This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.187 release. There are 92 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, 02 Sep 2026 13:32:19 +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-6.1.187-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 6.1.187-rc1
Miguel Peñaranda mig.penaranda07@gmail.com usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com USB: c67x00: fix use-after-free in c67x00_add_iso_urb()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: spcp8x5: drop broken carrier detect support
Jiale Yao yaojiale02@163.com USB: serial: option: fix slab OOB read in interrupt URB callback
Will Porter mrwillporter@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Complete cleanup after system-resume errors
Marouane El Moufid eun0us@espilon.net ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Strengthen error handling in hub_hub_status()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Add lock to usb_wakeup_notification()
Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix hci_conn_hash_lookup_cis
Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: vsie: zero stale crypto bits
Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com crypto: qce - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: mxs-dcp - fix source scatterlist length access
Md Sadre Alam md.alam@oss.qualcomm.com crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-tdes - use scatterlist length before DMA mapping
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation
Norbert Szetei norbert@doyensec.com net: bridge: mcast: fix use-after-free of a master VLAN's multicast context
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak
Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada manizada@pm.me xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left
Zhiling Zou roxy520tt@gmail.com xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev tls: device: fix out-of-bounds write in tls_append_frag()
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_tcm: keep port count until LUN teardown completes
Aleksandr Nogikh nogikh@google.com usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support
Baokun Li libaokun@linux.alibaba.com fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
Baokun Li libaokun@linux.alibaba.com fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
Lucas De Marchi ldemarchi@nvidia.com xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_alloc_driver() failure
Lucas De Marchi ldemarchi@nvidia.com xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_register_driver() failure
Semih Baskan strst.gs@gmail.com usb: xhci: Handle USB3 port events when there is one roothub
Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn accessibility: speakup: unregister tty ldisc on later init failures
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com fpga: dfl: fme: add error handling
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv4: igmp: Fix potential UAF in igmp_gq_start_timer()
Laxman Acharya Padhya acharyalaxman8848@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_event: validate LE Set CIG Parameters response
Pauli Virtanen pav@iki.fi Bluetooth: hci_event: fix Set CIG Parameters error status handling
Pauli Virtanen pav@iki.fi Bluetooth: ISO: use correct CIS order in Set CIG Parameters event
Luiz Augusto von Dentz luiz.von.dentz@intel.com Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix not matching by CIS ID
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix accept list UAF during suspend
Zijun Hu zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com Bluetooth: hci_sync: Use bt_dev_err() to log error message in hci_update_event_filter_sync()
Raman Varabets kernel-linux-20260610-80b7ab08@raman.v1.sg HID: ft260: fix stack-use-after-return write in I2C read race
Michael Zaidman michael.zaidman@gmail.com HID: ft260: validate i2c input report length
Michael Zaidman michael.zaidman@gmail.com HID: ft260: missed NACK from busy device
Michael Zaidman michael.zaidman@gmail.com HID: ft260: wake up device from power saving mode
Michael Zaidman michael.zaidman@gmail.com HID: ft260: skip unexpected HID input reports
Michael Zaidman michael.zaidman@gmail.com HID: ft260: improve i2c large reads performance
Michael Zaidman michael.zaidman@gmail.com HID: ft260: improve i2c write performance
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai HID: uclogic: fix use-after-free of inrange_timer on remove
Jiangshan Yi yijiangshan@kylinos.cn HID: nintendo: stop device IO before hid_hw_stop on probe failure
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai nvmet-tcp: bound SGL data length before allocating command buffers
Weiwen Hu huweiwen@linux.alibaba.com nvme: rename CDR/MORE/DNR to NVME_STATUS_*
Christopher Kodama ckhordiasma@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: re-enable multitouch after reset-resume
Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()
Andrei Fed andfed.net@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: fix battery reporting for Bluetooth Magic Trackpad USB-C
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nfc: nci: add data_len bound checks to activation parameter extractors
Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl
Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: correct return value kernel-doc descriptions for ioctl functions
Guanghui Yang 3497809730@qq.com ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay
Shardul Bankar shardul.b@mpiricsoftware.com mptcp: pm: fix memory leak from alloc-during-teardown race
Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de block: make bio_check_eod work for zero sized devices
Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com ASoC: tegra: Fix Master Volume Control
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "smb: client: use kvzalloc() for megabyte buffer in simple fallocate"
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "mtd: maps: vmu-flash: fix fault in unaligned fixup"
Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: switch two allocations to use kzalloc_objs()
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_vlan_by_tcpsk().
Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ASoC: nau8821: Cancel pending work before suspend
Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "PM: sleep: Use complete() in device_pm_sleep_init()"
Michael Neuling mikey@neuling.org riscv: Fix register corruption from uninitialized cregs on error
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev bpf: Fix use-after-free in offloaded map/prog info fill
Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ASoC: nau8821: Cancel delayed work on component remove
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_clc_prfx_match().
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in in smc_clc_prfx_set().
Oliver Upton oliver.upton@linux.dev KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init
Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Fix use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev().
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp can: j1939: make j1939_sk_bind() fail if device is no longer registered
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp can: j1939: add missing calls in NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler
Vladimir Riabchun ferr.lambarginio@gmail.com mISDN: hfcpci: Fix warning when deleting uninitialized timer
Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn media: platform: exynos4-is: Add hardware sync wait to fimc_is_hw_change_mode()
Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org exfat: fix double free in delayed_free
Dylan Wolff wolffd@comp.nus.edu.sg jfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in jfs_ioc_trim
Nick Child nnac123@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: Use kernel helpers for hex dumps
Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org jfs: add check read-only before txBeginAnon() call
Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org jfs: add check read-only before truncation in jfs_truncate_nolock()
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de bpf: Remove tst_run from lwt_seg6local_prog_ops.
Ben Skeggs bskeggs@redhat.com drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: init hpd_irq_lock for PIOR DP
Ziyang Huang hzyitc@outlook.com wifi: ath11k: Add missing hw_ops->get_ring_selector() for IPQ5018
Ralf Lici ralf@mandelbit.com Revert "usb: phy: fsl-usb: Fix use-after-free in delayed work during device removal"
Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de ipvs: reload ip header after head reallocation
Vishnu Razdan vrazdan@openai.com io_uring/io-wq: fix worker accounting when canceling creation callbacks
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org ext4: don't enable DAX on new encrypted files
Jinu Kim kimjw04271234@gmail.com KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com inet: RAW sockets using IPPROTO_RAW MUST drop incoming ICMP
Peiyang He peiyang_he@smail.nju.edu.cn RDMA/rxe: Fix OOB in free_rd_atomic_resources()
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Diffstat:
Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 4 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 6 + arch/riscv/kernel/compat_signal.c | 2 + arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +- arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 28 ++- block/blk-core.c | 2 +- drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c | 1 + drivers/base/power/main.c | 6 +- drivers/crypto/atmel-tdes.c | 5 +- drivers/crypto/mxs-dcp.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/qce/aead.c | 58 +---- drivers/crypto/qce/common.c | 55 +---- drivers/crypto/qce/common.h | 16 +- drivers/crypto/qce/regs-v5.h | 4 - drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c | 30 +-- drivers/crypto/qce/sha.h | 1 - drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c | 97 +------- drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c | 4 + drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c | 157 ++++++++++--- drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 3 + drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 63 +++++- drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c | 13 +- drivers/hid/hid-uclogic-core.c | 12 +- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 3 +- drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c | 12 +- .../platform/samsung/exynos4-is/fimc-is-regs.c | 1 + drivers/mtd/maps/vmu-flash.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 30 ++- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/hw.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 18 +- drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c | 8 +- drivers/nvme/host/fault_inject.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/host/fc.c | 8 +- drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c | 22 +- drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 46 ++-- drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c | 14 +- drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 16 +- drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd.c | 36 +-- drivers/nvme/target/io-cmd-bdev.c | 12 +- drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/passthru.c | 10 +- drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c | 10 +- drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 17 +- drivers/nvme/target/zns.c | 30 +-- drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 8 + drivers/usb/c67x00/c67x00-sched.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgtty.c | 15 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 1 + drivers/usb/phy/phy-fsl-usb.c | 1 - drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 20 +- drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c | 13 -- fs/exfat/nls.c | 1 + fs/ext4/crypto.c | 40 ++-- fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 10 +- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 + fs/fuse/dir.c | 9 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 4 +- fs/jfs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/jfs/jfs_discard.c | 3 +- fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c | 10 + fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 251 ++++++++++----------- fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 4 +- include/linux/inetdevice.h | 5 + include/linux/nvme.h | 6 +- include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h | 15 +- include/target/target_core_fabric.h | 2 + io_uring/io-wq.c | 9 +- kernel/bpf/offload.c | 10 +- mm/swapfile.c | 7 + net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c | 3 +- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 46 ++-- net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 48 +++- net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 +- net/can/j1939/j1939-priv.h | 1 + net/can/j1939/main.c | 5 + net/can/j1939/socket.c | 55 +++++ net/core/filter.c | 1 - net/ipv4/icmp.c | 14 +- net/ipv4/igmp.c | 14 +- net/ipv6/ah6.c | 29 ++- net/ipv6/icmp.c | 3 + net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 7 + net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 3 + net/mptcp/pm_userspace.c | 10 +- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 5 + net/mptcp/protocol.h | 7 +- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c | 6 +- net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 26 ++- net/smc/smc_clc.c | 67 +++--- net/smc/smc_core.c | 27 +-- net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 43 ++-- net/tls/tls_device.c | 3 +- net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 9 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +- security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 12 +- sound/soc/codecs/nau8821.c | 13 ++ sound/soc/tegra/tegra_pcm.c | 3 + sound/usb/card.c | 14 +- sound/usb/midi.c | 2 + 106 files changed, 1028 insertions(+), 808 deletions(-)