This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.196 release. There are 117 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, 30 Oct 2025 09:28:07 +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-5.15.196-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

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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.15.196-rc2

Marek Vasut marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org PCI: rcar: Demote WARN() to dev_warn_ratelimited() in rcar_pcie_wakeup()

Zhengchao Shao shaozhengchao@huawei.com net: rtnetlink: fix module reference count leak issue in rtnetlink_rcv_msg

Kuen-Han Tsai khtsai@google.com usb: gadget: f_acm: Refactor bind path to use __free()

Kuen-Han Tsai khtsai@google.com usb: gadget: f_ncm: Refactor bind path to use __free()

Kuen-Han Tsai khtsai@google.com usb: gadget: Introduce free_usb_request helper

Kuen-Han Tsai khtsai@google.com usb: gadget: Store endpoint pointer in usb_request

Kaushlendra Kumar kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()

Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org xfs: always warn about deprecated mount options

Maarten Lankhorst dev@lankhorst.se devcoredump: Fix circular locking dependency with devcd->mutex.

Niklas Cassel cassel@kernel.org PCI: tegra194: Reset BARs when running in PCIe endpoint mode

Marek Vasut marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org PCI: rcar-host: Drop PMSR spinlock

Marek Vasut marek.vasut+renesas@gmail.com PCI: rcar: Finish transition to L1 state in rcar_pcie_config_access()

Vidya Sagar vidyas@nvidia.com PCI: tegra194: Handle errors in BPMP response

Jaegeuk Kim jaegeuk@kernel.org f2fs: fix wrong block mapping for multi-devices

Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com NFSD: Define a proc_layoutcommit for the FlexFiles layout type

Jan Kara jack@suse.cz vfs: Don't leak disconnected dentries on umount

Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com drm/amdgpu: use atomic functions with memory barriers for vm fault info

Marek Vasut marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org PCI: rcar-host: Convert struct rcar_msi mask_lock into raw spinlock

Muhammad Usama Anjum usama.anjum@collabora.com wifi: ath11k: HAL SRNG: don't deinitialize and re-initialize again

Siddharth Vadapalli s-vadapalli@ti.com PCI: j721e: Fix programming sequence of "strap" settings

Siddharth Vadapalli s-vadapalli@ti.com PCI: j721e: Enable ACSPCIE Refclk if "ti,syscon-acspcie-proxy-ctrl" exists

Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers

Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com fuse: allocate ff->release_args only if release is needed

Xiao Liang shaw.leon@gmail.com padata: Reset next CPU when reorder sequence wraps around

Sean Nyekjaer sean@geanix.com iio: imu: inv_icm42600: Simplify pm_runtime setup

Bence Csókás csokas.bence@prolan.hu PM: runtime: Add new devm functions

Sean Nyekjaer sean@geanix.com iio: imu: inv_icm42600: Avoid configuring if already pm_runtime suspended

David Lechner dlechner@baylibre.com iio: imu: inv_icm42600: use = { } instead of memset()

Sergey Bashirov sergeybashirov@gmail.com NFSD: Fix last write offset handling in layoutcommit

Sergey Bashirov sergeybashirov@gmail.com NFSD: Minor cleanup in layoutcommit processing

Sergey Bashirov sergeybashirov@gmail.com NFSD: Rework encoding and decoding of nfsd4_deviceid

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de xfs: fix log CRC mismatches between i386 and other architectures

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de xfs: rename the old_crc variable in xlog_recover_process

Vineeth Vijayan vneethv@linux.ibm.com s390/cio: Update purge function to unregister the unused subchannels

Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE

Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com arm64: cputype: Add Neoverse-V3AE definitions

Florian Eckert fe@dev.tdt.de serial: 8250_exar: add support for Advantech 2 port card with Device ID 0x0018

Victoria Votokina Victoria.Votokina@kaspersky.com most: usb: hdm_probe: Fix calling put_device() before device initialization

Victoria Votokina Victoria.Votokina@kaspersky.com most: usb: Fix use-after-free in hdm_disconnect

Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: me: add wildcat lake P DID

Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com comedi: fix divide-by-zero in comedi_buf_munge()

Alice Ryhl aliceryhl@google.com binder: remove "invalid inc weak" check

Mathias Nyman mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com xhci: dbc: enable back DbC in resume if it was enabled before suspend

Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl@gmail.com usb: raw-gadget: do not limit transfer length

Tim Guttzeit t.guttzeit@tuxedocomputers.com usb/core/quirks: Add Huawei ME906S to wakeup quirk

LI Qingwu Qing-wu.Li@leica-geosystems.com.cn USB: serial: option: add Telit FN920C04 ECM compositions

Reinhard Speyerer rspmn@arcor.de USB: serial: option: add Quectel RG255C

Renjun Wang renjunw0@foxmail.com USB: serial: option: add UNISOC UIS7720

Lad Prabhakar prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com net: ravb: Ensure memory write completes before ringing TX doorbell

Michal Pecio michal.pecio@gmail.com net: usb: rtl8150: Fix frame padding

Stefano Garzarella sgarzare@redhat.com vsock: fix lock inversion in vsock_assign_transport()

Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com ocfs2: clear extent cache after moving/defragmenting extents

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@orcam.me.uk MIPS: Malta: Fix keyboard resource preventing i8042 driver from registering

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Revert "cpuidle: menu: Avoid discarding useful information"

Tonghao Zhang tonghao@bamaicloud.com net: bonding: fix possible peer notify event loss or dup issue

Alexey Simakov bigalex934@gmail.com sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing

Huang Ying ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com arm64, mm: avoid always making PTE dirty in pte_mkwrite()

Ioana Ciornei ioana.ciornei@nxp.com dpaa2-eth: fix the pointer passed to PTR_ALIGN on Tx path

Wei Fang wei.fang@nxp.com net: enetc: correct the value of ENETC_RXB_TRUESIZE

Johannes Wiesböck johannes.wiesboeck@aisec.fraunhofer.de rtnetlink: Allow deleting FDB entries in user namespace

Nikolay Aleksandrov razor@blackwall.org net: rtnetlink: add NLM_F_BULK support to rtnl_fdb_del

Nikolay Aleksandrov razor@blackwall.org net: add ndo_fdb_del_bulk

Nikolay Aleksandrov razor@blackwall.org net: rtnetlink: add bulk delete support flag

Nikolay Aleksandrov razor@blackwall.org net: netlink: add NLM_F_BULK delete request modifier

Nikolay Aleksandrov razor@blackwall.org net: rtnetlink: use BIT for flag values

Nikolay Aleksandrov razor@blackwall.org net: rtnetlink: add helper to extract msg type's kind

Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org m68k: bitops: Fix find_*_bit() signatures

Yangtao Li frank.li@vivo.com hfsplus: return EIO when type of hidden directory mismatch in hfsplus_fill_super()

Viacheslav Dubeyko slava@dubeyko.com hfs: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfs_find_set_zero_bits()

Alexander Aring aahringo@redhat.com dlm: check for defined force value in dlm_lockspace_release

Viacheslav Dubeyko slava@dubeyko.com hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfsplus_delete_cat()

Yang Chenzhi yang.chenzhi@vivo.com hfs: validate record offset in hfsplus_bmap_alloc

Viacheslav Dubeyko slava@dubeyko.com hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in __hfsplus_ext_cache_extent()

Viacheslav Dubeyko slava@dubeyko.com hfs: make proper initalization of struct hfs_find_data

Viacheslav Dubeyko slava@dubeyko.com hfs: clear offset and space out of valid records in b-tree node

Simon Schuster schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com nios2: ensure that memblock.current_limit is set when setting pfn limits

Xichao Zhao zhao.xichao@vivo.com exec: Fix incorrect type for ret

Niko Mauno niko.mauno@vaisala.com Revert "perf test: Don't leak workload gopipe in PERF_RECORD_*"

Brian Norris briannorris@google.com PCI/sysfs: Ensure devices are powered for config reads (part 2)

Viacheslav Dubeyko slava@dubeyko.com hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_strcasecmp()

Jiaming Zhang r772577952@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer deference in try_to_register_card

Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org ALSA: firewire: amdtp-stream: fix enum kernel-doc warnings

Vincent Guittot vincent.guittot@linaro.org sched/fair: Fix pelt lost idle time detection

Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org sched/balancing: Rename newidle_balance() => sched_balance_newidle()

Timur Kristóf timur.kristof@gmail.com drm/amd/powerplay: Fix CIK shutdown temperature

Fabian Vogt fvogt@suse.de riscv: kprobes: Fix probe address validation

I Viswanath viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com net: usb: lan78xx: fix use of improperly initialized dev->chipid in lan78xx_reset

Oleksij Rempel linux@rempel-privat.de net: usb: lan78xx: Add error handling to lan78xx_init_mac_address

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org net: usb: use eth_hw_addr_set() instead of ether_addr_copy()

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net tls: don't rely on tx_work during send()

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net tls: always set record_type in tls_process_cmsg

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net tls: wait for async encrypt in case of error during latter iterations of sendmsg

Sascha Hauer s.hauer@pengutronix.de net: tls: wait for async completion on last message

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops

Alexey Simakov bigalex934@gmail.com tg3: prevent use of uninitialized remote_adv and local_adv variables

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com tcp: fix tcp_tso_should_defer() vs large RTT

Raju Rangoju Raju.Rangoju@amd.com amd-xgbe: Avoid spurious link down messages during interface toggle

Dmitry Safonov 0x7f454c46@gmail.com net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth

Linmao Li lilinmao@kylinos.cn r8169: fix packet truncation after S4 resume on RTL8168H/RTL8111H

Nicolas Dichtel nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com doc: fix seg6_flowlabel path

Yeounsu Moon yyyynoom@gmail.com net: dlink: handle dma_map_single() failure properly

Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: m_can: m_can_plat_remove(): add missing pm_runtime_disable()

Yuezhang Mo Yuezhang.Mo@sony.com dax: skip read lock assertion for read-only filesystems

Benjamin Tissoires bentiss@kernel.org HID: multitouch: fix sticky fingers

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com cpufreq: CPPC: Avoid using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL as transition delay

Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com crypto: rockchip - Fix dma_unmap_sg() nents value

Kaustabh Chakraborty kauschluss@disroot.org drm/exynos: exynos7_drm_decon: remove ctx->suspended

Kaustabh Chakraborty kauschluss@disroot.org drm/exynos: exynos7_drm_decon: properly clear channels during bind

Kaustabh Chakraborty kauschluss@disroot.org drm/exynos: exynos7_drm_decon: fix uninitialized crtc reference in functions

Yu Kuai yukuai3@huawei.com blk-crypto: fix missing blktrace bio split events

Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn media: lirc: Fix error handling in lirc_register()

keliu liuke94@huawei.com media: rc: Directly use ida_free()

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de media: s5p-mfc: remove an unused/uninitialized variable

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: fix clearing of BTRFS_FS_RELOC_RUNNING if relocation already running

Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com jbd2: ensure that all ongoing I/O complete before freeing blocks

Yi Cong yicong@kylinos.cn r8152: add error handling in rtl8152_driver_init

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Diffstat:

Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.rst | 2 + Documentation/networking/seg6-sysctl.rst | 3 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 2 + arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 +- arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 1 + arch/m68k/include/asm/bitops.h | 25 ++-- arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-setup.c | 2 +- arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c | 15 +++ arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 13 +- block/blk-crypto-fallback.c | 3 + drivers/android/binder.c | 11 +- drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 2 +- drivers/base/devcoredump.c | 138 +++++++++++++-------- drivers/base/power/runtime.c | 44 +++++++ drivers/comedi/comedi_buf.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 14 ++- drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c | 21 ++-- drivers/crypto/rockchip/rk3288_crypto_ahash.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v7_0.c | 7 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/gmc_v8_0.c | 7 +- .../gpu/drm/amd/pm/powerplay/hwmgr/smu7_hwmgr.c | 3 +- drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos7_drm_decon.c | 98 +++++---------- drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 27 ++-- drivers/iio/imu/inv_icm42600/inv_icm42600_accel.c | 5 +- drivers/iio/imu/inv_icm42600/inv_icm42600_core.c | 35 ++---- drivers/iio/imu/inv_icm42600/inv_icm42600_gyro.c | 5 +- drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc_cmd_v6.c | 35 ++---- drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c | 15 +-- drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 6 +- drivers/misc/mei/hw-me-regs.h | 2 + drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 2 + drivers/most/most_usb.c | 13 +- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 40 +++--- drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-mdio.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c | 23 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c | 8 ++ drivers/net/usb/aqc111.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 42 +++++-- drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 9 +- drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c | 13 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c | 6 +- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hal.c | 16 +++ drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hal.h | 1 + drivers/pci/controller/cadence/pci-j721e.c | 64 +++++++++- drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-ep.c | 1 + drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-tegra194.c | 28 ++++- drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rcar-host.c | 83 +++++++------ drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 10 +- drivers/s390/cio/device.c | 37 ++++-- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c | 11 ++ drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 2 + drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_acm.c | 42 +++---- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c | 78 +++++------- drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c | 2 - drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c | 3 + drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.c | 9 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 10 ++ fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 13 +- fs/dax.c | 2 +- fs/dcache.c | 2 + fs/dlm/lockspace.c | 2 +- fs/exec.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 8 ++ fs/f2fs/data.c | 2 +- fs/fuse/dir.c | 2 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 75 ++++++----- fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 2 +- fs/hfs/bfind.c | 8 +- fs/hfs/brec.c | 27 +++- fs/hfs/mdb.c | 2 +- fs/hfsplus/bfind.c | 8 +- fs/hfsplus/bnode.c | 41 ------ fs/hfsplus/btree.c | 6 + fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 42 +++++++ fs/hfsplus/super.c | 25 +++- fs/hfsplus/unicode.c | 24 ++++ fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 13 +- fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c | 5 +- fs/nfsd/blocklayoutxdr.c | 7 +- fs/nfsd/flexfilelayout.c | 8 ++ fs/nfsd/flexfilelayoutxdr.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4layouts.c | 1 - fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 34 +++-- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 14 +-- fs/nfsd/xdr4.h | 36 +++++- fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c | 5 + fs/splice.c | 31 ++++- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_format.h | 30 ++++- fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 8 +- fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c | 34 +++-- fs/xfs/xfs_ondisk.h | 2 + fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 33 +++-- include/linux/cpufreq.h | 3 + include/linux/fs.h | 1 + include/linux/net.h | 1 + include/linux/netdevice.h | 9 ++ include/linux/pm_runtime.h | 4 + include/linux/splice.h | 1 + include/linux/usb/gadget.h | 25 ++++ include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 15 +++ include/net/rtnetlink.h | 9 +- include/net/sock.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 1 + kernel/padata.c | 6 +- kernel/sched/fair.c | 38 +++--- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 81 ++++++++---- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 14 --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 19 ++- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 3 +- net/sctp/inqueue.c | 13 +- net/socket.c | 10 ++ net/tls/tls_main.c | 7 +- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 22 +++- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 38 +++--- sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.h | 2 +- sound/usb/card.c | 10 +- tools/perf/tests/perf-record.c | 4 - 128 files changed, 1305 insertions(+), 728 deletions(-)