[PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[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.

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.gz
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

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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(-)

Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-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 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>

Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[Florian Fainelli]

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.gz
> 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>
-- 
Florian

Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[Peter Schneider]

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

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not so the world can see you.                    -- David McCullough Jr.

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Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[Pavel Machek]

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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-6.6.y

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

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel

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Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[Miguel Ojeda]

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

Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[Ron Economos]

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.gz
> 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>

Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[SJ Park]

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

[...]

Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/168] 6.6.161-rc1 review

[Shuah Khan]

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.gz
> 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