The Latest Kernel Release.

Petri Kaukasoina · 12-10-2023, 11:02 AM

There is a report of the 6.6.5/6.1.66 wireless problem here https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg702926.html.

On the other hand, the previous stable kernels 6.6.3-6.6.4 or 6.1.64-6.1.65 corrupt ext4 file systems: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20231...scuhc3@quack3/ Fixed in 6.6.5/6.1.66.

cwizardone · 12-10-2023, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

There is a report of the 6.6.5/6.1.66 wireless problem here https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg702926.html.

On the other hand, the previous stable kernels 6.6.3-6.6.4 or 6.1.64-6.1.65 corrupt ext4 file systems: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20231...scuhc3@quack3/ Fixed in 6.6.5/6.1.66.

Thanks for the information.
I can understand how such problems can occur in a development kernel, but how does this happen with stable LTS kernels?
Is no one watching the store?

cwizardone · 12-10-2023, 04:48 PM

6.7-rc5
Release Candidate 5, for the 6.7.0 "mainline" development kernel has been been made available for testing.

The tarball, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...6.7-rc5.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/02123.html

Aeterna · 12-10-2023, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

Within eight hours of installing 6.6.5, this box spontaneously rebooted itself three times. Sometimes I think it is my wireless keyboard as it seems to happen when scrolling down a web page using either the down arrow or the touch pad.
Regardless, it hasn't happened with 6.7-rc2, which has been rock solid. OTOH, 6.7-rc3 was a dog and I didn't build 6.7-rc4. Maybe I'll try 6.7-rc5, when it is released later today.

I don't see this issue neither with 6.1.66. nor 6.6.5

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Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

6.6.5 doesn't work so well here. System shutdown hangs in '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop', in gateway_down (/sbin/ip -4 route show). REISUB needed.

I don't shut down much, so I noticed the problem first when hibernating did not work, 2 user space processes refused to freeze: NetworkManager and ntpd.

It worked ok after I downgraded net/wireless/core.h and net/wireless/nl80211.c to the versions from kernel 6.6.4.

(I have RTL8723BE Wireless Network Adapter, using rtl8723be module.)

The offending commit:

Code:

commit 4a7e92551618f3737b305f62451353ee05662f57
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 6 23:17:16 2023 +0100

    wifi: cfg80211: fix CQM for non-range use
    
    commit 7e7efdda6adb385fbdfd6f819d76bc68c923c394 upstream.
    
    My prior race fix here broke CQM when ranges aren't used, as
    the reporting worker now requires the cqm_config to be set in
    the wdev, but isn't set when there's no range configured.
    
    Rather than continuing to special-case the range version, set
    the cqm_config always and configure accordingly, also tracking
    if range was used or not to be able to clear the configuration
    appropriately with the same API, which was actually not right
    if both were implemented by a driver for some reason, as is
    the case with mac80211 (though there the implementations are
    equivalent so it doesn't matter.)
    
    Also, the original multiple-RSSI commit lost checking for the
    callback, so might have potentially crashed if a driver had
    neither implementation, and userspace tried to use it despite
    not being advertised as supported.

Maybe 6.1.66 exhibits the same problem, as it also includes this commit.

I was not able to reproduce this behavior running 6.1.66 or 6.6.5. On the other hand looks like affected is distro with systemd. However I have Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 not Realtek so maybe hardware matters

Petri Kaukasoina · 12-11-2023, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

There is a report of the 6.6.5/6.1.66 wireless problem here https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg702926.html.

The reverts of the offending commit are now in the 6.1 and 6.6 stable queues for 6.1.67 and 6.6.6.

Edit: 6.1.67 and 6.6.6 are out with only this:

Code:

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:16:15 +0100
Subject: Revert "wifi: cfg80211: fix CQM for non-range use"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This reverts commit 4a7e92551618f3737b305f62451353ee05662f57 which is
commit 7e7efdda6adb385fbdfd6f819d76bc68c923c394 upstream.

It needed to have commit 076fc8775daf ("wifi: cfg80211: remove wdev
mutex") applied to properly work, otherwise regressions happen.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e374bb16-5b13-44cc-b11a-2f4eefb1ecf5@manjaro.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87sf4belmm.fsf@turtle.gmx.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231210213930.61378-1-leo@leolam.fr

marav · 12-11-2023, 05:45 AM

kernel updates 6.6.6, 6.1.67, are now available at, https://www.kernel.org/
the change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...hangeLog-6.6.6

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-6.1.67

ponce · 12-11-2023, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by marav

6.6.6

drumz · 12-11-2023, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav

6.6.6

It's kind of hilarious that Linux kernel 6.6.6 has only 1 commit (plus the version number bump). And not only that, it's just a revert.

Code:

commit 0c38b88c33239b236930264a5467dca6334792f3
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 11 10:40:17 2023 +0100

    Linux 6.6.6
    
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

commit 9099d0682462e8664c8cbbe8989de65e50f62b17
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 11 10:16:15 2023 +0100

    Revert "wifi: cfg80211: fix CQM for non-range use"
    
    This reverts commit 4a7e92551618f3737b305f62451353ee05662f57 which is
    commit 7e7efdda6adb385fbdfd6f819d76bc68c923c394 upstream.
    
    It needed to have commit 076fc8775daf ("wifi: cfg80211: remove wdev
    mutex") applied to properly work, otherwise regressions happen.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e374bb16-5b13-44cc-b11a-2f4eefb1ecf5@manjaro.org
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87sf4belmm.fsf@turtle.gmx.de
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231210213930.61378-1-leo@leolam.fr
    Reported-by: Léo Lam <leo@leolam.fr>
    Reported-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
    Reported-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
    Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

GazL · 12-11-2023, 09:00 AM

So, not at all evil then! That's kinda disappointing.

Jan K. · 12-11-2023, 10:26 AM

Oh! I read that as "The Santa Edition"...

GazL · 12-11-2023, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jan K.

Oh! I read that as "The Santa Edition"...

Nah, Santa edition was 0.0.0,
a.k.a.
Oh, Oh, Oh.

Sorry... I'll go get my coat.

cwizardone · 12-11-2023, 03:49 PM

Year 2023, Round 62
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 13 December 2023, at approximately 18:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).

The details:

6.6.7-rc1, with 244 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/03495.html

6.1.68-rc1, with 194 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/03523.html

5.15.143-rc1, with 141 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/03531.html

5.10.204-rc1, with 97 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/03514.html

5.4.264-rc1, with 67 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/03520.html

4.19.302-rc1, with 55 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/03494.html

4.14.333-rc1, with 25 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.1/03492.html

cwizardone · 12-11-2023, 05:30 PM

The 6..6.y LTS kernel has been moved into the main tree (for -current).
http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/sla.../ChangeLog.txt

jmccue · 12-11-2023, 09:03 PM

Looks like it could have been a 13.37 moment or something like that old BSD story about satanist running BSD

As others said, 6.6.7 is already out, but that kernel in a distro release would have been funny and may have gotten a lot of press for Linux.

Daedra · 12-11-2023, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

The 6..6.y LTS kernel has been moved into the main tree (for -current).
http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/sla.../ChangeLog.txt

Only Pat knows, but I can't help but think that since we have a brand new shiny LTS kernel and Plasma 5 heading towards EOL, 15.1 should at least be on the horizon soon. The only thing left I can think of is the switch to Grub from lilo/elilo, but I am not sure if that is coming with 15.1 or 16.0.