This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.81 release. There are 147 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, 08 Mar 2025 15:13:38 +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-6.6.81-rc2.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.6.81-rc2

Manivannan Sadhasivam mani@kernel.org scsi: ufs: core: Cancel RTC work during ufshcd_remove()

Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org scsi: ufs: core: Start the RTC update work later

Peter Wang peter.wang@mediatek.com scsi: ufs: core: Fix another deadlock during RTC update

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Fix a -Wsometimes-uninitialized clang false positive

Peter Wang peter.wang@mediatek.com scsi: ufs: core: Fix deadlock during RTC update

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Load only SHA256-checksummed patches

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Add get_patch_level()

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Get rid of the _load_microcode_amd() forward declaration

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Merge early_apply_microcode() into its single callsite

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Have __apply_microcode_amd() return bool

Nikolay Borisov nik.borisov@suse.com x86/microcode/AMD: Make __verify_patch_size() return bool

Nikolay Borisov nik.borisov@suse.com x86/microcode/AMD: Return bool from find_blobs_in_containers()

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Flush patch buffer mapping after application

Chang S. Bae chang.seok.bae@intel.com x86/microcode/intel: Remove unnecessary cache writeback and invalidation

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Split load_microcode_amd()

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Pay attention to the stepping dynamically

Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/AMD: Use the family,model,stepping encoded in the patch ID

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode/intel: Set new revision only after a successful update

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/microcode: Rework early revisions reporting

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Prepare for minimal revision check

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Handle "offline" CPUs correctly

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/apic: Provide apic_force_nmi_on_cpu()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Protect against instrumentation

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Rendezvous and load in NMI

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Replace the all-in-one rendevous handler

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Provide new control functions

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Add per CPU control field

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Add per CPU result state

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Sanitize __wait_for_cpus()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Handle "nosmt" correctly

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Clean up mc_cpu_down_prep()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Get rid of the schedule work indirection

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Mop up early loading leftovers

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/amd: Use cached microcode for AP load

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin/initrd microcode early

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin microcode too

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/amd: Use correct per CPU ucode_cpu_info

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode: Remove pointless apply() invocation

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Rework intel_find_matching_signature()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Reuse intel_cpu_collect_info()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Rework intel_cpu_collect_info()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Unify microcode apply() functions

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Switch to kvmalloc()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Save the microcode only after a successful late-load

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Simplify early loading

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup code further

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Simplify and rename generic_load_microcode()

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/intel: Simplify scan_microcode()

Ashok Raj ashok.raj@intel.com x86/microcode/intel: Rip out mixed stepping support for Intel CPUs

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de x86/microcode/32: Move early loading after paging enable

Lukasz Czechowski lukasz.czechowski@thaumatec.com arm64: dts: rockchip: Disable DMA for uart5 on px30-ringneck

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de intel_idle: Handle older CPUs, which stop the TSC in deeper C states, correctly

Joshua Washington joshwash@google.com gve: set xdp redirect target only when it is available

chr[] chris@rudorff.com amdgpu/pm/legacy: fix suspend/resume issues

Tomas Glozar tglozar@redhat.com rtla/timerlat_top: Set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD for kernel threads

Tomas Glozar tglozar@redhat.com rtla/timerlat_hist: Set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD for kernel threads

Tomas Glozar tglozar@redhat.com Revert "rtla/timerlat_hist: Set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD for kernel threads"

Tomas Glozar tglozar@redhat.com Revert "rtla/timerlat_top: Set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD for kernel threads"

Yong-Xuan Wang yongxuan.wang@sifive.com riscv: signal: fix signal frame size

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de riscv/futex: sign extend compare value in atomic cmpxchg

Stafford Horne shorne@gmail.com rseq/selftests: Fix riscv rseq_offset_deref_addv inline asm

Arthur Simchaev arthur.simchaev@sandisk.com scsi: ufs: core: bsg: Fix crash when arpmb command fails

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de sched/core: Prevent rescheduling when interrupts are disabled

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de rcuref: Plug slowpath race in rcuref_put()

Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org vmlinux.lds: Ensure that const vars with relocations are mapped R/O

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: reset when MPTCP opts are dropped after join

Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com mptcp: always handle address removal under msk socket lock

Kaustabh Chakraborty kauschluss@disroot.org phy: exynos5-usbdrd: fix MPLL_MULTIPLIER and SSC_REFCLKSEL masks in refclk

BH Hsieh bhsieh@nvidia.com phy: tegra: xusb: reset VBUS & ID OVERRIDE

Wei Fang wei.fang@nxp.com net: enetc: fix the off-by-one issue in enetc_map_tx_tso_buffs()

Wei Fang wei.fang@nxp.com net: enetc: correct the xdp_tx statistics

Wei Fang wei.fang@nxp.com net: enetc: update UDP checksum when updating originTimestamp field

Wei Fang wei.fang@nxp.com net: enetc: keep track of correct Tx BD count in enetc_map_tx_tso_buffs()

Wei Fang wei.fang@nxp.com net: enetc: fix the off-by-one issue in enetc_map_tx_buffs()

Nikita Zhandarovich n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru usbnet: gl620a: fix endpoint checking in genelink_bind()

Binbin Zhou zhoubinbin@loongson.cn i2c: ls2x: Fix frequency division register access

Tyrone Ting kfting@nuvoton.com i2c: npcm: disable interrupt enable bit before devm_request_irq

Roman Li Roman.Li@amd.com drm/amd/display: Fix HPD after gpu reset

Tom Chung chiahsuan.chung@amd.com drm/amd/display: Disable PSR-SU on eDP panels

Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/core: Fix low freq setting via IOC_PERIOD

Kan Liang kan.liang@linux.intel.com perf/x86: Fix low freqency setting issue

Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org perf/core: Add RCU read lock protection to perf_iterate_ctx()

Adrien Vergé adrienverge@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix microphone regression on ASUS N705UD

Dmitry Panchenko dmitry@d-systems.ee ALSA: usb-audio: Re-add sample rate quirk for Pioneer DJM-900NXS2

Nikolay Kuratov kniv@yandex-team.ru ftrace: Avoid potential division by zero in function_stat_show()

Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list

Andrew Jones ajones@ventanamicro.com riscv: KVM: Fix SBI TIME error generation

Andrew Jones ajones@ventanamicro.com riscv: KVM: Fix SBI IPI error generation

Andrew Jones ajones@ventanamicro.com riscv: KVM: Fix hart suspend status check

Yong-Xuan Wang yongxuan.wang@sifive.com RISCV: KVM: Introduce mp_state_lock to avoid lock inversion

Chukun Pan amadeus@jmu.edu.cn phy: rockchip: naneng-combphy: compatible reset with old DT

Russell Senior russell@personaltelco.net x86/CPU: Fix warm boot hang regression on AMD SC1100 SoC systems

Pavel Begunkov asml.silence@gmail.com io_uring/net: save msg_control for compat

Tong Tiangen tongtiangen@huawei.com uprobes: Reject the shared zeropage in uprobe_write_opcode()

Luo Gengkun luogengkun@huaweicloud.com perf/core: Order the PMU list to fix warning about unordered pmu_ctx_list

Meghana Malladi m-malladi@ti.com net: ti: icss-iep: Reject perout generation request

Diogo Ivo diogo.ivo@siemens.com net: ti: icss-iep: Remove spinlock-based synchronization

Justin Iurman justin.iurman@uliege.be net: ipv6: fix dst ref loop on input in rpl lwt

Justin Iurman justin.iurman@uliege.be net: ipv6: rpl_iptunnel: mitigate 2-realloc issue

Justin Iurman justin.iurman@uliege.be net: ipv6: fix dst ref loop on input in seg6 lwt

Justin Iurman justin.iurman@uliege.be net: ipv6: seg6_iptunnel: mitigate 2-realloc issue

Justin Iurman justin.iurman@uliege.be include: net: add static inline dst_dev_overhead() to dst.h

Shay Drory shayd@nvidia.com net/mlx5: IRQ, Fix null string in debug print

Harshal Chaudhari hchaudhari@marvell.com net: mvpp2: cls: Fixed Non IP flow, with vlan tag flow defination.

Mohammad Heib mheib@redhat.com net: Clear old fragment checksum value in napi_reuse_skb

Wang Hai wanghai38@huawei.com tcp: Defer ts_recent changes until req is owned

Marcin Szycik marcin.szycik@linux.intel.com ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path

Paul Greenwalt paul.greenwalt@intel.com ice: add E830 HW VF mailbox message limit support

Paul Greenwalt paul.greenwalt@intel.com ice: Add E830 device IDs, MAC type and registers

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix wrong mic setup for ASUS VivoBook 15

Stefan Binding sbinding@opensource.cirrus.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for ASUS ROG 2023 models

Richard Fitzgerald rf@opensource.cirrus.com firmware: cs_dsp: Remove async regmap writes

Philo Lu lulie@linux.alibaba.com ipvs: Always clear ipvs_property flag in skb_scrub_packet()

Nicolas Frattaroli nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com ASoC: es8328: fix route from DAC to output

Sean Anderson sean.anderson@linux.dev net: cadence: macb: Synchronize stats calculations

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipvlan: ensure network headers are in skb linear part

Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com ipvlan: Prepare ipvlan_process_v4_outbound() to future .flowi4_tos conversion.

Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com ipv4: Convert ip_route_input() to dscp_t.

Guillaume Nault gnault@redhat.com ipv4: Convert icmp_route_lookup() to dscp_t.

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com ipvlan: Unmask upper DSCP bits in ipvlan_process_v4_outbound()

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com ipv4: icmp: Unmask upper DSCP bits in icmp_route_lookup()

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com ipv4: icmp: Pass full DS field to ip_route_input()

Peilin He he.peilin@zte.com.cn net/ipv4: add tracepoint for icmp_send

Jiri Slaby (SUSE) jirislaby@kernel.org net: set the minimum for net_hotdata.netdev_budget_usecs

Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com net: loopback: Avoid sending IP packets without an Ethernet header

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com afs: Fix the server_list to unuse a displaced server rather than putting it

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com afs: Make it possible to find the volumes that are using a server

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com rxrpc: rxperf: Fix missing decoding of terminal magic cookie

Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_RSP response

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Avoid dropping MIDI events at closing multiple ports

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de sunrpc: suppress warnings for unused procfs functions

Patrisious Haddad phaddad@nvidia.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix bind QP error cleanup flow

Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com scsi: core: Clear driver private data when retrying request

Patrisious Haddad phaddad@nvidia.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix AH static rate parsing

Or Har-Toov ohartoov@nvidia.com IB/core: Add support for XDR link speed

Benjamin Coddington bcodding@redhat.com SUNRPC: Handle -ETIMEDOUT return from tlshd

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com SUNRPC: Prevent looping due to rpc_signal_task() races

Stephen Brennan stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com SUNRPC: convert RPC_TASK_* constants to enum

Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org ovl: fix UAF in ovl_dentry_update_reval by moving dput() in ovl_link_up

Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org scsi: ufs: core: Fix ufshcd_is_ufs_dev_busy() and ufshcd_eh_timed_out()

Avri Altman avri.altman@wdc.com scsi: ufs: core: Prepare to introduce a new clock_gating lock

Avri Altman avri.altman@wdc.com scsi: ufs: core: Introduce ufshcd_has_pending_tasks()

Bean Huo beanhuo@micron.com scsi: ufs: core: Add UFS RTC support

Bean Huo beanhuo@micron.com scsi: ufs: core: Add ufshcd_is_ufs_dev_busy()

Konstantin Taranov kotaranov@microsoft.com RDMA/mana_ib: Allocate PAGE aligned doorbell index

Mark Zhang markzhang@nvidia.com IB/mlx5: Set and get correct qp_num for a DCT QP

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Diffstat:

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/px30-ringneck.dtsi | 5 + arch/riscv/include/asm/futex.h | 2 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 8 +- arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c | 6 - arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c | 48 +- arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi.c | 7 +- arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_hsm.c | 45 +- arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_replace.c | 15 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 26 +- arch/x86/events/core.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 5 +- arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h | 20 +- arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h | 18 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_flat_64.c | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c | 8 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_phys.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 12 - arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 650 ++++++++++++------ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd_shas.c | 444 +++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 723 +++++++++++++-------- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 706 ++++++-------------- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/internal.h | 49 +- arch/x86/kernel/head32.c | 3 + arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 10 - arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c | 9 +- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 12 +- drivers/firmware/cirrus/cs_dsp.c | 24 +- .../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_irq.c | 14 + .../gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_psr.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/kv_dpm.c | 25 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/legacy_dpm.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/legacy-dpm/si_dpm.c | 26 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ls2x.c | 16 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-npcm7xx.c | 7 + drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 4 + drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c | 4 + drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_device.c | 3 +- drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c | 3 + drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/main.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/ah.c | 3 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/counters.c | 8 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c | 10 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 12 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.c | 100 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve.h | 10 + drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c | 65 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_devids.h | 10 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool_fdir.c | 24 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_hw_autogen.h | 55 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lib.c | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 37 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_sriov.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_type.h | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c | 34 +- .../net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib_private.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_mbx.c | 32 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_mbx.h | 9 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_virtchnl.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_virtchnl_fdir.c | 29 +- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_cls.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pci_irq.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icss_iep.c | 35 +- drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 24 +- drivers/net/loopback.c | 14 + drivers/net/usb/gl620a.c | 4 +- drivers/phy/rockchip/phy-rockchip-naneng-combphy.c | 5 +- drivers/phy/samsung/phy-exynos5-usbdrd.c | 12 +- drivers/phy/tegra/xusb-tegra186.c | 11 + drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/load.c | 8 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 14 +- drivers/ufs/core/ufs_bsg.c | 6 +- drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd-priv.h | 5 + drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c | 122 +++- fs/afs/cell.c | 1 + fs/afs/internal.h | 23 +- fs/afs/server.c | 1 + fs/afs/server_list.c | 114 +++- fs/afs/vl_alias.c | 2 +- fs/afs/volume.c | 36 +- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 +- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +- include/linux/rcuref.h | 9 +- include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h | 17 +- include/net/dst.h | 9 + include/net/ip.h | 5 + include/net/route.h | 5 +- include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 2 + include/trace/events/icmp.h | 67 ++ include/trace/events/sunrpc.h | 3 +- include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_verbs.h | 3 +- include/ufs/ufs.h | 13 + include/ufs/ufshcd.h | 4 + io_uring/net.c | 4 +- kernel/events/core.c | 31 +- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 5 + kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 27 +- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 34 +- lib/rcuref.c | 5 +- net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 9 +- net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 8 +- net/core/gro.c | 1 + net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +- net/core/sysctl_net_core.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 24 +- net/ipv4/ip_options.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 10 +- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/rpl_iptunnel.c | 58 +- net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c | 97 ++- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 5 - net/mptcp/subflow.c | 15 +- net/rxrpc/rxperf.c | 12 + net/sunrpc/cache.c | 10 +- net/sunrpc/sched.c | 2 - net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 10 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 32 +- sound/soc/codecs/es8328.c | 15 +- sound/usb/midi.c | 2 +- sound/usb/quirks.c | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-riscv-bits.h | 6 +- tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-riscv.h | 2 +- tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c | 2 +- tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c | 2 +- 132 files changed, 2912 insertions(+), 1569 deletions(-)