Re: [PATCH 6.6 0000/1674] 6.6.160-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 09:10:50PM +0200, Peter Schneider wrote:
> Am 19.10.2026 um 18:54 schrieb Sasha Levin:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 06:02:37AM +0200, Peter Schneider wrote:
> > > # first bad commit: [7c1e132b0967210526de05e7af6f1c26ad0c1516] sysfs: Introduce a mechanism to hide static attribute_groups
> > 
> > Thanks for bisecting this.
> > 
> > > I think the problem is, that if you take this patch for stable, you need to also take the patch which is upstream [
> > > cd69fedf58f8ab1ab511f7c6ac1969cebf1c935f] sysfs: Fix crash on empty group attributes array. It addresses the exact crash
> > > that I've run into.
> > 
> > Rather than adding cd69fedf58f8, I dropped d87c295f599c ("sysfs: Introduce a
> > mechanism to hide static attribute_groups") and its dependent c7fbb8218b4a
> > ("sysfs: check visibility before changing group attribute ownership") from the
> > 6.6 and 6.1 queues.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, that seems to be the cleaner approach. I just tested this, and this works fine, too.
> 
> Will there be an -rc2?

Based on all of the reports, yes.