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... 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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.6.116-rc1
William Breathitt Gray wbg@kernel.org gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines
Ioana Ciornei ioana.ciornei@nxp.com gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter
Mathieu Dubois-Briand mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device
Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()
Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: fix bogus 1024 byte prefix if ttyDBC read races with stall event
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: Avoid event polling busyloop if pending rx transfers are inactive.
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: Improve performance by removing delay in transfer event polling.
Uday M Bhat uday.m.bhat@intel.com xhci: dbc: Allow users to modify DbC poll interval via sysfs
Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: poll at different rate depending on data transfer activity
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: remove useless enable of enhanced features
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: refactor EFR lock
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: reorder code to remove prototype declarations
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: remove unused to_sc16is7xx_port macro
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported
Geliang Tang tanggeliang@kylinos.cn selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR
Menglong Dong menglong8.dong@gmail.com arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()
Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()
Naohiro Aota naohiro.aota@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection
Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()
Avadhut Naik avadhut.naik@amd.com EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16
David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline
David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
Richard Guy Briggs rgb@redhat.com audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu 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(-)