[PATCH 7.3 00/38] 7.3.1-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 13:07:22 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.3.1 release.
There are 38 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-7.3.1-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-7.3.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 7.3.1-rc1

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
signal: allow taks to temporarily block TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
pid_namespace: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting the reaper

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
coredump: prevent TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL from interrupting coredumps

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
exit: hang up the tty before closing the files

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

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
ptrace: refuse to change the signal mask of a user worker

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
signal: don't retarget shared signals in a dying thread group

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

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
signal: only SIGKILL and the freezers interrupt a coredumping task

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
coredump: hold RCU while releasing parked threads

Aaron Ahmed <aarnahmd@xxxxxxxxxx>
ftrace: Initialize modname and offset in print_rec()

Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
asymmetric_keys: reject trust keys without IDs

Srish Srinivasan <ssrish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
keys/trusted_keys: return immediately after TPM unseal failure

Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
KEYS: trusted: Fix blob allocation size in tpm2_key_decode()

Adrian Martinez <adrimg3196@xxxxxxxxx>
KEYS: Fix key_reject_and_link() race with keyring restriction

Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@xxxxxxxxx>
keys: Protect the read method check against type removal

Kyle Zeng <kylebot@xxxxxxxxxx>
keys: make keyring indexes independent of kernel addresses

Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@xxxxxxxxx>
keys: Protect the type name while describing a key

Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@xxxxxxxxx>
keys: Check the authorization payload in process keyring searches

Cen Zhang <zzzccc427@xxxxxxxxx>
keys: Avoid the owner account dereference in named keyring lookup

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
io_uring: end the drain when the drain request completes

Junyeong Lee <jylee5498@xxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/waitid: prevent cancel reference wrap

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

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

Juanlu Herrero <juanlu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/poll: avoid retry wakeup loss when dropping ownership

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

Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
tracing/histograms: Verify event_call identity when updating synth_event refcount

Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
tracing: Fix 64-bit and signed histogram fields on 32-bit kernels

Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
tracing: Add the bucket size to expr_field_str()

Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
tracing: Unregister field variable histograms when the command fails

Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
tracing: Save the event file instead of the compatible histogram

Kyle Zeng <kylebot@xxxxxxxxxx>
tracing: Reject incomplete event filter expressions

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

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

Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
tools/dma: fix building with O=

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

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

Haris Okanovic <harisokn@xxxxxxxxxx>
genirq/proc: Fix missing CPU header in /proc/interrupts


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
crypto/asymmetric_keys/restrict.c | 8 +-
fs/coredump.c | 18 +--
include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 2 +
include/linux/key-type.h | 1 +
include/linux/key.h | 5 +
include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
include/linux/sched/signal.h | 27 +++-
io_uring/io-wq.c | 2 +
io_uring/io_uring.c | 42 +++++-
io_uring/net.c | 2 +
io_uring/poll.c | 3 +-
io_uring/wait.c | 16 ++-
io_uring/waitid.c | 7 +-
kernel/exit.c | 5 +-
kernel/fork.c | 9 +-
kernel/irq/proc.c | 24 +++-
kernel/pid_namespace.c | 3 +-
kernel/ptrace.c | 6 +
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 | 36 +++--
kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 10 ++
kernel/trace/trace_synth.h | 1 +
kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 2 +-
mm/damon/core.c | 22 ++-
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 ++++
38 files changed, 362 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)