This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.144 release. There are 81 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, 10 Jul 2025 18:08:50 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.144-rc2... 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 6.1.144-rc2

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/process: Move the buffer clearing before MONITOR

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de KVM: SVM: Advertise TSA CPUID bits to guests

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation

Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de x86/bugs: Rename MDS machinery to something more generic

Andrei Kuchynski akuchynski@chromium.org usb: typec: displayport: Fix potential deadlock

Kurt Borja kuurtb@gmail.com platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix kobject cleanup

Kurt Borja kuurtb@gmail.com platform/x86: think-lmi: Create ksets consecutively

Oliver Neukum oneukum@suse.com Logitech C-270 even more broken

Michael J. Ruhl michael.j.ruhl@intel.com i2c/designware: Fix an initialization issue

Christian König christian.koenig@amd.com dma-buf: fix timeout handling in dma_resv_wait_timeout v2

Peter Chen peter.chen@cixtech.com usb: cdnsp: do not disable slot for disabled slot

Hongyu Xie xiehongyu1@kylinos.cn xhci: Disable stream for xHC controller with XHCI_BROKEN_STREAMS

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: Flush queued requests before stopping dbc

Łukasz Bartosik ukaszb@chromium.org xhci: dbctty: disable ECHO flag by default

Oleksij Rempel linux@rempel-privat.de net: usb: lan78xx: fix WARN in __netif_napi_del_locked on disconnect

Kurt Borja kuurtb@gmail.com platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Fix class device unregistration

Kurt Borja kuurtb@gmail.com platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix class device unregistration

Fushuai Wang wangfushuai@baidu.com dpaa2-eth: fix xdp_rxq_info leak

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use btrfs_record_snapshot_destroy() during rmdir

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com NFSv4/flexfiles: Fix handling of NFS level errors in I/O

Maíra Canal mcanal@igalia.com drm/v3d: Disable interrupts before resetting the GPU

Niklas Schnelle schnelle@linux.ibm.com s390/pci: Fix stale function handles in error handling

Bui Quang Minh minhquangbui99@gmail.com virtio-net: ensure the received length does not exceed allocated size

Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) urezki@gmail.com rcu: Return early if callback is not specified

Pablo Martin-Gomez pmartin-gomez@freebox.fr mtd: spinand: fix memory leak of ECC engine conf

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPICA: Refuse to evaluate a method if arguments are missing

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: ath6kl: remove WARN on bad firmware input

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com wifi: mac80211: drop invalid source address OCB frames

Justin Sanders jsanders.devel@gmail.com aoe: defer rexmit timer downdev work to workqueue

Maurizio Lombardi mlombard@redhat.com scsi: target: Fix NULL pointer dereference in core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port()

Raven Black ravenblack@gmail.com ASoC: amd: yc: update quirk data for HP Victus

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy@linux.ibm.com powerpc: Fix struct termio related ioctl macros

Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com ata: pata_cs5536: fix build on 32-bit UML

Tasos Sahanidis tasos@tasossah.com ata: libata-acpi: Do not assume 40 wire cable if no devices are enabled

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: sb: Force to disable DMAs once when DMA mode is changed

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: sb: Don't allow changing the DMA mode during operations

Rob Clark robdclark@chromium.org drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path

Rob Clark robdclark@chromium.org drm/msm: Fix a fence leak in submit error path

Wang Zhaolong wangzhaolong@huaweicloud.com smb: client: fix race condition in negotiate timeout by using more precise timing

Lion Ackermann nnamrec@gmail.com net/sched: Always pass notifications when child class becomes empty

Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com nui: Fix dma_mapping_error() check

Kohei Enju enjuk@amazon.com rose: fix dangling neighbour pointers in rose_rt_device_down()

Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com enic: fix incorrect MTU comparison in enic_change_mtu()

Raju Rangoju Raju.Rangoju@amd.com amd-xgbe: align CL37 AN sequence as per databook

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org lib: test_objagg: Set error message in check_expect_hints_stats()

Vitaly Lifshits vitaly.lifshits@intel.com igc: disable L1.2 PCI-E link substate to avoid performance issue

Junxiao Chang junxiao.chang@intel.com drm/i915/gsc: mei interrupt top half should be in irq disabled context

Janusz Krzysztofik janusz.krzysztofik@linux.intel.com drm/i915/gt: Fix timeline left held on VMA alloc error

Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com platform/mellanox: mlxreg-lc: Fix logic error in power state check

Kurt Borja kuurtb@gmail.com platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Fix WMI data block retrieval in sysfs callbacks

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org drm/i915/selftests: Change mock_request() to return error pointers

James Clark james.clark@linaro.org spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Clear completion counter before initiating transfer

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com drm/exynos: fimd: Guard display clock control with runtime PM calls

Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com ethernet: atl1: Add missing DMA mapping error checks and count errors

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix iteration of extrefs during log replay

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix missing error handling when searching for inode refs during log replay

Yang Li yang.li@amlogic.com Bluetooth: Prevent unintended pause by checking if advertising is active

Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com platform/mellanox: nvsw-sn2201: Fix bus number in adapter error message

Patrisious Haddad phaddad@nvidia.com RDMA/mlx5: Fix CC counters query for MPV

Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org scsi: ufs: core: Fix spelling of a sysfs attribute name

Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com scsi: qla4xxx: Fix missing DMA mapping error in qla4xxx_alloc_pdu()

Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix DMA mapping test in qla24xx_get_port_database()

Benjamin Coddington bcodding@redhat.com NFSv4/pNFS: Fix a race to wake on NFS_LAYOUT_DRAIN

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com nfs: Clean up /proc/net/rpc/nfs when nfs_fs_proc_net_init() fails.

Mark Zhang markzhang@nvidia.com RDMA/mlx5: Initialize obj_event->obj_sub_list before xa_insert

David Thompson davthompson@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: mlxbf-tmfifo: fix vring_desc.len assignment

Janne Grunau j@jannau.net arm64: dts: apple: t8103: Fix PCIe BCM4377 nodename

Sergey Senozhatsky senozhatsky@chromium.org mtk-sd: reset host->mrq on prepare_data() error

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org mtk-sd: Prevent memory corruption from DMA map failure

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org mtk-sd: Fix a pagefault in dma_unmap_sg() for not prepared data

RD Babiera rdbabiera@google.com usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: do not index invalid pin_assignments

Manivannan Sadhasivam mani@kernel.org regulator: gpio: Fix the out-of-bounds access to drvdata::gpiods

Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de Bluetooth: MGMT: mesh_send: check instances prior disabling advertising

Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de Bluetooth: MGMT: set_mesh: update LE scan interval and window

Christian Eggers ceggers@arri.de Bluetooth: hci_sync: revert some mesh modifications

Avri Altman avri.altman@sandisk.com mmc: core: sd: Apply BROKEN_SD_DISCARD quirk earlier

Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson@linaro.org Revert "mmc: sdhci: Disable SD card clock before changing parameters"

Victor Shih victor.shih@genesyslogic.com.tw mmc: sdhci: Add a helper function for dump register in dynamic debug mode

HarshaVardhana S A harshavardhana.sa@broadcom.com vsock/vmci: Clear the vmci transport packet properly when initializing it

Niklas Schnelle schnelle@linux.ibm.com s390/pci: Do not try re-enabling load/store if device is disabled

Mateusz Jończyk mat.jonczyk@o2.pl rtc: cmos: use spin_lock_irqsave in cmos_interrupt

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Diffstat:

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 + Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-ufs | 2 +- .../hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst | 4 +- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 13 ++ Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8103-jxxx.dtsi | 2 +- arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h | 8 +- arch/s390/pci/pci_event.c | 20 ++++ arch/x86/Kconfig | 9 ++ arch/x86/entry/entry.S | 8 +- arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h | 12 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 6 + arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h | 19 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 39 +++--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 58 +++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 14 ++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 15 ++- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/reverse_cpuid.h | 8 ++ arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S | 6 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +- drivers/acpi/acpica/dsmethod.c | 7 ++ drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c | 24 ++-- drivers/ata/pata_cs5536.c | 2 +- drivers/ata/pata_via.c | 6 +- drivers/base/cpu.c | 7 ++ drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h | 1 + drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 8 +- drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c | 5 +- drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c | 12 +- drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fimd.c | 12 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gsc.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring_submission.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_request.c | 20 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_request.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem_submit.c | 17 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_drv.h | 8 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_irq.c | 37 ++++-- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c | 1 + drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/counters.c | 2 +- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c | 2 +- drivers/mmc/core/quirks.h | 12 +- drivers/mmc/host/mtk-sd.c | 21 +++- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c | 9 +- drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h | 16 +++ drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-common.h | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c | 9 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl1.c | 79 ++++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c | 26 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 10 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.c | 31 ++++- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/niu.h | 4 + drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 2 - drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 38 +++++- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/bmi.c | 4 +- drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 3 +- drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-lc.c | 2 +- drivers/platform/mellanox/nvsw-sn2201.c | 2 +- .../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/dell-wmi-sysman.h | 5 + .../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/enum-attributes.c | 5 +- .../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/int-attributes.c | 5 +- .../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passobj-attributes.c | 5 +- .../x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/string-attributes.c | 5 +- drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c | 12 +- drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 53 ++++---- drivers/regulator/gpio-regulator.c | 8 +- drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c | 10 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mbx.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_os.c | 2 + drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c | 11 +- drivers/target/target_core_pr.c | 4 +- drivers/ufs/core/ufs-sysfs.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-ring.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.c | 4 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgtty.c | 1 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/displayport.c | 5 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 7 +- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 8 +- fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c | 121 +++++++++++++------ fs/nfs/inode.c | 17 ++- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 4 +- fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h | 1 + fs/smb/client/connect.c | 7 +- include/linux/cpu.h | 1 + include/linux/libata.h | 7 +- include/linux/usb/typec_dp.h | 1 + kernel/rcu/tree.c | 4 + lib/test_objagg.c | 4 +- net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 20 ++-- net/bluetooth/mgmt.c | 25 +++- net/mac80211/rx.c | 4 + net/rose/rose_route.c | 15 +-- net/sched/sch_api.c | 19 +-- net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c | 4 +- sound/isa/sb/sb16_main.c | 7 ++ sound/soc/amd/yc/acp6x-mach.c | 7 ++ 105 files changed, 987 insertions(+), 304 deletions(-)