This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.15.9 release. There are 92 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 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:32:07 +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-6.15.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.15.9-rc1
Daniel Dadap ddadap@nvidia.com ALSA: hda: Add missing NVIDIA HDA codec IDs
Mohan Kumar D mkumard@nvidia.com ALSA: hda/tegra: Add Tegra264 support
Khairul Anuar Romli khairul.anuar.romli@altera.com spi: cadence-quadspi: fix cleanup of rx_chan on failure paths
RD Babiera rdbabiera@google.com usb: typec: tcpm: apply vbus before data bringup in tcpm_src_attach
Michael Grzeschik m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de usb: typec: tcpm: allow switching to mode accessory to mux properly
Michael Grzeschik m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de usb: typec: tcpm: allow to use sink in accessory mode
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Revert "drm/gem-shmem: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
Dmitry Osipenko dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com drm/shmem-helper: Remove obsoleted is_iomem test
Jesse Zhang jesse.zhang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Fix SDMA engine reset with logical instance ID
Jesse.zhang@amd.com Jesse.zhang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Implement SDMA soft reset directly for v5.x
Jesse.zhang@amd.com Jesse.zhang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Add the new sdma function pointers for amdgpu_sdma.h
Matthew Brost matthew.brost@intel.com drm/xe: Make WA BB part of LRC BO
Yonghong Song yonghong.song@linux.dev selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp
Harry Yoo harry.yoo@oracle.com mm/zsmalloc: do not pass __GFP_MOVABLE if CONFIG_COMPACTION=n
Jinjiang Tu tujinjiang@huawei.com mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list
Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com selftests/mm: fix split_huge_page_test for folio_split() tests
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: connect: also cover checksum
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: connect: also cover alt modes
Akinobu Mita akinobu.mita@gmail.com resource: fix false warning in __request_region()
Manivannan Sadhasivam manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org PCI/pwrctrl: Create pwrctrl devices only when CONFIG_PCI_PWRCTRL is enabled
Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes
Marco Elver elver@google.com kasan: use vmalloc_dump_obj() for vmalloc error reports
Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in ice_copy_and_init_pkg()
Praveen Kaligineedi pkaligineedi@google.com gve: Fix stuck TX queue for DQ queue format
Jacek Kowalski jacek@jacekk.info e1000e: ignore uninitialized checksum word on tgp
Jacek Kowalski jacek@jacekk.info e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum bit is not set
Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn dpaa2-switch: Fix device reference count leak in MAC endpoint handling
Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn dpaa2-eth: Fix device reference count leak in MAC endpoint handling
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org ASoC: mediatek: common: fix device and OF node leak
Ada Couprie Diaz ada.coupriediaz@arm.com arm64/entry: Mask DAIF in cpu_switch_to(), call_on_irq_stack()
Edip Hazuri edip@medip.dev ALSA: hda/realtek - Add mute LED support for HP Victus 15-fa0xxx
Dawid Rezler dawidrezler.patches@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Add mute LED support for HP Pavilion 15-eg0xxx
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au sprintf.h requires stdarg.h
Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn bus: fsl-mc: Fix potential double device reference in fsl_mc_get_endpoint()
Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org i2c: virtio: Avoid hang by using interruptible completion wait
Akhil R akhilrajeev@nvidia.com i2c: tegra: Fix reset error handling with ACPI
Yang Xiwen forbidden405@outlook.com i2c: qup: jump out of the loop in case of timeout
Markus Blöchl markus@blochl.de timekeeping: Zero initialize system_counterval when querying time from phc drivers
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org ARM: 9450/1: Fix allowing linker DCE with binutils < 2.36
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org ARM: 9448/1: Use an absolute path to unified.h in KBUILD_AFLAGS
Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org mm/ksm: fix -Wsometimes-uninitialized from clang-21 in advisor_mode_show()
Lin.Cao lincao12@amd.com drm/sched: Remove optimization that causes hang when killing dependent jobs
Arunpravin Paneer Selvam Arunpravin.PaneerSelvam@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Reset the clear flag in buddy during resume
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Revert "drm/gem-dma: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Revert "drm/gem-framebuffer: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Revert "drm/prime: Use dma_buf from GEM object instance"
Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915/dp: Fix 2.7 Gbps DP_LINK_BW value on g4x
Rong Zhang i@rong.moe platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Fix kbd backlight not remembered among boots
Rong Zhang i@rong.moe platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Fix FnLock not remembered among boots
Kurt Borja kuurtb@gmail.com platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix `dmi_system_id` array
Jijie Shao shaojijie@huawei.com net: hns3: default enable tx bounce buffer when smmu enabled
Jian Shen shenjian15@huawei.com net: hns3: fixed vf get max channels bug
Yonglong Liu liuyonglong@huawei.com net: hns3: disable interrupt when ptp init failed
Jian Shen shenjian15@huawei.com net: hns3: fix concurrent setting vlan filter issue
Halil Pasic pasic@linux.ibm.com s390/ism: fix concurrency management in ism_cmd()
Nimrod Oren noren@nvidia.com selftests: drv-net: wait for iperf client to stop sending
SHARAN KUMAR M sharweshraajan@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute LED mask on HP OMEN 16 laptop
Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Remove extra semicolon in ti_sn_bridge_probe()
Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode
Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu net/sched: sch_qfq: Avoid triggering might_sleep in atomic context in qfq_delete_class
Kito Xu (veritas501) hxzene@gmail.com net: appletalk: Fix use-after-free in AARP proxy probe
Jamie Bainbridge jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com i40e: When removing VF MAC filters, only check PF-set MAC
Dennis Chen dechen@redhat.com i40e: report VF tx_dropped with tx_errors instead of tx_discards
Shahar Shitrit shshitrit@nvidia.com net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix peer miss rules to use peer eswitch
Chiara Meiohas cmeiohas@nvidia.com net/mlx5: Fix memory leak in cmd_exec()
Himanshu Mittal h-mittal1@ti.com net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix buffer allocation for ICSSG
Guoqing Jiang guoqing.jiang@canonical.com ASoC: mediatek: mt8365-dai-i2s: pass correct size to mt8365_dai_set_priv
Eyal Birger eyal.birger@gmail.com xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface
Fernando Fernandez Mancera fmancera@suse.de xfrm: ipcomp: adjust transport header after decompressing
Tobias Brunner tobias@strongswan.org xfrm: Set transport header to fix UDP GRO handling
Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org xfrm: always initialize offload path
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: state: use a consistent pcpu_id in xfrm_state_find
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: state: initialize state_ptrs earlier in xfrm_state_find
Stefan Wahren wahrenst@gmx.net staging: vchiq_arm: Make vchiq_shutdown never fail
Torsten Hilbrich torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com platform/x86: Fix initialization order for firmware_attributes_class
Nuno Das Neves nunodasneves@linux.microsoft.com x86/hyperv: Fix usage of cpu_online_mask to get valid cpu
Yasumasa Suenaga yasuenag@gmail.com tools/hv: fcopy: Fix incorrect file path conversion
Shravan Kumar Ramani shravankr@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Use kstrtobool() to check 0/1 input
Shravan Kumar Ramani shravankr@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Validate event/enable input
Shravan Kumar Ramani shravankr@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Remove newline char from event name input
Abdun Nihaal abdun.nihaal@gmail.com regmap: fix potential memory leak of regmap_bus
David Lechner dlechner@baylibre.com iio: adc: ad7949: use spi_is_bpw_supported()
Gabor Juhos j4g8y7@gmail.com interconnect: icc-clk: destroy nodes in case of memory allocation failures
Xilin Wu sophon@radxa.com interconnect: qcom: sc7280: Add missing num_links to xm_pcie3_1 node
Markus Burri markus.burri@mt.com iio: fix potential out-of-bound write
Maor Gottlieb maorg@nvidia.com RDMA/core: Rate limit GID cache warning messages
Rahul Chandra rahul@chandra.net platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: add DMI quirk for ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8406CA
Alessandro Carminati acarmina@redhat.com regulator: core: fix NULL dereference on unbind due to stale coupling data
Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com drm/amd/display: Don't allow OLED to go down to fully off
Laurent Vivier lvivier@redhat.com virtio_ring: Fix error reporting in virtqueue_resize
Laurent Vivier lvivier@redhat.com virtio_net: Enforce minimum TX ring size for reliability
Xin Li (Intel) xin@zytor.com x86/traps: Initialize DR7 by writing its architectural reset value
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 5 + arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 6 + arch/x86/hyperv/irqdomain.c | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h | 19 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 +- drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c | 2 + drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 19 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sdma.c | 44 +++++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_sdma.h | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vram_mgr.c | 17 +++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 12 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_buddy.c | 43 ++++++ drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_dma_helper.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_framebuffer_helper.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 10 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c | 8 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c | 6 + drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c | 21 +-- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc.c | 37 ++--- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_lrc_types.h | 3 - drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qup.c | 4 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 24 +-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-virtio.c | 15 +- drivers/iio/adc/ad7949.c | 7 +- drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 5 +- drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c | 4 +- drivers/interconnect/icc-clk.c | 2 + drivers/interconnect/qcom/sc7280.c | 1 + drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c | 12 +- drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c | 12 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c | 15 +- .../net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-switch.c | 15 +- drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 67 +++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c | 31 ++++ drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h | 2 + .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c | 36 +++-- .../net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_ptp.c | 9 +- .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c | 6 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ddp.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 4 +- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c | 108 +++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_config.c | 162 ++++++++++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_config.h | 78 ++++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.c | 20 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.h | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_switch_map.h | 3 + drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 6 + drivers/pci/probe.c | 7 + drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c | 25 +++- drivers/platform/x86/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 9 ++ drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/ideapad-laptop.c | 4 +- drivers/regulator/core.c | 1 + drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c | 3 + drivers/spi/spi-cadence-quadspi.c | 5 - .../vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpm.c | 64 ++++---- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 8 +- fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 9 +- include/drm/drm_buddy.h | 2 + include/linux/ism.h | 1 + include/linux/sprintf.h | 1 + include/net/xfrm.h | 2 +- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 7 +- kernel/resource.c | 5 +- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- mm/kasan/report.c | 4 +- mm/ksm.c | 6 +- mm/memory-failure.c | 4 + mm/vmscan.c | 8 + mm/zsmalloc.c | 3 + net/appletalk/aarp.c | 24 ++- net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c | 3 + net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c | 3 + net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 7 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c | 1 - net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c | 7 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c | 2 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 29 ++-- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 1 + sound/pci/hda/hda_tegra.c | 51 ++++++- sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 20 +++ sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 4 +- sound/soc/mediatek/common/mtk-soundcard-driver.c | 4 + sound/soc/mediatek/mt8365/mt8365-dai-i2s.c | 3 +- tools/hv/hv_fcopy_uio_daemon.c | 37 ++--- .../selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_precision.c | 53 +++++++ tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/load.py | 23 ++- tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 3 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/Makefile | 3 +- .../selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect_checksum.sh | 5 + .../selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect_mmap.sh | 5 + .../selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect_sendfile.sh | 5 + 109 files changed, 998 insertions(+), 452 deletions(-)