[PATCH 6.6 00/86] 6.6.118-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Thu Nov 27 2025 - 09:48:31 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.118 release.
There are 86 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 Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:40:08 +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-6.6.118-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 6.6.118-rc1

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer()

Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
mm/mempool: fix poisoning order>0 pages with HIGHMEM

Fabio M. De Francesco <fabio.maria.de.francesco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
mm/mempool: replace kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page()

Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: amd_sfh: Stop sensor before starting

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
selftests: mptcp: join: endpoints: longer transfer

Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
pmdomain: imx: Fix reference count leak in imx_gpc_remove

Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
pmdomain: imx-gpc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
pmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider registration failure

Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
ftrace: Fix BPF fexit with livepatch

Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
crash: fix crashkernel resource shrink

Alexander Wetzel <Alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()

Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
maple_tree: fix tracepoint string pointers

Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
uio_hv_generic: Set event for all channels on the device

Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx>
KVM: arm64: Check the untrusted offset in FF-A memory share

Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@xxxxxxxx>
smb: client: fix incomplete backport in cfids_invalidation_worker()

Zhang Chujun <zhangchujun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
tracing/tools: Fix incorrcet short option in usage text for --threads

Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
net: ethernet: ti: netcp: Standardize knav_dma_open_channel to return NULL on error

René Rebe <rene@xxxxxxxxxx>
ALSA: usb-audio: fix uac2 clock source at terminal parser

Zhiguo Niu <zhiguo.niu@xxxxxxxxxx>
f2fs: compress: fix UAF of f2fs_inode_info in f2fs_free_dic

Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
s390/mm: Fix __ptep_rdp() inline assembly

Zhiguo Niu <zhiguo.niu@xxxxxxxxxx>
f2fs: compress: change the first parameter of page_array_{alloc,free} to sbi

Jakub Horký <jakub.git@xxxxxxxxx>
kconfig/nconf: Initialize the default locale at startup

Jakub Horký <jakub.git@xxxxxxxxx>
kconfig/mconf: Initialize the default locale at startup

Shahar Shitrit <shshitrit@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: tls: Cancel RX async resync request on rcd_delta overflow

Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
selftests: net: use BASH for bareudp testing

Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
x86/microcode/AMD: Limit Entrysign signature checking to known generations

Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
scsi: core: Fix a regression triggered by scsi_host_busy()

Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cifs: fix typo in enable_gcm_256 module parameter

Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
bcma: don't register devices disabled in OF

Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
vsock: Ignore signal/timeout on connect() if already established

Shaurya Rane <ssrane_b23@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cifs: fix memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param error path

Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LoongArch: Use UAPI types in ptrace UAPI header

Pradyumn Rahar <pradyumn.rahar@xxxxxxxxxx>
net/mlx5: Clean up only new IRQ glue on request_irq() failure

Shay Drory <shayd@xxxxxxxxxx>
devlink: rate: Unset parent pointer in devl_rate_nodes_destroy

Jared Kangas <jkangas@xxxxxxxxxx>
pinctrl: s32cc: initialize gpio_pin_config::list after kmalloc()

Jared Kangas <jkangas@xxxxxxxxxx>
pinctrl: s32cc: fix uninitialized memory in s32_pinctrl_desc

Pavel Zhigulin <Pavel.Zhigulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
net: qlogic/qede: fix potential out-of-bounds read in qede_tpa_cont() and qede_tpa_end()

Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
kernel.h: Move ARRAY_SIZE() to a separate header

Haotian Zhang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
platform/x86/intel/speed_select_if: Convert PCIBIOS_* return codes to errnos

Aleksei Nikiforov <aleksei.nikiforov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
s390/ctcm: Fix double-kfree

Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@xxxxxxx>
nvme-multipath: fix lockdep WARN due to partition scan work

Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxx>
net: openvswitch: remove never-working support for setting nsh fields

Pavel Zhigulin <Pavel.Zhigulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
net: mlxsw: linecards: fix missing error check in mlxsw_linecard_devlink_info_get()

Pavel Zhigulin <Pavel.Zhigulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
net: dsa: hellcreek: fix missing error handling in LED registration

Prateek Agarwal <praagarwal@xxxxxxxxxx>
drm/tegra: Add call to put_pid()

Zilin Guan <zilin@xxxxxxxxxx>
mlxsw: spectrum: Fix memory leak in mlxsw_sp_flower_stats()

Haotian Zhang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
pinctrl: cirrus: Fix fwnode leak in cs42l43_pin_probe()

Jianbo Liu <jianbol@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfrm: Prevent locally generated packets from direct output in tunnel mode

Jianbo Liu <jianbol@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfrm: Determine inner GSO type from packet inner protocol

Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>
drm/amd/display: Move sleep into each retry for retrieve_link_cap()

Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>
drm/amd/display: Increase DPCD read retries

Yifan Zha <Yifan.Zha@xxxxxxx>
drm/amdgpu: Skip emit de meta data on gfx11 with rs64 enabled

Ma Ke <make24@xxxxxxxxxxx>
drm/tegra: dc: Fix reference leak in tegra_dc_couple()

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: do not fallback when OoO is present

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: decouple mptcp fastclose from tcp close

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: avoid unneeded subflow-level drops

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: fix premature close in case of fallback

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: fix ack generation for fallback msk

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: fix race condition in mptcp_schedule_work()

Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx>
LoongArch: Don't panic if no valid cache info for PCI

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
dt-bindings: pinctrl: toshiba,visconti: Fix number of items in groups

Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
MIPS: Malta: Fix !EVA SOC-it PCI MMIO

Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
scsi: target: tcm_loop: Fix segfault in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show()

Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
scsi: sg: Do not sleep in atomic context

Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx>
nvme: nvme-fc: Ensure ->ioerr_work is cancelled in nvme_fc_delete_ctrl()

Ewan D. Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx>
nvme: nvme-fc: move tagset removal to nvme_fc_delete_ctrl()

Nam Cao <namcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon_fw::boot

Seungjin Bae <eeodqql09@xxxxxxxxx>
Input: pegasus-notetaker - fix potential out-of-bounds access

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Input: imx_sc_key - fix memory corruption on unload

Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Input: goodix - add support for ACPI ID GDIX1003

Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Input: cros_ec_keyb - fix an invalid memory access

Diogo Ivo <diogo.ivo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Revert "drm/tegra: dsi: Clear enable register if powered by bootloader"

Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
net: dsa: microchip: lan937x: Fix RGMII delay tuning

Andrey Vatoropin <a.vatoropin@xxxxxxx>
be2net: pass wrb_params in case of OS2BMC

Yihang Li <liyihang9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ata: libata-scsi: Add missing scsi_device_put() in ata_scsi_dev_rescan()

Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@xxxxxxxx>
smb: client: introduce close_cached_dir_locked()

Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
MIPS: mm: Prevent a TLB shutdown on initial uniquification

Niklas Cassel <cassel@xxxxxxxxxx>
ata: libata-scsi: Fix system suspend for a security locked drive

Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: Fix proto fallback detection with BPF

Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: Disallow MPTCP subflows from sockmap

Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
exfat: check return value of sb_min_blocksize in exfat_read_boot_sector

Mike Yuan <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
shmem: fix tmpfs reconfiguration (remount) when noswap is set

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
mtdchar: fix integer overflow in read/write ioctls

Niravkumar L Rabara <niravkumarlaxmidas.rabara@xxxxxxxxxx>
mtd: rawnand: cadence: fix DMA device NULL pointer dereference

Zhang Heng <zhangheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: quirks: work around VID/PID conflict for 0x4c4a/0x4155

Yipeng Zou <zouyipeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
timers: Fix NULL function pointer race in timer_shutdown_sync()


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Diffstat:

.../bindings/pinctrl/toshiba,visconti-pinctrl.yaml | 26 +++---
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 9 +-
arch/loongarch/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 40 ++++----
arch/loongarch/pci/pci.c | 8 +-
arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c | 102 +++++++++++++--------
arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-init.c | 20 ++--
arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 +--
arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 4 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 20 +++-
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 11 ++-
drivers/bcma/main.c | 6 ++
drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/scmi_pm_domain.c | 13 ++-
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gfx_v11_0.c | 4 +-
.../display/dc/link/protocols/link_dp_capability.c | 11 ++-
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c | 2 +
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dc.c | 1 +
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dsi.c | 9 --
drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/uapi.c | 7 +-
drivers/hid/amd-sfh-hid/sfh1_1/amd_sfh_init.c | 2 +
drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 4 +-
drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c | 13 ++-
drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c | 6 ++
drivers/input/keyboard/imx_sc_key.c | 2 +-
drivers/input/tablet/pegasus_notetaker.c | 9 ++
drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c | 1 +
drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 6 +-
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/dsa/hirschmann/hellcreek_ptp.c | 14 ++-
drivers/net/dsa/microchip/lan937x_main.c | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 7 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c | 6 +-
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_linecards.c | 2 +
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_flower.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c | 10 +-
drivers/nvme/host/fc.c | 15 +--
drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 2 +-
drivers/pinctrl/cirrus/pinctrl-cs42l43.c | 21 ++++-
drivers/pinctrl/nxp/pinctrl-s32cc.c | 3 +-
.../x86/intel/speed_select_if/isst_if_mmio.c | 4 +-
drivers/pmdomain/imx/gpc.c | 22 +++--
drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c | 1 -
drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 5 +-
drivers/scsi/sg.c | 10 +-
drivers/soc/ti/knav_dma.c | 14 +--
drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c | 3 +
drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c | 21 ++++-
fs/exfat/super.c | 5 +-
fs/f2fs/compress.c | 74 +++++++--------
fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 +
fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c | 43 ++++++++-
fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c | 2 +-
fs/smb/client/fs_context.c | 4 +
include/linux/array_size.h | 13 +++
include/linux/ata.h | 1 +
include/linux/kernel.h | 7 +-
include/linux/string.h | 1 +
include/net/tls.h | 6 ++
include/net/xfrm.h | 3 +-
kernel/bpf/trampoline.c | 4 -
kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +-
kernel/time/timer.c | 7 +-
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 20 ++--
lib/maple_tree.c | 32 ++++---
mm/mempool.c | 32 +++++--
mm/shmem.c | 15 ++-
net/devlink/rate.c | 4 +-
net/ipv4/esp4_offload.c | 6 +-
net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c | 6 +-
net/mptcp/options.c | 54 ++++++++++-
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 20 ++--
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 48 +++++++---
net/mptcp/protocol.h | 3 +-
net/mptcp/subflow.c | 8 ++
net/openvswitch/actions.c | 68 +-------------
net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 64 ++-----------
net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.h | 2 -
net/tls/tls_device.c | 4 +-
net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 40 ++++++--
net/wireless/reg.c | 5 +
net/xfrm/xfrm_output.c | 6 +-
scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 3 +
scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 3 +
sound/usb/mixer.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/bareudp.sh | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh | 8 +-
tools/tracing/latency/latency-collector.c | 2 +-
88 files changed, 714 insertions(+), 444 deletions(-)