This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-rc1.... 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 7.2.12-rc1

Richard Fitzgerald rf@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: cs35l56: Add DAI for SDCA OT25 stream

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@toke.dk wifi: atk9k: Revert "wifi: ath9k: reject short WMI command responses"

Hamza Mahfooz hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com net: mana: reserve RX buffer headroom to fix forwarding performance

Dipayaan Roy dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org readdir: take no inode lock on an immutable directory

Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org nullfs: refuse file locks

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Fix CPU hotplug hang when a dying CPU's tasks sit in the BPF scheduler

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-integrity: validate the superblock on resume

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-integrity: fix NULL pointer dereference when the 'R' flag is used

Lubos Rendek l.rendek@proxmox.com nfsd: fix all-zero stateid in CB_OFFLOAD for async COPY

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 55 +++++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_bpf.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 60 ++++++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c | 95 +++++++++++++--------- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c | 16 +--- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.h | 1 - fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 2 + fs/nullfs.c | 30 +++++++ fs/readdir.c | 13 ++- include/linux/fs.h | 2 + include/net/mana/mana.h | 14 +++- include/sound/cs35l56.h | 1 + kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 29 ++++++- kernel/sched/sched.h | 5 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56-sdw.c | 9 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56.c | 54 ++++++++++++ 17 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)