This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.12 release. There are 60 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 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:29:37 +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-6.17.12-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.17.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.17.12-rc1
Navaneeth K knavaneeth786@gmail.com staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in OnBeacon ESR IE parsing
Navaneeth K knavaneeth786@gmail.com staging: rtl8723bs: fix stack buffer overflow in OnAssocReq IE parsing
Navaneeth K knavaneeth786@gmail.com staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in rtw_get_ie() parser
Nikita Zhandarovich n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru comedi: check device's attached status in compat ioctls
Nikita Zhandarovich n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru comedi: multiq3: sanitize config options in multiq3_attach()
Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk comedi: c6xdigio: Fix invalid PNP driver unregistration
Antoniu Miclaus antoniu.miclaus@analog.com iio: adc: ad4080: fix chip identification
Zenm Chen zenmchen@gmail.com wifi: rtw88: Add USB ID 2001:3329 for D-Link AC13U rev. A1
Zenm Chen zenmchen@gmail.com wifi: rtl8xxxu: Add USB ID 2001:3328 for D-Link AN3U rev. A1
Marcos Vega marcosmola2@gmail.com platform/x86: hp-wmi: Add Omen MAX 16-ah0xx fan support and thermal profile
Krishna Chomal krishna.chomal108@gmail.com platform/x86: hp-wmi: Add Omen 16-wf1xxx fan support
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org samples: work around glibc redefining some of our defines wrong
Huacai Chen chenhuacai@kernel.org LoongArch: Mask all interrupts during kexec/kdump
Zqiang qiang.zhang@linux.dev sched_ext: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to initialize rq->scx.kick_cpus_irq_work
Naoki Ueki naoki25519@gmail.com HID: elecom: Add support for ELECOM M-XT3URBK (018F)
Srinivas Pandruvada srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com platform/x86/intel/hid: Add Nova Lake support
Zqiang qiang.zhang@linux.dev sched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq_workfn()
Antheas Kapenekakis lkml@antheas.dev platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add spurious_8042 to Xbox Ally
Antheas Kapenekakis lkml@antheas.dev platform/x86/amd: pmc: Add Lenovo Legion Go 2 to pmc quirk list
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com platform/x86: intel-uncore-freq: Add additional client processors
Jia Ston ston.jia@outlook.com platform/x86: huawei-wmi: add keys for HONOR models
April Grimoire april@aprilg.moe HID: apple: Add SONiX AK870 PRO to non_apple_keyboards quirk list
Armin Wolf W_Armin@gmx.de platform/x86: acer-wmi: Ignore backlight event
Praveen Talari praveen.talari@oss.qualcomm.com pinctrl: qcom: msm: Fix deadlock in pinmux configuration
Keith Busch kbusch@kernel.org nvme: fix admin request_queue lifetime
Edip Hazuri edip@medip.dev platform/x86: hp-wmi: mark Victus 16-r0 and 16-s0 for victus_s fan and thermal profile support
Antheas Kapenekakis lkml@antheas.dev platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add support for Van Gogh SoC
Mario Limonciello (AMD) superm1@kernel.org HID: hid-input: Extend Elan ignore battery quirk to USB
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp bfs: Reconstruct file type when loading from disk
Lauri Tirkkonen lauri@hacktheplanet.fi HID: lenovo: fixup Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Keyboard rdesc
Lushih Hsieh bruce@mail.kh.edu.tw ALSA: usb-audio: Add native DSD quirks for PureAudio DAC series
Harish Kasiviswanathan Harish.Kasiviswanathan@amd.com drm/amdkfd: Fix GPU mappings for APU after prefetch
Yiqi Sun sunyiqixm@gmail.com smb: fix invalid username check in smb3_fs_context_parse_param()
Niranjan H Y niranjan.hy@ti.com ASoC: SDCA: bug fix while parsing mipi-sdca-control-cn-list
Max Chou max.chou@realtek.com Bluetooth: btrtl: Avoid loading the config file on security chips
Baojun Xu baojun.xu@ti.com ALSA: hda/tas2781: Add new quirk for HP new projects
Adrian Barnaś abarnas@google.com arm64: Reject modules with internal alternative callbacks
Ian Forbes ian.forbes@broadcom.com drm/vmwgfx: Use kref in vmw_bo_dirty
Kaushlendra Kumar kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com ACPI: MRRM: Fix memory leaks and improve error handling
Robin Gong yibin.gong@nxp.com spi: imx: keep dma request disabled before dma transfer setup
Alvaro Gamez Machado alvaro.gamez@hazent.com spi: xilinx: increase number of retries before declaring stall
Song Liu song@kernel.org ftrace: bpf: Fix IPMODIFY + DIRECT in modify_ftrace_direct()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: kobil_sct: fix TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: belkin_sa: fix TIOCMBIS and TIOCMBIC
Biju Das biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com serial: sh-sci: Fix deadlock during RSCI FIFO overrun error
Biju Das biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com dt-bindings: serial: rsci: Drop "uart-has-rtscts: false"
Magne Bruno magne.bruno@addi-data.com serial: add support of CPCI cards
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: ftdi_sio: match on interface number for jtag
Fabio Porcedda fabio.porcedda@gmail.com USB: serial: option: move Telit 0x10c7 composition in the right place
Fabio Porcedda fabio.porcedda@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit Cinterion FE910C04 new compositions
Slark Xiao slark_xiao@163.com USB: serial: option: add Foxconn T99W760
Omar Sandoval osandov@fb.com KVM: SVM: Don't skip unrelated instruction if INT3/INTO is replaced
Nikita Zhandarovich n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru comedi: pcl818: fix null-ptr-deref in pcl818_ai_cancel()
Alexey Nepomnyashih sdl@nppct.ru ext4: add i_data_sem protection in ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock()
Giovanni Cabiddu giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup
Alexander Sverdlin alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com locking/spinlock/debug: Fix data-race in do_raw_write_lock
Qianchang Zhao pioooooooooip@gmail.com ksmbd: ipc: fix use-after-free in ipc_msg_send_request
Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com ext4: refresh inline data size before write operations
Ye Bin yebin10@huawei.com jbd2: avoid bug_on in jbd2_journal_get_create_access() when file system corrupted
Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme@gmail.com Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer
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Diffstat:
.../devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,rsci.yaml | 2 - Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 6 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h | 7 ++- arch/arm64/kernel/alternative.c | 19 +++--- arch/arm64/kernel/module.c | 9 ++- arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +++ arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 24 ++++---- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 21 +++++++ crypto/zstd.c | 7 +-- drivers/acpi/acpi_mrrm.c | 51 ++++++++++----- drivers/bluetooth/btrtl.c | 24 ++++---- drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 42 +++++++++++-- drivers/comedi/drivers/c6xdigio.c | 46 ++++++++++---- drivers/comedi/drivers/multiq3.c | 9 +++ drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c | 5 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c | 12 ++-- drivers/hid/hid-apple.c | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-elecom.c | 6 +- drivers/hid/hid-ids.h | 4 +- drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 5 +- drivers/hid/hid-lenovo.c | 17 +++++ drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c | 3 +- drivers/iio/adc/ad4080.c | 9 ++- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 3 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822cu.c | 2 + drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 3 +- drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-msm.c | 2 +- drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 4 ++ drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmc/pmc-quirks.c | 25 ++++++++ drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmc/pmc.c | 3 + drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmc/pmc.h | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c | 6 +- drivers/platform/x86/huawei-wmi.c | 4 ++ drivers/platform/x86/intel/hid.c | 1 + .../x86/intel/uncore-frequency/uncore-frequency.c | 4 ++ drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 15 +++-- drivers/spi/spi-xilinx.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c | 14 +++-- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 13 ++-- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 37 +++++++++++ drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 12 +++- drivers/usb/serial/belkin_sa.c | 28 +++++---- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 72 ++++++++-------------- drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c | 18 +++--- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 22 ++++++- fs/bfs/inode.c | 19 +++++- fs/ext4/inline.c | 14 ++++- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 19 ++++-- fs/smb/client/fs_context.c | 2 +- fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c | 7 ++- kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c | 4 +- kernel/sched/ext.c | 4 +- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 40 +++++++++--- samples/vfs/test-statx.c | 6 ++ samples/watch_queue/watch_test.c | 6 ++ sound/hda/codecs/realtek/alc269.c | 9 +++ sound/soc/sdca/sdca_functions.c | 3 +- sound/usb/quirks.c | 6 ++ 61 files changed, 564 insertions(+), 212 deletions(-)