This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.163 release. There are 69 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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.163-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.1.y and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.1.163-rc1

Werner Sembach wse@tuxedocomputers.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Really fix headset mic for TongFang X6AR55xU.

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

Björn Töpel bjorn@rivosinc.com riscv: uprobes: Add missing fence.i after building the XOL buffer

Kang Chen k.chen@smail.nju.edu.cn hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc()

Chris Bainbridge chris.bainbridge@gmail.com ASoC: amd: fix memory leak in acp3x pdm dma ops

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

Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com drm/mgag200: fix mgag200_bmc_stop_scanout()

Daniel Hodges hodgesd@meta.com tipc: use kfree_sensitive() for session key material

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: don't touch dev->stats in BPF redirect paths

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

ChenXiaoSong chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn smb/client: fix memory leak in smb2_open_file()

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()

Tim Guttzeit t.guttzeit@tuxedocomputers.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix headset mic for TongFang X6AR55xU

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

Chaitanya Kulkarni ckulkarnilinux@gmail.com nvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails

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)

Kwok Kin Ming kenkinming2002@gmail.com HID: i2c-hid: fix potential buffer overflow in i2c_hid_get_report()

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

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent

DaytonCL artem749507@gmail.com HID: multitouch: add MT_QUIRK_STICKY_FINGERS to MT_CLS_VTL

Zhang Lixu lixu.zhang@intel.com HID: intel-ish-hid: Update ishtp bus match to support device ID table

Chenghao Duan duanchenghao@kylinos.cn LoongArch: Enable exception fixup for specific ADE subcode

Huacai Chen chenhuacai@kernel.org LoongArch: Set correct protection_map[] for VM_NONE/VM_SHARED

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

Zhiquan Li zhiquan_li@163.com KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures

Max Yuan maxyuan@google.com gve: Correct ethtool rx_dropped calculation

Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org tracing: Fix ftrace event field alignments

Debarghya Kundu debarghyak@google.com gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change

Xu Yang xu.yang_2@nxp.com pmdomain: imx8m-blk-ctrl: fix out-of-range access of bc->domains

Xu Yang xu.yang_2@nxp.com pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep usb phy power domain on for system wakeup

Xu Yang xu.yang_2@nxp.com pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: Keep gpc power domain on for system wakeup

Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound

Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com binder: fix BR_FROZEN_REPLY error log

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: clamp maximum map bucket size to INT_MAX

Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd

Bert Karwatzki spasswolf@web.de Revert "drm/amd: Check if ASPM is enabled from PCIe subsystem"

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

YunJe Shin yjshin0438@gmail.com nvmet-tcp: add bounds checks in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/include/asm/string.h | 5 ++- arch/loongarch/kernel/traps.c | 5 +++ arch/loongarch/mm/cache.c | 8 ++-- arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c | 10 +---- arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h | 7 ++-- block/bfq-cgroup.c | 2 +- drivers/android/binder.c | 5 ++- drivers/android/binderfs.c | 8 ++-- drivers/block/rbd.c | 33 ++++++++++------ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 3 -- drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_bmc.c | 31 ++++++--------- drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h | 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/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c | 1 + drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c | 1 + drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c | 12 +++++- 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/host/fc.c | 2 + drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 17 ++++++++ drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/debugfs.c | 4 +- drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/pltdrv.c | 2 +- drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_haps.c | 2 +- drivers/soc/imx/imx8m-blk-ctrl.c | 2 +- drivers/soc/imx/imx8mp-blk-ctrl.c | 30 ++++++++++++++ drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c | 6 ++- drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c | 36 +++++++++++++++-- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 10 ++++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 16 +++++--- fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 2 +- fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 8 +++- fs/hfsplus/unicode.c | 24 ++++++++--- fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 6 +-- fs/smb/client/smb2file.c | 1 + fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 5 ++- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 + kernel/trace/trace.h | 7 +++- kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 14 +++---- kernel/trace/trace_export.c | 21 +++++++--- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 +- net/core/filter.c | 8 ++-- 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/tipc/crypto.c | 4 +- net/wireless/util.c | 8 ++-- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 2 + sound/soc/amd/renoir/acp3x-pdm-dma.c | 2 + sound/soc/codecs/tlv320adcx140.c | 3 ++ sound/soc/ti/davinci-evm.c | 39 ++++++++++++++---- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 1 + virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 44 +++++++++++---------- 68 files changed, 440 insertions(+), 194 deletions(-)