[PATCH 6.6 00/32] 6.6.116-rc1 review
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 31 2025 - 10:02:49 EST
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.116 release.
There are 32 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-6.6.116-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 6.6.116-rc1
William Breathitt Gray <wbg@xxxxxxxxxx>
gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@xxxxxxx>
gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter
Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
xhci: dbc: fix bogus 1024 byte prefix if ttyDBC read races with stall event
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
xhci: dbc: Avoid event polling busyloop if pending rx transfers are inactive.
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
xhci: dbc: Improve performance by removing delay in transfer event polling.
Uday M Bhat <uday.m.bhat@xxxxxxxxx>
xhci: dbc: Allow users to modify DbC poll interval via sysfs
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
xhci: dbc: poll at different rate depending on data transfer activity
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
serial: sc16is7xx: remove useless enable of enhanced features
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
serial: sc16is7xx: refactor EFR lock
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
serial: sc16is7xx: reorder code to remove prototype declarations
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
serial: sc16is7xx: remove unused to_sc16is7xx_port macro
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported
Geliang Tang <tanggeliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR
Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@xxxxxxxxx>
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
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()
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
David Kaplan <david.kaplan@xxxxxxx>
x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status
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
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
Xiang Mei <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue
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Diffstat:
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-drivers-xhci_hcd | 10 ++
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/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 9 +-
arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 24 +++
drivers/gpio/gpio-idio-16.c | 5 +
drivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c | 53 +++++-
drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 185 ++++++++++-----------
drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.c | 70 +++++++-
drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.h | 7 +-
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-log.c | 9 +-
fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 8 +-
fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 9 +-
include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
include/linux/bitops.h | 1 -
include/linux/bits.h | 38 ++++-
include/linux/gpio/regmap.h | 16 ++
include/net/pkt_sched.h | 25 ++-
kernel/events/callchain.c | 16 +-
kernel/events/core.c | 7 +-
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 6 +
net/sched/sch_api.c | 10 --
net/sched/sch_hfsc.c | 16 --
net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh | 3 +-
49 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)