6.17.2-rc1 review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.2 release. There are 26 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, 12 Oct 2025 13:13:18 +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-6.17.2-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 <[email protected]>

    Linux 6.17.2-rc1

Ankit Khushwaha <[email protected]>
ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller

Chao Yu <[email protected]>
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on node footer for non inode dnode

Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O

Nalivayko Sergey <[email protected]>
net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled

Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
crypto: rng - Ensure set_ent is always present

Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
crypto: zstd - Fix compression bug caused by truncation

Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Revert "crypto: testmgr - desupport SHA-1 for FIPS 140"

Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
driver core/PM: Set power.no_callbacks along with power.no_pm

Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
driver core: faux: Set power.no_pm for faux devices

Ovidiu Panait <[email protected]>
staging: axis-fifo: flush RX FIFO on read errors

Ovidiu Panait <[email protected]>
staging: axis-fifo: fix TX handling on copy_from_user() failure

Ovidiu Panait <[email protected]>
staging: axis-fifo: fix maximum TX packet length check

Raphael Gallais-Pou <[email protected]>
serial: stm32: allow selecting console when the driver is module

Carlos Llamas <[email protected]>
binder: fix double-free in dbitmap

Max Kellermann <[email protected]>
drivers/misc/amd-sbi/Kconfig: select REGMAP_I2C

Michael Walle <[email protected]>
nvmem: layouts: fix automatic module loading

Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
serial: qcom-geni: Fix blocked task

Rahul Rameshbabu <[email protected]>
rust: pci: fix incorrect platform reference in PCI driver unbind doc comment

Rahul Rameshbabu <[email protected]>
rust: pci: fix incorrect platform reference in PCI driver probe doc comment

Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
rust: block: fix srctree/ links

Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
rust: drm: fix srctree/ links

Bitterblue Smith <[email protected]>

    wifi: rtl8xxxu: Don't claim USB ID 07b8:8188

Bitterblue Smith <[email protected]>

    wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Don't claim USB ID 07b8:8188

Zenm Chen <[email protected]>
Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 2001:332a for D-Link AX9U rev. A1

Xiaowei Li <[email protected]>
USB: serial: option: add SIMCom 8230C compositions

Mario Limonciello <[email protected]>
drm/amdgpu: Enable MES lr_compute_wa by default

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Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c                             |   9 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h                         |   3 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                                 |  15 +-
 crypto/rng.c                                       |   8 +
 crypto/testmgr.c                                   |   5 +
 crypto/zstd.c                                      |   2 +-
 drivers/android/dbitmap.h                          |   1 +
 drivers/base/faux.c                                |   1 +
 drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c                          |   2 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v11_0.c             |   6 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v12_0.c             |   5 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/mes_v11_api_def.h      |   3 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/mes_v12_api_def.h      |   3 +-
 drivers/misc/amd-sbi/Kconfig                       |   1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c       |   2 -
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c    |   1 -
 drivers/nvmem/layouts.c                            |  13 ++
 drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c              |  68 ++++----
 drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig                         |   2 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c              | 176 ++-------------------
 drivers/usb/serial/option.c                        |   6 +
 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                                     |   4 +-
 fs/f2fs/gc.c                                       |   4 +-
 fs/f2fs/node.c                                     |  58 ++++---
 fs/f2fs/node.h                                     |   1 +
 fs/f2fs/recovery.c                                 |   2 +-
 include/linux/device.h                             |   3 +
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c                         |   2 +-
 net/9p/trans_fd.c                                  |   8 +-
 rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs                   |   2 +-
 rust/kernel/drm/device.rs                          |   2 +-
 rust/kernel/drm/driver.rs                          |   2 +-
 rust/kernel/drm/file.rs                            |   2 +-
 rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs                         |   2 +-
 rust/kernel/drm/ioctl.rs                           |   2 +-
 rust/kernel/pci.rs                                 |   6 +-
 37 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 257 deletions(-)