Merge/sound upstream 20251231 #8102

Job	Run time
Sparse check	3m 4s
GCC build arm64	2m 45s
GCC static -fanalyzer	4m 23s
GCC build arm64 allmodconfig	1m 48s
GCC build X86_64 with W=1	3m 4s
GCC build i386	17m 0s
GCC build X86_64 with W=1 allmodconfig	1m 56s
GCC build X86_64	19m 37s
Clang build x86_64	4m 54s
	58m 31s

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