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<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.16-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2025-07-20T16:03:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
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<published>2025-07-20T16:03:41+00:00</published>
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Pull char / misc / IIO fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are some char/misc/iio and other driver fixes for 6.16-rc7.
  Included in here are:

   - IIO driver fixes for reported problems

   - Interconnect driver fixes for reported problems

   - nvmem driver fixes

   - bunch of comedi driver fixes for long-term bugs

   - Kconfig dependancy fixes for mux drivers

   - other small driver fixes for reported problems.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.16-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (35 commits)
  nvmem: layouts: u-boot-env: remove crc32 endianness conversion
  misc: amd-sbi: Explicitly clear in/out arg "mb_in_out"
  misc: amd-sbi: Address copy_to/from_user() warning reported in smatch
  misc: amd-sbi: Address potential integer overflow issue reported in smatch
  comedi: comedi_test: Fix possible deletion of uninitialized timers
  comedi: Fix initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice
  comedi: Fix use of uninitialized data in insn_rw_emulate_bits()
  comedi: das6402: Fix bit shift out of bounds
  comedi: aio_iiro_16: Fix bit shift out of bounds
  comedi: pcl812: Fix bit shift out of bounds
  comedi: das16m1: Fix bit shift out of bounds
  comedi: Fix some signed shift left operations
  comedi: Fail COMEDI_INSNLIST ioctl if n_insns is too large
  nvmem: imx-ocotp: fix MAC address byte length
  MAINTAINERS: add miscdevice Rust abstractions
  mux: mmio: Fix missing CONFIG_REGMAP_MMIO
  iio: dac: ad3530r: Fix incorrect masking for channels 4-7 in powerdown mode
  iio: adc: ad7380: fix adi,gain-milli property parsing
  iio: adc: ad7949: use spi_is_bpw_supported()
  iio: accel: fxls8962af: Fix use after free in fxls8962af_fifo_flush
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc7.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-19T15:47:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-19T15:47:59+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix a memory leak in fcntl_dirnotify()

 - Raise SB_I_NOEXEC on secrement superblock instead of messing with
   flags on the mount

 - Add fsdevel and block mailing lists to uio entry. We had a few
   instances were very questionable stuff was added without either block
   or the VFS being aware of it

 - Fix netfs copy-to-cache so that it performs collection with
   ceph+fscache

 - Fix netfs race between cache write completion and ALL_QUEUED being
   set

 - Verify the inode mode when loading entries from disk in isofs

 - Avoid state_lock in iomap_set_range_uptodate()

 - Fix PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP check in PIDFD_GET_INFO ioctl

 - Fix the incorrect return value in __cachefiles_write()

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc7.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  MAINTAINERS: add block and fsdevel lists to iov_iter
  netfs: Fix race between cache write completion and ALL_QUEUED being set
  netfs: Fix copy-to-cache so that it performs collection with ceph+fscache
  fix a leak in fcntl_dirnotify()
  iomap: avoid unnecessary ifs_set_range_uptodate() with locks
  isofs: Verify inode mode when loading from disk
  cachefiles: Fix the incorrect return value in __cachefiles_write()
  secretmem: use SB_I_NOEXEC
  coredump: fix PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP ioctl check
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'phy-fix-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/phy/linux-phy</title>
<updated>2025-07-18T17:54:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-18T17:54:23+00:00</published>
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Pull phy fixes from Vinod Koul:
 "Core:

   - use per-PHY lockdep keys, in order to fix a phy using internal phys

 Drivers:

   - tegra:
       - fixes for unbalanced regulator
       - decouple pad calibration fix
       - disable periodic updates

   - qualcomm:
       - error code fix for driver probe"

* tag 'phy-fix-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/phy/linux-phy:
  phy: qcom: fix error code in snps_eusb2_hsphy_probe()
  phy: use per-PHY lockdep keys
  phy: tegra: xusb: Fix unbalanced regulator disable in UTMI PHY mode
  phy: tegra: xusb: Disable periodic tracking on Tegra234
  phy: tegra: xusb: Decouple CYA_TRK_CODE_UPDATE_ON_IDLE from trk_hw_mode
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-6.16-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T17:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T17:04:04+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Including fixes from Bluetooth, CAN, WiFi and Netfilter.

  More code here than I would have liked. That said, better now than
  next week. Nothing particularly scary stands out. The improvement to
  the OpenVPN input validation is a bit large but better get them in
  before the code makes it to a final release. Some of the changes we
  got from sub-trees could have been split better between the fix and
  -next refactoring, IMHO, that has been communicated.

  We have one known regression in a TI AM65 board not getting link. The
  investigation is going a bit slow, a number of people are on vacation.
  We'll try to wrap it up, but don't think it should hold up the
  release.

  Current release - fix to a fix:

   - Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix attempting to adjust outgoing MTU, it broke
     some headphones and speakers

  Current release - regressions:

   - wifi: ath12k: fix packets received in WBM error ring with REO LUT
     enabled, fix Rx performance regression

   - wifi: iwlwifi:
       - fix crash due to a botched indexing conversion
       - mask reserved bits in chan_state_active_bitmap, avoid FW assert()

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - nf_conntrack: fix crash due to removal of uninitialised entry

   - eth: airoha: fix potential UaF in airoha_npu_get()

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - net: fix segmentation after TCP/UDP fraglist GRO

   - af_packet: fix the SO_SNDTIMEO constraint not taking effect and a
     potential soft lockup waiting for a completion

   - rpl: fix UaF in rpl_do_srh_inline() for sneaky skb geometry

   - virtio-net: fix recursive rtnl_lock() during probe()

   - eth: stmmac: populate entire system_counterval_t in get_time_fn()

   - eth: libwx: fix a number of crashes in the driver Rx path

   - hv_netvsc: prevent IPv6 addrconf after IFF_SLAVE lost that meaning

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - mptcp: fix races in handling connection fallback to pure TCP

   - rxrpc: assorted error handling and race fixes

   - sched: another batch of "security" fixes for qdiscs (QFQ, HTB)

   - tls: always refresh the queue when reading sock, avoid UaF

   - phy: don't register LEDs for genphy, avoid deadlock

   - Bluetooth: btintel: check if controller is ISO capable on
     btintel_classify_pkt_type(), work around FW returning incorrect
     capabilities

  Misc:

   - make OpenVPN Netlink input checking more strict before it makes it
     to a final release

   - wifi: cfg80211: remove scan request n_channels __counted_by, it's
     only yielding false positives"

* tag 'net-6.16-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (66 commits)
  rxrpc: Fix to use conn aborts for conn-wide failures
  rxrpc: Fix transmission of an abort in response to an abort
  rxrpc: Fix notification vs call-release vs recvmsg
  rxrpc: Fix recv-recv race of completed call
  rxrpc: Fix irq-disabled in local_bh_enable()
  selftests/tc-testing: Test htb_dequeue_tree with deactivation and row emptying
  net/sched: Return NULL when htb_lookup_leaf encounters an empty rbtree
  net: bridge: Do not offload IGMP/MLD messages
  selftests: Add test cases for vlan_filter modification during runtime
  net: vlan: fix VLAN 0 refcount imbalance of toggling filtering during runtime
  tls: always refresh the queue when reading sock
  virtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe()
  net/mlx5: Update the list of the PCI supported devices
  hv_netvsc: Set VF priv_flags to IFF_NO_ADDRCONF before open to prevent IPv6 addrconf
  phonet/pep: Move call to pn_skb_get_dst_sockaddr() earlier in pep_sock_accept()
  Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix attempting to adjust outgoing MTU
  netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix crash due to removal of uninitialised entry
  net: fix segmentation after TCP/UDP fraglist GRO
  ipv6: mcast: Delay put pmc-&gt;idev in mld_del_delrec()
  net: airoha: fix potential use-after-free in airoha_npu_get()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'for-net-2025-07-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T14:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T14:54:48+00:00</published>
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Luiz Augusto von Dentz says:

====================
bluetooth pull request for net:

 - hci_sync: fix connectable extended advertising when using static random address
 - hci_core: fix typos in macros
 - hci_core: add missing braces when using macro parameters
 - hci_core: replace 'quirks' integer by 'quirk_flags' bitmap
 - SMP: If an unallowed command is received consider it a failure
 - SMP: Fix using HCI_ERROR_REMOTE_USER_TERM on timeout
 - L2CAP: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb()
 - L2CAP: Fix attempting to adjust outgoing MTU
 - btintel: Check if controller is ISO capable on btintel_classify_pkt_type
 - btusb: QCA: Fix downloading wrong NVM for WCN6855 GF variant without board ID

* tag 'for-net-2025-07-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth:
  Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix attempting to adjust outgoing MTU
  Bluetooth: btusb: QCA: Fix downloading wrong NVM for WCN6855 GF variant without board ID
  Bluetooth: hci_dev: replace 'quirks' integer by 'quirk_flags' bitmap
  Bluetooth: hci_core: add missing braces when using macro parameters
  Bluetooth: hci_core: fix typos in macros
  Bluetooth: SMP: Fix using HCI_ERROR_REMOTE_USER_TERM on timeout
  Bluetooth: SMP: If an unallowed command is received consider it a failure
  Bluetooth: btintel: Check if controller is ISO capable on btintel_classify_pkt_type
  Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix connectable extended advertising when using static random address
  Bluetooth: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb()
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717142849.537425-1-luiz.dentz@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>rxrpc: Fix notification vs call-release vs recvmsg</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T14:50:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T07:43:43+00:00</published>
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When a call is released, rxrpc takes the spinlock and removes it from
-&gt;recvmsg_q in an effort to prevent racing recvmsg() invocations from
seeing the same call.  Now, rxrpc_recvmsg() only takes the spinlock when
actually removing a call from the queue; it doesn't, however, take it in
the lead up to that when it checks to see if the queue is empty.  It *does*
hold the socket lock, which prevents a recvmsg/recvmsg race - but this
doesn't prevent sendmsg from ending the call because sendmsg() drops the
socket lock and relies on the call-&gt;user_mutex.

Fix this by firstly removing the bit in rxrpc_release_call() that dequeues
the released call and, instead, rely on recvmsg() to simply discard
released calls (done in a preceding fix).

Secondly, rxrpc_notify_socket() is abandoned if the call is already marked
as released rather than trying to be clever by setting both pointers in
call-&gt;recvmsg_link to NULL to trick list_empty().  This isn't perfect and
can still race, resulting in a released call on the queue, but recvmsg()
will now clean that up.

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman &lt;jaltman@auristor.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: Junvyyang, Tencent Zhuque Lab &lt;zhuque@tencent.com&gt;
cc: LePremierHomme &lt;kwqcheii@proton.me&gt;
cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717074350.3767366-4-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>rxrpc: Fix recv-recv race of completed call</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T14:50:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T07:43:42+00:00</published>
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If a call receives an event (such as incoming data), the call gets placed
on the socket's queue and a thread in recvmsg can be awakened to go and
process it.  Once the thread has picked up the call off of the queue,
further events will cause it to be requeued, and once the socket lock is
dropped (recvmsg uses call-&gt;user_mutex to allow the socket to be used in
parallel), a second thread can come in and its recvmsg can pop the call off
the socket queue again.

In such a case, the first thread will be receiving stuff from the call and
the second thread will be blocked on call-&gt;user_mutex.  The first thread
can, at this point, process both the event that it picked call for and the
event that the second thread picked the call for and may see the call
terminate - in which case the call will be "released", decoupling the call
from the user call ID assigned to it (RXRPC_USER_CALL_ID in the control
message).

The first thread will return okay, but then the second thread will wake up
holding the user_mutex and, if it sees that the call has been released by
the first thread, it will BUG thusly:

	kernel BUG at net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:474!

Fix this by just dequeuing the call and ignoring it if it is seen to be
already released.  We can't tell userspace about it anyway as the user call
ID has become stale.

Fixes: 248f219cb8bc ("rxrpc: Rewrite the data and ack handling code")
Reported-by: Junvyyang, Tencent Zhuque Lab &lt;zhuque@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman &lt;jaltman@auristor.com&gt;
cc: LePremierHomme &lt;kwqcheii@proton.me&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717074350.3767366-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'wireless-2025-07-17' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T12:52:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Abeni</name>
<email>pabeni@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T12:52:41+00:00</published>
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Johannes Berg says:

====================
Couple of fixes:
 - ath12k performance regression from -rc1
 - cfg80211 counted_by() removal for scan request
   as it doesn't match usage and keeps complaining
 - iwlwifi crash with certain older devices
 - iwlwifi missing an error path unlock
 - iwlwifi compatibility with certain BIOS updates

* tag 'wireless-2025-07-17' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless:
  wifi: iwlwifi: Fix botched indexing conversion
  wifi: cfg80211: remove scan request n_channels counted_by
  wifi: ath12k: Fix packets received in WBM error ring with REO LUT enabled
  wifi: iwlwifi: mask reserved bits in chan_state_active_bitmap
  wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix locking on invalid TOP reset
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250717091831.18787-5-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix crash due to removal of uninitialised entry</title>
<updated>2025-07-17T09:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-16T18:39:14+00:00</published>
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A crash in conntrack was reported while trying to unlink the conntrack
entry from the hash bucket list:
    [exception RIP: __nf_ct_delete_from_lists+172]
    [..]
 #7 [ff539b5a2b043aa0] nf_ct_delete at ffffffffc124d421 [nf_conntrack]
 #8 [ff539b5a2b043ad0] nf_ct_gc_expired at ffffffffc124d999 [nf_conntrack]
 #9 [ff539b5a2b043ae0] __nf_conntrack_find_get at ffffffffc124efbc [nf_conntrack]
    [..]

The nf_conn struct is marked as allocated from slab but appears to be in
a partially initialised state:

 ct hlist pointer is garbage; looks like the ct hash value
 (hence crash).
 ct-&gt;status is equal to IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING, which is expected
 ct-&gt;timeout is 30000 (=30s), which is unexpected.

Everything else looks like normal udp conntrack entry.  If we ignore
ct-&gt;status and pretend its 0, the entry matches those that are newly
allocated but not yet inserted into the hash:
  - ct hlist pointers are overloaded and store/cache the raw tuple hash
  - ct-&gt;timeout matches the relative time expected for a new udp flow
    rather than the absolute 'jiffies' value.

If it were not for the presence of IPS_CONFIRMED,
__nf_conntrack_find_get() would have skipped the entry.

Theory is that we did hit following race:

cpu x 			cpu y			cpu z
 found entry E		found entry E
 E is expired		&lt;preemption&gt;
 nf_ct_delete()
 return E to rcu slab
					init_conntrack
					E is re-inited,
					ct-&gt;status set to 0
					reply tuplehash hnnode.pprev
					stores hash value.

cpu y found E right before it was deleted on cpu x.
E is now re-inited on cpu z.  cpu y was preempted before
checking for expiry and/or confirm bit.

					-&gt;refcnt set to 1
					E now owned by skb
					-&gt;timeout set to 30000

If cpu y were to resume now, it would observe E as
expired but would skip E due to missing CONFIRMED bit.

					nf_conntrack_confirm gets called
					sets: ct-&gt;status |= CONFIRMED
					This is wrong: E is not yet added
					to hashtable.

cpu y resumes, it observes E as expired but CONFIRMED:
			&lt;resumes&gt;
			nf_ct_expired()
			 -&gt; yes (ct-&gt;timeout is 30s)
			confirmed bit set.

cpu y will try to delete E from the hashtable:
			nf_ct_delete() -&gt; set DYING bit
			__nf_ct_delete_from_lists

Even this scenario doesn't guarantee a crash:
cpu z still holds the table bucket lock(s) so y blocks:

			wait for spinlock held by z

					CONFIRMED is set but there is no
					guarantee ct will be added to hash:
					"chaintoolong" or "clash resolution"
					logic both skip the insert step.
					reply hnnode.pprev still stores the
					hash value.

					unlocks spinlock
					return NF_DROP
			&lt;unblocks, then
			 crashes on hlist_nulls_del_rcu pprev&gt;

In case CPU z does insert the entry into the hashtable, cpu y will unlink
E again right away but no crash occurs.

Without 'cpu y' race, 'garbage' hlist is of no consequence:
ct refcnt remains at 1, eventually skb will be free'd and E gets
destroyed via: nf_conntrack_put -&gt; nf_conntrack_destroy -&gt; nf_ct_destroy.

To resolve this, move the IPS_CONFIRMED assignment after the table
insertion but before the unlock.

Pablo points out that the confirm-bit-store could be reordered to happen
before hlist add resp. the timeout fixup, so switch to set_bit and
before_atomic memory barrier to prevent this.

It doesn't matter if other CPUs can observe a newly inserted entry right
before the CONFIRMED bit was set:

Such event cannot be distinguished from above "E is the old incarnation"
case: the entry will be skipped.

Also change nf_ct_should_gc() to first check the confirmed bit.

The gc sequence is:
 1. Check if entry has expired, if not skip to next entry
 2. Obtain a reference to the expired entry.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1.

nf_ct_should_gc() is thus called only for entries that already failed an
expiry check. After this patch, once the confirmed bit check passes
ct-&gt;timeout has been altered to reflect the absolute 'best before' date
instead of a relative time.  Step 3 will therefore not remove the entry.

Without this change to nf_ct_should_gc() we could still get this sequence:

 1. Check if entry has expired.
 2. Obtain a reference.
 3. Call nf_ct_should_gc() to double-check step 1:
    4 - entry is still observed as expired
    5 - meanwhile, ct-&gt;timeout is corrected to absolute value on other CPU
      and confirm bit gets set
    6 - confirm bit is seen
    7 - valid entry is removed again

First do check 6), then 4) so the gc expiry check always picks up either
confirmed bit unset (entry gets skipped) or expiry re-check failure for
re-inited conntrack objects.

This change cannot be backported to releases before 5.19. Without
commit 8a75a2c17410 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove unconfirmed list")
|= IPS_CONFIRMED line cannot be moved without further changes.

Cc: Razvan Cojocaru &lt;rzvncj@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20250627142758.25664-1-fw@strlen.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/4239da15-83ff-4ca4-939d-faef283471bb@gmail.com/
Fixes: 1397af5bfd7d ("netfilter: conntrack: remove the percpu dying list")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Bluetooth: hci_dev: replace 'quirks' integer by 'quirk_flags' bitmap</title>
<updated>2025-07-16T19:37:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Eggers</name>
<email>ceggers@arri.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-14T20:27:45+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:6851a0c228fc040dce8e4c393004209e7372e0a3</id>
<content type='text'>
The 'quirks' member already ran out of bits on some platforms some time
ago. Replace the integer member by a bitmap in order to have enough bits
in future. Replace raw bit operations by accessor macros.

Fixes: ff26b2dd6568 ("Bluetooth: Add quirk for broken READ_VOICE_SETTING")
Fixes: 127881334eaa ("Bluetooth: Add quirk for broken READ_PAGE_SCAN_TYPE")
Suggested-by: Pauli Virtanen &lt;pav@iki.fi&gt;
Tested-by: Ivan Pravdin &lt;ipravdin.official@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kiran K &lt;kiran.k@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers &lt;ceggers@arri.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz &lt;luiz.von.dentz@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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