This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.125 release. There are 25 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.6.125-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.6.125-rc1
Danilo Krummrich dakr@kernel.org gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com mptcp: fix race in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit()
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: pm: ensure unknown flags are ignored
Khairul Anuar Romli khairul.anuar.romli@altera.com spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy
Konstantin Shkolnyy kshk@linux.ibm.com vsock/test: verify socket options after setting them
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nf_tables: missing objects with no memcg accounting
Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org nfsd: don't ignore the return code of svc_proc_register()
Marek Behún kabel@kernel.org net: sfp: Fix quirk for Ubiquiti U-Fiber Instant SFP module
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Query FW again before proceeding with login
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress
Shreyas Deodhar sdeodhar@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Allow recovery for tape devices
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory
Bitterblue Smith rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()
Edward Adam Davis eadavis@qq.com nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org crypto: omap - Allocate OMAP_CRYPTO_FORCE_COPY scatterlists correctly
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: octeontx - Fix length check to avoid truncation in ucode_load_store
Zenm Chen zenmchen@gmail.com Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
Henrique Carvalho henrique.carvalho@suse.com smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()
Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org ksmbd: fix infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off reset in error paths
Henrique Carvalho henrique.carvalho@suse.com smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- drivers/base/base.h | 9 ++ drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/base/dd.c | 2 +- drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 2 + drivers/crypto/marvell/octeontx/otx_cptpf_ucode.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/omap-crypto.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c | 5 + .../crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_skcipher_algs.c | 2 - drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c | 22 +++- drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 41 +++--- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 28 ++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 19 ++- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 3 +- drivers/spi/spi-cadence-quadspi.c | 34 +++++ fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 9 +- fs/nfsd/stats.c | 4 +- fs/nfsd/stats.h | 2 +- fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 4 + fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h | 8 +- fs/smb/server/server.c | 6 +- fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c | 3 +- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 16 ++- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nft_compat.c | 6 +- net/netfilter/nft_log.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nft_meta.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nft_numgen.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c | 64 ++++++--- net/netfilter/nft_tunnel.c | 5 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.sh | 4 + tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_nl_ctl.c | 11 ++ tools/testing/vsock/control.c | 9 +- tools/testing/vsock/util.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/vsock/util.h | 7 + tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c | 29 ++--- 38 files changed, 406 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)