From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EDB2D35FC35; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1757607681; cv=none; b=NAIQe5GPQFasJtyM3pvDRLPuLTVDLESssDhjWgVwIF9eFdRmaqrjHLqJTNHeWL4jfyb12A6uMCjR2b26XjXMJKOye31rMTBBbojUSJt1JMlSjl9ikaULni7T1jUsi4mBUtwehVztcnXz/bFvGss19NDdN9oEIu4JSylVJp/XwZ0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1757607681; c=relaxed/simple; bh=7KINKR/oruimEdypseKgllwmsOXFRz0RXJ6JVxZNYI4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=EtpkzSsl+QRpthOhuQMVwUOoLvYIsWkIuwrjwV7o1pn97Jy+pshAJ8a8ve/ceFVtyYX8jNdgFv8/cHoWyOqeCWqxLHQUetgPT+DPAlkZNUJS2baPrqDPKbCyX1+bEwhdVmxm4f6R6MML4+Q6NJKplbhLTsuHmZvV0PPdxvo9ES4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=lp8v6LZF; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="lp8v6LZF" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2CE96C4CEF0; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:21:20 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1757607680; bh=7KINKR/oruimEdypseKgllwmsOXFRz0RXJ6JVxZNYI4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=lp8v6LZFPJOp35rbUiP/XTngqbpJID3SLyYhs1QZy2r7ZGp/C0+jnIJkImFmxMLBL yJFxDwkDb1z3OahISSaTuD+rNcZqQEwdFTwQCShXV5CeCwBXC2qbucf1L2rp7bqR7y HiWjES0DD1pu4f142rDLyNjgVV7fIl7VpWBiNzRI= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: lwn@lwn.net, jslaby@suse.cz, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Linux 6.6.106 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:21:10 +0200 Message-ID: <2025091111-stopwatch-grieving-d276@gregkh> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm announcing the release of the 6.6.106 kernel. All users of the 6.6 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.6.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.6.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst | 1 Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/vmscape.rst | 110 ++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 Makefile | 2 arch/x86/Kconfig | 9 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 arch/x86/include/asm/entry-common.h | 7 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 2 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 257 ++++++++++++++------- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 82 ++++-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 drivers/base/cpu.c | 3 include/linux/cpu.h | 1 14 files changed, 392 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-) Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 6.6.106 Pawan Gupta (7): Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation x86/bugs: Move cpu_bugs_smt_update() down x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected list