Merge tag 'md-7.1-20260407' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mdraid...

Pull MD changes from Yu Kuai:

"Bug Fixes:
 - avoid a sysfs deadlock when clearing array state (Yu Kuai)
 - validate raid5 journal payloads before reading metadata (Junrui Luo)
 - fall back to the correct bitmap operations after version mismatches
   (Yu Kuai)
 - serialize overlapping writes on writemostly raid1 disks (Xiao Ni)
 - wake raid456 reshape waiters before suspend (Yu Kuai)
 - prevent retry_aligned_read() from triggering soft lockups
   (Chia-Ming Chang)

 Improvements:
 - switch raid0 strip zone and devlist allocations to kvmalloc helpers
   (Gregory Price)
 - track clean unwritten stripes for proactive RAID5 parity building
   (Yu Kuai)
 - speed up initial llbitmap sync with write_zeroes_unmap support
   (Yu Kuai)

 Cleanups:
 - remove the unused static md workqueue definition
   (Abd-Alrhman Masalkhi)"

* tag 'md-7.1-20260407' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mdraid/linux:
  md/raid5: fix soft lockup in retry_aligned_read()
  md: wake raid456 reshape waiters before suspend
  md/raid1: serialize overlap io for writemostly disk
  md/md-llbitmap: optimize initial sync with write_zeroes_unmap support
  md/md-llbitmap: add CleanUnwritten state for RAID-5 proactive parity building
  md: add fallback to correct bitmap_ops on version mismatch
  md/raid5: validate payload size before accessing journal metadata
  md: remove unused static md_wq workqueue
  md/raid0: use kvzalloc/kvfree for strip_zone and devlist allocations
  md: fix array_state=clear sysfs deadlock