This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.3 release. There are 71 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 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:32:19 +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-7.2.3-rc1.g... 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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 7.2.3-rc1
Miguel Peñaranda mig.penaranda07@gmail.com usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
Devin Wittmayer lucid_duck@justthetip.ca wifi: mt76: mt7925: ensure tx headroom in usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com USB: c67x00: fix use-after-free in c67x00_add_iso_urb()
Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: spcp8x5: drop broken carrier detect support
Jiale Yao yaojiale02@163.com USB: serial: option: fix slab OOB read in interrupt URB callback
Will Porter mrwillporter@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Complete cleanup after system-resume errors
Marouane El Moufid eun0us@espilon.net ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()
Trevor Vorhees vorhees-work@proton.me ALSA: usb-audio: Fix sample rates for PreSonus AudioBox USB
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Strengthen error handling in hub_hub_status()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Add lock to usb_wakeup_notification()
Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: vsie: zero stale crypto bits
Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com crypto: qce - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: mxs-dcp - fix source scatterlist length access
Giovanni Cabiddu giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com crypto: iaa - fall back to software for multi-entry scatterlists
Md Sadre Alam md.alam@oss.qualcomm.com crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation
Jan Sebastian Götte linux@jaseg.de crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-tdes - use scatterlist length before DMA mapping
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: sun8i-ss - Remove crypto_rng interface
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: sun8i-ce - Remove crypto_rng interface
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: qcom-rng - Allow zero as a random number
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: qcom-rng - Remove crypto_rng interface
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: qcom-rng - Enable clock in hwrng case
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org kunit: irq: Continue increasing hrtimer interval for longer
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files
Fourie Zhang littleddfu@gmail.com netfilter: nf_tables: don't queue packet path object notifications
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: add missing vzeroupper
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com net/packet: defer vmalloc TX_RING free until skbs finish
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com vlan: fix skb_under_panic and races when toggling HW VLAN offload
Norbert Szetei norbert@doyensec.com net: bridge: mcast: fix use-after-free of a master VLAN's multicast context
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai xfrm: bound nat keepalive state collection
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak
Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada manizada@pm.me xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left
Zihan Xi xizh2024@lzu.edu.cn xfrm: avoid lock inversion in nat keepalive work
Zhiling Zou roxy520tt@gmail.com xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device
Yong Wang edragain@163.com tcp: clamp route advmss to TCP_MIN_MSS
Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev net: advertise TCP MSS from the configured MTU, not the learned PMTU
Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com net/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of current_key on reconnect to another peer
Qing Ming a0yami@mailbox.org tcp: fix AO info use-after-free in tcp_ao_connect_init()
Rastislav Szabo rastislav.szabo@isovalent.com net/tcp: fix TCP-AO key deletion in VRFs
Qing Ming a0yami@mailbox.org gtp: serialize PDP context updates
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev tls: device: fix out-of-bounds write in tls_append_frag()
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SEV: Wire up kvm_x86_ops.gmem_xxx() if and only if CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SEV: Mark vCPU RUNNABLE after AP_CREATE, even if VMSA is unusable
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SEV: Extract loading of guest-provided VMSA to a separate helper
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SEV: Track the GPA of the guest-controlled VMSA used for SNP guests
Pankaj Gupta pankaj.gupta@amd.com KVM: SEV: Drop FOLL_WRITE for encrypted region registration
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: SEV: Allocate full pages for {DE,EN}CRYPT ops on SNP-enabled hosts
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_tcm: keep port count until LUN teardown completes
Aleksandr Nogikh nogikh@google.com usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support
Baokun Li libaokun@linux.alibaba.com fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
Baokun Li libaokun@linux.alibaba.com fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
Rochan Avlur rochan.avlur@gmail.com fuse: wait for FR_FINISHED on abort_on_kill to prevent use-after-free
Joanne Koong joannelkoong@gmail.com fuse: publish io-uring queues with release semantics
Joanne Koong joannelkoong@gmail.com fuse: fix missing barrier when checking io-uring readiness
Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com fuse: fix race between interrupt and resend
Lucas De Marchi ldemarchi@nvidia.com xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_alloc_driver() failure
Lucas De Marchi ldemarchi@nvidia.com xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_register_driver() failure
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org usb: xhci: bail out of setup if the controller is inaccessible
Semih Baskan strst.gs@gmail.com usb: xhci: Handle USB3 port events when there is one roothub
Michal Pecio michal.pecio@gmail.com usb: xhci: Handle bogus TRB pointers in Missed Service Error events
Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn accessibility: speakup: unregister tty ldisc on later init failures
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com fpga: dfl: fme: add error handling
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev selftests/bpf: Fix test_maps sockmap failure
Dmitry Bogdanov d.bogdanov@yadro.com nvme-tcp: fix usage of page_frag_cache
Peiyang He peiyang_he@smail.nju.edu.cn RDMA/rxe: Fix OOB in free_rd_atomic_resources()
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai RDMA/rxe: Fix responder UAF on IB_QP_MAX_DEST_RD_ATOMIC modify_qp
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Diffstat:
Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 4 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 99 ++++++++---- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 8 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 13 +- crypto/krb5/krb5_api.c | 8 +- drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c | 1 + drivers/crypto/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/crypto/allwinner/Kconfig | 16 -- drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/Makefile | 1 - drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-core.c | 63 -------- drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce-prng.c | 159 ------------------ drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ce/sun8i-ce.h | 29 ---- drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/Makefile | 1 - drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-core.c | 45 ------ drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-prng.c | 177 --------------------- drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss.h | 23 --- drivers/crypto/atmel-tdes.c | 5 +- drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_main.c | 111 +++++++------ drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_stats.c | 9 ++ drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_stats.h | 2 + drivers/crypto/mxs-dcp.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/qce/aead.c | 58 +------ drivers/crypto/qce/common.c | 55 ++----- drivers/crypto/qce/common.h | 16 +- drivers/crypto/qce/regs-v5.h | 4 - drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c | 30 +--- drivers/crypto/qce/sha.h | 1 - drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c | 97 +---------- drivers/crypto/qcom-rng.c | 156 +++--------------- .../crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_akcipher_algs.c | 3 +- drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c | 2 + drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 18 ++- drivers/net/gtp.c | 21 ++- drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 11 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mac.c | 4 + drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 8 + drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 8 + drivers/usb/c67x00/c67x00-sched.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgtty.c | 15 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 20 ++- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 11 +- drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 20 ++- drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c | 13 -- fs/fuse/dev.c | 41 ++--- fs/fuse/dev_uring.c | 20 +-- fs/fuse/dir.c | 9 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 4 +- include/kunit/run-in-irq-context.h | 10 +- include/linux/skbuff.h | 24 +++ include/net/ip.h | 25 +++ include/net/ip6_route.h | 37 +++++ include/net/tcp.h | 5 + include/target/target_core_fabric.h | 2 + mm/swapfile.c | 7 + net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 39 +---- net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 5 +- net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/route.c | 4 +- net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c | 19 ++- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 6 +- net/ipv6/ah6.c | 29 ++-- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 7 + net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 36 +++-- net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo_avx2.c | 17 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 96 +++++++++-- net/tls/tls_device.c | 3 +- net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 9 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c | 53 ++++-- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +- sound/usb/card.c | 14 +- sound/usb/midi.c | 2 + sound/usb/quirks-table.h | 10 ++ .../selftests/bpf/progs/sockmap_verdict_prog.c | 14 +- 83 files changed, 748 insertions(+), 1182 deletions(-)