This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.108 release. There are 70 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-6.6.108-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 6.6.108-rc1

Eric Hagberg ehagberg@janestreet.com Revert "loop: Avoid updating block size under exclusive owner"

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: add a few more MIN_T/MAX_T users

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: simplify and clarify min_t()/max_t() implementation

Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org minmax: avoid overly complicated constant expressions in VM code

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: propagate shutdown to subflows when possible

Bruno Thomsen bruno.thomsen@gmail.com rtc: pcf2127: fix SPI command byte for PCF2131 backport

Vasant Hegde vasant.hegde@amd.com iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: Fix full DbC transfer ring after several reconnects

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: decouple endpoint allocation from initialization

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org phy: ti: omap-usb2: fix device leak at unbind

Rob Herring robh@kernel.org phy: Use device_get_match_data()

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: userspace pm: validate deny-join-id0 flag

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: nl: announce deny-join-id0 flag

Sankararaman Jayaraman sankararaman.jayaraman@broadcom.com vmxnet3: unregister xdp rxq info in the reset path

Stefan Metzmacher metze@samba.org smb: client: fix smbdirect_recv_io leak in smbd_negotiate() error path

Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: af_alg - Set merge to zero early in af_alg_sendmsg

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

Colin Ian King colin.i.king@gmail.com ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-stream: Fix incorrect variable used in error message

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

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring: include dying ring in task_work "should cancel" state

Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring: backport io_should_terminate_tw()

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

Håkon Bugge haakon.bugge@oracle.com rds: ib: Increment i_fastreg_wrs before bailing out

Hans de Goede hansg@kernel.org net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer

Maciej S. Szmigiero maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com KVM: SVM: Sync TPR from LAPIC into VMCB::V_TPR even if AVIC is active

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

Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: tree-checker: fix the incorrect inode ref size check

Eugene Koira eugkoira@amazon.com iommu/vt-d: Fix __domain_mapping()'s usage of switch_to_super_page()

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

Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Update help info of ARCH_STRICT_ALIGN

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/*

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()

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().

Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com bonding: don't set oif to bond dev when getting NS target destination

Jianbo Liu jianbol@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Harden uplink netdev access against device unbind

Jianbo Liu jianbol@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Consider aggregated port speed during rate configuration

Maciej Fijalkowski maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com i40e: remove redundant memory barrier when cleaning Tx descs

Yeounsu Moon yyyynoom@gmail.com net: natsemi: fix `rx_dropped` double accounting on `netif_rx()` failure

Geliang Tang tanggeliang@kylinos.cn 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 mptcp: set remote_deny_join_id0 on SYN recv

Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com bonding: set random address only when slaves already exist

Jamie Bainbridge jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements

Ioana Ciornei ioana.ciornei@nxp.com dpaa2-switch: fix buffer pool seeding for control traffic

Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com um: virtio_uml: Fix use-after-free after put_device in probe

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

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

Takashi Sakamoto o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp ALSA: firewire-motu: drop EPOLLOUT from poll return values as write is not supported

Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com wifi: wilc1000: avoid buffer overflow in WID string configuration

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 8 +- arch/loongarch/include/asm/acenv.h | 7 +- arch/loongarch/kernel/env.c | 2 + arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c | 6 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 3 +- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +- crypto/af_alg.c | 10 ++- drivers/block/loop.c | 38 ++------- drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/analogix/anx7625.c | 6 +- .../gpu/drm/bridge/cadence/cdns-mhdp8546-core.c | 6 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c | 2 +- drivers/iommu/amd/amd_iommu_types.h | 1 + drivers/iommu/amd/io_pgtable.c | 26 +++++- drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 7 +- drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 6 +- drivers/mmc/host/mvsdio.c | 2 +- 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 - .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ptp.c | 2 +- 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 | 85 ++++++++++++++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mlx5.h | 15 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/natsemi/ns83820.c | 13 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c | 10 +-- drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan_cfg.c | 39 ++++++--- drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan_cfg.h | 5 +- drivers/pcmcia/omap_cf.c | 8 +- drivers/phy/broadcom/phy-bcm-ns-usb3.c | 9 +-- drivers/phy/marvell/phy-berlin-usb.c | 7 +- drivers/phy/ralink/phy-ralink-usb.c | 10 +-- drivers/phy/rockchip/phy-rockchip-pcie.c | 11 +-- drivers/phy/rockchip/phy-rockchip-usb.c | 10 +-- drivers/phy/ti/phy-omap-control.c | 9 +-- drivers/phy/ti/phy-omap-usb2.c | 24 ++++-- drivers/phy/ti/phy-ti-pipe3.c | 14 +--- drivers/power/supply/bq27xxx_battery.c | 4 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2127.c | 10 +-- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.c | 94 +++++++++++++++------- fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 4 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 2 +- fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 4 +- fs/nilfs2/sysfs.h | 8 +- fs/smb/client/smbdirect.c | 4 +- fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c | 26 ++++-- include/crypto/if_alg.h | 10 ++- include/linux/minmax.h | 26 ++++-- include/linux/mlx5/driver.h | 1 + include/linux/pageblock-flags.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/mptcp.h | 6 +- io_uring/io_uring.c | 7 +- io_uring/io_uring.h | 13 +++ io_uring/poll.c | 3 +- io_uring/timeout.c | 2 +- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 43 ++++++++-- net/ipv4/proc.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 5 ++ net/ipv6/proc.c | 2 +- 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/tls/tls.h | 1 + net/tls/tls_strp.c | 14 ++-- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 3 +- sound/firewire/motu/motu-hwdep.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/wm8940.c | 9 ++- sound/soc/codecs/wm8974.c | 8 +- sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/audioreach.c | 1 + sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-lpass-dais.c | 7 +- sound/soc/sof/intel/hda-stream.c | 2 +- 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 +++- 87 files changed, 601 insertions(+), 300 deletions(-)