This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.161 release. There are 72 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.1.161-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 6.1.161-rc1

Shardul Bankar shardulsb08@gmail.com bpf: test_run: Fix ctx leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp error path

Michal Rábek mrabek@redhat.com scsi: sg: Fix occasional bogus elapsed time that exceeds timeout

Alexander Stein alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com ASoC: fsl_sai: Add missing registers to cache default

Andrew Elantsev elantsew.andrew@gmail.com ASoC: amd: yc: Add quirk for Honor MagicBook X16 2025

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp can: j1939: make j1939_session_activate() fail if device is no longer registered

Sumeet Pawnikar sumeet4linux@gmail.com powercap: fix sscanf() error return value handling

Sumeet Pawnikar sumeet4linux@gmail.com powercap: fix race condition in register_control_type()

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@redhat.com bpf, test_run: Subtract size of xdp_frame from allowed metadata size

Amery Hung ameryhung@gmail.com bpf: Support specifying linear xdp packet data size for BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN

Amery Hung ameryhung@gmail.com bpf: Make variables in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp less confusing

Yonghong Song yonghong.song@linux.dev bpf: Fix an issue in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp when page size greater than 4K

Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com NFSD: Remove NFSERR_EAGAIN

Mike Snitzer snitzer@kernel.org nfs_common: factor out nfs_errtbl and nfs_stat_to_errno

Chen Hanxiao chenhx.fnst@fujitsu.com NFS: trace: show TIMEDOUT instead of 0x6e

NeilBrown neil@brown.name nfsd: provide locking for v4_end_grace

Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn ALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register()

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: ac97bus: Use guard() for mutex locks

Pedro Demarchi Gomes pedrodemargomes@gmail.com ksm: use range-walk function to jump over holes in scan_get_next_rmap_item

David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com mm/pagewalk: add walk_page_range_vma()

Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org pinctrl: qcom: lpass-lpi: mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb->head

Wei Fang wei.fang@nxp.com net: enetc: fix build warning when PAGE_SIZE is greater than 128K

Petko Manolov petkan@nucleusys.com net: usb: pegasus: fix memory leak in update_eth_regs_async()

Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix NULL deref when deactivating inactive aggregate in qfq_reset

René Rebe rene@exactco.de HID: quirks: work around VID/PID conflict for appledisplay

Mohammad Heib mheib@redhat.com net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets

Srijit Bose srijit.bose@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Fix potential data corruption with HW GRO/LRO

Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org eth: bnxt: move and rename reset helpers

Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn net: wwan: iosm: Fix memory leak in ipc_mux_deinit()

Gal Pressman gal@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: Don't print error message due to invalid module

Di Zhu zhud@hygon.cn netdev: preserve NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL across TSO updates

Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com net: sock: fix hardened usercopy panic in sock_recv_errqueue

yuan.gao yuan.gao@ucloud.cn inet: ping: Fix icmp out counting

Jerry Wu w.7erry@foxmail.com net: mscc: ocelot: Fix crash when adding interface under a lag

Alexandre Knecht knecht.alexandre@gmail.com bridge: fix C-VLAN preservation in 802.1ad vlan_tunnel egress

Alok Tiwari alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com net: marvell: prestera: fix NULL dereference on devlink_alloc() failure

Fernando Fernandez Mancera fmancera@suse.de netfilter: nf_conncount: update last_gc only when GC has been performed

Zilin Guan zilin@seu.edu.cn netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak in nf_tables_newrule()

Fernando Fernandez Mancera fmancera@suse.de netfilter: nft_synproxy: avoid possible data-race on update operation

Marek Vasut marek.vasut@mailbox.org arm64: dts: imx8mp: Fix LAN8740Ai PHY reference clock on DH electronics i.MX8M Plus DHCOM

Ian Ray ian.ray@gehealthcare.com ARM: dts: imx6q-ba16: fix RTC interrupt level

Haibo Chen haibo.chen@nxp.com arm64: dts: add off-on-delay-us for usdhc2 regulator

Xingui Yang yangxingui@huawei.com scsi: Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed"

Brian Kao powenkao@google.com scsi: ufs: core: Fix EH failure after W-LUN resume error

Wen Xiong wenxiong@linux.ibm.com scsi: ipr: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset

ChenXiaoSong chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_NO_DATA_DETECTED value

ChenXiaoSong chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_DEVICE_DOOR_OPEN value

ChenXiaoSong chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_UNABLE_TO_FREE_VM value

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com NFS: Fix up the automount fs_context to use the correct cred

Scott Mayhew smayhew@redhat.com NFSv4: ensure the open stateid seqid doesn't go backwards

Sam James sam@gentoo.org alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de ARM: 9461/1: Disable HIGHPTE on PREEMPT_RT kernels

Yang Li yang.li85200@gmail.com csky: fix csky_cmpxchg_fixup not working

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com tls: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in get_netdev_for_sock().

Sharath Chandra Vurukala quic_sharathv@quicinc.com net: Add locking to protect skb->dev access in ip_output

Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()

Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com ext4: introduce ITAIL helper

Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: make calc_target() set t->paused, not just clear it

Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: return the handler error from mon_handle_auth_done()

Tuo Li islituo@gmail.com libceph: make free_choose_arg_map() resilient to partial allocation

Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com libceph: replace overzealous BUG_ON in osdmap_apply_incremental()

ziming zhang ezrakiez@gmail.com libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds reads in handle_auth_done()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com wifi: avoid kernel-infoleak from struct iw_point

Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com gpio: rockchip: mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com drm/pl111: Fix error handling in pl111_amba_probe

Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org lib/crypto: aes: Fix missing MMU protection for AES S-box

Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: me: add nova lake point S DID

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs

Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com net: 3com: 3c59x: fix possible null dereference in vortex_probe1()

Thomas Fourier fourier.thomas@gmail.com atm: Fix dma_free_coherent() size

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h | 8 +- arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-ba16.dtsi | 2 +- .../arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-dhcom-som.dtsi | 1 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qm-mek.dts | 1 + arch/csky/mm/fault.c | 4 +- drivers/atm/he.c | 3 +- drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c | 3 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-rockchip.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/pl111_drv.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c | 9 ++ drivers/misc/mei/hw-me-regs.h | 2 + drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 87 +++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.h | 4 +- .../ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_devlink.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/port.c | 3 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot.c | 6 +- drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 2 + drivers/net/wwan/iosm/iosm_ipc_mux.c | 6 + drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-lpass-lpi.c | 2 +- drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c | 22 ++-- drivers/scsi/ipr.c | 28 ++++- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_internal.h | 14 --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 20 ++-- drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c | 40 +++++-- fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 + fs/ext4/xattr.c | 32 +----- fs/ext4/xattr.h | 10 ++ fs/nfs/Kconfig | 1 + fs/nfs/namespace.c | 5 + fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c | 70 +----------- fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c | 108 ++++-------------- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 13 ++- fs/nfs/nfs4trace.h | 1 + fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c | 4 +- fs/nfs_common/Makefile | 2 + fs/nfs_common/common.c | 66 +++++++++++ fs/nfsd/Kconfig | 1 + fs/nfsd/netns.h | 2 + fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 2 +- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 42 ++++++- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 3 +- fs/nfsd/nfsd.h | 1 - fs/nfsd/state.h | 2 +- fs/smb/client/nterr.h | 6 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +- include/linux/nfs_common.h | 16 +++ include/linux/pagewalk.h | 3 + include/net/dst.h | 12 ++ include/trace/misc/nfs.h | 3 +- include/uapi/linux/nfs.h | 1 - lib/crypto/aes.c | 4 +- mm/ksm.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++++--- mm/pagewalk.c | 20 ++++ net/bpf/test_run.c | 60 ++++++---- net/bridge/br_vlan_tunnel.c | 11 +- net/can/j1939/transport.c | 2 + net/ceph/messenger_v2.c | 2 + net/ceph/mon_client.c | 2 +- net/ceph/osd_client.c | 11 +- net/ceph/osdmap.c | 24 ++-- net/core/skbuff.c | 8 +- net/core/sock.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/arp.c | 7 +- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 16 ++- net/ipv4/ping.c | 4 +- net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 3 +- net/netfilter/nft_synproxy.c | 6 +- net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 2 +- net/tls/tls_device.c | 18 +-- net/wireless/wext-core.c | 4 + net/wireless/wext-priv.c | 4 + sound/ac97/bus.c | 32 +++--- sound/soc/amd/yc/acp6x-mach.c | 7 ++ sound/soc/fsl/fsl_sai.c | 3 + .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_adjust_tail.c | 96 ++++++++++++++-- .../bpf/prog_tests/xdp_context_test_run.c | 4 +- .../bpf/progs/test_xdp_adjust_tail_grow.c | 8 +- 84 files changed, 776 insertions(+), 423 deletions(-)