This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.2 release. There are 26 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, 12 Oct 2025 13:13:18 +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-6.17.2-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 6.17.2-rc1
Ankit Khushwaha ankitkhushwaha.linux@gmail.com ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller
Chao Yu chao@kernel.org f2fs: fix to do sanity check on node footer for non inode dnode
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O
Nalivayko Sergey Sergey.Nalivayko@kaspersky.com net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: rng - Ensure set_ent is always present
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: zstd - Fix compression bug caused by truncation
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Revert "crypto: testmgr - desupport SHA-1 for FIPS 140"
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com driver core/PM: Set power.no_callbacks along with power.no_pm
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com driver core: faux: Set power.no_pm for faux devices
Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com staging: axis-fifo: flush RX FIFO on read errors
Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com staging: axis-fifo: fix TX handling on copy_from_user() failure
Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com staging: axis-fifo: fix maximum TX packet length check
Raphael Gallais-Pou raphael.gallais-pou@foss.st.com serial: stm32: allow selecting console when the driver is module
Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com binder: fix double-free in dbitmap
Max Kellermann max.kellermann@ionos.com drivers/misc/amd-sbi/Kconfig: select REGMAP_I2C
Michael Walle mwalle@kernel.org nvmem: layouts: fix automatic module loading
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org serial: qcom-geni: Fix blocked task
Rahul Rameshbabu sergeantsagara@protonmail.com rust: pci: fix incorrect platform reference in PCI driver unbind doc comment
Rahul Rameshbabu sergeantsagara@protonmail.com rust: pci: fix incorrect platform reference in PCI driver probe doc comment
Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org rust: block: fix `srctree/` links
Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org rust: drm: fix `srctree/` links
Bitterblue Smith rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com wifi: rtl8xxxu: Don't claim USB ID 07b8:8188
Bitterblue Smith rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Don't claim USB ID 07b8:8188
Zenm Chen zenmchen@gmail.com Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 2001:332a for D-Link AX9U rev. A1
Xiaowei Li xiaowei.li@simcom.com USB: serial: option: add SIMCom 8230C compositions
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Enable MES lr_compute_wa by default
-------------
Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 15 +- crypto/rng.c | 8 + crypto/testmgr.c | 5 + crypto/zstd.c | 2 +- drivers/android/dbitmap.h | 1 + drivers/base/faux.c | 1 + drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v11_0.c | 6 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v12_0.c | 5 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/mes_v11_api_def.h | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/mes_v12_api_def.h | 3 +- drivers/misc/amd-sbi/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 2 - .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c | 1 - drivers/nvmem/layouts.c | 13 ++ drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c | 68 ++++---- drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 176 ++------------------- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 + fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 4 +- fs/f2fs/gc.c | 4 +- fs/f2fs/node.c | 58 ++++--- fs/f2fs/node.h | 1 + fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 2 +- include/linux/device.h | 3 + kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- net/9p/trans_fd.c | 8 +- rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs | 2 +- rust/kernel/drm/device.rs | 2 +- rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs | 2 +- rust/kernel/drm/file.rs | 2 +- rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs | 2 +- rust/kernel/drm/ioctl.rs | 2 +- rust/kernel/pci.rs | 6 +- 37 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 257 deletions(-)