This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.200 release. There are 75 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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.200-rc... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.15.200-rc1
Varun Prakash varun@chelsio.com nvmet-tcp: pass iov_len instead of sg->length to bvec_set_page()
Felix Gu ustc.gu@gmail.com spi: tegra: Fix a memory leak in tegra_slink_probe()
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer clearing in tegra_qspi_non_combined_seq_xfer
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer in tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer assignment in tegra_qspi_setup_transfer_one
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org spi: tegra210-quad: Move curr_xfer read inside spinlock
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org spi: tegra210-quad: Return IRQ_HANDLED when timeout already processed transfer
Lu Baolu baolu.lu@linux.intel.com iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set
Pauli Virtanen pav@iki.fi Bluetooth: hci_event: call disconnect callback before deleting conn
Max Yuan maxyuan@google.com gve: Correct ethtool rx_dropped calculation
Debarghya Kundu debarghyak@google.com gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix ftrace event field alignments
Andreas Gruenbacher agruenba@redhat.com gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush
Kang Chen k.chen@smail.nju.edu.cn hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc()
Björn Töpel bjorn@rivosinc.com riscv: uprobes: Add missing fence.i after building the XOL buffer
Chris Bainbridge chris.bainbridge@gmail.com ASoC: amd: fix memory leak in acp3x pdm dma ops
YunJe Shin yjshin0438@gmail.com nvmet-tcp: add bounds checks in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec
Fabio M. De Francesco fmdefrancesco@gmail.com nvmet-tcp: don't map pages which can't come from HIGHMEM
Sagi Grimberg sagi@grimberg.me nvmet-tcp: fix regression in data_digest calculation
Maurizio Lombardi mlombard@redhat.com nvmet-tcp: fix memory leak when performing a controller reset
Maurizio Lombardi mlombard@redhat.com nvmet-tcp: add an helper to free the cmd buffers
Andrew Fasano andrew.fasano@nist.gov netfilter: nf_tables: fix inverted genmask check in nft_map_catchall_activate()
Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de hwmon: (occ) Mark occ_init_attribute() as __printf
Daniel Hodges hodgesd@meta.com tipc: use kfree_sensitive() for session key material
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink()
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com dpaa2-switch: add bounds check for if_id in IRQ handler
Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup
Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in PF setup_nic_devices() cleanup
Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn net: liquidio: Initialize netdev pointer before queue setup
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com dpaa2-switch: prevent ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference when num_ifs is zero
Kaushlendra Kumar kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com platform/x86: intel_telemetry: Fix PSS event register mask
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com platform/x86: toshiba_haps: Fix memory leaks in add/remove routines
Miri Korenblit miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com wifi: mac80211: don't increment crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt twice
Maurizio Lombardi mlombard@redhat.com scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count()
Maurizio Lombardi mlombard@redhat.com scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_session_usage_count()
Veerendranath Jakkam veerendranath.jakkam@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: cfg80211: Fix bitrate calculation overflow for HE rates
Dimitrios Katsaros patcherwork@gmail.com ASoC: tlv320adcx140: Propagate error codes during probe
Kery Qi qikeyu2017@gmail.com ASoC: davinci-evm: Fix reference leak in davinci_evm_probe
Baochen Qiang baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: mac80211: collect station statistics earlier when disconnect
Wupeng Ma mawupeng1@huawei.com ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize() during memory free
Rodrigo Lugathe da Conceição Alves lugathe2@gmail.com HID: Apply quirk HID_QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL to Edifier QR30 (2d99:a101)
Chris Chiu chris.chiu@canonical.com HID: quirks: Add another Chicony HP 5MP Cameras to hid_ignore_list
Daniel Gomez da.gomez@samsung.com netfilter: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY
Ruslan Krupitsa krupitsarus@outlook.com ALSA: hda/realtek: add HP Laptop 15s-eq1xxx mute LED quirk
Siarhei Vishniakou svv@google.com HID: playstation: Center initial joystick axes to prevent spurious events
Zhang Lixu lixu.zhang@intel.com HID: intel-ish-hid: Reset enum_devices_done before enumeration
DaytonCL artem749507@gmail.com HID: multitouch: add MT_QUIRK_STICKY_FINGERS to MT_CLS_VTL
ZhangGuoDong zhangguodong@kylinos.cn smb/server: call ksmbd_session_rpc_close() on error path in create_smb2_pipe()
shechenglong shechenglong@xfusion.com block,bfq: fix aux stat accumulation destination
Ethan Nelson-Moore enelsonmoore@gmail.com net: usb: sr9700: support devices with virtual driver CD
Peter Åstrand astrand@lysator.liu.se wifi: wlcore: ensure skb headroom before skb_push
Moon Hee Lee moonhee.lee.ca@gmail.com wifi: mac80211: ocb: skip rx_no_sta when interface is not joined
Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound
Yipeng Zou zouyipeng@huawei.com timers: Fix NULL function pointer race in timer_shutdown_sync()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Bluetooth: hci_qca: Fix the teardown problem for real
Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Provide timer_shutdown[_sync]()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Split [try_to_]del_timer[_sync]() to prepare for shutdown mode
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Silently ignore timers with a NULL function
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Documentation: Replace del_timer/del_timer_sync()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Rename del_timer() to timer_delete()
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Replace BUG_ON()s
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de timers: Get rid of del_singleshot_timer_sync()
Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org clocksource/drivers/sp804: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function
Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function
Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org ARM: spear: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function
Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Documentation: Remove bogus claim about del_timer_sync()
Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: clamp maximum map bucket size to INT_MAX
Pimyn Girgis pimyn@google.com mm/kfence: randomize the freelist on initialization
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd
Thomas Weissschuh thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de ARM: 9468/1: fix memset64() on big-endian
Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com rbd: check for EOD after exclusive lock is ensured to be held
Kaushlendra Kumar kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com platform/x86: intel_telemetry: Fix swapped arrays in PSS output
Andrew Cooper andrew.cooper3@citrix.com x86/kfence: fix booting on 32bit non-PAE systems
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Diffstat:
.../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst | 2 +- Documentation/core-api/local_ops.rst | 2 +- Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 17 +- Documentation/timers/hrtimers.rst | 2 +- .../translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 14 +- .../translations/zh_CN/core-api/local_ops.rst | 2 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/string.h | 5 +- arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c | 8 +- arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c | 10 +- arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h | 7 +- block/bfq-cgroup.c | 2 +- drivers/android/binderfs.c | 8 +- drivers/block/rbd.c | 33 +- drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c | 10 +- drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 4 +- drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 12 +- drivers/clocksource/timer-sp804.c | 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/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c | 1 + 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/target/tcp.c | 100 +++--- drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/debugfs.c | 4 +- drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/pltdrv.c | 2 +- drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_haps.c | 2 +- drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c | 6 +- drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c | 36 ++- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c | 6 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 10 +- fs/gfs2/log.c | 3 +- fs/gfs2/super.c | 4 + fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 2 +- fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 8 +- fs/hfsplus/unicode.c | 24 +- fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 6 +- fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c | 5 +- include/linux/timer.h | 17 +- kernel/time/timer.c | 342 ++++++++++++++++----- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 + kernel/trace/trace.h | 7 +- kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 14 +- kernel/trace/trace_export.c | 21 +- mm/kfence/core.c | 25 +- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 3 + net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 +- 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/sunrpc/xprt.c | 2 +- net/tipc/crypto.c | 4 +- net/wireless/util.c | 8 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 + sound/soc/amd/renoir/acp3x-pdm-dma.c | 2 + sound/soc/codecs/tlv320adcx140.c | 3 + sound/soc/ti/davinci-evm.c | 39 ++- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 44 +-- 73 files changed, 746 insertions(+), 324 deletions(-)