This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.251 release. There are 24 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-5.10.251-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

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.10.251-rc1

Fabio Porcedda fabio.porcedda@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit FN920C04 RNDIS compositions

Chao Yu chao@kernel.org f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()

Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix out-of-bounds access in sysfs attribute read/write

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()

Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix bsg_done() causing double free

Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash

Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory

Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: pm: ensure unknown flags are ignored

Alexander Aring aahringo@redhat.com fs: dlm: fix invalid derefence of sb_lvbptr

Alban Bedel alban.bedel@lht.dlh.de gpiolib: acpi: Fix gpio count with string references

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

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:

Makefile | 4 +- 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/platform/x86/classmate-laptop.c | 32 +++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_bsg.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 36 +++++++------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 19 +++++++- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 19 +++++++- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 +++ drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c | 3 ++ drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c | 8 +++- fs/dlm/lock.c | 2 +- fs/f2fs/data.c | 12 +++-- fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++--- fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 4 ++ fs/romfs/super.c | 5 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 4 ++ tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.sh | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/pm_nl_ctl.c | 11 +++++ 27 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)