This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.201 release. There are 39 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 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:59:50 +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-5.15.201-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
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.15.201-rc1
Fabio Porcedda fabio.porcedda@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit FN920C04 RNDIS compositions
Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix out-of-bounds access in sysfs attribute read/write
Chao Yu chao@kernel.org f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org fbdev: smscufx: properly copy ioctl memory to kernelspace
Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244@gmail.com fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()
Liu Song liu.song13@zte.com.cn PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously
Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr PCI: endpoint: Remove unused field in struct pci_epf_group
Damien Le Moal dlemoal@kernel.org PCI: endpoint: Automatically create a function specific attributes group
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash
Quinn Tran qutran@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Reduce fabric scan duplicate code
Quinn Tran qutran@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Remove dead code (GNN ID)
Gleb Chesnokov Chesnokov.G@raidix.com scsi: qla2xxx: Use named initializers for port_[d]state_str
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix bsg_done() causing double free
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com bus: fsl-mc: fix use-after-free in driver_override_show()
Chelsy Ratnawat chelsyratnawat2001@gmail.com bus: fsl-mc: Replace snprintf and sprintf with sysfs_emit in sysfs show functions
Henrique Carvalho henrique.carvalho@suse.com smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req
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
Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean@nxp.com net: dsa: free routing table on probe failure
Paulo Alcantara pc@manguebit.com smb: client: set correct id, uid and cruid for multiuser automounts
Boris Burkov boris@bur.io btrfs: fix racy bitfield write in btrfs_clear_space_info_full()
Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net Revert "wireguard: device: enable threaded NAPI"
Alban Bedel alban.bedel@lht.dlh.de gpiolib: acpi: Fix gpio count with string references
Ziyi Guo n7l8m4@u.northwestern.edu ASoC: fsl_xcvr: fix missing lock in fsl_xcvr_mode_put()
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Fix sysfs group leak in error path
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com platform/x86: classmate-laptop: Add missing NULL pointer checks
Brahmajit Das listout@listout.xyz drm/tegra: hdmi: sor: Fix error: variable ‘j’ set but not used
Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value
Xuewen Yan xuewen.yan@unisoc.com gpio: sprd: Change sprd_gpio lock to raw_spin_lock
Tim Guttzeit t.guttzeit@tuxedocomputers.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix headset mic for TongFang X6AR55xU
Danilo Krummrich dakr@kernel.org gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Query FW again before proceeding with login
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory
Edward Adam Davis eadavis@qq.com nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang
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
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Diffstat:
Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-howto.rst | 11 +- Makefile | 4 +- drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 10 +- drivers/crypto/marvell/octeontx/otx_cptpf_ucode.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/omap-crypto.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_algs.c | 2 - drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c | 5 + drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c | 22 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-sprd.c | 8 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hdmi.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c | 4 +- drivers/net/wireguard/device.c | 1 - drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c | 54 +- drivers/platform/x86/classmate-laptop.c | 32 ++ drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_bsg.c | 25 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h | 50 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h | 9 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 586 ++++++++-------------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 31 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 29 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 18 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 + drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c | 3 + drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c | 8 +- fs/btrfs/block-group.c | 6 +- fs/btrfs/space-info.c | 20 +- fs/btrfs/space-info.h | 6 +- fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c | 16 + fs/f2fs/data.c | 12 +- fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 65 ++- fs/ksmbd/transport_tcp.c | 3 +- fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 4 + fs/romfs/super.c | 5 +- net/dsa/dsa2.c | 21 +- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 16 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 4 + sound/soc/fsl/fsl_xcvr.c | 3 + tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.sh | 4 + tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_nl_ctl.c | 11 + 41 files changed, 576 insertions(+), 551 deletions(-)