[PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
There are 88 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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.14-rc1.gz
or in the git tree and branch at:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.2.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

-------------
Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 7.2.14-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>
    coredump: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting coredumps

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    exit: hang up the tty before closing the files

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    fork: release the files of a failed fork after sched_cancel_fork()

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: keep the drain active when a deferred drain request is started

Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    io_uring: end the drain when the drain request completes

Junyeong Lee <jylee5498@gmail.com>
    io_uring/waitid: prevent cancel reference wrap

Austin Schuh <austin.linux@gmail.com>
    io_uring/wait: wake real-time waiters from hard interrupt context

Tamaki Yanagawa <ty@000ty.net>
    io_uring/net: keep recv buffer select length within MAX_RW_COUNT

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: don't end a linked timeout with 1

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/timeout: no ABS update of multishot timeouts

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/net: don't retry recv on uncommitted buffers

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring: don't pass restart error codes to userspace

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/openclose: keep the lock in io_pipe_fixed()

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/sqpoll: let the thread sleep on disabled rings

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/kbuf: handle index wrap in last buffer check

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/zcrx: fix buffer offsets in areas above 4GB

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/napi: don't busy poll past an expired timeout

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/wait: no early -ETIME if min_wait finds work

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/timeout: use the right clock for ABS updates

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/fdinfo: fix CQE dump of CQE32 rings

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/register: keep 128b SQEs intact on resize

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/register: handle index wrap when resizing

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/register: don't wrap 32b CQEs when resizing

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring: don't split 128b SQEs at the SQPOLL cap

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring: drop the CQE cache if a refill fails

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/futex: allocate private hash before waiting

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

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: don't lose a cancel as io-wq parks a request

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/io-wq: don't go to sleep on pending work

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/mpscq: disable preemption while pushing

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/cancel: rearm local work wake up before sleep

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring: don't lose the DEFER_TASKRUN wake up

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

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/cmd: don't leave list poison in ->hash_node

Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
    io_uring/waitid: own the request before clearing ->head

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    io-wq: order the exit bit against worker creation task work

Haoran Wang <haoranwangsec@gmail.com>
    tracing/syscalls: Use copy_from_user for the faultable syscall buffer

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

David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
    tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when resetting last boot data from readers

David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
    tracing: Hold trace_types_lock when updating modules in persistent instances

Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
    tools/dma: fix building with O=

Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi>
    Bluetooth: L2CAP: refuse __l2cap_chan_add if chan already has conn

Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
    sched/fair: Avoid overflow in place_entity()

SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
    mm/damon/core: error damos_commit_quota_goal() for zero target_value

Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
    ntfs: take invalidate_lock in ntfs_filemap_page_mkwrite()

Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
    ntfs: fix race between fallocate and mmap reads

Kuba Piecuch <jpiecuch@google.com>
    sched_ext: Wait for SCX_OPSS_DISPATCHING before moving tasks off DSQs


-------------

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c                  |   8 +-
 fs/coredump.c                                      |  18 ++-
 fs/ntfs/file.c                                     |  32 ++--
 include/linux/io_uring_types.h                     |   5 +
 include/linux/key-type.h                           |   1 +
 include/linux/key.h                                |   5 +
 include/linux/sched.h                              |   2 +-
 include/linux/sched/signal.h                       |  27 +++-
 io_uring/cancel.c                                  |  43 ++++-
 io_uring/cancel.h                                  |   2 +
 io_uring/fdinfo.c                                  |  14 +-
 io_uring/futex.c                                   |  32 +++-
 io_uring/io-wq.c                                   | 126 +++++++++++++--
 io_uring/io_uring.c                                | 180 ++++++++++++++++-----
 io_uring/io_uring.h                                |  44 ++++-
 io_uring/kbuf.c                                    |   2 +-
 io_uring/loop.c                                    |   8 +-
 io_uring/mpscq.h                                   |  14 +-
 io_uring/napi.c                                    |   4 +-
 io_uring/net.c                                     |  26 ++-
 io_uring/openclose.c                               |  11 +-
 io_uring/poll.c                                    |  38 ++++-
 io_uring/register.c                                |  54 ++++++-
 io_uring/rw.c                                      |  18 ---
 io_uring/sqpoll.c                                  |   7 +
 io_uring/timeout.c                                 | 102 +++++++++---
 io_uring/tw.c                                      |  36 ++++-
 io_uring/uring_cmd.c                               |   2 +-
 io_uring/wait.c                                    |  48 ++++--
 io_uring/wait.h                                    |  15 ++
 io_uring/waitid.c                                  |  19 ++-
 io_uring/zcrx.c                                    |   2 +-
 kernel/exit.c                                      |   5 +-
 kernel/fork.c                                      |   9 +-
 kernel/pid_namespace.c                             |   3 +-
 kernel/ptrace.c                                    |   6 +
 kernel/sched/ext/ext.c                             |  14 +-
 kernel/sched/fair.c                                |  16 +-
 kernel/signal.c                                    |   4 +
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c                              |   4 +-
 kernel/trace/trace.c                               |  21 ++-
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c                 |   6 +
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c                   |  33 ++--
 kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c                  |  10 ++
 kernel/trace/trace_synth.h                         |   1 +
 kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c                      |   2 +-
 mm/damon/core.c                                    |  22 ++-
 mm/damon/sysfs.c                                   |  19 +++
 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c                         |   7 +-
 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c                         |   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 +-
 tools/dma/Makefile                                 |   4 +-
 .../test.d/filter/event-filter-incomplete.tc       |  24 +++
 59 files changed, 1036 insertions(+), 314 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Brett A C Sheffield]

# Librecast Test Results

044/044 [ OK ] liblcrq
010/010 [ OK ] libmld
120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 7.2.14-rc1-gffd5404639e3 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Oct 28 17:56:20 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net>

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Peter Schneider]

Am 28.10.2026 um 17:59 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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

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Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Pavel Machek]

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Hi!

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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-7.2.y

Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@nabladev.com>

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel

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Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:59:08 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested
for loongarch64 and arm32:

Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Ron Economos]

On 10/28/26 09:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.14-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.2.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>

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[SJ Park]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:59:08 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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

[...]

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Shuah Khan]

On 10/28/26 10:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.14-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.2.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

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Barry K. Nathan]

On 10/28/26 9:59 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.14-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.2.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Tested on 2 amd64 systems and an arm64 virtual machine. Working well,
no regressions observed.

Tested-by: Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

-- 
-Barry K. Nathan  <barryn@pobox.com>

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/88] 7.2.14-rc1 review

[Florian Fainelli]

On 10/28/26 09:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.14 release.
> There are 88 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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.14-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.2.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>
-- 
Florian