[PATCH 6.17 00/35] 6.17.7-rc1 review
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 31 2025 - 10:06:54 EST
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.7 release.
There are 35 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 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.17.7-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-6.17.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 6.17.7-rc1
Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@xxxxxxxxx>
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checks
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixup
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()
Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@xxxxxxx>
btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection
Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx>
btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callback
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log tree
Chen Ridong <chenridong@xxxxxxxxxx>
cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition
Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@xxxxxxx>
EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16
David Kaplan <david.kaplan@xxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline
Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
David Kaplan <david.kaplan@xxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for VMSCAPE
Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched_ext: Keep bypass on between enable failure and scx_disable_workfn()
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@xxxxxxxxx>
EDAC: Fix wrong executable file modes for C source files
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
Kyle Manna <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
EDAC/ie31200: Add two more Intel Alder Lake-S SoCs for EDAC support
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to enable_irq()
Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to __disable_irq_nosync()
Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
genirq/chip: Add buslock back in to irq_set_handler()
David Kaplan <david.kaplan@xxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Qualify RETBLEED_INTEL_MSG
David Kaplan <david.kaplan@xxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status
Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
timekeeping: Fix aux clocks sysfs initialization loop bound
Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched_ext: Sync error_irq_work before freeing scx_sched
Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched_ext: Put event_stats_cpu in struct scx_sched_pcpu
Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched_ext: Move internal type and accessor definitions to ext_internal.h
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Diffstat:
.../admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst | 1 +
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/csky/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/hexagon/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/loongarch/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/m68k/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/microblaze/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/nios2/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/sh/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/sparc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 10 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 6 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 27 +-
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 2 +-
arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
drivers/edac/ecs.c | 0
drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 24 +
drivers/edac/ie31200_edac.c | 4 +
drivers/edac/mem_repair.c | 0
drivers/edac/scrub.c | 0
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 6 +-
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 7 +-
fs/btrfs/scrub.c | 3 +-
fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 37 +
fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 64 +-
fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 8 +-
fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 9 +-
include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 6 +-
kernel/events/callchain.c | 16 +-
kernel/events/core.c | 7 +-
kernel/irq/chip.c | 2 +-
kernel/irq/manage.c | 4 +-
kernel/sched/build_policy.c | 1 +
kernel/sched/ext.c | 1056 +------------------
kernel/sched/ext.h | 23 -
kernel/sched/ext_internal.h | 1064 ++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 -
kernel/seccomp.c | 32 +-
kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +-
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c | 18 +-
54 files changed, 1326 insertions(+), 1150 deletions(-)