This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.269 release. There are 43 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, 02 Sep 2026 13:32:19 +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-5.10.269-rc... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.10.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.10.269-rc1
Miguel Peñaranda mig.penaranda07@gmail.com usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com USB: c67x00: fix use-after-free in c67x00_add_iso_urb()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: spcp8x5: drop broken carrier detect support
Jiale Yao yaojiale02@163.com USB: serial: option: fix slab OOB read in interrupt URB callback
Marouane El Moufid eun0us@espilon.net ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Strengthen error handling in hub_hub_status()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Add lock to usb_wakeup_notification()
Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: vsie: zero stale crypto bits
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: mxs-dcp - fix source scatterlist length access
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-tdes - use scatterlist length before DMA mapping
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak
Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada manizada@pm.me xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left
Zhiling Zou roxy520tt@gmail.com xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_tcm: keep port count until LUN teardown completes
Aleksandr Nogikh nogikh@google.com usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support
Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn accessibility: speakup: unregister tty ldisc on later init failures
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com fpga: dfl: fme: add error handling
Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: input: read battery capacity from its actual report offset
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai nvmet-tcp: bound SGL data length before allocating command buffers
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nfc: nci: add data_len bound checks to activation parameter extractors
Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: do not keep a stale msc->input if no input is claimed
Samuel Page sam@bynar.io nfc: nci: fix uninit-value in the RF discover/activated NTF handlers
Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl
Guanghui Yang 3497809730@qq.com ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv4: igmp: Fix potential UAF in igmp_gq_start_timer()
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "smb: client: use kvzalloc() for megabyte buffer in simple fallocate"
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "mtd: maps: vmu-flash: fix fault in unaligned fixup"
Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: switch two allocations to use kzalloc_objs()
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "PM: sleep: Use complete() in device_pm_sleep_init()"
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev bpf: Fix use-after-free in offloaded map/prog info fill
Oliver Upton oliver.upton@linux.dev KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init
Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org jfs: add check read-only before txBeginAnon() call
Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org jfs: add check read-only before truncation in jfs_truncate_nolock()
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de bpf: Remove tst_run from lwt_seg6local_prog_ops.
Vishnu Razdan vrazdan@openai.com io_uring/io-wq: fix worker accounting when canceling creation callbacks
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de ipvs: reload ip header after head reallocation
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org ext4: don't enable DAX on new encrypted files
Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com ipv6: mcast: Fix use-after-free when processing MLD queries
Peiyang He peiyang_he@smail.nju.edu.cn RDMA/rxe: Fix OOB in free_rd_atomic_resources()
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Diffstat:
Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 4 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 6 ++ arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 1 + drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c | 1 + drivers/base/power/main.c | 6 +- drivers/crypto/atmel-tdes.c | 5 +- drivers/crypto/mxs-dcp.c | 2 +- drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 17 +++-- drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 10 +++ drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 3 +- drivers/mtd/maps/vmu-flash.c | 8 ++- drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 13 ++++ drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 8 +++ drivers/usb/c67x00/c67x00-sched.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 7 ++- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 20 +++++- drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c | 13 ---- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 4 +- fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 10 ++- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 ++ fs/ext4/super.c | 40 ++++++------ fs/jfs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c | 10 +++ fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 21 ++++++- include/linux/hid.h | 1 + include/linux/inetdevice.h | 5 ++ include/linux/sched.h | 8 +++ include/target/target_core_fabric.h | 2 + io_uring/io-wq.c | 9 ++- kernel/bpf/offload.c | 10 ++- kernel/kcov.c | 93 ++++++++++++++-------------- lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +- mm/swapfile.c | 7 +++ net/core/filter.c | 1 - net/ipv4/igmp.c | 14 +++-- net/ipv6/ah6.c | 29 +++++---- net/ipv6/mcast.c | 8 +-- net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 7 +++ net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c | 6 +- net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 32 ++++++++-- net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 9 ++- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +- security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 12 ++-- sound/usb/midi.c | 2 + 49 files changed, 326 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)