This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.9.1 release. There are 5 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, 17 May 2024 08:23:27 +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-6.9.1-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-6.9.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 6.9.1-rc1 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wifi: mt76: mt7915: add missing chanctx ops Silvio Gissi <sifonsec@xxxxxxxxxx> keys: Fix overwrite of key expiration on instantiation Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@xxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: idxd: add a write() method for applications to submit work Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dmaengine: idxd: add a new security check to deal with a hardware erratum Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> VFIO: Add the SPR_DSA and SPR_IAX devices to the denylist ------------- Diffstat: Makefile | 4 +- drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/dma/idxd/idxd.h | 3 + drivers/dma/idxd/init.c | 4 ++ drivers/dma/idxd/registers.h | 3 - drivers/dma/idxd/sysfs.c | 27 ++++++++- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/main.c | 4 ++ drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 2 + include/linux/pci_ids.h | 2 + security/keys/key.c | 3 +- 10 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)