[PATCH 6.16 00/14] 6.16.11-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 03 2025 - 12:10:39 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.11 release.
There are 14 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, 05 Oct 2025 16:02:25 +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-6.16.11-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-6.16.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 6.16.11-rc1

Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ASoC: qcom: audioreach: fix potential null pointer dereference

Chandra Mohan Sundar <chandramohan.explore@xxxxxxxxx>
media: stm32-csi: Fix dereference before NULL check

Dikshita Agarwal <quic_dikshita@xxxxxxxxxxx>
media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer

Matvey Kovalev <matvey.kovalev@xxxxxxxxx>
wifi: ath11k: fix NULL dereference in ath11k_qmi_m3_load()

Charan Teja Kalla <charan.kalla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>
media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID

Larshin Sergey <Sergey.Larshin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
media: rc: fix races with imon_disconnect()

Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release

Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
media: i2c: tc358743: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by orphan timer in probe

Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
media: b2c2: Fix use-after-free causing by irq_check_work in flexcop_pci_remove

Jeongjun Park <aha310510@xxxxxxxxx>
ALSA: usb-audio: fix race condition to UAF in snd_usbmidi_free

Wang Haoran <haoranwangsec@xxxxxxxxx>
scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow

Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16

Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
blk-mq: fix blk_mq_tags double free while nr_requests grown


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
block/blk-mq-tag.c | 1 +
drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/pci/b2c2/flexcop-pci.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/platform/qcom/iris/iris_buffer.c | 10 ++++
drivers/media/platform/st/stm32/stm32-csi.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/rc/imon.c | 27 +++++++---
drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++----------
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 2 +
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/qmi.c | 2 +-
drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 2 +-
mm/swapfile.c | 3 ++
scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h | 7 +++
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/topology.c | 4 +-
sound/usb/midi.c | 9 ++--
16 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)