Re: [PATCH 6.1 0000/1887] 6.1.191-rc1 review

From: Florian Fainelli

Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 17:13:01 EST


On 10/28/26 09:34, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.191 release.
There are 1887 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 17:02:34 +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-6.1.191-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-6.1.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

The ARM 32-bit kernel fails to build with:

In file included from arch/arm/probes/uprobes/core.c:9:
./include/linux/highmem.h: In function 'memcpy_from_folio':
./include/linux/highmem.h:427:21: error: implicit declaration of function 'folio_test_highmem'; did you mean 'folio_test_hugetlb'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
427 | if (folio_test_highmem(folio) &&
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| folio_test_hugetlb
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
host-make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: arch/arm/probes/uprobes/core.o] Error 1
host-make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: arch/arm/probes/uprobes] Error 2
host-make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
AS arch/arm/lib/csumpartial.o
CC lib/math/lcm.o
CC drivers/video/console/dummycon.o
CC sound/core/control.o
host-make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: arch/arm/probes] Error 2
host-make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs...

this is due to 341d4e6294d9 ("highmem: add memcpy_to_folio() and memcpy_from_folio()"). We would need to also back port 00cdf76012ab ("("mm: add memcpy_from_file_folio()")
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Florian