Linux 6.1.177

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Sat Jul 04 2026 - 07:59:15 EST


I'm announcing the release of the 6.1.177 kernel.

All users of the 6.1 kernel series must upgrade.

The updated 6.1.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.1.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary

thanks,

greg k-h

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Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 463 ++++++-------
Makefile | 2
arch/arm/mm/alignment.c | 4
arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 94 ++
arch/mips/dec/prom/console.c | 7
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-ops.h | 1
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 28
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 1
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 45 +
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.h | 10
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S | 2
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 21
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx_ops.h | 18
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10
drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c | 2
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_cfg_common.h | 32
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_cfg_user.h | 38 -
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_common_drv.h | 3
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_ctl_drv.c | 425 -----------
drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/adf_dev_mgr.c | 70 -
drivers/fpga/of-fpga-region.c | 3
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/bios/bios_parser.c | 15
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/bios/bios_parser2.c | 27
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/bios/bios_parser_helper.h | 5
drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_drv.h | 8
drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c | 5
drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_irq.c | 24
drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_sched.c | 36 -
drivers/hv/hv_kvp.c | 25
drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 29
drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c | 5
drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c | 2
drivers/irqchip/irq-imgpdc.c | 6
drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c | 8
drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 7
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.c | 8
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_config.h | 1
drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c | 15
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.c | 1
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76x2/usb.c | 1
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/trx.h | 2
drivers/ntb/hw/epf/ntb_hw_epf.c | 3
drivers/power/reset/linkstation-poweroff.c | 2
drivers/regulator/core.c | 10
drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c | 8
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 4
drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 2
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 12
drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c | 2
fs/dlm/lockspace.c | 2
fs/exfat/dir.c | 4
fs/ext4/inline.c | 8
fs/f2fs/acl.c | 18
fs/f2fs/file.c | 9
fs/f2fs/inode.c | 9
fs/fuse/dev.c | 23
fs/fuse/file.c | 8
fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 2
fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c | 4
fs/nfsd/nfs2acl.c | 17
fs/nfsd/nfs3acl.c | 17
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c | 3
fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 3
fs/ntfs3/xattr.c | 12
fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c | 22
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 5
fs/smb/server/smbacl.c | 4
include/keys/request_key_auth-type.h | 2
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 7
include/linux/lockdep.h | 14
include/linux/lockdep_types.h | 1
include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 4
include/linux/skmsg.h | 15
include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 6
include/net/phonet/pn_dev.h | 2
include/net/tc_act/tc_pedit.h | 1
kernel/bpf/cgroup.c | 2
kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 28
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 3
kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c | 2
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 67 -
kernel/trace/trace.c | 14
kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c | 8
lib/debugobjects.c | 57 +
mm/vmscan.c | 13
net/9p/client.c | 3
net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 11
net/batman-adv/bat_v.c | 1
net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c | 23
net/batman-adv/bridge_loop_avoidance.c | 28
net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c | 12
net/batman-adv/fragmentation.c | 22
net/batman-adv/fragmentation.h | 3
net/batman-adv/netlink.c | 8
net/batman-adv/routing.c | 64 +
net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c | 113 ++-
net/batman-adv/translation-table.c | 32
net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 69 +
net/batman-adv/types.h | 21
net/core/filter.c | 27
net/core/skmsg.c | 16
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4
net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c | 2
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 14
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 2
net/ipv4/udp.c | 2
net/ipv4/udp_bpf.c | 2
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4
net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 1
net/mac802154/llsec.c | 14
net/mptcp/pm_userspace.c | 13
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 4
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 74 +-
net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c | 43 +
net/phonet/pn_dev.c | 12
net/phonet/pn_netlink.c | 23
net/sched/act_pedit.c | 101 +-
net/tipc/crypto.c | 9
net/tls/tls_sw.c | 4
net/unix/af_unix.c | 11
security/apparmor/include/policy_unpack.h | 19
security/apparmor/lsm.c | 16
security/apparmor/policy.c | 8
security/keys/internal.h | 2
security/keys/keyctl.c | 24
security/keys/keyctl_pkey.c | 9
security/keys/request_key_auth.c | 33
tools/perf/bench/find-bit-bench.c | 8
tools/perf/util/block-range.c | 6
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.h | 9
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/empty_skb.c | 25
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/kprobe_multi_test.c | 8
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/perf_link.c | 15
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_redirect.c | 154 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_tunnel.c | 71 -
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_bonding.c | 40 -
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_do_redirect.c | 30
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_synproxy.c | 41 -
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.h | 15
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/testing_helpers.h | 10
tools/testing/selftests/ptp/testptp.c | 19
142 files changed, 1796 insertions(+), 1527 deletions(-)

Abel Vesa (1):
misc: fastrpc: Add dma_mask to fastrpc_channel_ctx

André Draszik (1):
regulator: core: fix locking in regulator_resolve_supply() error path

Ashutosh Desai (1):
KVM: SVM: Fix page overflow in sev_dbg_crypt() for ENCRYPT path

Bagas Sanjaya (1):
Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width

Bitterblue Smith (1):
wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix C2H bit location in RX descriptor

Bjoern Doebel (1):
ring-buffer: Remove ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync()

Bryam Vargas (1):
apparmor: mediate the implicit connect of TCP fast open sendmsg

Davidlohr Bueso (1):
locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued

Dawei Feng (1):
bpf: use kvfree() for replaced sysctl write buffer

Deepak Kumar Singh (1):
rpmsg: char: Add lock to avoid race when rpmsg device is released

Dexuan Cui (1):
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Improve the logic of reserving fb_mmio on Gen2 VMs

Dominik Woźniak (1):
nfsd: check get_user() return when reading princhashlen

Doruk Tan Ozturk (2):
mac802154: llsec: add skb_cow_data() before in-place crypto
tipc: fix slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_aead_decrypt_done

Eric Dumazet (2):
ip6_vti: set netns_immutable on the fallback device.
net: annotate data-races around sk->sk_{data_ready,write_space}

Fan Wu (1):
hdlc_ppp: sync per-proto timers before freeing hdlc state

Florian Westphal (2):
netfilter: nf_tables: always increment set element count
netfilter: nf_tables: always walk all pending catchall elements

Gil Portnoy (1):
ksmbd: reject non-VALID session in compound request branch

Giovanni Cabiddu (1):
crypto: qat - remove unused character device and IOCTLs

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
Linux 6.1.177

Guannan Wang (1):
NFSD: Fix SECINFO_NO_NAME decode error cleanup

Hangbin Liu (1):
selftests/bpf: move SYS() macro into the test_progs.h

Harry Wentland (1):
drm/amd/display: Bound VBIOS record-chain walk loops

Helen Koike (1):
debugobjects: Do not fill_pool() if pi_blocked_on

Hem Parekh (1):
ksmbd: fix out-of-bounds read in smb_check_perm_dacl()

Herbert Xu (1):
crypto: qat - Return pointer directly in adf_ctl_alloc_resources

Ian Bridges (1):
fbdev: Fix fb_new_modelist to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var

Ian Rogers (2):
perf bench: Avoid NDEBUG warning
perf block-range: Move debug code behind ifndef NDEBUG

Ihor Solodrai (1):
selftests/bpf: Check for timeout in perf_link test

Jann Horn (1):
fuse: limit FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE to uptodate folios

Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
KEYS: fix overflow in keyctl_pkey_params_get_2()

Jeff Layton (1):
nfsd: fix posix_acl leak on SETACL decode failure

Jiexun Wang (1):
af_unix: Reject SIOCATMARK on non-stream sockets

Jiri Olsa (1):
selftests/bpf: Move get_time_ns to testing_helpers.h

Joanne Koong (1):
fuse: re-lock request before replacing page cache folio

Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez (1):
wifi: ath11k: fix warning when unbinding

Koichiro Den (1):
NTB: epf: Avoid pci_iounmap() with offset when PEER_SPAD and CONFIG share BAR

Konstantin Komarov (1):
ntfs3: reject direct userspace writes to reserved $LX* xattrs

Kuniyuki Iwashima (2):
phonet: Pass ifindex to fill_addr().
phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().

Lord Ulf Henrik Holmberg (1):
RDMA/bnxt_re: zero shared page before exposing to userspace

Maciej W. Rozycki (1):
MIPS: DEC: Prevent initial console buffer from landing in XKPHYS

Maíra Canal (2):
drm/v3d: Store the active job inside the queue's state
drm/v3d: Skip CSD when it has zeroed workgroups

Michael Bommarito (2):
exfat: fix potential use-after-free in exfat_find_dir_entry()
NFSv4/pNFS: reject zero-length r_addr in nfs4_decode_mp_ds_addr

Miklos Szeredi (1):
virtiofs: fix UAF on submount umount

Mingyu Wang (1):
agp/amd64: Fix broken error propagation in agp_amd64_probe()

Mukesh Ojha (1):
misc: fastrpc: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rpmsg callback

Pablo Neira Ayuso (2):
netfilter: nf_tables: fix set size with rbtree backend
netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally bump set->nelems before insertion

Paolo Abeni (1):
mptcp: fix missing wakeups in edge scenarios

Paolo Bonzini (1):
KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected role

Pedro Tammela (3):
net/sched: act_pedit: check static offsets a priori
net/sched: act_pedit: rate limit datapath messages
net/sched: act_pedit: free pedit keys on bail from offset check

Peter Zijlstra (1):
debugobjects,locking: Annotate debug_object_fill_pool() wait type violation

Petr Machata (1):
Revert "ptp: add testptp mask test"

Qingshuang Fu (1):
irqchip/imgpdc: Fix resource leak, add missing chained handler cleanup on remove

Rajat Gupta (1):
net/sched: fix pedit partial COW leading to page cache corruption

Ruslan Valiyev (2):
media: vidtv: fix NULL pointer dereference in vidtv_mux_push_si
apparmor: fix use-after-free in rawdata dedup loop

Russell King (Oracle) (4):
ARM: group is_permission_fault() with is_translation_fault()
ARM: allow __do_kernel_fault() to report execution of memory faults
ARM: fix hash_name() fault
ARM: fix branch predictor hardening

Santosh Kalluri (1):
net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period

Sean Christopherson (5):
KVM: VMX: Make vmread_error_trampoline() uncallable from C code
KVM: nVMX: Add a helper to get highest pending from Posted Interrupt vector
KVM: nVMX: Check for pending posted interrupts when looking for nested events
KVM: nVMX: Fold requested virtual interrupt check into has_nested_events()
KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure hugepage is in by slot before checking max mapping level

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (2):
debugobjects: Allow to refill the pool before SYSTEM_SCHEDULING
debugobjects: Use LD_WAIT_CONFIG instead of LD_WAIT_SLEEP

Shaomin Chen (1):
keys: Pin request_key_auth payload in instantiate paths

Steffen Persvold (1):
fbdev: modedb: Fix misaligned fields in the 1920x1080-60 mode

Stepan Ionichev (1):
serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails

Sunmin Jeong (1):
f2fs: fix to round down start offset of fallocate for pin file

Sven Eckelmann (26):
batman-adv: tt: prevent TVLV entry number overflow
batman-adv: tp_meter: keep unacked list in ascending ordered
batman-adv: tp_meter: initialize dup_acks explicitly
batman-adv: tp_meter: initialize dec_cwnd explicitly
batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid window underflow
batman-adv: tp_meter: avoid divide-by-zero for dec_cwnd
batman-adv: tp_meter: fix fast recovery precondition
batman-adv: tp_meter: handle seqno wrap-around for fast recovery detection
batman-adv: tp_meter: add only finished tp_vars to lists
batman-adv: bla: annotate lasttime access with READ/WRITE_ONCE
batman-adv: prevent ELP transmission interval underflow
batman-adv: tp_meter: initialize last_recv_time during init
batman-adv: ensure bcast is writable before modifying TTL
batman-adv: fix (m|b)cast csum after decrementing TTL
batman-adv: frag: ensure fragment is writable before modifying TTL
batman-adv: frag: avoid underflow of TTL
batman-adv: v: prevent OGM aggregation on disabled hardif
batman-adv: tp_meter: restrict number of unacked list entries
batman-adv: tp_meter: annotate last_recv_time access with READ/WRITE_ONCE
batman-adv: tp_meter: prevent parallel modifications of last_recv
batman-adv: tp_meter: handle overlapping packets
batman-adv: tt: don't merge change entries with different VIDs
batman-adv: tt: track roam count per VID
batman-adv: dat: prevent false sharing between VLANs
batman-adv: tvlv: enforce 2-byte alignment
batman-adv: tvlv: avoid race of cifsnotfound handler state

Tao Cui (1):
mptcp: pm: fix extra_subflows underflow on userspace PM subflow creation

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1):
dlm: prevent NPD when writing a positive value to event_done

Thorsten Blum (2):
hv: utils: handle and propagate errors in kvp_register
crypto: qat - Replace kzalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user()

Waiman Long (1):
debugobjects: Dont call fill_pool() in early boot hardirq context

Weiming Shi (2):
i2c: stub: Reject I2C block transfers with invalid length
net: qualcomm: rmnet: fix endpoint use-after-free in rmnet_dellink()

Wenjie Qi (1):
f2fs: validate compress cache inode only when enabled

Wentao Liang (3):
pNFS: Fix use-after-free in pnfs_update_layout()
fpga: region: fix use-after-free in child_regions_with_firmware()
power: reset: linkstation-poweroff: fix use-after-free in the linkstation_poweroff_init()

Wongi Lee (1):
ipv6: account for fraggap on the paged allocation path

Yi Yang (1):
vc_screen: fix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write

Yiming Qian (1):
net: skmsg: preserve sg.copy across SG transforms

Yizhou Zhao (1):
9p: avoid putting oldfid in p9_client_walk() error path

Yu Zhao (1):
mm/mglru: skip special VMAs in lru_gen_look_around()

Yuto Ohnuki (1):
ext4: add bounds check for inline data length in ext4_read_inline_page

Zenm Chen (1):
wifi: mt76: mt76x2u: Add support for ELECOM WDC-867SU3S

Zhang Cen (2):
f2fs: validate ACL entry sizes in f2fs_acl_from_disk()
ocfs2: reject oversized group bitmap descriptors