This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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-6.6.116-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.6.116-rc1
William Breathitt Gray wbg@kernel.org gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines
Ioana Ciornei ioana.ciornei@nxp.com gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter
Mathieu Dubois-Briand mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device
Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()
Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: fix bogus 1024 byte prefix if ttyDBC read races with stall event
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: Avoid event polling busyloop if pending rx transfers are inactive.
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: Improve performance by removing delay in transfer event polling.
Uday M Bhat uday.m.bhat@intel.com xhci: dbc: Allow users to modify DbC poll interval via sysfs
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: poll at different rate depending on data transfer activity
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: remove useless enable of enhanced features
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: refactor EFR lock
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: reorder code to remove prototype declarations
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: remove unused to_sc16is7xx_port macro
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported
Geliang Tang tanggeliang@kylinos.cn selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR
Menglong Dong menglong8.dong@gmail.com arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
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()
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
David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status
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
Richard Guy Briggs rgb@redhat.com audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue
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Diffstat:
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-drivers-xhci_hcd | 10 ++ 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/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 9 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 24 +++ drivers/gpio/gpio-idio-16.c | 5 + drivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c | 53 +++++- drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 185 ++++++++++----------- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.c | 70 +++++++- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.h | 7 +- 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-log.c | 9 +- fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 8 +- fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 9 +- include/linux/audit.h | 2 +- include/linux/bitops.h | 1 - include/linux/bits.h | 38 ++++- include/linux/gpio/regmap.h | 16 ++ include/net/pkt_sched.h | 25 ++- kernel/events/callchain.c | 16 +- kernel/events/core.c | 7 +- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 6 + net/sched/sch_api.c | 10 -- net/sched/sch_hfsc.c | 16 -- net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh | 3 +- 49 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
Am 31.10.2025 um 15:00 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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 10/31/25 07:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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-6.6.116-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.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 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:00:54 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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-6.6.116-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
All tests passing for Tegra ...
Test results for stable-v6.6: 10 builds: 10 pass, 0 fail 28 boots: 28 pass, 0 fail 120 tests: 120 pass, 0 fail
Linux version: 6.6.116-rc1-g2c2875b5e101 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 10/31/25 08:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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-6.6.116-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.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, 31 Oct 2025 at 19:32, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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-6.6.116-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.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: 6.6.116-rc1 * git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * git commit: 2c2875b5e101bfe6ef42655c890d804b3c04abca * git describe: v6.6.115-33-g2c2875b5e101 * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.6.y/build/v6.6.11...
## Test Regressions (compared to v6.6.113-190-g6de03dd48e80)
## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.6.113-190-g6de03dd48e80)
## Test Fixes (compared to v6.6.113-190-g6de03dd48e80)
## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.6.113-190-g6de03dd48e80)
## Test result summary total: 116160, pass: 98408, fail: 3409, skip: 14040, xfail: 303
## Build Summary * arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * arm: 129 total, 128 passed, 1 failed * arm64: 44 total, 40 passed, 4 failed * i386: 23 total, 23 passed, 0 failed * mips: 26 total, 25 passed, 1 failed * parisc: 4 total, 4 passed, 0 failed * powerpc: 32 total, 31 passed, 1 failed * riscv: 15 total, 14 passed, 1 failed * s390: 14 total, 13 passed, 1 failed * sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed * sparc: 7 total, 7 passed, 0 failed * x86_64: 37 total, 34 passed, 3 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-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
-- Linaro LKFT https://lkft.linaro.org
On 10/31/25 07:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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-6.6.116-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.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 6.6.116-rc1-g2c2875b5e101 #127 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Nov 1 19:28:10 -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 15:00:54 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release. There are 32 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:
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org
Thanks!
Cheers, Miguel
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