This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.16.9-rc1
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org samples/damon/prcl: avoid starting DAMON before initialization
Chen-Yu Tsai wens@csie.org clk: sunxi-ng: mp: Fix dual-divider clock rate readback
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org samples/damon/mtier: avoid starting DAMON before initialization
Honggyu Kim honggyu.kim@sk.com samples/damon: change enable parameters to enabled
SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org samples/damon/prcl: fix boot time enable crash
Alex Elder elder@riscstar.com dt-bindings: serial: 8250: move a constraint
Yixun Lan dlan@gentoo.org dt-bindings: serial: 8250: spacemit: set clocks property as required
Frank Li Frank.Li@nxp.com dt-bindings: serial: 8250: allow clock 'uartclk' and 'reg' for nxp,lpc1850-uart
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: nl: announce deny-join-id0 flag
Antheas Kapenekakis lkml@antheas.dev platform/x86: asus-wmi: Re-add extra keys to ignore_key_wlan quirk
Antheas Kapenekakis lkml@antheas.dev platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix ROG button mapping, tablet mode on ASUS ROG Z13
Yang Xiuwei yangxiuwei@kylinos.cn io_uring: fix incorrect io_kiocb reference in io_link_skb
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: client: fix smbdirect_recv_io leak in smbd_negotiate() error path
Paulo Alcantara pc@manguebit.org smb: client: fix file open check in __cifs_unlink()
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/msg_ring: kill alloc_cache for io_kiocb allocations
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: af_alg - Set merge to zero early in af_alg_sendmsg
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: client: let smbd_destroy() call disable_work_sync(&info->post_send_credits_work)
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: client: use disable[_delayed]_work_sync in smbdirect.c
Paulo Alcantara pc@manguebit.org smb: client: fix filename matching of deferred files
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: client: let recv_done verify data_offset, data_length and remaining_data_length
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: client: make use of struct smbdirect_recv_io
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: smbdirect: introduce struct smbdirect_recv_io
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: client: make use of smbdirect_socket->recv_io.expected
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: smbdirect: introduce smbdirect_socket.recv_io.expected
Daniele Ceraolo Spurio daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com drm/xe/guc: Set RCS/CCS yield policy
Daniele Ceraolo Spurio daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com drm/xe/guc: Enable extended CAT error reporting
Daniele Ceraolo Spurio daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com drm/xe: Fix error handling if PXP fails to start
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb: qcom: Fix false-positive address space check
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org drm/xe: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() in xe_vm_add_compute_exec_queue()
Qi Xi xiqi2@huawei.com drm: bridge: cdns-mhdp8546: Fix missing mutex unlock on error path
Loic Poulain loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com drm: bridge: anx7625: Fix NULL pointer dereference with early IRQ
Michal Wajdeczko michal.wajdeczko@intel.com drm/xe/pf: Drop rounddown_pow_of_two fair LMEM limitation
Shuicheng Lin shuicheng.lin@intel.com drm/xe/tile: Release kobject for the failure path
Venkata Prasad Potturu venkataprasad.potturu@amd.com ASoC: amd: acp: Fix incorrect retrival of acp_chip_info
Vasant Hegde vasant.hegde@amd.com iommu/amd: Fix alias device DTE setting
Amadeusz Sławiński amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com ASoC: Intel: catpt: Expose correct bit depth to userspace
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: SDCA: Fix return value in sdca_regmap_mbq_size()
Colin Ian King colin.i.king@gmail.com ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-stream: Fix incorrect variable used in error message
Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org ASoC: codec: sma1307: Fix memory corruption in sma1307_setting_loaded()
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: wm8974: Correct PLL rate rounding
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: wm8940: Correct typo in control name
Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: wm8940: Correct PLL rate rounding
Praful Adiga praful.adiga@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute led for HP Laptop 15-dw4xx
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: avoid spurious errors on TCP disconnect
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: connect: catch IO errors on listen side
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: propagate shutdown to subflows when possible
Håkon Bugge haakon.bugge@oracle.com rds: ib: Increment i_fastreg_wrs before bailing out
Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de crypto: ccp - Always pass in an error pointer to __sev_platform_shutdown_locked()
Sébastien Szymanski sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com gpiolib: acpi: initialize acpi_gpio_info struct
Hans de Goede hansg@kernel.org net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring: include dying ring in task_work "should cancel" state
Max Kellermann max.kellermann@ionos.com io_uring/io-wq: fix `max_workers` breakage and `nr_workers` underflow
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com drm/amd: Only restore cached manual clock settings in restore if OD enabled
Ivan Lipski ivan.lipski@amd.com drm/amd/display: Allow RX6xxx & RX7700 to invoke amdgpu_irq_get/put
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdgpu: suspend KFD and KGD user queues for S0ix
Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com drm/amdkfd: add proper handling for S0ix
Maciej S. Szmigiero maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com KVM: SVM: Sync TPR from LAPIC into VMCB::V_TPR even if AVIC is active
Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com x86/sev: Guard sev_evict_cache() with CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
Ben Chuang ben.chuang@genesyslogic.com.tw mmc: sdhci-uhs2: Fix calling incorrect sdhci_set_clock() function
Ben Chuang ben.chuang@genesyslogic.com.tw mmc: sdhci-pci-gli: GL9767: Fix initializing the UHS-II interface during a power-on
Ben Chuang ben.chuang@genesyslogic.com.tw mmc: sdhci: Move the code related to setting the clock from sdhci_set_ios_common() into sdhci_set_ios()
Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com mmc: mvsdio: Fix dma_unmap_sg() nents value
Mohammad Rafi Shaik mohammad.rafi.shaik@oss.qualcomm.com ASoC: qcom: q6apm-lpass-dais: Fix missing set_fmt DAI op for I2S
Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org ASoC: qcom: q6apm-lpass-dais: Fix NULL pointer dereference if source graph failed
Mohammad Rafi Shaik mohammad.rafi.shaik@oss.qualcomm.com ASoC: qcom: audioreach: Fix lpaif_type configuration for the I2S interface
Maciej Strozek mstrozek@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: SDCA: Add quirk for incorrect function types for 3 systems
Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: tree-checker: fix the incorrect inode ref size check
Niklas Schnelle schnelle@linux.ibm.com iommu/s390: Make attach succeed when the device was surprise removed
Matthew Rosato mjrosato@linux.ibm.com iommu/s390: Fix memory corruption when using identity domain
Vasant Hegde vasant.hegde@amd.com iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level
Zhen Ni zhen.ni@easystack.cn iommu/amd: Fix ivrs_base memleak in early_amd_iommu_init()
Eugene Koira eugkoira@amazon.com iommu/vt-d: Fix __domain_mapping()'s usage of switch_to_super_page()
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Fix VM migration failure with PTW enabled
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Avoid copy_*_user() with lock hold in kvm_pch_pic_regs_access()
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Avoid copy_*_user() with lock hold in kvm_eiointc_sw_status_access()
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Avoid copy_*_user() with lock hold in kvm_eiointc_regs_access()
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn LoongArch: KVM: Avoid copy_*_user() with lock hold in kvm_eiointc_ctrl_access()
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Handle jump tables options for RUST
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Make LTO case independent in Makefile
Tao Cui cuitao@kylinos.cn LoongArch: Check the return value when creating kobj
Huacai Chen chenhuacai@kernel.org LoongArch: Align ACPI structures if ARCH_STRICT_ALIGN enabled
Guangshuo Li 202321181@mail.sdu.edu.cn LoongArch: vDSO: Check kcalloc() result in init_vdso()
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Fix unreliable stack for live patching
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn objtool/LoongArch: Mark special atomic instruction as INSN_BUG type
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn objtool/LoongArch: Mark types based on break immediate code
Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Update help info of ARCH_STRICT_ALIGN
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm: folio_may_be_lru_cached() unless folio_test_large()
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm: revert "mm: vmscan.c: fix OOM on swap stress test"
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/gup: local lru_add_drain() to avoid lru_add_drain_all()
Li Zhe lizhe.67@bytedance.com gup: optimize longterm pin_user_pages() for large folio
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm: revert "mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch"
Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com mm/gup: check ref_count instead of lru before migration
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-stripe: fix a possible integer overflow
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-raid: don't set io_min and io_opt for raid1
austinchang austinchang@synology.com btrfs: initialize inode::file_extent_tree after i_mode has been set
Andrea Righi arighi@nvidia.com Revert "sched_ext: Skip per-CPU tasks in scx_bpf_reenqueue_local()"
H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com power: supply: bq27xxx: restrict no-battery detection to bq27000
H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com power: supply: bq27xxx: fix error return in case of no bq27000 hdq battery
Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org nilfs2: fix CFI failure when accessing /sys/fs/nilfs2/features/*
Sergey Senozhatsky senozhatsky@chromium.org zram: fix slot write race condition
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org ksmbd: smbdirect: verify remaining_data_length respects max_fragmented_recv_size
Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org ksmbd: smbdirect: validate data_offset and data_length field of smb_direct_data_transfer
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn octeontx2-pf: Fix use-after-free bugs in otx2_sync_tstamp()
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn cnic: Fix use-after-free bugs in cnic_delete_task
Alexey Nepomnyashih sdl@nppct.ru net: liquidio: fix overflow in octeon_init_instr_queue()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: clear sk->sk_ino in sk_set_socket(sk, NULL)
Tariq Toukan tariqt@nvidia.com Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon port speed set"
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org tls: make sure to abort the stream if headers are bogus
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect().
Sathesh B Edara sedara@marvell.com octeon_ep: fix VF MAC address lifecycle handling
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com bonding: don't set oif to bond dev when getting NS target destination
Lama Kayal lkayal@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload
Jianbo Liu jianbol@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Harden uplink netdev access against device unbind
Remy D. Farley one-d-wide@protonmail.com doc/netlink: Fix typos in operation attributes
Kohei Enju enjuk@amazon.com igc: don't fail igc_probe() on LED setup error
Jedrzej Jagielski jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com ixgbe: destroy aci.lock later within ixgbe_remove path
Jedrzej Jagielski jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com ixgbe: initialize aci.lock before it's used
Maciej Fijalkowski maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com i40e: remove redundant memory barrier when cleaning Tx descs
Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com ice: fix Rx page leak on multi-buffer frames
Yeounsu Moon yyyynoom@gmail.com net: natsemi: fix `rx_dropped` double accounting on `netif_rx()` failure
Geliang Tang geliang@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: sockopt: fix error messages
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: tfo: record 'deny join id0' info
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: userspace pm: validate deny-join-id0 flag
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: set remote_deny_join_id0 on SYN recv
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com bonding: set random address only when slaves already exist
Ilya Maximets i.maximets@ovn.org net: dst_metadata: fix IP_DF bit not extracted from tunnel headers
Jamie Bainbridge jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements
Kamal Heib kheib@redhat.com octeon_ep: Validate the VF ID
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract
David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: Fix unhandled errors in rxgk_verify_packet_integrity()
Ivan Vecera ivecera@redhat.com dpll: fix clock quality level reporting
Anderson Nascimento anderson@allelesecurity.com net/tcp: Fix a NULL pointer dereference when using TCP-AO with TCP_REPAIR
Ioana Ciornei ioana.ciornei@nxp.com dpaa2-switch: fix buffer pool seeding for control traffic
Li Tian litian@redhat.com net/mlx5: Not returning mlx5_link_info table when speed is unknown
Tiwei Bie tiwei.btw@antgroup.com um: Fix FD copy size in os_rcv_fd_msg()
Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com um: virtio_uml: Fix use-after-free after put_device in probe
Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: server: let smb_direct_writev() respect SMB_DIRECT_MAX_SEND_SGES
Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be pcmcia: omap_cf: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
Liao Yuanhong liaoyuanhong@vivo.com wifi: mac80211: fix incorrect type for ret
Lachlan Hodges lachlan.hodges@morsemicro.com wifi: mac80211: increase scan_ies_len for S1G
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name wifi: mt76: do not add non-sta wcid entries to the poll list
Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: firewire-motu: drop EPOLLOUT from poll return values as write is not supported
Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de nvme: fix PI insert on write
Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com wifi: wilc1000: avoid buffer overflow in WID string configuration
Ian Rogers irogers@google.com perf maps: Ensure kmap is set up for all inserts
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: fix incorrect ASSERT in btrfs_zoned_reserve_data_reloc_bg()
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix invalid extref key setup when replaying dentry
Chen Ridong chenridong@huawei.com cgroup: split cgroup_destroy_wq into 3 workqueues
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Diffstat:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml | 77 ++++++--- Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml | 9 +- Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 12 +- arch/loongarch/Makefile | 15 +- arch/loongarch/include/asm/acenv.h | 7 +- arch/loongarch/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 20 ++- arch/loongarch/kernel/env.c | 2 + arch/loongarch/kernel/stacktrace.c | 3 +- arch/loongarch/kernel/vdso.c | 3 + arch/loongarch/kvm/intc/eiointc.c | 87 ++++++---- arch/loongarch/kvm/intc/pch_pic.c | 21 ++- arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c | 8 +- arch/s390/include/asm/pci_insn.h | 10 +- arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c | 6 +- arch/um/os-Linux/file.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h | 38 ++--- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 3 +- crypto/af_alg.c | 10 +- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 8 +- drivers/clk/sunxi-ng/ccu_mp.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 2 +- drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c | 4 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd.c | 16 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd.h | 12 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 24 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_device.c | 36 ++++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 39 ++++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/swsmu/amdgpu_smu.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/analogix/anx7625.c | 6 +- .../gpu/drm/bridge/cadence/cdns-mhdp8546-core.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/abi/guc_actions_abi.h | 5 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/abi/guc_klvs_abi.h | 40 +++++ drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c | 22 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue_types.h | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_execlist.c | 25 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_execlist_types.h | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_sriov_pf_config.c | 1 - drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc.c | 62 ++++++- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_exec_queue_types.h | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_submit.c | 141 +++++++++++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_submit.h | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_tile_sysfs.c | 12 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_uc.c | 4 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c | 4 +- drivers/iommu/amd/amd_iommu_types.h | 1 + drivers/iommu/amd/init.c | 9 +- drivers/iommu/amd/io_pgtable.c | 25 ++- drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 7 +- drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c | 29 +++- drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 6 +- drivers/md/dm-stripe.c | 10 +- drivers/mmc/host/mvsdio.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci-gli.c | 68 +++++++- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-uhs2.c | 3 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 34 ++-- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c | 3 +- .../net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/request_manager.c | 2 +- .../net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-switch.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 3 - drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 80 ++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 12 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 22 +-- .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_main.c | 16 ++ .../ethernet/marvell/octeon_ep/octep_pfvf_mbox.c | 3 + .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ptp.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/fs.h | 1 + .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.h | 1 + .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_fs.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 2 - drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 27 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/qos.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mlx5.h | 15 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/port.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/ns83820.c | 13 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c | 7 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mac80211.c | 2 +- drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan_cfg.c | 39 +++-- drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan_cfg.h | 5 +- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 18 +- drivers/pcmcia/omap_cf.c | 8 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 25 ++- drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.h | 3 +- drivers/power/supply/bq27xxx_battery.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c | 3 - fs/btrfs/inode.c | 11 +- fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 2 +- fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 4 +- fs/nilfs2/sysfs.h | 8 +- fs/smb/client/cifsproto.h | 4 +- fs/smb/client/inode.c | 23 ++- fs/smb/client/misc.c | 36 ++-- fs/smb/client/smbdirect.c | 132 +++++++++------ fs/smb/client/smbdirect.h | 23 --- fs/smb/common/smbdirect/smbdirect_socket.h | 29 ++++ fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c | 185 ++++++++++++++------- include/crypto/if_alg.h | 10 +- include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 3 - include/linux/mlx5/driver.h | 1 + include/linux/swap.h | 10 ++ include/net/dst_metadata.h | 11 +- include/net/sock.h | 5 +- include/sound/sdca.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/mptcp_pm.h | 4 +- io_uring/io-wq.c | 6 +- io_uring/io_uring.c | 10 +- io_uring/io_uring.h | 4 +- io_uring/msg_ring.c | 24 +-- io_uring/notif.c | 2 +- io_uring/poll.c | 2 +- io_uring/timeout.c | 2 +- io_uring/uring_cmd.c | 2 +- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 43 ++++- kernel/sched/ext.c | 6 +- mm/gup.c | 52 ++++-- mm/mlock.c | 6 +- mm/swap.c | 50 +++--- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 5 + net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c | 4 +- net/mac80211/driver-ops.h | 2 +- net/mac80211/main.c | 7 +- net/mptcp/options.c | 6 +- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 7 + net/mptcp/protocol.c | 16 ++ net/mptcp/subflow.c | 4 + net/rds/ib_frmr.c | 20 ++- net/rfkill/rfkill-gpio.c | 4 +- net/rxrpc/rxgk.c | 18 +- net/rxrpc/rxgk_app.c | 29 +++- net/rxrpc/rxgk_common.h | 14 +- net/tls/tls.h | 1 + net/tls/tls_strp.c | 14 +- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 3 +- samples/damon/mtier.c | 25 +-- samples/damon/prcl.c | 31 +++- samples/damon/wsse.c | 22 +-- sound/firewire/motu/motu-hwdep.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 + sound/soc/amd/acp/acp-i2s.c | 11 +- sound/soc/codecs/sma1307.c | 7 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm8940.c | 9 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm8974.c | 8 +- sound/soc/intel/catpt/pcm.c | 23 ++- sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/audioreach.c | 1 + sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-lpass-dais.c | 7 +- sound/soc/sdca/sdca_device.c | 20 +++ sound/soc/sdca/sdca_functions.c | 13 +- sound/soc/sdca/sdca_regmap.c | 2 +- sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-stream.c | 2 +- sound/usb/qcom/qc_audio_offload.c | 92 +++++----- tools/arch/loongarch/include/asm/inst.h | 12 ++ tools/objtool/arch/loongarch/decode.c | 33 +++- tools/perf/util/maps.c | 9 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect.c | 11 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.c | 16 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_nl_ctl.c | 7 + tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/userspace_pm.sh | 14 +- 169 files changed, 1797 insertions(+), 824 deletions(-)
On 9/22/2025 12:28 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.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
On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 09:28:20PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.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 Tue, 23 Sept 2025 at 01:11, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.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: 6.16.9-rc1 * git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * git commit: fef8d1e3eca6557cae4f0149eb2071123c473c26 * git describe: v6.16.8-150-gfef8d1e3eca6 * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.16.y/build/v6.16....
## Test Regressions (compared to v6.16.6-198-gfb25a6be32b3)
## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.16.6-198-gfb25a6be32b3)
## Test Fixes (compared to v6.16.6-198-gfb25a6be32b3)
## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.16.6-198-gfb25a6be32b3)
## Test result summary total: 349618, pass: 322571, fail: 6726, skip: 20321, xfail: 0
## Build Summary * arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * arm: 139 total, 138 passed, 1 failed * arm64: 57 total, 56 passed, 1 failed * i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed * mips: 34 total, 27 passed, 7 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, 47 passed, 2 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 * modules * 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
Hi Greg
On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
6.16.9-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 6.16.9-rc1rv-gfef8d1e3eca6 (takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20250813, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.45.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Sep 23 15:36:05 JST 2025
Thanks
Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com
# Librecast Test Results
010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.16.9-rc1-gfef8d1e3eca6 #87 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Sep 23 07:06:54 -00 2025 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
[2025-09-22 21:28] Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.
Kernel 6.16.9-rc1 compiles fine for x86_64 using GCC 15.2.1+r22+gc4e96a094636 and binutils 2.45+r29+g2b2e51a31ec7, and the resulting kernel boots and runs without any discernible issues on various physical machines of mine (Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake) and on a Zen 2 VM and a bunch of Kaby Lake VMs.
Tested-by: Pascal Ernster git@hardfalcon.net
On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:28:20 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
All tests passing for Tegra ...
Test results for stable-v6.16: 10 builds: 10 pass, 0 fail 28 boots: 28 pass, 0 fail 120 tests: 120 pass, 0 fail
Linux version: 6.16.9-rc1-gfef8d1e3eca6 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
On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 09:28:20PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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.
Tested-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org
Am 22.09.2025 um 21:28 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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
On 9/22/25 12:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.9 release. There are 149 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 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:23:52 +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-6.16.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.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
Hi
no regressions here on x86_64 (RKL, Intel 11th Gen. CPU)
Thanks
Tested-by: Ronald Warsow rwarsow@gmx.de