[PATCH 6.1 00/69] 6.1.163-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Mon Feb 09 2026 - 09:44:07 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.163 release.
There are 69 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 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:22:44 +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-6.1.163-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-6.1.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 6.1.163-rc1

Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ALSA: hda/realtek: Really fix headset mic for TongFang X6AR55xU.

Felix Gu <ustc.gu@xxxxxxxxx>
spi: tegra: Fix a memory leak in tegra_slink_probe()

Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer clearing in tegra_qspi_non_combined_seq_xfer

Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer in tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer

Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer assignment in tegra_qspi_setup_transfer_one

Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
spi: tegra210-quad: Move curr_xfer read inside spinlock

Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
spi: tegra210-quad: Return IRQ_HANDLED when timeout already processed transfer

Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set

Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
riscv: uprobes: Add missing fence.i after building the XOL buffer

Kang Chen <k.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc()

Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx>
ASoC: amd: fix memory leak in acp3x pdm dma ops

Andrew Fasano <andrew.fasano@xxxxxxxx>
netfilter: nf_tables: fix inverted genmask check in nft_map_catchall_activate()

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
hwmon: (occ) Mark occ_init_attribute() as __printf

Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
drm/mgag200: fix mgag200_bmc_stop_scanout()

Daniel Hodges <hodgesd@xxxxxxxx>
tipc: use kfree_sensitive() for session key material

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: don't touch dev->stats in BPF redirect paths

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink()

Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
dpaa2-switch: add bounds check for if_id in IRQ handler

Zilin Guan <zilin@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup

Zilin Guan <zilin@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in PF setup_nic_devices() cleanup

Zilin Guan <zilin@xxxxxxxxxx>
net: liquidio: Initialize netdev pointer before queue setup

Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
dpaa2-switch: prevent ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference when num_ifs is zero

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@xxxxxxxxxx>
smb/client: fix memory leak in smb2_open_file()

Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@xxxxxxxxx>
platform/x86: intel_telemetry: Fix PSS event register mask

Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
platform/x86: toshiba_haps: Fix memory leaks in add/remove routines

Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx>
wifi: mac80211: don't increment crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt twice

Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx>
scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count()

Tim Guttzeit <t.guttzeit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix headset mic for TongFang X6AR55xU

Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx>
scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_session_usage_count()

Veerendranath Jakkam <veerendranath.jakkam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wifi: cfg80211: Fix bitrate calculation overflow for HE rates

Dimitrios Katsaros <patcherwork@xxxxxxxxx>
ASoC: tlv320adcx140: Propagate error codes during probe

Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@xxxxxxxxx>
nvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails

Kery Qi <qikeyu2017@xxxxxxxxx>
ASoC: davinci-evm: Fix reference leak in davinci_evm_probe

Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wifi: mac80211: collect station statistics earlier when disconnect

Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize() during memory free

Rodrigo Lugathe da Conceição Alves <lugathe2@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: Apply quirk HID_QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL to Edifier QR30 (2d99:a101)

Kwok Kin Ming <kenkinming2002@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: i2c-hid: fix potential buffer overflow in i2c_hid_get_report()

Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
HID: quirks: Add another Chicony HP 5MP Cameras to hid_ignore_list

Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
netfilter: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY

Ruslan Krupitsa <krupitsarus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
ALSA: hda/realtek: add HP Laptop 15s-eq1xxx mute LED quirk

Siarhei Vishniakou <svv@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: playstation: Center initial joystick axes to prevent spurious events

Zhang Lixu <lixu.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: intel-ish-hid: Reset enum_devices_done before enumeration

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent

DaytonCL <artem749507@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: multitouch: add MT_QUIRK_STICKY_FINGERS to MT_CLS_VTL

Zhang Lixu <lixu.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: intel-ish-hid: Update ishtp bus match to support device ID table

Chenghao Duan <duanchenghao@xxxxxxxxxx>
LoongArch: Enable exception fixup for specific ADE subcode

Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx>
LoongArch: Set correct protection_map[] for VM_NONE/VM_SHARED

ZhangGuoDong <zhangguodong@xxxxxxxxxx>
smb/server: call ksmbd_session_rpc_close() on error path in create_smb2_pipe()

shechenglong <shechenglong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
block,bfq: fix aux stat accumulation destination

Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@xxxxxxxxx>
net: usb: sr9700: support devices with virtual driver CD

Peter Åstrand <astrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wifi: wlcore: ensure skb headroom before skb_push

Moon Hee Lee <moonhee.lee.ca@xxxxxxxxx>
wifi: mac80211: ocb: skip rx_no_sta when interface is not joined

Zhiquan Li <zhiquan_li@xxxxxxx>
KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures

Max Yuan <maxyuan@xxxxxxxxxx>
gve: Correct ethtool rx_dropped calculation

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
tracing: Fix ftrace event field alignments

Debarghya Kundu <debarghyak@xxxxxxxxxx>
gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change

Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx>
pmdomain: imx8m-blk-ctrl: fix out-of-range access of bc->domains

Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx>
pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep usb phy power domain on for system wakeup

Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx>
pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep gpc power domain on for system wakeup

Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound

Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
binder: fix BR_FROZEN_REPLY error log

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: clamp maximum map bucket size to INT_MAX

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd

Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@xxxxxx>
Revert "drm/amd: Check if ASPM is enabled from PCIe subsystem"

Thomas Weissschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ARM: 9468/1: fix memset64() on big-endian

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
rbd: check for EOD after exclusive lock is ensured to be held

Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@xxxxxxxxx>
platform/x86: intel_telemetry: Fix swapped arrays in PSS output

Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
x86/kfence: fix booting on 32bit non-PAE systems

YunJe Shin <yjshin0438@xxxxxxxxx>
nvmet-tcp: add bounds checks in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/string.h | 5 ++-
arch/loongarch/kernel/traps.c | 5 +++
arch/loongarch/mm/cache.c | 8 ++--
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c | 10 +----
arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h | 7 ++--
block/bfq-cgroup.c | 2 +-
drivers/android/binder.c | 5 ++-
drivers/android/binderfs.c | 8 ++--
drivers/block/rbd.c | 33 ++++++++++------
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 3 --
drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_bmc.c | 31 ++++++---------
drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h | 6 +++
drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 4 ++
drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 1 +
drivers/hid/hid-playstation.c | 5 +++
drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c | 2 +
drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c | 1 +
drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c | 1 +
drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c | 12 +++++-
drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c | 1 +
drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 3 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c | 39 +++++++++---------
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 4 +-
.../net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-switch.c | 10 +++++
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_ethtool.c | 46 ++++++++++++++--------
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 5 ++-
drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c | 5 +++
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/tx.c | 5 +++
drivers/nvme/host/fc.c | 2 +
drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 17 ++++++++
drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/debugfs.c | 4 +-
drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/pltdrv.c | 2 +-
drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_haps.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/imx/imx8m-blk-ctrl.c | 2 +-
drivers/soc/imx/imx8mp-blk-ctrl.c | 30 ++++++++++++++
drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c | 6 ++-
drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c | 36 +++++++++++++++--
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 10 ++++-
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 16 +++++---
fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 8 +++-
fs/hfsplus/unicode.c | 24 ++++++++---
fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 6 +--
fs/smb/client/smb2file.c | 1 +
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 5 ++-
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +
kernel/trace/trace.h | 7 +++-
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 14 +++----
kernel/trace/trace_export.c | 21 +++++++---
net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 +-
net/core/filter.c | 8 ++--
net/mac80211/key.c | 3 +-
net/mac80211/ocb.c | 3 ++
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 7 ++--
net/netfilter/nf_log.c | 4 +-
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +-
net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c | 8 ++++
net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 2 +-
net/tipc/crypto.c | 4 +-
net/wireless/util.c | 8 ++--
sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 +
sound/soc/amd/renoir/acp3x-pdm-dma.c | 2 +
sound/soc/codecs/tlv320adcx140.c | 3 ++
sound/soc/ti/davinci-evm.c | 39 ++++++++++++++----
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 1 +
virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 44 +++++++++++----------
68 files changed, 440 insertions(+), 194 deletions(-)