[PATCH 6.17 00/35] 6.17.7-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.7 release.
There are 35 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-6.17.7-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-6.17.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 6.17.7-rc1

Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@gmail.com>
    arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checks

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixup

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()

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callback

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log tree

Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
    cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition

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

Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
    sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs

David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
    x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for VMSCAPE

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    sched_ext: Keep bypass on between enable failure and scx_disable_workfn()

Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering

Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
    EDAC: Fix wrong executable file modes for C source files

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

Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
    perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK

Kyle Manna <kyle@kylemanna.com>
    EDAC/ie31200: Add two more Intel Alder Lake-S SoCs for EDAC support

Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
    audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules

Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
    genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to enable_irq()

Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
    genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to __disable_irq_nosync()

Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
    genirq/chip: Add buslock back in to irq_set_handler()

David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
    x86/bugs: Qualify RETBLEED_INTEL_MSG

David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
    x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status

Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@kylinos.cn>
    timekeeping: Fix aux clocks sysfs initialization loop bound

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    sched_ext: Sync error_irq_work before freeing scx_sched

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    sched_ext: Put event_stats_cpu in struct scx_sched_pcpu

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    sched_ext: Move internal type and accessor definitions to ext_internal.h


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Diffstat:

 .../admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst |    1 +
 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/events/intel/core.c                       |   10 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h                  |    6 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                         |   27 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h                                 |    2 +-
 arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c                   |    1 +
 drivers/edac/ecs.c                                 |    0
 drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c                       |   24 +
 drivers/edac/ie31200_edac.c                        |    4 +
 drivers/edac/mem_repair.c                          |    0
 drivers/edac/scrub.c                               |    0
 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-checker.c                            |   37 +
 fs/btrfs/tree-log.c                                |   64 +-
 fs/btrfs/zoned.c                                   |    8 +-
 fs/btrfs/zoned.h                                   |    9 +-
 include/linux/audit.h                              |    2 +-
 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c                             |    6 +-
 kernel/events/callchain.c                          |   16 +-
 kernel/events/core.c                               |    7 +-
 kernel/irq/chip.c                                  |    2 +-
 kernel/irq/manage.c                                |    4 +-
 kernel/sched/build_policy.c                        |    1 +
 kernel/sched/ext.c                                 | 1056 +------------------
 kernel/sched/ext.h                                 |   23 -
 kernel/sched/ext_internal.h                        | 1064 ++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c                                |    3 -
 kernel/seccomp.c                                   |   32 +-
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c                          |    2 +-
 tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c                     |   18 +-
 54 files changed, 1326 insertions(+), 1150 deletions(-)