[PATCH 5.15 00/75] 5.15.200-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-09T14:53:55Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.200 release.
There are 75 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, 11 Feb 2026 14:22:44 +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-5.15.200-rc1.gz
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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 5.15.200-rc1

Varun Prakash <varun@chelsio.com>
nvmet-tcp: pass iov_len instead of sg->length to bvec_set_page()

Felix Gu <ustc.gu@gmail.com>
spi: tegra: Fix a memory leak in tegra_slink_probe()

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer clearing in tegra_qspi_non_combined_seq_xfer

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer in tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer assignment in tegra_qspi_setup_transfer_one

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
spi: tegra210-quad: Move curr_xfer read inside spinlock

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
spi: tegra210-quad: Return IRQ_HANDLED when timeout already processed transfer

Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
iommu: disable SVA when CONFIG_X86 is set

Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi>
Bluetooth: hci_event: call disconnect callback before deleting conn

Max Yuan <maxyuan@google.com>
gve: Correct ethtool rx_dropped calculation

Debarghya Kundu <debarghyak@google.com>
gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing: Fix ftrace event field alignments

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush

Kang Chen <k.chen@smail.nju.edu.cn>
hfsplus: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hfsplus_uni2asc()

Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
riscv: uprobes: Add missing fence.i after building the XOL buffer

Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
ASoC: amd: fix memory leak in acp3x pdm dma ops

YunJe Shin <yjshin0438@gmail.com>
nvmet-tcp: add bounds checks in nvmet_tcp_build_pdu_iovec

Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
nvmet-tcp: don't map pages which can't come from HIGHMEM

Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
nvmet-tcp: fix regression in data_digest calculation

Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
nvmet-tcp: fix memory leak when performing a controller reset

Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
nvmet-tcp: add an helper to free the cmd buffers

Andrew Fasano <andrew.fasano@nist.gov>
netfilter: nf_tables: fix inverted genmask check in nft_map_catchall_activate()

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
hwmon: (occ) Mark occ_init_attribute() as __printf

Daniel Hodges <hodgesd@meta.com>
tipc: use kfree_sensitive() for session key material

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
macvlan: fix error recovery in macvlan_common_newlink()

Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@outlook.com>
dpaa2-switch: add bounds check for if_id in IRQ handler

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in PF setup_nic_devices() cleanup

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
net: liquidio: Initialize netdev pointer before queue setup

Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@outlook.com>
dpaa2-switch: prevent ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference when num_ifs is zero

Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com>
platform/x86: intel_telemetry: Fix PSS event register mask

Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
platform/x86: toshiba_haps: Fix memory leaks in add/remove routines

Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
wifi: mac80211: don't increment crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt twice

Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count()

Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_session_usage_count()

Veerendranath Jakkam <veerendranath.jakkam@oss.qualcomm.com>
wifi: cfg80211: Fix bitrate calculation overflow for HE rates

Dimitrios Katsaros <patcherwork@gmail.com>
ASoC: tlv320adcx140: Propagate error codes during probe

Kery Qi <qikeyu2017@gmail.com>
ASoC: davinci-evm: Fix reference leak in davinci_evm_probe

Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
wifi: mac80211: collect station statistics earlier when disconnect

Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize() during memory free

Rodrigo Lugathe da Conceição Alves <lugathe2@gmail.com>
HID: Apply quirk HID_QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL to Edifier QR30 (2d99:a101)

Chris Chiu <chris.chiu@canonical.com>
HID: quirks: Add another Chicony HP 5MP Cameras to hid_ignore_list

Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
netfilter: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY

Ruslan Krupitsa <krupitsarus@outlook.com>
ALSA: hda/realtek: add HP Laptop 15s-eq1xxx mute LED quirk

Siarhei Vishniakou <svv@google.com>
HID: playstation: Center initial joystick axes to prevent spurious events

Zhang Lixu <lixu.zhang@intel.com>
HID: intel-ish-hid: Reset enum_devices_done before enumeration

DaytonCL <artem749507@gmail.com>
HID: multitouch: add MT_QUIRK_STICKY_FINGERS to MT_CLS_VTL

ZhangGuoDong <zhangguodong@kylinos.cn>
smb/server: call ksmbd_session_rpc_close() on error path in create_smb2_pipe()

shechenglong <shechenglong@xfusion.com>
block,bfq: fix aux stat accumulation destination

Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
net: usb: sr9700: support devices with virtual driver CD

Peter Åstrand <astrand@lysator.liu.se>
wifi: wlcore: ensure skb headroom before skb_push

Moon Hee Lee <moonhee.lee.ca@gmail.com>
wifi: mac80211: ocb: skip rx_no_sta when interface is not joined

Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound

Yipeng Zou <zouyipeng@huawei.com>
timers: Fix NULL function pointer race in timer_shutdown_sync()

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Bluetooth: hci_qca: Fix the teardown problem for real

Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
timers: Provide timer_shutdown[_sync]()

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
timers: Split [try_to_]del_timer[_sync]() to prepare for shutdown mode

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
timers: Silently ignore timers with a NULL function

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Documentation: Replace del_timer/del_timer_sync()

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
timers: Rename del_timer() to timer_delete()

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
timers: Replace BUG_ON()s

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
timers: Get rid of del_singleshot_timer_sync()

Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function

Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function

Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ARM: spear: Do not use timer namespace for timer_shutdown() function

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Documentation: Remove bogus claim about del_timer_sync()

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: clamp maximum map bucket size to INT_MAX

Pimyn Girgis <pimyn@google.com>
mm/kfence: randomize the freelist on initialization

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd

Thomas Weissschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
ARM: 9468/1: fix memset64() on big-endian

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
rbd: check for EOD after exclusive lock is ensured to be held

Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com>
platform/x86: intel_telemetry: Fix swapped arrays in PSS output

Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
x86/kfence: fix booting on 32bit non-PAE systems

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Diffstat:

.../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/core-api/local_ops.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 17 +-
Documentation/timers/hrtimers.rst | 2 +-
.../translations/it_IT/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 14 +-
.../translations/zh_CN/core-api/local_ops.rst | 2 +-
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/include/asm/string.h | 5 +-
arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c | 8 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c | 10 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h | 7 +-
block/bfq-cgroup.c | 2 +-
drivers/android/binderfs.c | 8 +-
drivers/block/rbd.c | 33 +-
drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c | 10 +-
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 4 +-
drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 12 +-
drivers/clocksource/timer-sp804.c | 6 +-
drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 4 +
drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 1 +
drivers/hid/hid-playstation.c | 5 +
drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c | 2 +
drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c | 1 +
drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c | 1 +
drivers/iommu/iommu.c | 3 +
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_main.c | 39 +--
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_vf_main.c | 4 +-
.../net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-switch.c | 10 +
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_ethtool.c | 46 ++-
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c | 5 +
drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/tx.c | 5 +
drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 100 +++---
drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/debugfs.c | 4 +-
drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/pltdrv.c | 2 +-
drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_haps.c | 2 +-
drivers/spi/spi-tegra20-slink.c | 6 +-
drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c | 36 ++-
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c | 4 +-
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2usb.c | 6 +-
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 10 +-
fs/gfs2/log.c | 3 +-
fs/gfs2/super.c | 4 +
fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 2 +-
fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 8 +-
fs/hfsplus/unicode.c | 24 +-
fs/hfsplus/xattr.c | 6 +-
fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c | 5 +-
include/linux/timer.h | 17 +-
kernel/time/timer.c | 342 ++++++++++++++++-----
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +
kernel/trace/trace.h | 7 +-
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h | 14 +-
kernel/trace/trace_export.c | 21 +-
mm/kfence/core.c | 25 +-
net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 3 +
net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 +-
net/mac80211/key.c | 3 +-
net/mac80211/ocb.c | 3 +
net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 7 +-
net/netfilter/nf_log.c | 4 +-
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +-
net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c | 8 +
net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 2 +-
net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 2 +-
net/tipc/crypto.c | 4 +-
net/wireless/util.c | 8 +-
sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 +
sound/soc/amd/renoir/acp3x-pdm-dma.c | 2 +
sound/soc/codecs/tlv320adcx140.c | 3 +
sound/soc/ti/davinci-evm.c | 39 ++-
virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 44 +--
73 files changed, 746 insertions(+), 324 deletions(-)