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(-)
