This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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-6.6.161-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 6.6.161-rc1
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org pid_namespace: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting the reaper
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org ptrace: refuse to change the signal mask of a user worker
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: don't retarget shared signals in a dying thread group
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org signal: only SIGKILL and the freezers interrupt a coredumping task
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org coredump: hold RCU while releasing parked threads
Aaron Ahmed aarnahmd@amazon.com ftrace: Initialize modname and offset in print_rec()
Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com asymmetric_keys: reject trust keys without IDs
Srish Srinivasan ssrish@linux.ibm.com keys/trusted_keys: return immediately after TPM unseal failure
Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com KEYS: trusted: Fix blob allocation size in tpm2_key_decode()
Adrian Martinez adrimg3196@gmail.com KEYS: Fix key_reject_and_link() race with keyring restriction
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Protect the read method check against type removal
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com keys: make keyring indexes independent of kernel addresses
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Protect the type name while describing a key
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Check the authorization payload in process keyring searches
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/poll: don't loop on HUP with multiple references
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/timeout: don't lose a cancel as io-wq arms a timeout
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/timeout: don't flush with the sequence behind the last flush
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/timeout: don't put a sequence target behind the last flush
Juanlu Herrero juanlu@fastmail.com io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: look up the file before queueing to io-wq
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/timeout: no ABS update of multishot timeouts
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: don't pass restart error codes to userspace
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/sqpoll: let the thread sleep on disabled rings
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/timeout: keep repeat count on multishot update
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/timeout: don't skip over reached sequences
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/poll: drop stale double poll entry on rearm
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/wait: look at all CQ waiters on wake up
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: wake ring pollers for local task_work
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/cancel: let CANCEL_ALL find parked requests
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/cancel: don't default to setting req->work.cancel_seq
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/cancel: recognize "no timeout" on 32-bit
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/cancel: don't forget that the work was running
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/poll: don't lose a cancel as io-wq arms poll
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: let cancel find picked up hashed work
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't exit with a creation pending
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't strand work when a worker exits
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring: don't flood a cancelling task with task_work
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't hide a link from cancellations
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/io-wq: don't lose the signal that ends work
Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com io_uring/wait: don't spin on a stuck overflow list
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org io-wq: order the exit bit against worker creation task work
Lee Jones lee@kernel.org tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Fix 64-bit and signed histogram fields on 32-bit kernels
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Unregister field variable histograms when the command fails
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Save the event file instead of the compatible histogram
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com tracing: Reject incomplete event filter expressions
Pauli Virtanen pav@iki.fi Bluetooth: L2CAP: refuse __l2cap_chan_add if chan already has conn
Jonas Köppeler j.koeppeler@tu-berlin.de net_sched: codel: fix stale state for empty flows in fq_codel
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "srcu: Use irq_work to start GP in tiny SRCU"
Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com bonding: do not set usable_slaves for broadcast mode
Tonghao Zhang tonghao@bamaicloud.com net: bonding: update the slave array for broadcast mode
Yun Zhou yun.zhou@windriver.com xfs: don't hold buffer locks across sync transaction commit in xfs_sync_sb_buf
Frank Sorenson sorenson@redhat.com cifs: add revalidation on FSCTL failure in smb2_duplicate_extents()
Ben Cressey ben@cressey.dev dm-integrity: fix infinite loop on discard with large tag size
Jesse Zhang Jesse.Zhang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: free the userptr ranges when a CS fails after parser_bos
Dibin Moolakadan Subrahmanian dibin.moolakadan.subrahmanian@intel.com drm/i915/dmc: Harden DMC firmware payload parsing
Jann Horn jannh@google.com futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED
Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn i2c: viai2c-wmt: Fix clock leak in wmt_i2c_probe()
David Carlier devnexen@gmail.com gtp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com ipv4: udp: Create exceptions before socket matching
Daehyeon Ko 4ncienth@gmail.com vsock/virtio: validate packet source for connected sockets
Cen Zhang (Microsoft Security FORGE Labs) cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com io_uring/cancel: don't spin on local work the task can't run
Chen Cheng chencheng@fnnas.com dm-integrity: require stable writes for internal hash modes
Taeyang Lee 0wn@theori.io tracing: Keep the predicate limit separate from program capacity
Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Fix shift-out-of-bounds for aggregated ALH capture
Aviv Vaknin vaknins33@gmail.com pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk exit: move core of do_wait() into helper
Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com drm/exec: don't immediately add prelocked obj to array of locked objs
Stanley Jhu stanleyjhu@google.com scsi: bsg: Pass reply_len to bsg_setup_queue() to fit UFS ARPMB replies
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org ext4: free the sbi after a grace period
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org ntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period
Cen Zhang (Microsoft) cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com watch_queue: Fix note pool publication race in watch_queue_set_size()
K Prateek Nayak kprateek.nayak@amd.com kernel/watch_queue: Use pipe_buf() to retrieve the pipe buffer
Joseph Qi joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com eventfs: fix SRCU read lock leak in eventfs_iterate()
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) ljs@kernel.org perf: Track the perf mlock gift separately
Laurence Oberman loberman@redhat.com scsi: st: Fix use-after-free race between st_remove() and st_open()
Paulo Alcantara pc@manguebit.org smb: client: fix multiuser mount with krb5
Frank Sorenson sorenson@redhat.com smb: client: fix heap overflow in cifs_do_set_acl()
Aohan Mei henrymei@tencent.com net/sched: cls_flower: validate mask pointer after nla_next()
Aleksandr Khromov haa@amicon.ru ksmbd: zero the FS_OBJECT_ID_INFORMATION buffer before filling it in
Aleksandr Khromov haa@amicon.ru ksmbd: initialize FileSystemControlFlags in FS_CONTROL_INFORMATION
Aleksandr Khromov haa@amicon.ru ksmbd: fill in FileSysIdentifier in FS_POSIX_INFORMATION
Jun Yang littleddfu@gmail.com net: bridge: mcast: don't truncate the port group walk on teardown
Kairui Song kasong@tencent.com mm, madvise: fix potential workingset node list_lru leaks
Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com KVM: x86/mmu: Preserve nested TDP shadow page tables if they are used as roots
Matt Fleming mfleming@cloudflare.com mm/huge_memory: initialise workingset state before folio split
David Rosca david.rosca@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Fix VCE 3 ring align_mask
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai ipv4: avoid divide by zero in fib_rebalance
Niklas Schnelle schnelle@linux.ibm.com s390/pci: Fix leak of uninitialized kernel data in SCLP report
Aswin Karuvally aswin@linux.ibm.com s390/ctcm: Prevent XID null dereference
Florian Schauer florian@schauer.to page_pool: keep frag_offset aligned for odd-sized requests
Charles Vosburgh theminershive@gmail.com sctp: validate chunk length in the inqueue parser
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com tipc: protect node reset trace dump with node lock
Carlos Maiolino cem@kernel.org xfs: fix capability check in xfs
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me net/iucv: fix the recvmsg window update
Genjian Zhang zhanggenjian@kylinos.cn dm-ebs: fix incorrect device offset check in ebs_ctr()
Ben Cressey ben@cressey.dev dm-crypt: fix a tiny race condition in crypt_dec_pending
Benjamin Marzinski bmarzins@redhat.com dm cache: fix issue with background work locking
Ming-Hung Tsai mtsai@redhat.com dm cache: fix demotion stats in passthrough mode
Etienne Perot eperot@google.com cgroup: fix spurious SIGKILL of CLONE_INTO_CGROUP children
Cen Zhang (Microsoft Security FORGE Labs) blbllhy@gmail.com tcp: fix use-after-free in do_tcp_getsockopt(TCP_CC_INFO)
Cen Zhang (Microsoft Security FORGE Labs) blbllhy@gmail.com tcp: fix use-after-free in do_tcp_getsockopt(TCP_CONGESTION)
Heyang Tan thy15333007817@163.com wifi: p54: validate firmware record lengths
Tengda Wu wutengda@huaweicloud.com tracing: Fix hist trigger timestamps for buffered events
Amit Machhiwal amachhiw@linux.ibm.com tracing: Do not initialize tracefs work if tracing is disabled
Taeyang Lee 0wn@theori.io tracing: Check operator stack capacity before pushing
Donggeun Yoo donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com tracing: Fix the shift out of bounds in the log2 histogram modifier
Jesse Zhang Jesse.Zhang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: don't drop the runtime PM reference twice in amdgpu_gpr
Timur Kristóf timur.kristof@gmail.com drm/amdgpu/sdma3: Work around POLL_REGMEM / FENCE hang
Yehyeong Lee yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr scsi: libiscsi: Validate the task named by a management response
Yehyeong Lee yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr scsi: libiscsi: Validate the ITT reflected in a Reject PDU
Yehyeong Lee yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr scsi: libiscsi: Reject a negative task index from parse_pdu_itt
Yehyeong Lee yhlee@isslab.korea.ac.kr scsi: xen/scsifront: Check for a NULL shadow entry on a backend response
Antoine Huret antoine.huret@bull.com perf: Update cgroup time when rotating multiplexed events
Loic Poulain loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com i2c: qcom-cci: Fix HALT_ACK reset request being dropped
Lee Jones lee@kernel.org tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fields
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org tools: gpio: fix building from the top level with O=
Daehyeon Ko 4ncienth@gmail.com sctp: revalidate output stream after association connect wait
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com pinctrl: amd: Clear S4 wake bits when firmware has _AEI
Aohan Mei henrymei@tencent.com net: rds: fix uninitialized trans dereference in CM event handler
Jérémy Jean Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr net/sched: fix use-after-free in __tcf_action_put()
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org eventfs: Free the eventfs_inode after an rcu grace period too
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com fsnotify: prevent mark additions during connector teardown
Amirmohammad Eftekhar amirmohammadeftekhar@gmail.com KVM: nVMX: Reset MMU back to the root MMU if loading L2 state fails for !VM-Entry
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org unicode: free the map after a grace period
Sung Byeongchan tjdqudcks0424@naver.com autofs: ignore notification errors from a replaced pipe
Haris Okanovic harisokn@amazon.com perf: Fix perf_pmu_migrate_context() leaving events behind
Peng Fan peng.fan@nxp.com gpio: mxc: fix wakeup_pads bit operations
Alexander Stein alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com gpio: mxc: use BIT() macro
Peng Fan peng.fan@nxp.com gpio: mxc: fix both_edges bit operations
Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org gpio: mxc: use lock guards for the generic GPIO chip lock
Joas Antonio dos Santos joasantonio108@gmail.com calipso: keep BIG TCP payload_len in calipso_skbuff_setattr()
Alice Mikityanska alice@isovalent.com net/ipv6: Introduce payload_len helpers
Nicolai Buchwitz nb@tipi-net.de net: bcmgenet: unshare the skb before writing the control block
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com netlink: avoid hashing the network namespace pointer
Xingui Yang yangxingui@huawei.com scsi: libsas: Fix SMP IO deadlock during HA resume
Martin Kaiser martin@kaiser.cx tracing: probes: error if BTF is required but unavailable
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com pipe: preserve existing fasync readers on writer setup failure
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org samples: pidfd: fix userprogs typo
Cen Zhang zzzccc427@gmail.com ocfs2/dlm: Protect the recovery list during debugfs reads
Linfeng Sun linfeng.sun.dev@gmail.com scsi: target: iscsi: Fix race in discovery auth updates
Laurence Oberman loberman@redhat.com scsi: st: Save the visited block for the partition the drive is in
Keith Busch kbusch@kernel.org nios2: fix __wsum type degradation in csum_fold()
Carlos Jones Jr carlosjr.jones@analog.com spi: tegra114: assert CS GPIO for every transfer in a message
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com netlink: reset skb headers before unicast and multicast filtering
HyeongJun An sammiee5311@gmail.com ASoC: nau8822: Fix the 128x oversampling switch bits
HyeongJun An sammiee5311@gmail.com ASoC: wm8978: Fix the 128x oversampling switch bits
HyeongJun An sammiee5311@gmail.com ASoC: max98371: Fix the Speaker DHT Min Volume bits
HyeongJun An sammiee5311@gmail.com ASoC: pcm3168a: Fix the DAC zero flag polarity bit
HyeongJun An sammiee5311@gmail.com ASoC: cs42l52: Fix the NG Type Switch bit
HyeongJun An sammiee5311@gmail.com ASoC: cs42l56: Put the Limiter Cushion control on the limiter register
Avi Weiss thnkslprpt@gmail.com ASoC: stm32: spdifrx: fix synchronization state check
Sergey Tiraspolsky stiraspo@gmail.com ASoC: Intel: avs: Reset the stream unless it is already prepared
Allison Henderson achender@kernel.org net/rds: don't let the rdma_cm destroy an id RDS still owns on route failure
Michal Luczaj mhal@rbox.co vsock: treat TCP_CLOSING as once-established
Adriel Santos adriel@adriel.eu pinctrl: qcom: ipq5018: replace gcc_plltest with pwm2 on gpio12
Svyatoslav Ryhel clamor95@gmail.com power: supply: generic-adc-battery: Fix temperature IIO channel conversion
Gilberto Conde gilbertorconde@gmail.com pinctrl: qcom: ipq5018: add missing pwm3 function on gpio13
Michael Kelley mhkelley58@gmail.com Drivers: hv: Don't reset VMBus connection state on error/exit paths
Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Drivers: hv: Avoid infinite retry loop in init_vp_index()
Xueqin Luo luoxueqin@kylinos.cn power: supply: ds2780: Fix ds2780_get_capacity() returning raw value
Karl Mehltretter kmehltretter@gmail.com power: supply: Fix maintenance charge table kernel-doc
Ojaswin Mujoo ojaswin@linux.ibm.com ext4: fallback to complex scan if aligned scan doesn't work
Abdul Wasey w453y.me@gmail.com mptcp: move the OoO check back into __mptcp_try_fallback()
Keith Busch kbusch@kernel.org blk-mq: reinsert cached request to the list
Keith Busch kbusch@kernel.org blk-mq: pop cached request if it is usable
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/nios2/include/asm/checksum.h | 2 +- arch/s390/pci/pci_sysfs.c | 3 + arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 4 +- block/blk-mq.c | 32 ++--- block/bsg-lib.c | 13 +- crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c | 8 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-mxc.c | 69 +++++----- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c | 6 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c | 23 +--- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/sdma_v3_0.c | 25 +++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/vce_v3_0.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_exec.c | 77 ++++++----- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dmc.c | 21 ++- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 12 +- drivers/hv/connection.c | 1 - drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 1 - drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-cci.c | 4 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-wmt.c | 2 +- drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 59 ++++---- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 3 +- drivers/md/dm-ebs-target.c | 3 +- drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 5 +- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 2 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 20 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 10 ++ drivers/net/gtp.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/fwio.c | 42 +++++- drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c | 9 ++ drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-ipq5018.c | 10 +- drivers/power/supply/ds2780_battery.c | 2 +- drivers/power/supply/generic-adc-battery.c | 9 +- drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c | 14 +- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 14 +- drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_app.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 3 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/st.c | 18 ++- drivers/scsi/xen-scsifront.c | 1 + drivers/spi/spi-tegra114.c | 7 + drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_configfs.c | 26 +++- drivers/ufs/core/ufs_bsg.c | 3 +- fs/autofs/waitq.c | 25 +++- fs/coredump.c | 16 +-- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 + fs/ext4/extents_status.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/extents_status.h | 1 + fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 21 +-- fs/ext4/super.c | 13 +- fs/notify/mark.c | 11 ++ fs/ntfs3/ntfs_fs.h | 1 + fs/ntfs3/super.c | 29 +++- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h | 2 + fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdebug.c | 5 +- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c | 2 +- fs/pipe.c | 6 +- fs/smb/client/cifssmb.c | 13 +- fs/smb/client/connect.c | 21 ++- fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 7 +- fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 5 + fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 16 ++- fs/unicode/utf8-core.c | 21 ++- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_sb.c | 17 +-- fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 2 +- include/drm/drm_exec.h | 9 +- include/linux/bsg-lib.h | 3 +- include/linux/cgroup-defs.h | 5 +- include/linux/device-mapper.h | 5 + include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 1 + include/linux/futex.h | 14 +- include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 6 +- include/linux/ipv6.h | 22 +++ include/linux/key-type.h | 1 + include/linux/key.h | 5 + include/linux/mm_types.h | 3 + include/linux/power_supply.h | 6 +- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched/signal.h | 27 +++- include/linux/sched/user.h | 8 +- include/linux/srcutiny.h | 4 - include/linux/unicode.h | 1 + include/net/af_vsock.h | 3 + include/net/codel_impl.h | 1 + include/net/ipv6.h | 2 - include/net/netfilter/nf_tables_ipv6.h | 4 +- io_uring/cancel.c | 36 +++-- io_uring/cancel.h | 12 ++ io_uring/io-wq.c | 112 ++++++++++++--- io_uring/io-wq.h | 4 +- io_uring/io_uring.c | 144 +++++++++++++++----- io_uring/io_uring.h | 44 +++++- io_uring/poll.c | 48 +++++-- io_uring/rw.c | 18 --- io_uring/sqpoll.c | 7 + io_uring/tctx.c | 1 + io_uring/timeout.c | 88 +++++++++--- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 6 +- kernel/events/core.c | 33 ++--- kernel/exit.c | 51 ++++--- kernel/fork.c | 3 + kernel/futex/core.c | 49 +++---- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 5 +- kernel/ptrace.c | 6 + kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c | 19 +-- kernel/signal.c | 4 + kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 + kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 15 ++- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 52 +++---- kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 10 ++ kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/trace_synth.h | 1 + kernel/watch_queue.c | 16 ++- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 + mm/khugepaged.c | 3 + net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 7 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 2 + net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 13 +- net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c | 2 +- net/bridge/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bridge.c | 4 +- net/core/page_pool.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 18 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_cong.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_dctcp.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 11 +- net/ipv6/calipso.c | 6 +- net/ipv6/ip6_input.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c | 7 +- net/ipv6/output_core.c | 7 +- net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 42 +++--- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 7 - net/mptcp/protocol.h | 8 ++ net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ovs.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_log_syslog.c | 2 +- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 10 +- net/rds/rdma_transport.c | 38 +++++- net/sched/act_api.c | 11 +- net/sched/cls_flower.c | 5 + net/sched/sch_cake.c | 2 +- net/sctp/inqueue.c | 6 +- net/sctp/socket.c | 33 +++-- net/tipc/node.c | 2 + net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 49 +++++-- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 3 +- samples/pidfd/Makefile | 2 +- security/keys/key.c | 13 +- security/keys/keyctl.c | 15 ++- security/keys/keyring.c | 150 +++++++++++---------- security/keys/process_keys.c | 5 +- security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm1.c | 4 +- security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs42l52.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs42l56.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/max98371.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/nau8822.c | 4 +- sound/soc/codecs/pcm3168a.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/wm8978.c | 4 +- sound/soc/intel/avs/pcm.c | 2 +- sound/soc/sof/ipc4-topology.c | 16 ++- sound/soc/stm/stm32_spdifrx.c | 2 +- tools/gpio/Makefile | 6 + .../test.d/filter/event-filter-incomplete.tc | 24 ++++ 171 files changed, 1611 insertions(+), 736 deletions(-)
# Librecast Test Results
044/044 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.6.161-rc1-gb6e2b2f6f7e1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Oct 28 18:32:27 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
On 10/28/26 09:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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-6.6.161-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
Am 28.10.2026 um 17:58 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 E5-2697v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.
Tested-by: Peter Schneider pschneider1968@googlemail.com
Beste Grüße, Peter Schneider
Hi!
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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@nabladev.com
Best regards, Pavel
On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:58:56 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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
On 10/28/26 09:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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-6.6.161-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
On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:58:56 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
This rc kernel passes DAMON functionality test [1] on my test machine.
Tested-by: SJ Park sj@kernel.org
[1] https://github.com/damonitor/damon-tests/tree/next/corr
Thanks, SJ
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On 10/28/26 10:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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-6.6.161-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
Build tested in our x86,arm64,loongarch,riscv config successfully without error.
Tested-by: Wentao Guan guanwentao@uniontech.com
Best Regards Wentao Guan
Log: Linux version 6.6.161-rc1-arm64-desktop-hwe-gb6e2b2f6f7e1 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 30 12:05:39 CST 2026 Linux version 6.6.161-rc1-loong64-desktop-hwe-gb6e2b2f6f7e1 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (loongarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 30 12:26:10 CST 2026 Linux version 6.6.161-rc1-riscv64-desktop-hwe+ (guanwentao@uos-PC) (riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin8) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #4 SMP Fri Oct 30 12:45:00 CST 2026 Linux version 6.6.161-rc1-amd64-desktop-hwe-gb6e2b2f6f7e1 (guanwentao@uos-PC) (gcc (Deepin 12.3.0-17deepin18) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Deepin) 2.41) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct 30 11:47:08 CST 2026
On 10/28/26 9:58 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.161 release. There are 168 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +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-6.6.161-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
Tested on an amd64 laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1). Working well, no regressions observed.
Tested-by: Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com