On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 21:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.9 release. There are 244 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, 23 Nov 2025 16:05:54 +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-6.17.9-rc2.... 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
The LTP syscalls listmount04 failures noticed across the 6.18.0-rc6, Linux next-20251120, stable-rc 6.17.9-rc1, 6.17.9-rc2 and 6.12.59-rc1.
First seen on 6.17.9-rc1 Good: v6.17.6 Bad: 6.17.9-rc1
Regression Analysis: - New regression? yes - Reproducibility? yes
Test regression: listmount04.c:128: TFAIL: invalid mnt_id_req.spare expected EINVAL: EBADF (9)
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
## Test log, <8>[ 467.451816] <LAVA_SIGNAL_STARTTC listmount04> tst_buffers.c:57: TINFO: Test is using guarded buffers tst_test.c:2021: TINFO: LTP version: 20250930 tst_test.c:2024: TINFO: Tested kernel: 6.17.9-rc1 #1 SMP PREEMPT @1763732790 aarch64 tst_kconfig.c:88: TINFO: Parsing kernel config '/proc/config.gz' tst_kconfig.c:676: TINFO: CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS kernel option detected which might slow the execution tst_test.c:1842: TINFO: Overall timeout per run is 0h 21m 36s listmount04.c:128: TPASS: request points to unaccessible memory : EFAULT (14) listmount04.c:128: TPASS: mnt_ids points to unaccessible memory : EFAULT (14) listmount04.c:128: TPASS: invalid flags : EINVAL (22) listmount04.c:128: TPASS: insufficient mnt_id_req.size : EINVAL (22) listmount04.c:128: TFAIL: invalid mnt_id_req.spare expected EINVAL: EBADF (9) listmount04.c:128: TPASS: invalid mnt_id_req.param : EINVAL (22) listmount04.c:128: TPASS: invalid mnt_id_req.mnt_id : EINVAL (22) listmount04.c:128: TPASS: non-existant mnt_id : ENOENT (2)
Summary: passed 7 failed 1 broken 0 skipped 0 warnings 0
## Build * kernel: 6.17.9-rc2 * git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * git commit: ddfe918dc24b5818022af062d1685d31fcdb8b3b * git describe: v6.17.6-1131-gddfe918dc24b * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.17.y/build/v6.17....
## Test * Test details: https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.17.y/v6.17.6-113... * Test log: https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/8533736#L25762 * Test plan: https://tuxapi.tuxsuite.com/v1/groups/linaro/projects/lkft/tests/35nQWH8wgEw... * Build link: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/35nQUZuM39Pa120Y5iFXG... * Kernel config: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/35nQUZuM39Pa120Y5iFXG...
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