This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:10 +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-6.19.8-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.19.8-rc1
John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix race between freeing data and fs accessing it
John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference
John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix differential encoding verification
John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management
John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles()
Massimiliano Pellizzer massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com apparmor: fix missing bounds check on DEFAULT table in verify_dfa()
Massimiliano Pellizzer massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage
John Johansen john.johansen@canonical.com apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces
Massimiliano Pellizzer massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach
Massimiliano Pellizzer massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header
Massimiliano Pellizzer massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com apparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb
Victor Nogueira victor@mojatatu.com net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks
Paul Moses p@1g4.org net/sched: act_gate: snapshot parameters with RCU on replace
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- include/net/act_api.h | 1 + include/net/tc_act/tc_gate.h | 33 +++- net/sched/act_ct.c | 6 + net/sched/act_gate.c | 267 +++++++++++++++++++++--------- net/sched/cls_api.c | 7 + security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 225 +++++++++++++++---------- security/apparmor/include/label.h | 16 +- security/apparmor/include/lib.h | 12 ++ security/apparmor/include/match.h | 1 + security/apparmor/include/policy.h | 10 +- security/apparmor/include/policy_ns.h | 2 + security/apparmor/include/policy_unpack.h | 83 ++++++---- security/apparmor/label.c | 12 +- security/apparmor/match.c | 58 +++++-- security/apparmor/policy.c | 77 +++++++-- security/apparmor/policy_ns.c | 2 + security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c | 65 +++++--- 18 files changed, 604 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.19.8-rc1-gc1996363ec4b #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 12 20:17:36 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
On 3/12/26 14:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:10 +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-6.19.8-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
Tested-by: Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org
thanks, -- Shuah
Hi
no regressions here on x86_64 (Intel 11th Gen. CPU)
Thanks
Tested-by: Ronald Warsow rwarsow@gmx.de
On 3/12/26 13:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:10 +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-6.19.8-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).
Tested-by: Ron Economos re@w6rz.net
On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 09:03:32PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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.
Tested-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org
Hi Greg
On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 5:06 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:10 +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-6.19.8-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
6.19.8-rc1 tested.
Build successfully completed. Boot successfully completed. No dmesg regressions. Video output normal. Sound output normal.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen10(Intel i7-1260P(x86_64) arch linux)
[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.19.8-rc1rv-gc1996363ec4b (takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260209, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.46) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 13 22:20:12 JST 2026
Thanks
Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com
On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:03:32 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:10 +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-6.19.8-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
All tests passing for Tegra ...
Test results for stable-v6.19: 11 builds: 11 pass, 0 fail 28 boots: 28 pass, 0 fail 133 tests: 133 pass, 0 fail
Linux version: 6.19.8-rc1-gc1996363ec4b Boards tested: tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra186-p2771-0000, tegra186-p3509-0000+p3636-0001, tegra194-p2972-0000, tegra194-p3509-0000+p3668-0000, tegra20-ventana, tegra210-p2371-2180, tegra210-p3450-0000, tegra234-p3737-0000+p3701-0000, tegra234-p3768-0000+p3767-0005, tegra30-cardhu-a04
Tested-by: Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com
Jon
On 3/12/26 13:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:10 +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-6.19.8-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:03:32 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.19.8 release. There are 13 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:03:10 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested for loongarch64:
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org
Thanks!
Cheers, Miguel
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