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
-------------
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(-)
Hi
no regressions here on x86_64 (RKL, Intel 11th Gen. CPU)
Thanks
Tested-by: Ronald Warsow rwarsow@gmx.de
Am 31.10.2025 um 15:01 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
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.
Builds, boots and works on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697 v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.
Tested-by: Peter Schneider pschneider1968@googlemail.com
Beste Grüße, Peter Schneider
Hyy Greg,
On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
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
Build and Boot Report for 6.17.7-rc1
The kernel version 6.17.7-rc1 was built and boot-tested using qemu-x86_64 and qemu-arm64 with the default configuration (defconfig). The build and boot processes completed successfully, and the kernel operated as expected in the virtualized environments without any issues.
Build Details : Builds : arm64, x86_64 Kernel Version: 6.17.7-rc1 Configuration : defconfig Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git Commit : 7914a8bbc909547c8cb9b1af5fbc4f1741e9e680
Tested-by: Dileep Malepu dileep.debian@gmail.com
Best regards, Dileep Malepu
On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:01:08 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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
All tests passing for Tegra ...
Test results for stable-v6.17: 10 builds: 10 pass, 0 fail 28 boots: 28 pass, 0 fail 120 tests: 120 pass, 0 fail
Linux version: 6.17.7-rc1-g7914a8bbc909 Boards tested: tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra186-p2771-0000, tegra186-p3509-0000+p3636-0001, tegra194-p2972-0000, tegra194-p3509-0000+p3668-0000, tegra20-ventana, tegra210-p2371-2180, tegra210-p3450-0000, tegra30-cardhu-a04
Tested-by: Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com
Jon
Hi!
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.
CIP testing did not find any problems here:
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/tree/linux-6...
Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) pavel@denx.de
Best regards, Pavel
On 10/31/25 08:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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
Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
Tested-by: Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org
thanks, -- Shuah
On Fri Oct 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM CET, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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
Thanks! Build tested on all Alpine architectures and boot-tested on x86_64.
Tested-By: Achill Gilgenast achill@achill.org
On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 03:01:08PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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
Tested rc1 against the Fedora build system (aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64), and boot tested x86_64. No regressions noted.
Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes jforbes@fedoraproject.org
On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 19:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
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
Results from Linaro’s test farm. No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
## Build * kernel: 6.17.7-rc1 * git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * git commit: 7914a8bbc909547c8cb9b1af5fbc4f1741e9e680 * git describe: v6.17.6-36-g7914a8bbc909 * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.17.y/build/v6.17....
## Test Regressions (compared to v6.17.4-346-g10e3f8e671f7)
## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.17.4-346-g10e3f8e671f7)
## Test Fixes (compared to v6.17.4-346-g10e3f8e671f7)
## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.17.4-346-g10e3f8e671f7)
## Test result summary total: 126960, pass: 107190, fail: 4404, skip: 15366, xfail: 0
## Build Summary * arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * arm: 139 total, 139 passed, 0 failed * arm64: 57 total, 53 passed, 3 failed, 1 skipped * i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed * mips: 34 total, 33 passed, 1 failed * parisc: 4 total, 4 passed, 0 failed * powerpc: 40 total, 39 passed, 1 failed * riscv: 25 total, 25 passed, 0 failed * s390: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed * sh: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * sparc: 4 total, 3 passed, 1 failed * x86_64: 49 total, 48 passed, 1 failed
## Test suites summary * boot * commands * kselftest-arm64 * kselftest-breakpoints * kselftest-capabilities * kselftest-cgroup * kselftest-clone3 * kselftest-core * kselftest-cpu-hotplug * kselftest-cpufreq * kselftest-efivarfs * kselftest-exec * kselftest-fpu * kselftest-ftrace * kselftest-futex * kselftest-gpio * kselftest-intel_pstate * kselftest-ipc * kselftest-kcmp * kselftest-kvm * kselftest-livepatch * kselftest-membarrier * kselftest-memfd * kselftest-mincore * kselftest-mm * kselftest-mqueue * kselftest-net * kselftest-net-mptcp * kselftest-openat2 * kselftest-ptrace * kselftest-rseq * kselftest-rtc * kselftest-rust * kselftest-seccomp * kselftest-sigaltstack * kselftest-size * kselftest-tc-testing * kselftest-timers * kselftest-tmpfs * kselftest-tpm2 * kselftest-user_events * kselftest-vDSO * kselftest-x86 * kunit * kvm-unit-tests * lava * libgpiod * libhugetlbfs * log-parser-boot * log-parser-build-clang * log-parser-build-gcc * log-parser-test * ltp-capability * ltp-commands * ltp-containers * ltp-controllers * ltp-cpuhotplug * ltp-crypto * ltp-cve * ltp-dio * ltp-fcntl-locktests * ltp-fs * ltp-fs_bind * ltp-fs_perms_simple * ltp-hugetlb * ltp-math * ltp-mm * ltp-nptl * ltp-pty * ltp-sched * ltp-smoke * ltp-syscalls * ltp-tracing * perf * rcutorture * rt-tests-cyclicdeadline * rt-tests-pi-stress * rt-tests-pmqtest * rt-tests-rt-migrate-test * rt-tests-signaltest
-- Linaro LKFT https://lkft.linaro.org
compiled and booted 6.17.7-rc1+ dmesg -l warn shows some, file attached
Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in
On 10/31/25 07:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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
Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).
Tested-by: Ron Economos re@w6rz.net
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.17.7-rc1-g7914a8bbc909 #125 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct 31 20:03:10 -00 2025 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:01:08 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
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.
Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested for arm and loongarch64:
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org
Thanks!
Cheers, Miguel
Hi Greg
On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
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
6.17.7-rc1 tested.
Build successfully completed. Boot successfully completed. No dmesg regressions. Video output normal. Sound output normal.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen10(Intel i7-1260P(x86_64) arch linux)
[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.17.7-rc1rv-g7914a8bbc909 (takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20250813, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.45.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Nov 2 11:13:09 JST 2025
Thanks
Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com
On 10/31/25 07:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
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