This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.185 release. There are 79 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, 27 Aug 2026 13:25:02 +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-6.1.185-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 6.1.185-rc1
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_event: fix LE list UAF on reset
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com HID: hyperv: validate initial device info bounds
Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor
Jann Horn jannh@google.com HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai HID: nintendo: fix out-of-bounds read in joycon_ctlr_read_handler()
Sukrut Bellary sukrut.bellary@linux.com misc: fastrpc: Fix double free of 'buf' in error path
Oliver Hartkopp socketcan@hartkopp.net can: isotp: fix timer drain order, wakeup handling and tx_gen ordering
Oliver Hartkopp socketcan@hartkopp.net can: use skb hash instead of private variable in headroom
Donglin Lyu DongLin_Lyu@outlook.com Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR ZQC-P
Cryolitia PukNgae cryolitia.pukngae@linux.dev Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR FMB-P's internal keyboard
Eric Farman farman@linux.ibm.com s390/vfio_ccw: Free all memory if cp_init() fails
Xiang Mei (Microsoft) xmei5@asu.edu xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy()
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com HID: core: fix OOB read of field->usage in hid_set_field()
Lee Jones lee@kernel.org HID: magicmouse: Prevent out-of-bounds (OOB) read during DOUBLE_REPORT_ID
Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: do not keep a stale msc->input if no input is claimed
Qing Luo luoqing@kylinos.cn mptcp: pm: fix data race in add_addr timer callback
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: free sk if last
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR rtx: always decrease sk refcount
Dawid Wróbel me@dawidwrobel.com ASoC: codecs: lpass-tx-macro: Fix enum kcontrol accesses
Linmao Li lilinmao@kylinos.cn Input: byd - synchronize timer deletion before freeing private data
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations
Jiang HongHui jiang_hh2019@163.com nvmet-fc: fix invalid free in LS IOD error path
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer
Luxiao Xu rakukuip@gmail.com ipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2()
Yong Wang edragain@163.com ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()
Pavitra Jha jhapavitra98@gmail.com libceph: fix OOB read in decode_watchers() via missing bounds check
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ndisc: ndisc_send_redirect() cleanup
Linmao Li lilinmao@kylinos.cn nfc: nci: free destination parameters when closing a connection
Samuel Page sam@bynar.io nfc: nci: fix uninit-value in the RF discover/activated NTF handlers
Samuel Page sam@bynar.io nfc: nci: fix out-of-bounds write in nci_target_auto_activated()
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: st21nfca: validate ATR_REQ length against the received frame
Xu Rao raoxu@uniontech.com nfc: pn533: purge fragmented skbs during cleanup
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: llcp: reject PDUs shorter than the LLCP header
Muhammad Bilal meatuni001@gmail.com nfc: llcp: fix OOB read and u8 offset wrap in TLV parsers
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: llcp: bound the connect_sn TLV walk to the skb
Pengpeng Hou pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn nfc: microread: validate target discovery payload lengths
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nfc: fdp: bound the device-reported read length and fix an skb leak
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: digital: clamp SENSF_RES length to the destination buffer
Joanne Koong joannelkoong@gmail.com iomap: adjust read range correctly for non-block-aligned positions
Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org tls: handle data disappearing from under the TLS ULP
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net tls: fix lockless read of strp->msg_ready in ->poll
Junjie Cao junjie.cao@intel.com gpio: ml-ioh: use raw_spinlock_t for the register lock
Yang Wang kevinyang.wang@amd.com drm/amdgpu: check ASPM on the dGPU host link
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai xfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap
Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de xfs: don't use a xfs_log_iovec for ri_buf in log recovery
Eric Farman farman@linux.ibm.com s390/vfio_ccw: Implement a crw lock
Eric Farman farman@linux.ibm.com s390/vfio_ccw: Selectively expand io_mutex
Eric Farman farman@linux.ibm.com s390/vfio_ccw: Move cp cleanup out of not operational
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com drm/amdgpu: disallow multiple FENCE chunks in one submit
Eric Farman farman@linux.ibm.com s390/vfio_ccw: Cancel existing workqueues
Pei Xiao xiaopei01@kylinos.cn mmc: atmel-mci: Fix use-after-free in atmci_remove due to race condition
Zhiling Zou zhilinz@nebusec.ai inet: frags: publish queues before arming timer
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai packet: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/packet: convert po->pressure to an atomic flag
Luca Fresi luca.fresi@bithiatec.com serial: sc16is7xx: enable THRI before filling TX FIFO
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: use guards for simple mutex locks
Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: rename EFR mutex with generic name
Lech Perczak lech.perczak@camlingroup.com serial: sc16is7xx: convert bitmask definitions to use BIT() macro
Lech Perczak lech.perczak@camlingroup.com serial: sc16is7xx: fix copy-paste errors in EFR_SWFLOWx_BIT constants
Qihang Tang q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
Qihang Tang q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
Aditya Chillara aditya.chillara@oss.qualcomm.com perf/core: Fix group leader use-after-free after sibling detach
Yeoreum Yun yeoreum.yun@arm.com perf: Fix dangling cgroup pointer in cpuctx
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org perf: Fix cgroup state vs ERROR
Yeoreum Yun yeoreum.yun@arm.com perf/core: Fix child_total_time_enabled accounting bug at task exit
Fan Wu fanwu01@zju.edu.cn serial: amba-pl011: synchronize DMA teardown
Koichiro Den den@valinux.co.jp NTB: ntb_netdev: Preserve RX queue depth on allocation failure
Ekansh Gupta ekansh.gupta@oss.qualcomm.com misc: fastrpc: Remove buffer from list prior to unmap operation
Abel Vesa abel.vesa@linaro.org misc: fastrpc: Rework fastrpc_req_munmap
Hongling Zeng zenghongling@kylinos.cn xfs: validate attr entry pointer before field access
Guanghui Yang 3497809730@qq.com ext4: clear error before retrying inode xattr space fallback
Matthias Goergens matthias.goergens@gmail.com ext4: stop retrying saturated xattr cache entries
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT
Rik van Riel riel@surriel.com null_blk: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds when zone_size is 0 or overflows
Ian Bridges icb@fastmail.org ocfs2: fix missing metadata reservation for large xattrs
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: dummy: Check card index validity at probe
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com rndis_host: add overflow check in rndis_rx_fixup()
Ali Ahmet Memis ali@iusegentoo.com Bluetooth: RFCOMM: take rfcomm_mutex for the deferred setup accept
Steffen Persvold spersvold@gmail.com PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on 32-bit CAM systems
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c | 10 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-ml-ioh.c | 36 ++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c | 4 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 50 ++++- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 11 +- drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c | 27 ++- drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 26 +++ drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c | 7 +- drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 21 +- drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c | 23 ++- drivers/input/mouse/byd.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 64 +++--- drivers/mmc/host/atmel-mci.c | 2 + drivers/net/can/dev/skb.c | 2 - drivers/net/ntb_netdev.c | 15 +- drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 6 +- drivers/nfc/fdp/i2c.c | 27 +++ drivers/nfc/microread/microread.c | 31 ++- drivers/nfc/pn533/pn533.c | 1 + drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c | 3 + drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 5 +- drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c | 11 +- drivers/pci/ecam.c | 13 ++ drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_chp.c | 26 ++- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c | 30 ++- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c | 26 ++- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_fsm.c | 8 +- drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c | 27 +++ drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_private.h | 9 +- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 8 +- drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 222 ++++++++++---------- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 7 +- fs/iomap/buffered-io.c | 19 +- fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 18 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 14 ++ fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_attr_item.c | 24 +-- fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_item.c | 18 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c | 8 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.h | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item_recover.c | 91 +++++--- fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item_recover.c | 20 +- fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c | 43 ++-- fs/xfs/xfs_icreate_item.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.h | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c | 26 +-- fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c | 16 +- fs/xfs/xfs_refcount_item.c | 16 +- fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c | 16 +- fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h | 1 - include/linux/can/core.h | 1 + include/linux/can/skb.h | 2 - include/linux/netdevice.h | 6 +- include/linux/pci-ecam.h | 3 + include/linux/sched.h | 8 + include/net/tls.h | 3 +- kernel/events/core.c | 121 +++++------ kernel/kcov.c | 90 ++++---- lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 2 + net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c | 24 ++- net/can/af_can.c | 14 +- net/can/bcm.c | 2 - net/can/isotp.c | 320 +++++++++++++++++++++-------- net/can/j1939/socket.c | 1 - net/can/j1939/transport.c | 2 - net/can/raw.c | 7 +- net/ceph/osd_client.c | 5 +- net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 + net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 + net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 8 +- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 36 ++-- net/nfc/digital_technology.c | 2 + net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 18 +- net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 15 +- net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 10 +- net/nfc/nci/rsp.c | 1 + net/packet/af_packet.c | 79 ++++--- net/packet/internal.h | 2 +- net/tls/tls.h | 4 +- net/tls/tls_strp.c | 17 +- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 3 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 4 +- sound/drivers/dummy.c | 6 + sound/soc/codecs/lpass-tx-macro.c | 4 +- 90 files changed, 1283 insertions(+), 670 deletions(-)