This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release.
There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.12-rc1…
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.2.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 7.2.12-rc1
Richard Fitzgerald <rf(a)opensource.cirrus.com>
ASoC: cs35l56: Add DAI for SDCA OT25 stream
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke(a)toke.dk>
wifi: atk9k: Revert "wifi: ath9k: reject short WMI command responses"
Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz(a)linux.microsoft.com>
net: mana: reserve RX buffer headroom to fix forwarding performance
Dipayaan Roy <dipayanroy(a)linux.microsoft.com>
net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch
Christian Brauner <brauner(a)kernel.org>
readdir: take no inode lock on an immutable directory
Christian Brauner <brauner(a)kernel.org>
nullfs: refuse file locks
Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org>
sched_ext: Fix CPU hotplug hang when a dying CPU's tasks sit in the BPF scheduler
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka(a)redhat.com>
dm-integrity: validate the superblock on resume
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka(a)redhat.com>
dm-integrity: fix NULL pointer dereference when the 'R' flag is used
Lubos Rendek <l.rendek(a)proxmox.com>
nfsd: fix all-zero stateid in CB_OFFLOAD for async COPY
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 55 +++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_bpf.c | 8 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 60 ++++++++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c | 95 +++++++++++++---------
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c | 16 +---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.h | 1 -
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 2 +
fs/nullfs.c | 30 +++++++
fs/readdir.c | 13 ++-
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +
include/net/mana/mana.h | 14 +++-
include/sound/cs35l56.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 29 ++++++-
kernel/sched/sched.h | 5 +-
sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56-sdw.c | 9 +-
sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56.c | 54 ++++++++++++
17 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
On 15/10/2026 14:13, Jon Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:50:40 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.57 release.
>> There are 632 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, 16 Oct 2026 12:37:22 +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-6.18.57-rc…
>> or in the git tree and branch at:
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.18.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>
> Failures detected for Tegra ...
>
> Test results for stable-v6.18:
> builds: 11 pass, 0 fail
> boots: 28 pass, 0 fail
> tests: 163 pass, 1 fail
>
> Linux version: 6.18.57-rc2-gfea86ab6861e
> Boards tested: tegra20-ventana
> tegra30-cardhu-a04
> tegra124-jetson-tk1
> tegra210-p2371-2180
> tegra210-p3450-0000
> tegra186-p2771-0000
> tegra186-p3509-0000+p3636-0001
> tegra194-p2972-0000
> tegra194-p3509-0000+p3668-0000
> tegra234-p3737-0000+p3701-0000
> tegra234-p3768-0000+p3767-0005
>
> Test failures: tegra194-p2972-0000: boot.py
This is the same kernel warning reported by Peter Schneider.
WARNING KERN Driver 'ufs_device_wlun' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Jon
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