This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.74 release. There are 42 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 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:59:50 +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-6.12.74-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 6.12.74-rc1

Fabio Porcedda fabio.porcedda@gmail.com USB: serial: option: add Telit FN920C04 RNDIS compositions

Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix IS_CHECKPOINTED flag inconsistency issue caused by concurrent atomic commit and checkpoint writes

Chao Yu chao@kernel.org f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()

Danilo Krummrich dakr@kernel.org iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: do not register driver in probe()

Chao Yu chao@kernel.org f2fs: fix to avoid mapping wrong physical block for swapfile

Yongpeng Yang yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com f2fs: fix out-of-bounds access in sysfs attribute read/write

Chao Yu chao@kernel.org f2fs: fix to check sysfs filename w/ gc_pin_file_thresh correctly

Zhiguo Niu zhiguo.niu@unisoc.com f2fs: fix to add gc count stat in f2fs_gc_range

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org fbdev: smscufx: properly copy ioctl memory to kernelspace

Guangshuo Li lgs201920130244@gmail.com fbdev: rivafb: fix divide error in nv3_arb()

Chen Ridong chenridong@huawei.com cpuset: Fix missing adaptation for cpuset_is_populated

Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net Revert "wireguard: device: enable threaded NAPI"

Tiezhu Yang yangtiezhu@loongson.cn LoongArch: Rework KASAN initialization for PTW-enabled systems

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david@kernel.org mm/hugetlb: fix excessive IPI broadcasts when unsharing PMD tables using mmu_gather

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david@kernel.org mm/hugetlb: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare()

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) david@kernel.org mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared()

Jane Chu jane.chu@oracle.com mm/hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to use ->pt_share_count

Alban Bedel alban.bedel@lht.dlh.de gpiolib: acpi: Fix gpio count with string references

Ziyi Guo n7l8m4@u.northwestern.edu ASoC: fsl_xcvr: fix missing lock in fsl_xcvr_mode_put()

Melissa Wen mwen@igalia.com drm/amd/display: remove assert around dpp_base replacement

Melissa Wen mwen@igalia.com drm/amd/display: extend delta clamping logic to CM3 LUT helper

Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com tracing/dma: Cap dma_map_sg tracepoint arrays to prevent buffer overflow

Charles Keepax ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: cs42l43: Correct handling of 3-pole jack load detection

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Fix sysfs group leak in error path

gongqi 550230171hxy@gmail.com platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add quirk for MECHREVO Wujie 15X Pro

Breno Baptista brenomb07@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable headset mic for Acer Nitro 5

Dirk Su dirk.su@canonical.com ASoC: amd: yc: Add quirk for HP 200 G2a 16

Tagir Garaev tgaraev653@gmail.com ASoC: Intel: sof_es8336: Add DMI quirk for Huawei BOD-WXX9

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com platform/x86: classmate-laptop: Add missing NULL pointer checks

Brahmajit Das listout@listout.xyz drm/tegra: hdmi: sor: Fix error: variable ‘j’ set but not used

Deepanshu Kartikey kartikey406@gmail.com romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value

Kailang Yang kailang@realtek.com ALSA: hda/realtek - fixed speaker no sound

Ricardo Rivera-Matos rriveram@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: cs35l45: Corrects ASP_TX5 DAPM widget channel

Zhang Heng zhangheng@kylinos.cn ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Inspur S14-G1

Xuewen Yan xuewen.yan@unisoc.com gpio: sprd: Change sprd_gpio lock to raw_spin_lock

Anatolii Shirykalov pipocavsobake@gmail.com ASoC: amd: yc: Add ASUS ExpertBook PM1503CDA to quirks list

Tim Guttzeit t.guttzeit@tuxedocomputers.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix headset mic for TongFang X6AR55xU

Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com bus: fsl-mc: fix use-after-free in driver_override_show()

Chelsy Ratnawat chelsyratnawat2001@gmail.com bus: fsl-mc: Replace snprintf and sprintf with sysfs_emit in sysfs show functions

Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de bnxt_en: hide CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK specific code

Michael Chan michael.chan@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Change FW message timeout warning

Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Fix bsg_done() causing double free

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/loongarch/mm/kasan_init.c | 79 +++++------ drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 10 +- drivers/gpio/gpio-sprd.c | 8 +- drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c | 1 + .../gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn30/dcn30_cm_common.c | 30 ++++- .../drm/amd/display/dc/dwb/dcn30/dcn30_cm_common.h | 2 +- .../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn30/dcn30_hwseq.c | 9 +- .../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn32/dcn32_hwseq.c | 18 +-- .../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dcn401/dcn401_hwseq.c | 16 ++- drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/hdmi.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/sor.c | 4 +- drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu-impl.c | 14 ++ drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu-qcom.c | 14 +- drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.c | 24 +++- drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu/arm-smmu.h | 5 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 13 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.h | 2 +- drivers/net/wireguard/device.c | 1 - drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmc/pmc-quirks.c | 7 + drivers/platform/x86/classmate-laptop.c | 32 +++++ drivers/platform/x86/panasonic-laptop.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_bsg.c | 28 ++-- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 + drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c | 3 + drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c | 8 +- fs/f2fs/data.c | 26 ++-- fs/f2fs/gc.c | 1 + fs/f2fs/node.c | 14 +- fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 62 +++++++-- fs/romfs/super.c | 5 +- include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 77 ++++++++++- include/linux/hugetlb.h | 17 ++- include/linux/mm_types.h | 6 + include/trace/events/dma.h | 25 +++- kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 2 +- mm/hugetlb.c | 146 +++++++++++---------- mm/mmu_gather.c | 33 +++++ mm/rmap.c | 25 ++-- sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 17 +++ sound/soc/amd/yc/acp6x-mach.c | 14 ++ sound/soc/codecs/cs35l45.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs42l43-jack.c | 37 +++++- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_xcvr.c | 3 + sound/soc/intel/boards/sof_es8336.c | 9 ++ 45 files changed, 642 insertions(+), 225 deletions(-)