On 3/12/26 22:32, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
On 3/12/26 13:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.77 release. There are 265 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, 13 Mar 2026 20:09:29 +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-6.12.77-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
Intermittently, but significantly greater than 50% of the time, 6.12.77-rc1 fails to boot on my Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 running Debian 12 bookworm. When boot fails, the last couple lines of console output (retyped from a photo) are:
Loading, please wait... Starting systemd-udevd version 252.39-1~deb12u1
I will begin bisection shortly. I happen to have also previously compiled 6.12.76 + stable-queue as of commit 4b2b2b5cf3cd78f4de4646687a4efecbd21643af, and that shows the same boot failures. That means the following patches are *not* to blame for the problem:
[snip]
I also happen to have previously compiled 6.12.76 + stable-queue as of commit 8d45879cc803965facf8d8257f13d130508b5986, and that also shows the same boot failures, so that narrows the cause down to the following 40 patches:
drm-vmwgfx-fix-invalid-kref_put-callback-in-vmw_bo_d.patch drm-vmwgfx-return-the-correct-value-in-vmw_translate.patch drm-logicvc-fix-device-node-reference-leak-in-logicv.patch kvm-arm64-advertise-support-for-feat_sctlr2.patch kvm-arm64-hide-s1poe-from-guests-when-not-supported-.patch irqchip-sifive-plic-fix-frozen-interrupt-due-to-affi.patch scsi-lpfc-properly-set-wc-for-dpp-mapping.patch scsi-pm8001-fix-use-after-free-in-pm8001_queue_comma.patch alsa-scarlett2-fix-redeclaration-of-loop-variable.patch alsa-scarlett2-fix-dsp-filter-control-array-handling.patch alsa-usb-audio-remove-validate_rates-quirk-for-focus.patch x86-fred-correct-speculative-safety-in-fred_extint.patch sched-fair-fix-eevdf-entity-placement-bug-causing-sc.patch sched-fair-fix-lag-clamp.patch rseq-clarify-rseq-registration-rseq_size-bound-check.patch cgroup-cpuset-fix-incorrect-use-of-cpuset_update_tas.patch scsi-ufs-core-move-link-recovery-for-hibern8-exit-fa.patch alsa-usb-audio-cap-the-packet-size-pre-calculations.patch alsa-usb-audio-use-inclusive-terms.patch perf-fix-__perf_event_overflow-vs-perf_remove_from_c.patch s390-idle-fix-cpu-idle-exit-cpu-time-accounting.patch s390-vtime-fix-virtual-timer-forwarding.patch pci-endpoint-introduce-pci_epc_function_is_valid.patch pci-endpoint-introduce-pci_epc_mem_map-unmap.patch pci-dwc-endpoint-implement-the-pci_epc_ops-align_add.patch pci-dwc-ep-use-align-addr-function-for-dw_pcie_ep_ra.patch pci-dwc-ep-flush-msi-x-write-before-unmapping-its-at.patch drm-amdgpu-unlock-a-mutex-before-destroying-it.patch drm-amdgpu-replace-kzalloc-copy_from_user-with-memdu.patch drm-amdgpu-fix-locking-bugs-in-error-paths.patch alsa-pci-hda-use-snd_kcontrol_chip.patch alsa-hda-cs35l56-fix-signedness-error-in-cs35l56_hda.patch btrfs-fix-incorrect-key-offset-in-error-message-in-c.patch btrfs-fix-objectid-value-in-error-message-in-check_e.patch btrfs-fix-warning-in-scrub_verify_one_metadata.patch btrfs-print-correct-subvol-num-if-active-swapfile-pr.patch btrfs-fix-compat-mask-in-error-messages-in-btrfs_che.patch bpf-arm64-force-8-byte-alignment-for-jit-buffer-to-p.patch bpf-fix-stack-out-of-bounds-write-in-devmap.patch pci-correct-pci_cap_exp_endpoint_sizeof_v2-value.patch
I expect my next followup to be once I finish bisection.