Park sj@kernel.org mm/damon/core: error damos_commit_quota_goal() for zero target_value
Haris Okanovic harisokn@amazon.com genirq/proc: Fix missing CPU header in /proc/interrupts
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c | 8 +- fs/coredump.c | 18 +-- include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 2 + include/linux/key-type.h | 1 + include/linux/key.h | 5 + include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched/signal.h | 27 +++- io_uring/io-wq.c | 2 + io_uring/io_uring.c | 42 +++++- io_uring/net.c | 2 + io_uring/poll.c | 3 +- io_uring/wait.c | 16 ++- io_uring/waitid.c | 7 +- kernel/exit.c | 5 +- kernel/fork.c | 9 +- kernel/irq/proc.c | 24 +++- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 3 +- kernel/ptrace.c | 6 + kernel/signal.c | 4 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 21 ++- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 6 + kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 36 +++-- kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 10 ++ kernel/trace/trace_synth.h | 1 + kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 2 +- mm/damon/core.c | 22 ++- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 7 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 2 + security/keys/key.c | 13 +- security/keys/keyctl.c | 15 ++- security/keys/keyring.c | 150 +++++++++++---------- security/keys/process_keys.c | 5 +- security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm1.c | 4 +- security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c | 2 +- tools/dma/Makefile | 4 +- .../test.d/filter/event-filter-incomplete.tc | 24 ++++ 38 files changed, 362 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)