This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
There are 40 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 Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-rc…
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 6.12.57-rc1
Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx(a)gmail.com>
sfc: fix NULL dereferences in ef100_process_design_param()
Xiaogang Chen <xiaogang.chen(a)amd.com>
udmabuf: fix a buf size overflow issue during udmabuf creation
Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi(a)quicinc.com>
wifi: ath12k: fix read pointer after free in ath12k_mac_assign_vif_to_vdev()
Kees Bakker <kees(a)ijzerbout.nl>
iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE
William Breathitt Gray <wbg(a)kernel.org>
gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei(a)nxp.com>
gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter
Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand(a)bootlin.com>
gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent(a)wanadoo.fr>
bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent(a)wanadoo.fr>
bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives
Wang Liang <wangliang74(a)huawei.com>
bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin(a)gmail.com>
bonding: return detailed error when loading native XDP fails
Alexander Wetzel <Alexander(a)wetzel-home.de>
wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()
Chao Yu <chao(a)kernel.org>
f2fs: fix to avoid panic once fallocation fails for pinfile
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe(a)kernel.org>
mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe(a)kernel.org>
selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported
Geliang Tang <geliang(a)kernel.org>
selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests
Jonathan Corbet <corbet(a)lwn.net>
docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString()
Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong(a)gmail.com>
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org>
sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
Qu Wenruo <wqu(a)suse.com>
btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checks
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixup
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum(a)linux.dev>
btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()
Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota(a)wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection
Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn(a)wdc.com>
btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callback
Filipe Manana <fdmanana(a)suse.com>
btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log tree
Chen Ridong <chenridong(a)huawei.com>
cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition
Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik(a)amd.com>
EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16
David Kaplan <david.kaplan(a)amd.com>
x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline
David Kaplan <david.kaplan(a)amd.com>
x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status
Jiri Olsa <jolsa(a)kernel.org>
seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe(a)kernel.org>
perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe(a)kernel.org>
perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org>
perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi(a)linux.intel.com>
perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com>
audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
Xiang Mei <xmei5(a)asu.edu>
net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue
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Diffstat:
Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py | 4 +-
Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py | 4 +-
Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py | 6 ++-
Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 4 +-
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/csky/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/hexagon/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/loongarch/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/m68k/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/microblaze/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/nios2/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/sh/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/sparc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 +
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 10 ++--
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 6 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 9 ++--
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 2 +-
arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c | 2 +-
drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 24 ++++++++++
drivers/gpio/gpio-idio-16.c | 5 ++
drivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++--
drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 7 +--
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 +++--
drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 3 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c | 6 +--
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c | 47 ++++++++----------
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 6 +--
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 6 ++-
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 7 +--
fs/btrfs/scrub.c | 3 +-
fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 37 ++++++++++++++
fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++------
fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 8 ++--
fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 9 ++--
fs/f2fs/file.c | 8 ++--
fs/f2fs/segment.c | 20 ++++----
include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
include/linux/bitops.h | 1 -
include/linux/bits.h | 38 ++++++++++++++-
include/linux/gpio/regmap.h | 16 +++++++
include/net/bonding.h | 1 +
include/net/pkt_sched.h | 25 +++++++++-
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 6 +--
kernel/events/callchain.c | 16 +++----
kernel/events/core.c | 7 +--
kernel/seccomp.c | 32 ++++++++++---
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 6 +++
net/sched/sch_api.c | 10 ----
net/sched/sch_hfsc.c | 16 -------
net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 2 +-
net/wireless/reg.c | 4 ++
tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c | 18 ++++++-
tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh | 3 +-
67 files changed, 442 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)
Total jobs: 156
Total errors: 62 (39.74%)
LAVA errors: 0 (0.00%)
Test errors: 57 (36.54%)
Job errors: 2 (1.28%)
Infra errors: 3 (1.92%)
Canceled jobs: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: dragonboard-845c
Total jobs: 111
Total errors: 43 (38.74%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 43 (38.74%)
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[a6622a22]'
Count: 8 (7.21%)
IDs:
db845c-09:
8527607 8527741 8527787 8527925 8527948
8528137 8528249 8528276
Error: Device NOT found!
Count: 4 (3.60%)
IDs:
db845c-04:
8527769 8527975
db845c-06:
8527916
db845c-09:
8528275
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[d966d3f5]'
Count: 3 (2.70%)
IDs:
db845c-03:
8526240 8527892 8528259
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[30e1e2ee]'
Count: 5 (4.50%)
IDs:
db845c-08:
8527725 8527818 8527825 8527946 8528255
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[e875976d]'
Count: 5 (4.50%)
IDs:
db845c-06:
8527396 8527692 8527806 8527974 8528254
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'Device NOT found after DUT booted up! adb wait-for-device timed out after 300s'
Count: 13 (11.71%)
IDs:
db845c-04:
8527855 8527904
db845c-06:
8527729 8527771 8527782 8527991 8528250
db845c-09:
8527732 8527851 8527891 8527894 8527953
8528030
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[476f370a]'
Count: 2 (1.80%)
IDs:
db845c-10:
8527921 8528009
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[f3a58ae3]'
Count: 3 (2.70%)
IDs:
db845c-04:
8527704 8527907 8527984
Device type: qrb5165-rb5
Total jobs: 34
Total errors: 12 (35.29%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 7 (20.59%)
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[74d67c95]'
Count: 1 (2.94%)
IDs:
rb5-03:
8528253
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[93dcfd96]'
Count: 1 (2.94%)
IDs:
rb5-01:
8528051
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'Device NOT found after DUT booted up! adb wait-for-device timed out after 300s'
Count: 4 (11.76%)
IDs:
rb5-07:
8527913 8527914 8527927 8528045
Error: Device NOT found!
Count: 1 (2.94%)
IDs:
rb5-07:
8527910
Error type: Job
Error count: 2 (5.88%)
Error: No match for error type 'Job', message 'login-action timed out after 846 seconds'
Count: 1 (2.94%)
IDs:
rb5-03:
8528252
Error: No match for error type 'Job', message 'login-action timed out after 875 seconds'
Count: 1 (2.94%)
IDs:
rb5-03:
8527915
Error type: Infrastructure
Error count: 3 (8.82%)
Error: Connection closed
Count: 3 (8.82%)
IDs:
rb5-01:
8527897 8527930 8528178
Device type: sm8550-hdk
Total jobs: 5
Total errors: 1 (20.00%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 1 (20.00%)
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'Device NOT found after DUT booted up! adb wait-for-device timed out after 300s'
Count: 1 (20.00%)
IDs:
sm8550-hdk-01:
8528130
Device type: hi6220-hikey-r2
Total jobs: 6
Total errors: 6 (100.00%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 6 (100.00%)
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'The network seems not available, as the ping command failed'
Count: 2 (33.33%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-01:
8527973
hikey-6220-r2-05:
8527923
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[4595FE84003F72FC]'
Count: 1 (16.67%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-04:
8527939
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[8D6E5F00030E051]'
Count: 2 (33.33%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-02:
8527824 8527924
Error: No match for error type 'Test', message 'tradefed - adb device lost[235D989C003B0752]'
Count: 1 (16.67%)
IDs:
hikey-6220-r2-03:
8527821