This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.12.72-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.12.72-rc1
Danilo Krummrich dakr@kernel.org gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()
Ali Tariq alitariq45892@gmail.com wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add
Liu Song liu.song13@zte.com.cn PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously
Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org xfs: fix UAF in xchk_btree_check_block_owner
Chao Yu chao@kernel.org erofs: fix UAF issue for file-backed mounts w/ directio option
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com mptcp: fix race in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit()
Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add Telit FE990B40 modem support
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Query FW again before proceeding with login
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress
Shreyas Deodhar sdeodhar@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Allow recovery for tape devices
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory
Bitterblue Smith rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()
Edward Adam Davis eadavis@qq.com nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org crypto: omap - Allocate OMAP_CRYPTO_FORCE_COPY scatterlists correctly
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: octeontx - Fix length check to avoid truncation in ucode_load_store
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode
Zenm Chen zenmchen@gmail.com Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
Henrique Carvalho henrique.carvalho@suse.com smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()
Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org ksmbd: fix infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off reset in error paths
Henrique Carvalho henrique.carvalho@suse.com smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/base/base.h | 9 +++++ drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/base/dd.c | 2 +- drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 2 ++ drivers/bus/mhi/host/pci_generic.c | 13 +++++++ drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_main.c | 12 +++---- drivers/crypto/marvell/octeontx/otx_cptpf_ucode.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/omap-crypto.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c | 5 +++ .../crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_skcipher_algs.c | 2 -- drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c | 22 +++++++++--- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c | 4 +-- drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c | 15 +++----- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 41 +++++++++++----------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 28 +++++++++------ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 19 ++++++++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 3 +- fs/erofs/fileio.c | 7 +++- fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 4 +++ fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h | 8 ++--- fs/smb/server/server.c | 6 ++-- fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c | 3 +- fs/xfs/scrub/btree.c | 7 ++-- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 16 +++++++-- 26 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)